Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

This book offers a history of the most critically derided subgenre in American comics: the ""bad girl"" comics of...  Read More >>

Examines how post-war presidential history is portrayed in contemporary American novels.  Read More >>

Studies literary and cinematic representations of sex work in Cambodia and Vietnam to rethink claims about the 'truth'...  Read More >>

A queer, postcolonial reading of twentieth-century Irish women's writing.  Read More >>

A variety of essays by Mansfield scholars presenting criticism on Katherine Mansfield's relationship to London  Read More >>

Recovers a forgotten and short-lived form of American fiction: the midcentury minor novel  Read More >>

Examines the work and reception of the Arab emigre writer Gibran...  Read More >>

This book offers a history of the most critically derided subgenre in American comics: the ""bad girl"" comics of...  Read More >>

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

Imagines great artificial fiction that represents the world in creatively nonhuman ways while challenging how we...  Read More >>

Examines gardens, gardening and horticulture in the work of Virginia Woolf through a cultural and historical lens....  Read More >>

Explores the depiction and treatment of inanimate matter in James Joyce's oeuvre.  Read More >>

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

Part of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe, this volume presents the first fully annotated edition...  Read More >>

Herman Melville: A Very Short Introduction tells the story of Melville's exciting and tragic life, provides overviews...  Read More >>

From the beginning, the superhero genre has revolved around narratives of transformation. Through traumatic experiences,...  Read More >>

Explores and illuminates the impact of French theorist, writer, and critic Hélène Cixous on our understanding of...  Read More >>

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

Being a detective is not a profession you choose lightly. It is a way of seeing the world, of interpreting reality,...  Read More >>

This book investigates the nature of ‘home’ and nation in post-imperial British novels, which deal with the loss...  Read More >>

This book illustrates how literary narratives can function as a type of activism, spanning socio-cultural, cognitive,...  Read More >>

The first study of creative and cultural afterlives of Gulliver’s Travels produced over the past 3 centuries that...  Read More >>

A complete introduction to the comics of Lynda Barry, this book maps her historical and biographical contexts, key...  Read More >>

Situated between Europe and Asia, and surrounded by three seas, Turkey comprises a diverse environmental and cultural...  Read More >>