Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Rachel Bowlby's anthology of articles conjures up the enormous richness and variety of recent work that returns...  Read More >>

Toys – a celebrated part of childhood and key figures in children's imaginative play – have a fantastic history...  Read More >>

This study of the prose and plays of Oscar Wilde argues that his dominant aesthetic category is not art but style....  Read More >>

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

This text presents a fictional representation of political power in the first half of the 20th century. Amongst...  Read More >>

Dabove presents the reader not with a definition of the bandit, but with a series of case studies showing how the...  Read More >>

This Companion is an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible guide to postmodern American fiction. An indispensable...  Read More >>

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This book examines dystopian fiction’s recent paradigm shift towards urban dystopias. The result is a detailed overview...  Read More >>

A new take on the origins of the Southern Literary Renaissance, Reviewing the South shows how book reviewing played...  Read More >>

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms...  Read More >>

The first major work of literature written in Catalan and arguably the first European novel.  Read More >>

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What her life, literature and letters tell us about Jane Austen's faith  Read More >>

Designed to meet the requirements for students at GCSE and A level, this volume is intended equally for those studying...  Read More >>

A critical examination of the engaging voice and multiple stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on war, feminism,...  Read More >>

Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel is a lively exploration of the evolution of the English novel from 1688-1815....  Read More >>

Discovering the passions of Chris Woodhead.  Read More >>

The young Jane Austen was a precocious reader, devouring pulp fiction and classic literature, both of which she...  Read More >>

In 2013, the Nobel Prize for Literature was for the first time awarded to a short story writer, and to a Canadian,...  Read More >>

The concept of nothing was an enduring concern of the 20th century. As Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre each...  Read More >>

The Introspective Art of Mark Twain is a major new assessment of a towering American writer. Seeking to trace the...  Read More >>

Although often hailed as a ‘quintessentially American’ writer, the modernist poet, novelist and playwright Gertrude...  Read More >>