Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Jane Austen’s six complete novels and her juvenilia are examined in the context of civil society and gender. Steiner’s...  Read More >>

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Winifred Holtby (1898–1935) is best-known today for her friendship with fellow feminist and pacifist Vera Brittain...  Read More >>

Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor wrote witty and entertaining novels about the domestic lives of middle-class...  Read More >>

The rise of the middle classes brought a sharp increase in the number of young men and women able to attend university....  Read More >>

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Gott examines Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922) in conjunction with Gustave Flaubert’s La Tentation de Saint Antoine...  Read More >>

Through an examination of her complete works and public response to them, Robertson gauges the extent of Inchbald's...  Read More >>

Bringing together leading Wharton scholars from Europe, and North America, this volume offers the first ever collection...  Read More >>

Furbank and Owens attempt to disentangle the story of Daniel Defoe’s political career, as journalist, polemicist,...  Read More >>

A study of the production, circulation and consumption of English ghost stories during the Age of Reason. This work...  Read More >>

While under arrest in 1750 on suspicion of producing a seditious pamphlet Eliza Haywood insisted she ‘never wrote...  Read More >>

In its time, the Quarterly Review was thought to closely reflect government policy, however, the essays in this...  Read More >>

The inherent 'metropolitanism' of writing for a Romantic-era periodical is here explored through the Elia articles...  Read More >>

Fin-de-siècle fiction by British female aesthetes and American women regionalists stages moments of rebellion when...  Read More >>

Considered a quintessentially 'popular' author, John Buchan was a writer of fiction, journalism, philosophy and...  Read More >>

This book investigates the figure of the revolutionary in the Hindi novel by establishing its lineage in the literary...  Read More >>

Fashion and celebrity may be twenty-first century obsessions, but they were also key concepts in Regency culture....  Read More >>

Explores the connections between British and American Romanticism, focusing on the novels of Elizabeth Inchbald...  Read More >>

This is an engaging study of the place occupied by the City of London within British cultural life during the Victorian...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking study examines the vexed and unstable relations between the eighteenth-century novel and the...  Read More >>

This collection of essays addresses the relationship between Swift and the world of commercial print, and in so...  Read More >>

The first study of Marian Evans's career as a journalist, editor and serial-fiction writer arguing the importance...  Read More >>