Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

All you need to know about William Shakespeare's Hamlet is in this advanced guide to the text. Connell Guides are...  Read More >>

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Beren and L thien Summary & Analysis - NOT ORIGINAL BOOK This book brings together many different writings that...  Read More >>

In Ragged Dick, Horatio Alger’s most successful book, Alger codified the basic formula he would follow in nearly...  Read More >>

This collection of essays offers an intimate history of Austen's art and life told through objects associated with...  Read More >>

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Visiting late Victorian debates about the morality of literature, this book reconsiders the ways in which novels...  Read More >>

This book examines ""heterobiography""—the first-person fictional account of a historic life. Boldrini explores...  Read More >>

This collection offers a diverse and engaging selection of case studies to consider the significance of autobiographies...  Read More >>

First published in 1969. George Eliot is a writer of ordinary human experience, whose work emphasizes commonplace...  Read More >>

First published in 1984. Although Middlemarch was extravagantly praised by Henry James, Emily Dickinson and Virginia...  Read More >>

Contemporary Drift combines a theoretical focus on the challenge of conceptualizing the present with a historical...  Read More >>

If Proust apparently took little interest in what he described as a poor avatar of reductive, mimetic representation,...  Read More >>

Tolstoy and Tolstaya's legacy is still regarded as one of the greatest contributions to Russian history and world...  Read More >>

Highlighting neo-Victorian humour’s crucial role in shaping contemporary re-visions of nineteenth-century culture,...  Read More >>

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Engaging Banality presents three stories that earned Japanese writer Kuroi Senji critical acclaim. Trenchant critiques...  Read More >>

Drawing on a broad range of cultural materials including novels, film, theatre and tourist literature, Writing London...  Read More >>

This study portrays how Louise Erdrich's writing extends Bakhtin's concepts of dialogism and the novel through an...  Read More >>

Collected here are conversations with Samuel Beckett recounted by translators, scholars, artists, and theatre and...  Read More >>

Elizabeth Taylor’s reflections on South African fiction are rooted in the political and social realities which dictated,...  Read More >>

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This text overturns the misapplication of a divided worldview of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, and their forerunners,...  Read More >>

First published in 1924, this unique title includes provides an extremely valuable early Twentieth Century perspective...  Read More >>