Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

This book provides a fascinating examination of J.D. Salinger and his landmark novel, The Catcher in the Rye. Focusing...  Read More >>

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was one of the leading figures in the development of the modernist short story and...  Read More >>

Franz Kafka was fascinated by photography, a medium which for him came to encapsulate both the attractions and the...  Read More >>

Addressing the emergence and decline of US Fordism, this volume examines how an economy determines the language...  Read More >>

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Zone Theory develops an approach to the study of utopia that expands its definition and its application in the field...  Read More >>

Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 17641834 reassesses the relationship between contemporary theology...  Read More >>

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Vastarien: A Literary Journal is a source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of Thomas Ligotti...  Read More >>

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Novel Environments: Science, Description, and Victorian Fiction examines how description in the Victorian novel...  Read More >>

A soulful, sweeping novel of five lives transformed forever by the discovery that changed 20th century Britain....  Read More >>

"More thon forty years ago, Robert Warshow wrote that ""the unresolved problem of 'popular culture' . . . has come...  Read More >>

From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Laura Cumming, a kaleidoscopic memoir connecting her life as an art critic...  Read More >>

Musings on my mind that impact reflections on others. Thought provoking and inspirational. Makes one think and question....  Read More >>

Offering an innovative approach to the Gothic, Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety breaks ground...  Read More >>

Sensationalism and the Jew in Antebellum American Literature examines the charged but mostly overlooked presence...  Read More >>

Offering an innovative approach to the Gothic, Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety breaks ground...  Read More >>

Ecocritics and Ecoskeptics examines environmental themes and questions about the evolving relationship between humans...  Read More >>

World-building, name-finding, language-crafting; the flaws in chivalric practice, and the ethics (Machiavellian...  Read More >>

Gone Girls, 1684-1901 examines how the persistent trope in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novels of...  Read More >>

The Culture of ""The Culture"" defines Banks’s creation as culture: autopian way of doing, of being, of seeing:...  Read More >>

Wallace Stevens and Francis Parkman: The American West and Beyond identifies previously unacknowledged influence...  Read More >>

This book by Rodge Glass, the award-winning novelist, short story writer and biographer, is the first ever detailed...  Read More >>

It is hardly possible to understand F. M. Dostoevsky's works without analyzing their original language. Therefore,...  Read More >>