Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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

First published in 1880, Ben-Hur became a best-seller. For over a century, it has become a ubiquitous pop cultural...  Read More >>

C.T. Hsia studies in depth six landmarks of Chinese fiction. While he provides pertinent historical and bibliographical...  Read More >>

Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, revisits a classic, twentieth-century American text. Scholars from around the...  Read More >>

Ranging from Chretien de Troyes to Shakespeare, this study proposes that the chivalric romance is characterized...  Read More >>

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In a world increasingly defined by prose, poets adapted the new forms, characters, and moral themes of the novel...  Read More >>

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The focus of this broadly based analysis is on representative noir stories and novels, and the dialogs, voice-over,...  Read More >>

By combining the already contested idea of fiction with performance, action, and ideas/ideology, this collection...  Read More >>

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An Ethics of Reading considers how writers of contemporary American fiction represent collective identities by producing...  Read More >>

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Daniel Defoe’s fast-paced picaresque novel traces its roguish hero’s “Life of Wonders.”  Read More >>

A collection of ten essays that offers insights into the five Leather-Stocking Tales: The Pioneers (1823), The...  Read More >>

In J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Power, Emanuela Tegla offers an exploration of the interconnectedness between...  Read More >>

Agatha Christie is one of the most popular and most translated authors of all time. Yet there is little academic...  Read More >>

Of all the new developments in literary theory, feminism has proved to be the most widely influential, leading to...  Read More >>

In-depth critical discussions of Toni Morrison's novel - Plus complimentary, unlimited online access to the full...  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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First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Traces Hemingway's critical fortunes over the ninety years of his prominence, telling us something about what we...  Read More >>