Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Uncovers how historical novels rewrite the history of the Korean War  Read More >>

Explores how espionage fiction captures the most significant political conflicts and crises of the last hundred...  Read More >>

Explores how Virginia Woolf reimagined the environment and nonhuman life in her writing  Read More >>

Feminist argument, from shopping to parenthood to literature  Read More >>

Provides a wide-ranging account of the different disciplinary, critical and theoretical contexts relevant to the...  Read More >>

Examines the scene of reading in modernism, psychoanalysis and popular novels from the early twentieth century  Read More >>

Reflects on reading as a lived experience and a scholarly field by bringing together two modes of writing, the academic...  Read More >>

The first book to explore the representation of reading and its often deleterious consequences in modern fiction...  Read More >>

Presents an image of Victorian life-especially womens' lives-that uniquely and surprisingly anticipates our own...  Read More >>

Refines our understanding of Virginia Woolf as a politically engaged writer  Read More >>

Extends the body of scholarship on Comic Gothic to cover contemporary texts, new media and texts from other cultures...  Read More >>

A leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire...  Read More >>

Rethinks the relationship between architecture, literature and (in)visibility in the nineteenth-century city  Read More >>

Demonstrates how women's writing formed a crucial, if underappreciated, part of the history of sexuality in the...  Read More >>

Offers a national approach to the issue of Europe as a geographical, political, cultural and ideological signifier...  Read More >>

Provides a comprehensive overview of the essay, with a focus on current debates about the form.  Read More >>

An exploration of new Gothic, old Gothic, and their intersection with the crises of our own times. This text shows...  Read More >>

Through incisive analysis, Stacey McDowell shows how Romantic writers reflect on ideas about reading, revealing...  Read More >>

First published in 1914, Joseph Conrad's female-centred, uncharacteristically optimistic Chance represented a new...  Read More >>

The first critical edition of the final text of Lockhart's Valerius, A Roman Story.  Read More >>

""A doctor enjoys Sherlock Holmes"" by Edward J. Van Liere presents a captivating collection of 20th-century American...  Read More >>

Body Language examines how eighteenth-century medical discourse informed the comic novel. Through comic representations...  Read More >>

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The third keenly anticipated Rilke novel exploring the dark underbelly of contemporary Glasgow, from the Award-winning...  Read More >>

Body Language examines how eighteenth-century medical discourse informed the comic novel. Through comic representations...  Read More >>