Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

There were no reviews of Mansfield Park when it first appeared in 1814. Austen's reputation grew in the Victorian...  Read More >>

An examination of the hero figure in the stories of two major Victorian authors of children's literature and the...  Read More >>

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An innovative reading of a wide range of contemporary Scottish novels in relation to literary tradition and modern...  Read More >>

Historical Writing in Britain, 1688-1830 explores a series of debates concerning the nature and value of the past...  Read More >>

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On Nabokov, Ayn Rand and the Libertarian Mind not only conjoins two seemingly divergent authors but also takes on...  Read More >>

Few books in the English language seem to demand a companion more insistently than Ulysses. This volume offers fourteen...  Read More >>

At the 2013 “Celebrating The Hobbit ” conference at Valparaiso University two plenary papers were presented by John...  Read More >>

This volume explores the later works of Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein and Wyndham Lewis through the...  Read More >>

Ellis explores the ways in which modernist writers like T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf and H. G. Wells witnessed the...  Read More >>

Few books in the English language seem to demand a companion more insistently than Ulysses. This volume offers fourteen...  Read More >>

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A fascinating retelling of Oskar Schindler's extraordinary story and how it came to the world's attention through...  Read More >>

John Barth represents most completely what has been termed postmodernism, not because his work comprises more postmodernist...  Read More >>

This book places children's literature at the forefront of early twentieth-century debates about national identity...  Read More >>

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American Fiction in Transition offers a case study for defining the 1990s as a transitional decade for US literature...  Read More >>

If the September 11 terror attacks opened up an era of crises and exceptions of which we are yet to see the end,...  Read More >>

While critics collect around the question of what comes ""after postmodernism,"" this book asks something different...  Read More >>

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The idea of the ""outside"" as a space of freedom has always been central in the literature of the United States....  Read More >>

Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic...  Read More >>

Trevor Cribben Merrill offers a bold reassessment of Milan Kundera’s place in the contemporary canon. Harold Bloom...  Read More >>