Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Elizabeth Maslen's excellent biography offers a fresh look at the intersection of Jameson's life and work and the...  Read More >>

Ultimately, Personal Business provides new ways to understand both the history of the Victorian novel and its implications...  Read More >>

Garry Wills is the polymathic public intellectual bemoaned as missing from American letters. A professor emeritus...  Read More >>

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Offers a timely exploration of the American obsession with colour in its look at the sometimes contrary intersections...  Read More >>

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What's the first book in a series? What comes next? Have I read this one yet? Mystery lovers ask these questions...  Read More >>

This book shows just how closely late nineteenth-century American women's ghost stories engaged with objects such...  Read More >>

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Perfect for fans of A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s Game of Thrones—an epic history...  Read More >>

First published in 1975, this book establishes Elizabeth Gaskelll’s excellence in comparison with her peers by demonstrating...  Read More >>

This book explores the origins and impact of Svengali and his helplessly mesmerised female victim Trilby in an age...  Read More >>

This study analyses Bainbridge’s work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies....  Read More >>

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Explores the many ways in which Shakespeare, the greatest writer of the English language, influences Nabokov, arguably...  Read More >>

Melville: Fashioning in Modernity considers all of the major fiction with a concentration on lesser-known work,...  Read More >>

Of the twelve books David Foster Wallace published both during his lifetime and posthumously, only three were novels....  Read More >>

This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian...  Read More >>

Explores the many ways in which Shakespeare, the greatest writer of the English language, influences Nabokov, arguably...  Read More >>

Melville: Fashioning in Modernity considers all of the major fiction with a concentration on lesser-known work,...  Read More >>

Of the twelve books David Foster Wallace published both during his lifetime and posthumously, only three were novels....  Read More >>

Over the course of a fifty-year career, Donald E Westlake published nearly one hundred books, including not one...  Read More >>

In African American fiction, Richard Wright was one of the most significant and influential authors of the twentieth...  Read More >>

Libanius is a key figure for anybody studying late antiquity, but also ancient rhetoric, epistolography and biography....  Read More >>