Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

""An account of the endangerment and survival of utopian fiction in the 21st century, and how they can provide a...  Read More >>

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

The best poetry and prose from the past quarter century of The Pushcart Prize editions selected by two multi-prize-winning...  Read More >>

Nel libro ci sono storie che raccontano pericoli che vengono superati e conflitti reali o immaginari devastanti....  Read More >>

Bringing together an historian of political thought and a literary scholar, this book offers a historically wide-ranging...  Read More >>

In Britain, the parameters of citizenship and its reciprocal relations shifted dramatically during and after the...  Read More >>

Bringing together an historian of political thought and a literary scholar, this book offers a historically wide-ranging...  Read More >>

Jack Kerouac was one of America's great writers of the latter half of the 20th century, yet he endured a life characterized...  Read More >>

Contrasting works by queer Chicano writers against the legal landscape of sexuality and migration to interrogate...  Read More >>

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""In 2024 the literary community commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Conrad. This volume of...  Read More >>

Is conflict inherent to the politics of borders? Recent global events, erupting from national, religious, class,...  Read More >>

Theorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US...  Read More >>

Argues that literature has a special role to play in developing a wishful, visionary, and utopian sensibility for...  Read More >>

This engaging volume provides an authoritative assessment of the middle period in the career of the widely-read,...  Read More >>

Considers how Joseph Conrad's works engage with silence  Read More >>

Focusing on the difference between lower-level perceptual processes in the “neural unconscious” and higher-order...  Read More >>

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A writer-activist explores the hidden dynamics between planet, politics, and stories as literature bears witness...  Read More >>

Quixotic Authority reveals how deeply absorbed reading was inextricable from and essential to British women's professional...  Read More >>

Essays and translations by modern-day scholars organised along the principles of the Arabic narrative tradition....  Read More >>

This exploration of The Female Man offers a close reading of the text, focussing on how the book works, its structures,...  Read More >>

This is the first ever critical edition of Wyndham Lewis's Paleface. It reproduces, with corrections, the text first...  Read More >>

Provides both scholars and interested readers the context necessary to understand how Allen Ginsberg's life and...  Read More >>

Minerva was Britain's most popular and internationally influential Press at the turn of the nineteenth century....  Read More >>