Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

This book re-examines the crucial trends in the decade and places them in their political and economic contexts....  Read More >>

This Companion provides a compelling, comprehensive, and substantive introduction to the work of David Foster Wallace,...  Read More >>

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This book examines Toni Morrison's highly influential works through the lens of philanthropy. The point of departure...  Read More >>

"As Viv Groskop knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened to a person has already happened...  Read More >>

Portraits of twenty renowned writers, with reflections on their struggles with faith and life, and on the way faith...  Read More >>

A memoir about the magic and inspiration of books from a beloved and best-selling author.  Read More >>

Taking up Virginia Woolf's fascination with Greek literature and culture, this book explores her engagement with...  Read More >>

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A celebration of the writers who have featured Portsmouth in their works, including Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan...  Read More >>

An indispensable guide for students and literature lovers, and emphatically shows why Charlotte is as relevant today...  Read More >>

Examines a little-known aspect of Percy Shelley's poetry, offering a history of synesthesia, focusing primarily...  Read More >>

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In this far-reaching and provocative study, Nathan K. Hensley shows how the modern state's anguished relationship...  Read More >>

It focuses on how narratives about cultural co-existence under Ottoman rule are used as a prism of national self-awareness...  Read More >>

Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain: Cultures of Investment defines the cultures that emerged in...  Read More >>

This book establishes the genealogy of a subgenre of crime fiction that Antoine Dechêne calls the metacognitive...  Read More >>

In negotiating aesthetic and political approaches to Canadian cultural production within contexts of global circulation,...  Read More >>

Explores the cultural and literary contexts of narrative texts produced in English Canada over the last forty years....  Read More >>

""A big biography of John Campbell, the genius magazine editor who created a mass market for science fiction, couldn't...  Read More >>

""A big biography of John Campbell, the genius magazine editor who created a mass market for science fiction, couldn't...  Read More >>

The collection illustrates how Munro’s short stories powerfully intersect with important theoretical trends in literary...  Read More >>

An Economist Best Book of the Year A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2018 Enthralling...A clarion call...  Read More >>

Sicker opens a new chapter in the inter-relationship of high art and popular cultural attractions with this detailed...  Read More >>