Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Victory: An Island Tale is the latest volume in the widely praised The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Edition of The Portrait of a Lady (1881) offers the most authoritative and most comprehensively annotated...  Read More >>

This book examines Yeats's writing about Shakespeare in the contexts of his work on behalf of the Irish Literary...  Read More >>

In his brilliant critical study of this popular genre, Christopher Palmer traces the castaway tales’ history and...  Read More >>

The Fictional World of Javier Marías examines the origin and meaning of uncertainty in the key works of Spain’s...  Read More >>

Beginning with the premise that the portrait was undergoing a shift in both form and function during the Romantic...  Read More >>

Beginning with the premise that the portrait was undergoing a shift in both form and function during the Romantic...  Read More >>

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This book is a transnational study of how contemporary fiction writers from the United States and Canada to Nigeria...  Read More >>

Explores allusions, sources, echoes and affinities in Henry James' vast body of work as critical ways to discover...  Read More >>

A new account of Herman Melville and the writing of Moby-Dick, written by a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Biography...  Read More >>

If you have a question about the Star Trek universe this is the book with the answers. Star Trek: Questions and...  Read More >>

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Complete with fresh perspectives, and drawing on the latest scholarship and biographical sources, The Life of D.H....  Read More >>

Traces a tradition of literary resistance to dominant pedagogies in nineteenth-century Britain, recovering an overlooked...  Read More >>

This introductory guide to the canon of Victorian literature covers 61 novels by authors from Jane Austen to Emile...  Read More >>

Conrad in Italy provides international students and researchers with a variety of critical approaches. Richard Ambrosini...  Read More >>

Gatekeepers tells the behind-the-scenes stories of how four now-iconic writers (Gabriel García Márquez, Charles...  Read More >>

In The Real People of Joyce's Ulysses, Dubliner and Joycean scholar Vivien Igoe leaves no stone uncovered in revealing...  Read More >>

In the shadow of the Holocaust, Samuel Beckett captures humanity in ruins through his debased beings and a decomposing...  Read More >>

Given Jack Kerouac’s enduring reputation for heaving words onto paper, it might surprise some readers to see his...  Read More >>

""Examines the conception of events and subjects in five contemporary American novels: Cormac McCarthy's The Road...  Read More >>

The dynamic interplay between the work of the Nobel laureate and black writers  Read More >>

Working Girls offers a cultural and literary history of telegraphists, typists, shop-girls, and barmaids. It argues...  Read More >>