Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Investigates why writers during the long eighteenth-century so often turned to the rogue narrative to discuss Ireland....  Read More >>

A Tale of Two Cities has long been valued as one of Charles Dickens's most important and fascinating novels. This...  Read More >>

Ideas of the human that stress language use, reason, self-consciousness, autonomy and God-likeness are revised in...  Read More >>

This book represents a contribution to both border studies and short story studies.  Read More >>

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Utilizing recent developments in book history and digital humanities, this book offers a cultural, economic, and...  Read More >>

The goal of The Oxford Handbook of African American Language is to provide readers with a wide range of analyses...  Read More >>

"""Investigates the unstable construction of white masculinity in the United States through close analysis of father-child...  Read More >>

James Joyce and Classical Modernism contends that the classical world animated Joyce’s defiant, innovative creativity...  Read More >>

""Rethinks the ways that modernist narratives may be read as resources for understanding cognition and theory of...  Read More >>

""Explores the functions of mythology in contemporary high and popular literature, charting how it reacts with our...  Read More >>

Revisiting Virginia Woolf’s most experimental novels, Elsa Högberg explores how Woolf’s writing prompts us to re-examine...  Read More >>

Explores the role of the ocean, with particular attention to the Pacific, in a diverse range of literary texts spanning...  Read More >>

Forty-six weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and nominee for the National Book Critics Award, this incomparable...  Read More >>

This volume is for undergraduate and graduate students as well as academic scholars. The short, focused chapters...  Read More >>

A Set of Six (first published in 1908) is the latest volume in the now well-established and widely- praised Cambridge...  Read More >>

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A rich and wide-ranging study of the Arabian Nights in world cultures, using social science and literary theory...  Read More >>

Plants are silent, still, or move slowly; we do not have the sense that they accompany us, or even perceive us....  Read More >>

Studies that connect the Spanish 17th and 20th centuries usually do so through a conservative lens, assuming that...  Read More >>

Britain’s vote to leave the European Union in the summer of 2016 came as a shock to many observers. But writers...  Read More >>

From M.R. James to Shirley Jackson, the Uncanny has long provided fertile ground for writers – and recent years...  Read More >>

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""Writers Workshop of Horror 2 is a collection of essays and interviews focusing on the art and craft of writing...  Read More >>