Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Explores the intersection between medicine and medieval Iberian literature with a particular emphasis on melancholy...  Read More >>

The study analyzes instances of a eugenetic imagination in early 21stcentury novels.Employing categories developed...  Read More >>

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Studies the afterlife of the Romantic idea of spontaneity in transatlantic modern prose in the work of William Hazlitt,...  Read More >>

Explores the literature of Stevie Smith with particular emphasis on the importance of the aphorism: a short, witty...  Read More >>

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Studying over a century of American literary history, this text explores how zombies translate cultural concepts...  Read More >>

White men represent power in white supremacist patriarchy. What happens when literary texts depict them as disabled?...  Read More >>

Editors Robert Reid and Joe Andrew present eleven essays by international scholars concerning Tolstoi’s influence...  Read More >>

This book contributes to the development of contemporary historical fiction studies by analysing neo-Georgian fiction,...  Read More >>

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a complete guide to over 50 years of superheroes on screen! This expanded and updated...  Read More >>

Slow to rise in the literary world, Octavia Estelle Butler cultivated musings on earth’s future, reaching massive...  Read More >>

Presents literary criticism on the works of short-story writers of all nations, cultures, and time periods. Critical...  Read More >>

A superb collection from James Agee scholars that features myriad approaches for understanding the author’s fiction,...  Read More >>

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This volume examines five early modern novels from the seventeenth century in Spain and France as examples of literature...  Read More >>

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Creative icon, visionary, and dreamer, Stan Lee co-created many of pop culture’s most significant characters, including...  Read More >>

André Siegfried (1875–1959) was a leading figure in French cultural and academic life for over five decades. Exploring...  Read More >>

Also published in 2011 as: On writing fiction.  Read More >>

Modernism and the Machinery of Madness presents the collapse of categorical distinctions between human and machine...  Read More >>

This is the first collection of articles to analyse and theorise Gothic literature from the Middle East/North Africa...  Read More >>

Charity bazaars were a key method women used to intervene in political, social, and cultural affairs. Bazaar Literature...  Read More >>

Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor...  Read More >>

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