Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Reading David Foster Wallace's short stories through the lens of spatiality, this book examines segmentation, zones,...  Read More >>

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‘Dazzling … one fine day, you open a book by an unknown writer, and a charge of pure talent blows you away’ La...  Read More >>

Collected literary and film criticism and more-now revised and updated with new material-from an award-winning,...  Read More >>

An exploration of the ways in which writing processes and products enable women to create spaces of their own to...  Read More >>

From Martha Washington to Jill Biden, Mars Attacks! to Scandal, and the Ladies’ Home Journal to Vogue this diverse...  Read More >>

The book demonstrates how apocalyptic narratives actively shape public understanding of environmental crisis, alternately...  Read More >>

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

Explores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake  Read More >>

The first in-depth study of Vladimir Nabokov's humour, investigating its physical aspects such as farce, slapstick,...  Read More >>

The definitive, all-access biography of one of the world's most beloved literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant...  Read More >>

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

The Historical Poem takes up Georg Lukács's classic account of the historical novel to tell the forgotten story...  Read More >>

Examines the connections between J. M. Coetzee's work and Hispanic literatures and cultures, especially in the Southern...  Read More >>

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

When you pick up the latest Emily Henry novel, or settle in for an evening with the newest volume of your favorite...  Read More >>

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Provides both scholars and interested readers the context necessary to understand how Allen Ginsberg's life and...  Read More >>

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

In which we lead readers through the capital as Holmes and Watson knew it - a city of gaslight, theatres, grand...  Read More >>

In this survey of foundational theory on James Joyce's Ulysses, seasoned Joyceans introduce the methodologies that...  Read More >>

Silence: A Literary History traces silences over twelve centuries of English literature, from the solitary states...  Read More >>

Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers...  Read More >>