Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Draws on theories of Marxism, feminism and the biopolitics of affect to investigate the psycho-dynamic properties...  Read More >>

A fresh look at how Borges's most celebrated stories critique various forms of sovereignty, from philosophical ideals...  Read More >>

Delves into Italian contributions to these genres and what those contributions mean to global Italian cultural and...  Read More >>

Explores how Edwardian era writers used the mystical novel as a way to represent transcendent experiences within...  Read More >>

This book examines feminist textual and cinematic engagements with the idea of the Middle Ages in the 19th and 20th...  Read More >>

Considers the emotional and relational implications of portrait photographs for three modernist writers  Read More >>

Argues that J. M. Coetzee's works constitute a form of late modernism that situates life at the heart of questions...  Read More >>

Contends that the twentieth century novel's approach to character fundamentally shifted in response to contemporaneous...  Read More >>

A uniquely comprehensive two-volume study of Mina Loy's relationship to the human body and soul  Read More >>

Advances our understanding of the literary legacy of contemporary ecological crises to investigate the interfaces...  Read More >>

'Imprinted' is a history of reading and the development of a literary culture in the Caribbean. It explores the...  Read More >>

Called Canada' s most influential zine, Fish Piss ran for 11 issues, from 1996 to 2006. It began as...  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 >>

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 >>

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 >>