Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

In his study of the journalist George Augustus Sala, Peter Blake shows how Sala’s personal style and innovations...  Read More >>

Examining key works by Robert Tressell, Alan Sillitoe, D.H. Lawrence, Buchi Emecheta, Pat Barker, Jeanette Winterson...  Read More >>

Pesents the first systematic examination of the hundreds of novels that have been written about anthropogenic climate...  Read More >>

Yothers' Sacred Uncertainty examines Melville's engagement with religious difference, both within American culture...  Read More >>

Diverse in theme, style and cultural context, the American short story can take many forms. The only common theme...  Read More >>

Michael Chabon (b. 1963) has become one of contemporary literature's most acclaimed novelists by pursuing his singular...  Read More >>

Even well-meaning fiction writers of the late Jim Crow era (1900-1955) perpetuated racial stereotypes in their depiction...  Read More >>

Enter the world of myth behind Outlander, from the Fair Folk and the Loch Ness monster to the magic and lore of...  Read More >>

Between 1843 and 1853, Household Words, Reynolds’s Weekly Newspaper, the Examiner, Punch, and the serial edition...  Read More >>

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The book is an examination of the impact of Communism on a generation of African American writers and a consideration...  Read More >>

This is an ambitious and fascinating analysis of early twentieth-century literature in English from Kipling, Conrad,...  Read More >>

Stanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future brings a welter of unknown elements of Lem’s life, career, and literary...  Read More >>

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In 1989, Steven Moore published the first scholarly study of all three of William Gaddis's novels and since then...  Read More >>

This study explores both Dickens’s critical view of capitalism and his complex role (as a premier producer of commodity-text...  Read More >>

The diary is a genre that is often thought of as virtually formless, a ""capacious hold-all"" for the writer’s thoughts,...  Read More >>

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

This study examines a selection of Chesterton’s novels, poetry, and literary criticism and outlines the distinctive...  Read More >>

As the first essay collection dedicated to Philip K. Dick in two decades, this volume breaks new ground in science...  Read More >>

Shusaku Endo is celebrated as one of Japan's great modern novelists, often described as ""Japan's Graham Greene,""...  Read More >>

Andrew Francis's Culture and Commerce in Conrad's Asian Fiction is the first book-length study of commerce in Conrad's...  Read More >>

Offers a full commentary and introduction to Cicero's De Provinciis Consularibus, which dramatically altered the...  Read More >>

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