Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

The first biography in more than twenty years of Emily Jane Brontë, extraordinary poet and author of the incomparable...  Read More >>

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Brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, this title delves into Mark Twain's life, uncovering the many roles he...  Read More >>

""I've struck it!"" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. ""And I will give it away - to you. You will...  Read More >>

This collection of early work, college writing, newspaper pieces, and stories of life in Florida by Marjorie Kinnan...  Read More >>

Through a detailed examination of a wide range of texts, this book reclaims Edith Wharton's writings from World...  Read More >>

This book develops a new approach to readerly engagement with constellations of characters in the novel. It argues...  Read More >>

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Investigates permutations of the terror to examine the complex political and intellectual transformation of literary...  Read More >>

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Literature for the Masses is the first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive overview of Werner Sollors' ground-breaking work on culture and ethnicity.  Read More >>

Studies a neglected area of postcolonial fiction, fostering a better understanding of Iraqi culture and society....  Read More >>

Provides a nuanced understanding of literary imaginings of masculinity and femininity in the context of the 'national'...  Read More >>

Considers the Arabic novel within the triangle of the nationstate, modernity and tradition.  Read More >>

Investigates the semantic permutations of 'homeness' in post-war diasporic Anglophone Lebanese novels.  Read More >>

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

Uncovers the politics of nostalgia and madness inherent in the Arabic novel.  Read More >>

This book explores short fiction by migrant women writers in Canada and the United States from 1980 to 2020, including...  Read More >>

The first in-depth study of the essential role Switzerland played in Charles Dickens's imagination  Read More >>

The English Novel in the Twentieth Century (1984) discusses 6 authors whom Dr Green saw as the most interesting...  Read More >>

Studies literature's role in representing and addressing dis/trust in the digital world.  Read More >>

Reveals how animal rights and species identity are reimagined in literature of the late twentieth century.  Read More >>