Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

In the shadow of the Holocaust, Samuel Beckett captures humanity in ruins through his debased beings and a decomposing...  Read More >>

Examines the ways in which J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings makes visible the connections between medieval...  Read More >>

This volume situates My Ántonia as a novel that stands the test of time by including in its pages an extraordinarily...  Read More >>

From television documentaries and a steady output of critical works to retrospective art exhibitions and Austin...  Read More >>

novel and the history of the way that class has been imagined in the United States.  Read More >>

Sheds new light on death and dying in twentieth- and twenty-first century Irish literature. The author examines...  Read More >>

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Novel Machines explores the ideas of technological modernity and the machinery of narrative fiction in the eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

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Offers outstanding, in-depth scholarship by renowned literary critics. Social Justice and American Literature examines...  Read More >>

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Self-Harm in New Woman Writing offers a trans-disciplinary study of Victorian literature, culture and medicine through...  Read More >>

Offers the first comprehensive study of Marilynne Robinson's fiction and essays to date, providing an overview of...  Read More >>

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

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Today, we have forgotten that mathematics was once aligned with the arts, rather than with the sciences. Literary...  Read More >>

During his lifetime Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was among the most widely read German-language writers...  Read More >>

novel and the history of the way that class has been imagined in the United States.  Read More >>

Making the case that legal issues are central to James Joyce's life and work, international experts in law and literature...  Read More >>

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The author shows how this tension is played out especially through the characters of servants in short fiction and...  Read More >>

Much history and theory is uncovered here in the first comprehensive study of zine publishing.  Read More >>

This book argues that the female philosopher, a literary figure brought into existence by Mary Wollstonecraft’s...  Read More >>

Joseph Conrad's impact has been so profound and far-reaching that, eighty years after his death, he remains an essential...  Read More >>