Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Against an African, African American, and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement's backdrop, this book examines six African...  Read More >>

Justin Mann analyzes the work of Octavia E. Butler, Colson Whitehead, Janelle Monáe, and other Black writers, musicians,...  Read More >>

In recounting the fascinating history of how modern Irish writers politically, socially, and polemically organised...  Read More >>

An exploration of how comics illuminate medicine, religion, and identity  Read More >>

""Reading as Method provides a systematic account of the most influential reading methods in literary studies, demonstrated...  Read More >>

Examines contemporary African American artistic production through the lens of Coates's groundbreaking entry into...  Read More >>

A collection of new translations of short stories by Bengali poet and polymath Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)....  Read More >>

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African provides an unequalled portrait of the everyday life of a Black...  Read More >>

Introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880-1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh through the tumultuous...  Read More >>

Examines contemporary African American artistic production through the lens of Coates's groundbreaking entry into...  Read More >>

Published for the first time, John Berger and Susan Sontag's collaboration and correspondence across a quarter-century...  Read More >>

Part of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe, this volume presents the first fully annotated edition...  Read More >>

Based on two decades of original research and exclusive access to unpublished material, a ground-breaking biography...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

Jackie Kay: Critical Essays offers the first full-length critical study of Jackie Kay’s work. It brings together...  Read More >>

An outrageously witty tragicomedy-of-manners about a queer black teenager coming of age, introduced by Mendez, author...  Read More >>

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

Jackie Kay: Critical Essays offers the first full-length critical study of Jackie Kay’s work. It brings together...  Read More >>

This book assesses the life and works of leading Zimbabwean poet and novelist, Chenjerai Hove. Proposing a reading...  Read More >>

In her struggle to cope with an uncertain world - a world where nothing seemed to make sense any more - she pushed...  Read More >>

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

Contemporary Literary Perspectives on Female Ageing: Insights from Erica Jong offers a nuanced study of contemporary...  Read More >>

This inspirational book is a delightful gift for readers and fans of Charlotte Bronte's novels.  Read More >>

The remarkable tale of how queer bookshops built communities, nourished minds, redefined literature – and changed...  Read More >>

Sara S. Poor provides a welcome alternative to an understanding of religious women's agency as resistance or transgression,...  Read More >>