Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

A look at the life of the Great American Novelist in St. Paul  Read More >>

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An unconventional approach to leadership, perfectly tailored for the next generation!  Read More >>

Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful,...  Read More >>

This book argues that the apparent evasion of history in Vladimir Nabokov’s fiction conceals a profound engagement...  Read More >>

There is a long history of interest in ‘strangers’ and ‘strangeness’ in the West. Literature lends itself particularly...  Read More >>

All you need to know about E.M. Forster's A Room with a View is in this advanced guide to the text. Connell Guides...  Read More >>

The New Zealand-born writer Katherine Mansfield associated intimately with many members of the Bloomsbury group,...  Read More >>

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Reveals an artist and activist whose work deftly negotiates boundaries of feminism, nationalism, and film. The intimacy...  Read More >>

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This collection, first published in 1963, includes 29 of George Eliot’s essays written between 1846 and 1868. Through...  Read More >>

First published in 1989. Generations of critics have seen George Eliot as a conservative Victorian high moralist...  Read More >>

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Bringing together Margaret Laurence's writing about Africa and Canada, Davis offers a unique contribution to the...  Read More >>

“A solid,... well-written contribution to Hawthorne criticism... The author is thoroughly in control of what has...  Read More >>

A fascinating survey of Faulkner's publishing history with periodicals and publishing houses  Read More >>

Though it highlights just one year of writing, this third volume of The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury represents...  Read More >>

The Faustus myth, before being identified as a myth, was the folktale of a man named Faustus who lived in Germany....  Read More >>

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Analyses the writing of Toni Morrison, Caryl Phillips, Lawrence Hill, and other contemporary novelists of African...  Read More >>

In the mid-eighteenth century, many British authors and literary critics anxiously claimed that poetry was in crisis....  Read More >>

In Irish fiction, the most famous example of the embrace of damnation in order to gain freedom is Joyce’s Stephen...  Read More >>