Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Ulrike Pesold examines the portrayal of class, gender, race and ethnicity in selected school stories by Thomas Hughes,...  Read More >>

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The Guide has been written primarily for students of GCSE English Literature as specified by AQA in the post-2015...  Read More >>

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Scott's Books is an approachable introduction to the Waverley Novels. It will be of interest to those studying Scottish...  Read More >>

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Traces the Byronic hero's history through authors as different as Lord Byron and Jane Austen, George Eliot and Sir...  Read More >>

With unprecedented access to digital collections of period newspapers and magazines, this text examines detective...  Read More >>

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This book, the first in-depth study of authorship in translation, explores how authorial identity is ‘translated’...  Read More >>

This book explores the genre of the historical novel and the variety of ways in which writers choose to represent...  Read More >>

A Preface to Hardy remains the best introduction to one of the most important and popular writers in English literature....  Read More >>

Explores the ubiquitous power of Lewis Carroll's imagined world. Including work by some of the most prominent contemporary...  Read More >>

A revelatory collection of letters from the nation's favourite storyteller.  Read More >>

By the time Herzog was published in 1964, Saul Bellow was probably the most acclaimed novelist in America. This...  Read More >>

The first ever fanfiction reader framed to emphasize fanfiction's unique transformative nature and continuity with...  Read More >>

Michael Anesko explores Henry James's efforts to correct 'mistakes' that he later perceived in his books as first...  Read More >>

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Duncan White draws on previously unpublished and neglected material to tell the story of Nabokov the professional...  Read More >>

The first ever fanfiction reader framed to emphasize fanfiction's unique transformative nature and continuity with...  Read More >>

In Love and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison’s Later Novels, Jean Wyatt explores the interaction among ideas of love,...  Read More >>

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With his novels, journalism, short stories, political activism, and travel writing, Jack London established himself...  Read More >>

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Inventing Comics recovers and translates two of Rudolphe Töpffer's nineteenth-century essays on the rhetorical invention...  Read More >>