Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

This book studies the evolution of the monogatari, or narrative and storytelling in the works of Haruki Murakami....  Read More >>

These scholarly writings blend with and relate to his fictional writings in various ways depending on the moment...  Read More >>

This volume includes a fully annotated edition of Maxwell Gray's highly successful novel of 1886. A bestseller of...  Read More >>

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Joe Bray’s careful analysis of Jane Austen’s stylistic techniques reveals that the genius of her writing is far...  Read More >>

Classic creative writing text now in its tenth edition.  Read More >>

Offering an ambitious study of the aesthetics of violence across art, literature, film and theatre, this volume...  Read More >>

This book assesses key works of twentieth-century dystopian fiction, including Katharine Burdekin’s Swastika Night,...  Read More >>

Who was Mary De Morgan and why should she be dragged out of the shadows cast by her illustrious parents, her male...  Read More >>

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This volume covers a wide range of contemporary and pressing issues, namely colonialism, displacement, rape, women's...  Read More >>

In this interdisciplinary collection, leading scholars explore the world of Edward Lloyd and his stable of writers;...  Read More >>

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Jane Austen’s readers continue to find delight in the justness of her moral and psychological discriminations. But...  Read More >>

Since the establishment of sensation fiction in the 1860s, key trends have emerged in critical readings of these...  Read More >>

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To commemorate the recent centennial of Henry James's death and to help readers understand the depth and scope of...  Read More >>

In this engaging and accessible guide, Eugen Bacon explores writing speculative fiction as a creative practice,...  Read More >>

George Orwell left post-war London for Barnhill, a remote farmhouse on the Isle of Jura, to write what became Nineteen...  Read More >>

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In this engaging and accessible guide, Eugen Bacon explores writing speculative fiction as a creative practice,...  Read More >>

This Companion is an accessible exploration of Sherlock Holmes and his relationship to late-Victorian culture as...  Read More >>

An exuberant, careening biography, a modern day Tom Jones, rich with the sights, sounds and people from a life led...  Read More >>