Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Rongbin Han examines the production and consumption of online alt-history fiction in China, offering new insight...  Read More >>

Explores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake  Read More >>

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Offers a compelling new study of failure and neoliberalism in contemporary American literature.  Read More >>

Surveys women writers' engagements with hysteria in Victorian and modernist literature.  Read More >>

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

The Historical Poem takes up Georg Lukács's classic account of the historical novel to tell the forgotten story...  Read More >>

When you pick up the latest Emily Henry novel, or settle in for an evening with the newest volume of your favorite...  Read More >>

Examines the connections between J. M. Coetzee's work and Hispanic literatures and cultures, especially in the Southern...  Read More >>

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The first systemic analysis of time travel as a narrative device in literature and pop culture, drawing on readings...  Read More >>

In which we lead readers through the capital as Holmes and Watson knew it - a city of gaslight, theatres, grand...  Read More >>

The first systemic analysis of time travel as a narrative device in literature and pop culture, drawing on readings...  Read More >>

Scholars and critics have long understood the writing of nineteenth-century Black women as critiquing the figure...  Read More >>

In this survey of foundational theory on James Joyce's Ulysses, seasoned Joyceans introduce the methodologies that...  Read More >>

An experiment in criticism that explores Henry James's late works through the lens of minimalism. Henry James's...  Read More >>

By tracing Shakespearean threads throughout Nabokov's intricate narrative structure, this study offers new insights...  Read More >>

Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers...  Read More >>

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How the master of French realism formulated a new, distinctly modern theory of authenticity and identity Is there...  Read More >>

This new theory of reader response describes ""perverse attachment,"" or the powerful desire to intervene in a story,...  Read More >>

Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers...  Read More >>

The first memoir from Geoff Dyer, author of Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, recollecting his childhood...  Read More >>

How the master of French realism formulated a new, distinctly modern theory of authenticity and identity Is there...  Read More >>

This book analyzes how women’s literary production across the Americas engages with the United Nations’ Sustainable...  Read More >>