Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

The first book to investigate what writers, publishers, and editors knew about the Stasi and how, rethinking the...  Read More >>

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The final volume of Julia Kristeva’s trilogy on “female genius,” Colette interlaces commentary on the life and work...  Read More >>

The Future is Fiction is the first cultural history of the idea that people have an obligation to protect the world...  Read More >>

An instant cult classic that remains deeply relevant today: both an incisive and funny travelogue and a revealing...  Read More >>

Takes stock of the extraordinary range of book-based adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, comprising reimaginings,...  Read More >>

This book illustrates how contemporary Gothic literature can beread througha metamodernlens, andinvestigates the...  Read More >>

This book discusses the full range of Terry Pratchett’s writing, from Discworld to his equally successful, award-winning...  Read More >>

A major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce's life, thought and writings The young...  Read More >>

Collecting the essays in Speculative Insight: A Journal of Space, Magic and Footnotes from January to June 2026,...  Read More >>

Henry Fielding (1933) examines Fielding’s prodigious activity as dramatist, journalist, novelist and magistrate....  Read More >>

Edward Prime-Stevenson's Imre: A Memorandum (1906), considered one of the first examples of the 'homosexual' novel,...  Read More >>

Reading Brown’s three collections of poetry in light of their respective historical contexts, Sanders examines the...  Read More >>

An innovative stylistic exploration of Man Booker Prize novels  Read More >>

Argues that after the Nazis came to power, prominent exile writers fictionalized and metaphorized the lives of real...  Read More >>

Deluxe slipcased edition of this previously unknown short satirical fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien edited by his son,...  Read More >>

The term carries dual connotations relating to the emergence of diseases and to innovative narrative forms responding...  Read More >>

A collection of essays on Zadie Smith's oeuvre to date, which proposes to investigate Smith's works from different...  Read More >>

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This critical edition of The Abbey of Clugny will introduce Elizabeth Meeke and her work to the larger public, particularly...  Read More >>

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 >>