Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

The Western genre provides the most widely recognized, iconic images of masculinity in the United States - gun-slinging,...  Read More >>

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An examination of the evolution of Jen's career, her themes, and the development of her narrative voice  Read More >>

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This collection of thirty-five lively and accessible essays offers a comprehensive account of the life and work...  Read More >>

In Achieving Autobiographical Form Nicholas Meihuizen argues that significant autobiographies achieve singular forms....  Read More >>

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The Russian writer Lydia Ginzburg (1902-90) is best known for her Notes from the Leningrad Blockade and for influential...  Read More >>

Leland de la Durantaye helps us understand Beckett’s strangeness and notorious difficulty by arguing that Beckett’s...  Read More >>

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A detailed examination of how certain Gothic bodies have taken on mythical status within western culture.  Read More >>

'If men could see us as we really are, they would be amazed', wrote Charlotte Brontë, the outwardly conventional...  Read More >>

In one of the first English studies of Thomas Bernhard, Fatima Naqvi focuses on the Austrian author’s critique of...  Read More >>

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Dermot Healy wrote intricate and innovative short stories that, along with works by Neil Jordan and Desmond Hogan,...  Read More >>

As well as tracing Woolf's career as an activist across 45 years, this book also explores the consistent but often...  Read More >>

Winner of the 2015 Wordcraft Circle Honor and Award for Academic Book. “What roles do literary and community texts...  Read More >>

A book-length study of Wang Wenxing in English offering biographic, cultural, textual, literary, and linguistic...  Read More >>

The importance of fashion in the construction and representation of gender and the formation of modern society in...  Read More >>

Indiana, George Sand's first solo novel, opens with the eponymous heroine brooding and bored in her husband's French...  Read More >>

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This volume focuses exclusively on illuminating the multiplicity of meanings and voices that can be found in the...  Read More >>

Taking Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 ""The Murders in the Rue Morgue"" as an inaugural frame, Andrea Goulet traces the...  Read More >>