Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

When Fiction Feels Real offers a new approach to the phenomenology of reading by engaging with psychological research...  Read More >>

James Williams’s account, the first book-length critical study of the poet since the 1980s, sets out to re-introduce...  Read More >>

A collection of satirically written fictional artists statements.  Read More >>

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In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through...  Read More >>

In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through...  Read More >>

Bringing together new accounts of the pulp horror writings of H.P. Lovecraft and the rise of the popular early 20th-century...  Read More >>

Companion title to The Astounding Illustrated History of Science Fiction this new book reflects the same roots in...  Read More >>

This book makes an important intervention in the ongoing debates about modernism, science, and the divisions of...  Read More >>

This study examines Mary Wollstonecraft—generally recognized as the founder of the early feminist movement—by shedding...  Read More >>

James Joyce's preoccupation with space - be it urban, geographic, stellar, geometrical or optical - is a central...  Read More >>

In Why Iris Murdoch Matters Gary Browning draws on as yet unpublished archival material to present an unrivalled...  Read More >>

This edited collection examines the fiction of several women novelists, all immensely popular in the nineteenth...  Read More >>

Stephen Heath shows how Madame Bovary with its questioning of the value of marriage and the role of women captures...  Read More >>

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Examines political strategies employed by Leo VI in his writings and the role of religion as a carrier of communal...  Read More >>

This is the first single-author study of the genres and roots of popular literature in its relation to film and...  Read More >>

In Why Iris Murdoch Matters Gary Browning draws on as yet unpublished archival material to present an unrivalled...  Read More >>

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This book considers the theme of risk in contemporary literature, film, and comics, examining themes including risk...  Read More >>

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