Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

¿Existe el más allá?, ¿pueden los muertos regresar para comunicarse con nosotros?, ¿son reales las leyendas urbanas...  Read More >>

Jeremy Rosen traces the recent surge books that transform minor characters from canonical literary texts into the...  Read More >>

This collective essay examines the violence, both present and past, inherent in the act of interpreting texts produced...  Read More >>

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Arguing that the Bildungsroman is humanist culture's own origin story, Feder draws on the work of biologists in...  Read More >>

Interviews with the author of Neuromancer, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, and Zero History  Read More >>

To mark the bicentenary of Sheridan Le Fanu’s birth, this collection brings together established scholars and emerging...  Read More >>

Without acknowledging the significance of the occupation of Haiti, our understanding of Atlantic history cannot...  Read More >>

A fresh and engaging international tribute to Bernard Malamud, a major American Jewish novelist in the postwar era...  Read More >>

Conventional wisdom holds that Hemingway's Key West years were among his least productive, and many are dismissive...  Read More >>

Nella Larsen’s novels Quicksand and Passing, published at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, fell out of print...  Read More >>

Jewish identity and magical realism are the themes of the tales of adventure and cultural alienation collected here...  Read More >>

With the publication of Susan Sontag's diaries, the development of her career can now be evaluated in a more genetic...  Read More >>

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In the spring of 1861, Ambrose Bierce, just shy of nineteen, became Private Bierce of the Ninth Indiana Volunteer...  Read More >>

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In line with the recent surge of critical interest in early psychology, the contributors of this volumeread Mansfield's...  Read More >>

Without acknowledging the significance of the occupation of Haiti, our understanding of Atlantic history cannot...  Read More >>

Hailed for her remarkable social and psychological insights into the Gilded Age lives of privileged Americans, Edith...  Read More >>

The art of the early US republic abounds in representations of deception. Yet, as Philipp Schweighauser points out...  Read More >>

Their essays position her libretto within the African American...  Read More >>

Traces Cormac McCarthy’s journey from cult figure to literary icon. Drawing extensively on McCarthy’s papers and...  Read More >>

In-depth critical discussions of J.R.R. Tolkien's novel - Plus complimentary, unlimited online access to the full...  Read More >>