Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Tolstoy was as much a philosopher as a novelist. From the entries in his early diaries through to the great novels...  Read More >>

This volume in The Oxford History of the Novel in English reassesses, in an authoritative way, the principal forms...  Read More >>

Combining literary analysis with a practical introduction to interdisciplinary literary geography, Literary Geograp...  Read More >>

Despite pioneering studies, the term 'romance novel' itself has not been subjected to scrutiny. This book examines...  Read More >>

Implementing a never-before-seen approach to sea literature, American Sea Literature: Seascapes, Beach Narratives,...  Read More >>

The bestselling York Notes for GCSE series now includes new York Notes for GCSE Workbooks. These great new Workbooks...  Read More >>

In Exploring Capitalist Fiction: Business through Literature and Film, Edward W. Younkins proposes that the use...  Read More >>

An exploration of the complex roles that bodies--both literally and figuratively--play in the 21 volume Aubrey-Maturin...  Read More >>

With a resurgence of interest in recent years, A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau is the first volume...  Read More >>

A Political Companion to John Steinbeck examines the most contentious political aspects of the author's body of...  Read More >>

This is the first collection to evaluate Emerson's political thought in light of his recently rediscovered political...  Read More >>

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This study concentrates on The Devils, but also places this novel in the total context of Dostoevsky’s work. Also...  Read More >>

Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is considered by many to be one of the greatest novels ever written. This study, first published...  Read More >>

Phillip Mallett guides us through Hardy's most charming and most satisfying novel and shows us why Bathsheba Everdene...  Read More >>

John Tytell, author of Naked Angels, one of the first books examining the literature of the Beat Generation, has...  Read More >>

A fresh look at the way Virginia Woolf shook up the literary world with Mrs Dalloway, one of the seminal modern...  Read More >>

An incisive, entertaining analysis of one of the greatest romantic novels in the English language - one which challenged...  Read More >>

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Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade  Read More >>

By investigating representations of the war years in a selection of French crime novels from the mid-1940s to the...  Read More >>

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This major new work, based on significant new material on Ruskin's Guild of St George, offers the first authoritative...  Read More >>

Colonial domestic literature has been largely overlooked and is due for a reassessment. This essay collection explores...  Read More >>

This book examines the complexities and paradoxes of the Latin American short story. It pinpoints the social, intellectual...  Read More >>