Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

A one-of-its-kind biography of Hannibal Lecter, the fictional character with many lives in literature, film, and...  Read More >>

This is the first in-depth study exploring the theatrical afterlives of nineteenth-century women novelists--including...  Read More >>

Based on two decades of original research and exclusive access to unpublished material, a ground-breaking biography...  Read More >>

A critical study of Agatha Christie's AND THEN THERE WERE NONE.  Read More >>

""An account of the endangerment and survival of utopian fiction in the 21st century, and how they can provide a...  Read More >>

A forensic documentary exploration of the historical and psychological scaffolding of fear. E. Lawrence Anderson...  Read More >>

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This invigorating volume explores the literary worlds inhabited by the pioneering Irish author George Moore (1852–1933)....  Read More >>

The first biography in more than twenty years of Emily Jane Brontë, extraordinary poet and author of the incomparable...  Read More >>

This book develops a new approach to readerly engagement with constellations of characters in the novel. It argues...  Read More >>

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Bringing together an historian of political thought and a literary scholar, this book offers a historically wide-ranging...  Read More >>

Consequences of Consciousness shows how great Russian authors conversed with each other through their fictions as...  Read More >>

Aims to probe beyond the perception of 'love and death' as a constant theme of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Fathers and Sons by Turgenev. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy. Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky. These are a few of the...  Read More >>

Examines the Russian literary circle through the life story of the poet Maximilian Voloshin. This book details the...  Read More >>

Known for shaping an expansive fictional universe filled with complex characters, Stan Lee also used his work to...  Read More >>

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Bringing together an historian of political thought and a literary scholar, this book offers a historically wide-ranging...  Read More >>

Investigates permutations of the terror to examine the complex political and intellectual transformation of literary...  Read More >>

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An invaluable reference source and critical review of Arab women writers from the last quarter of the nineteenth...  Read More >>

Jack Kerouac was one of America's great writers of the latter half of the 20th century, yet he endured a life characterized...  Read More >>