Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

World War I has been called the poets' war, as it was characterized by a massive outpouring of works of literature...  Read More >>

A lively and intimate selection of letters on life, literature, and art from one of America's finest prose stylists....  Read More >>

This study aims at delineating the cultural work of magical realism as a dominant narrative mode in postcolonial...  Read More >>

Richard Ford and the Ends of Realism examines the work of award-winning American novelist and short story writer...  Read More >>

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Each of James Joyce’s major works appeared in a year defined by armed conflict in Ireland or continental Europe....  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Companion to the Victorian Gothic is an essential resource for students and scholars working on the...  Read More >>

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A new critical perspective on the relationship between text and tact in 20th- and 21st-century literature and theory...  Read More >>

In her reading of detective fiction and passing narratives from the end of the nineteenth century forward, Jinny...  Read More >>

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This groundbreaking study explores the formative influence of classical music on Woolf's writing, illustrating the...  Read More >>

Draws on speech act theory to open up the current critical conversation about antebellum American fiction and culture...  Read More >>

Traces the the story of victimized childhood to its origins in nineteenth-century Britain. Almost as soon as “childhood”...  Read More >>

As London became the first major city of the nineteenth century, new models of representation emerged in the journalism,...  Read More >>

Herman Melville's oeuvre sustains a fundamental tension among self, society, and others. Sacred Uncertainty explores...  Read More >>

Joseph Conrad's major novels tell of illusions and betrayals, dreams and lies. Ambiguity, contradiction, and irony...  Read More >>

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In the fifty years since her death, Flannery O’Connor studies have been conventionally delimited to two critical...  Read More >>

This is the first critical edition of the works of Andrew Lang, the Scottish writer whose enormous output spanned...  Read More >>

In her reading of detective fiction and passing narratives from the end of the nineteenth century forward, Jinny...  Read More >>