Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Tracing the movement of literary decadence from the writers of the fin de siècle - Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley,...  Read More >>

Modernist Wastes is a profound new critical reflection on the ways in which women writers and artists have been...  Read More >>

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Allow your children to swim in the magnificent fairy tale world, let your children fall asleep easily, and have...  Read More >>

Addressing Jean Rhys’s composition and positioning of her fiction, this book invites and challenges us to read the...  Read More >>

Revises Lacanian psychoanalysis to argue that psychoanalytic theorists need to go beyond (hetero)sexual difference...  Read More >>

Examining the multiple non-humorous meanings of laughter, this book explores a unique strain of laughter in modernism...  Read More >>

Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan narrates forgotten stories of cross-cultural friendship and love...  Read More >>

This book tells the story of how nineteenth-century writers turned to the realist novel in order to reimagine Jesus...  Read More >>

This book examines how pain is represented in a range of literary texts and genres from the nineteenth-century United...  Read More >>

This book is a collection ofessays which discuss fourbrilliant and impressive investigators and detectives in literary...  Read More >>

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From Agatha Christie and Patricia Highsmith to Val McDermid and JK Rowling, After Agatha is an indispensable guide...  Read More >>

In this bold and exhilarating mix of memoir and writing master class, Melissa Febos tackles the emotional, psychological,...  Read More >>

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

Has your sexual coexistence become dull and monotonous or even transformed into a wearing everyday practice out?...  Read More >>

Provides crucial biographical, critical, historical, and cultural context for the works of Mary Wollstonecraft,...  Read More >>

This is the sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their century-long hold on the American...  Read More >>

This is the sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their century-long hold on the American...  Read More >>

Ideal for readers new to Ulysses and written with a depth of knowledge invaluable to scholars, Ulysses Unbound is...  Read More >>

Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan...  Read More >>

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