Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

John Updike once wrote that many of his works are """"illustrations of Kierkegaard,"""" and yet no current study...  Read More >>

Written by leading Woolf and modernism scholars, The Cambridge Companion to To The Lighthouse will be of interest...  Read More >>

Introduces readers to one of the most influential American writers of the last half- century. Henry Veggian traces...  Read More >>

Scholarship on screen adaptation has proliferated in recent years, but it has remained largely focused on English-...  Read More >>

Written by leading Woolf and modernism scholars, The Cambridge Companion to To The Lighthouse will be of interest...  Read More >>

In this revised edition, which is aimed at students, scholars, and general readers, Griswold has updated the text...  Read More >>

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Drawing on transnational literary studies, periodical studies, translation studies, and comparative literary history,...  Read More >>

The sadistic prison ‘warder’ is an all-too-familiar figure in the literary and cultural imagination of Britain and...  Read More >>

Narrative Innovation in 9/11 Fiction demonstrates how certain novels create narratives about the 9/11 attacks that...  Read More >>

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An exploration of the ways in which romance authors seek to represent our fantasies of life in the past. Hughes...  Read More >>

This book makes an important intervention in the ongoing debates about modernism, science, and the divisions of...  Read More >>

An investigation of identity formation in children's literature, this book brings together children’s literature...  Read More >>

This volume offers an introductory overview to the short stories of Katherine Mansfield, discussing a wide range...  Read More >>

“Undoubtedly, this edition of America’s major Civil War novel will become indispensable to any serious reader of...  Read More >>

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Guiding readers through key writers and genres, historical contexts and major theoretical approaches, this is a...  Read More >>

Against skeptics, Männiste argues that Miller does indeed have a philosophy of his own, which underpins most of...  Read More >>

Terrorism and Temporality in the Works of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo starts from a simple premise: that the...  Read More >>

Shows that tantalisation--the pursuit of objects that recede from all attempts to reach them--preoccupies much modern...  Read More >>

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This book is the first collection of essays on the works of William T. Vollmann. It offers a comprehensive overview...  Read More >>

Guiding readers through key writers and genres, historical contexts and major theoretical approaches, this is a...  Read More >>

Reverberations of the Vietnam War can still be felt in American culture. The post-9/11 United States forays into...  Read More >>