Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Addressed to readers of modern literature as well as to those interested in Greco-Roman literature and in religious...  Read More >>

Blake Nevius's close analysis and appraisal of Edith Wharton's novels and stories reveals the modernity of her fiction...  Read More >>

Faulkner's People is an essential reference for the student and general reader of Faulkner who seeks guidance in...  Read More >>

THE GREAT ACHILLES: Hero of the Greek Mythology Attention Experience ""The Great Achilles,"" a riveting journey...  Read More >>

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This book examines contemporary debates on such concepts as national literature, world literature, and the relationship...  Read More >>

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""This work explores how, through shifts in narrative tone and pacing at the conclusions of her novels, Jane Austen...  Read More >>

Yet the novel is also packed with historical allusions and an eighteenth-century vernacular that some readers may...  Read More >>

Focuses onthe California Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.  Read More >>

Rethinks the relationships between author, reader, and text in literature and criticism, through a study of James...  Read More >>

Argues for a reawakened commitment to historicity in contemporary American fiction.  Read More >>

Victorian poets remixed and remastered signature tropes from 1790s Gothic novels, establishing canonical nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Provides a transnational study of the Arab uprisings in the Western literary market  Read More >>

In the context of the climate crisis and a pandemic which has caused us to re-evaluate the significance of landscape...  Read More >>

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Examines fifteen novels and one testimony written on the topic of dictatorship to illustrate how these Chilean narratives...  Read More >>

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Through an analysis of a broad corpus of correspondences, novels and paintings, this book aims to re-establish the...  Read More >>

Re-examines Charles Dickens's under-recognised importance to nineteenth-century and contemporary understandings...  Read More >>

Examining how British writers are addressing the urgent matter of how we form and express group belonging in the...  Read More >>

Explores how espionage fiction captures the most significant political conflicts and crises of the last hundred...  Read More >>

The first book to explore the representation of reading and its often deleterious consequences in modern fiction...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of how fiction has depicted and responded to terrorism in the twenty-first century  Read More >>