Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

A kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens’s superhuman imagination.  Read More >>

Original comics scholarship offering methodologies developed from the histories, artistic traditions, and socio-political...  Read More >>

This book examines the work of Richard Aldington, a poet, war poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic, and translator...  Read More >>

This book is a phenomenological study of the crime fiction of Benjamin Black and John Banville, including novels...  Read More >>

Silence: A Literary History traces silences over twelve centuries of English literature, from the solitary states...  Read More >>

Jews, women, and animals have been notoriously considered in Western thought as antithetical to the “civilized,” and...  Read More >>

How collaboration between creators, editors, artists, and fans drives the creation, evolution, and enduring impact...  Read More >>

Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers...  Read More >>

Commitment Ingrained in Loss: Subjugation, Dislocation and Trauma in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro offers a profound...  Read More >>

""The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth provides a comprehensive, must-have survey of interdisciplinary scholarship...  Read More >>

With seemingly obsessive regularity, American authors, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, evoke the...  Read More >>

Imagination and Evolution is the history of that conversation, which brought what we now call science fiction into...  Read More >>

How collaboration between creators, editors, artists, and fans drives the creation, evolution, and enduring impact...  Read More >>

Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers...  Read More >>

Investigating the peculiar literary history of interpolated tales and the ways in which they persistently unnerve...  Read More >>

Great writing can seem to be an act of mystery, a gift given to just a few, but these renowned writers pull back...  Read More >>

Providing a methodology for identifying literary narratives of climate change, this book draws on historical narrative...  Read More >>

Studying texts by Lorenzo Valla, Erasmus, Saint Jerome, George Gascoigne, and Fulke Greville, this volume explores...  Read More >>

Comic Belles Lettres presents a significant rethinking of standard categories in scholarship on antebellum American...  Read More >>

This book re-examines British women's writing in the mid-century and its relationship to public and domestic spaces....  Read More >>

This book presents a cultural history of Promethean Horror in the modern age, tracing the rise of a sub-genre of...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English...  Read More >>

This book explores how literature, theatre and music revive the dead to explore the dynamics of grief and mourning....  Read More >>

Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking book explores the life of the forest in African fiction, showing how writers have used it to...  Read More >>