Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Austen’s novels are inextricable from the culture, media and fans they have created. Essential reading for Austen’s...  Read More >>

This book focuses on adaptations in and of nineteenth-century France, assessing the reworking of Emile Zola in radio,...  Read More >>

Celebrating a ""writer's writer"" whose friends and rivals included Katherine Anne Porter, Stephen Spender, and...  Read More >>

The novel Don Quixote, written in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra,...  Read More >>

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The “madder stain” imprinted on Tess d’Urberville’s arm is part of a motif which runs through Hardy’s fiction....  Read More >>

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This collection of essays looks at the spinoffs of Star Trek and examines themes found in and among those various...  Read More >>

This collection of essays looks at the groundbreaking impact of the original Star Trek series (1966-1969) and the...  Read More >>

Tracing the canonization through translation of The Tale of Genji from the 1830s to the 1950s, Michael Emmerich...  Read More >>

Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination brings together essays on literary and artistic practice involving cross-cultural...  Read More >>

Bringing new insights from genre theory to bear on the work of the journalist and novelist Rebecca West, this study...  Read More >>

Around the time Shakespeare inaugurated the gilded age of English drama, the young Francis Bacon proposed to take...  Read More >>

Offers the first full-length analysis of the presence and implications of alcohol and intoxication in Herman Melville's...  Read More >>

This new translation is the first and only fully annotated version of Evgeny Zamiatin’s classic novel We in English....  Read More >>

A socio-cultural analysis of the relationship between modernism and science fiction, from the 1870s to the 1970s,...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the interplay of gender, race, and their representation in American science fiction, from the...  Read More >>

A collection of short stories by scriptwriter-poet turned fiction writer Taeko Tomioka. Taeko deconstructs the discourse...  Read More >>

Explores the connections between a secular Indian nation and fiction in English by a number of postcolonial Indian...  Read More >>

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With this volume, the holy trinity of fairy tales-the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen-becomes...  Read More >>

First published in 1990, this is the first book-length study of Susan Sontag: essayist and analyst if culture, author...  Read More >>

This bibliography, first published in 1989, brings together a number of reviews of the early Dickens which appeared...  Read More >>

Time to Be in Earnest is P. D. James's extraordinary memoir of her early life and time starting out as a novelist,...  Read More >>