Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder examines the place of wonder in eighteenth-century fiction,...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction encompasses the genre's development in a wide array of media that includes...  Read More >>

Lucian and His Roman Voices examines cultural exchanges, political propaganda, and religious conflicts in the Early...  Read More >>

Jonathan Swift is generally considered one of the greatest satirists and most important writers of England and Ireland....  Read More >>

In this volume, Simon Joyce examines the ways in which readers have come to view canonical modernists such as James...  Read More >>

Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen has been widely hailed as a landmark in the development of the graphic novel....  Read More >>

Paul Auster is one of the most acclaimed figures in American literature. Known primarily as a novelist, Auster’s...  Read More >>

Alasdair Gray: Ink for Worlds offers fresh perspectives on Alasdair Gray's literary and pictorial works, with contributions...  Read More >>

A winsome, whimsical look at the obscure scholar whose work has delighted fans for more than 75 years.  Read More >>

Edgar Allan Poe exerted a profound influence on many aspects of 20th century culture, and continues to inspire composers,...  Read More >>

Rather than accept that there is a single body of literature that can be labeled “women’s writing,” this volume...  Read More >>

A unique collection of critical essays on writer and philosopher Stanislaw Lem, evaluating his influence on twentieth-century...  Read More >>

""There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes.""--a civic...  Read More >>

In the sixteenth century, the picaresque novel introduced marginal figures (wanderers, beggars and thieves) as the...  Read More >>

The first critical synthesis of the Irish novel from the seventeenth century to the present day, this is a major...  Read More >>

Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture is a transdisciplinary study of social invisibility...  Read More >>

Literature and Film, Dispositioned looks to twentieth-century literature's encounter with film as a means to thinking...  Read More >>

The Postcolonial Historical Novel is the first systematic work to examine how the historical novel has been transformed...  Read More >>

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Contemporary Fictions of Multiculturalism analyses novels of the late 20th and early 21st centuries that explore...  Read More >>

Tracing the changing conceptions of nationality in the work of traveling writers such as D.H. Lawrence, Gertrude...  Read More >>

Body Gothic assesses the role and relevance of corporeal transgression in literature and film of the last three...  Read More >>

This book collects the best of Donald Pizer's essays dealing with Hamlin Garland's early work and activities in...  Read More >>

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"A labor of love by inspired fans, this magazine celebrates the literature of an original American treasure, R....  Read More >>