Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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First published in 1989, this study investigates Hardy not so much in terms of his novels but as he has been constituted...  Read More >>

Dickens and Popular Entertainment is the first extended study of this vital aspect of Dicken's life and work. Ranging...  Read More >>

This book offers an examination of Cicero's speech, the Pro Balbo, which was delivered during a momentous period...  Read More >>

First published in 1966, this book collects six essays which discuss the experience of social change as it reveals...  Read More >>

First published in 1968, this book sets out to refute the idea of Trollope as a ‘mild cathedral-town novelist, describing...  Read More >>

First published in 1971. The book examines the presentation of the urban and industrial working classes in Victorian...  Read More >>

First published in 1985, this biography of Zola does much more than simply describe Zola as a writer, and his literary...  Read More >>

First published in 1979. Most of the great nineteenth century novelists strove to render in words the people and...  Read More >>

First published in 1985, this book looks at the ways in which the spate of terrorist activity in the 1880s was reflected...  Read More >>

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First published in 1980, this book surveys Dickens’ growing power to drive deep into the causes of his contemporary...  Read More >>

The rise of digital publishing and the ebook has opened up an array of possibilities for the writer working with...  Read More >>

Moore. Gaiman. Morrison. They came from Northampton, West Sussex, and Glasgow, and even though they spoke with...  Read More >>

Sylvia Huot argues that the presence of giants in French prose romances demonstrates fantasies of conflict and conquest...  Read More >>

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Drawing on the context in which the protection of the white female body is linked with guarding the U.S. southern...  Read More >>

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Available for the first time in paperback, this is the pre-eminent critical study, and exploration, of how myth...  Read More >>

The second volume of National Book Award finalist David Plante's extraordinary diaries of a life lived among the...  Read More >>

This book explains how Cervantes took advantage of the moral aspects of neo-stoicism and skepticism to remove the...  Read More >>

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