Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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Provides a new account of the emergence of Irish gothic fiction in mid-eighteenth century This book provides a robustly...  Read More >>

Religion in Science Fiction investigates the history of the representations of religion in science fiction literature....  Read More >>

A study that examines and accounts for the turn in international fiction in English towards images of the storyteller....  Read More >>

Although they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early...  Read More >>

An exploration of Nathaniel Hawthorne's narrative technique and unique vision of the world  Read More >>

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William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England offers a thorough re-appraisal of William Cobbett (1763-1835), situating...  Read More >>

A collection of essays on the 1960s experimental writer B.S. Johnson, this book draws together new research on all...  Read More >>

Space is, then, as the author shows, both a political fact and a powerful metaphor whose imaginary potential continually...  Read More >>

Provides a new direction for Capote studies that offers a way to reconsider the author's work. By reading Capote's...  Read More >>

Of the twenty or so science fiction films produced in America during the 1950s, there is a fascinating subset of...  Read More >>

Starting with fourteen-year-old Woolf's first palm-sized leather diary, Becoming Virginia Woolf illuminates how...  Read More >>

Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) has achieved an acclaim...  Read More >>

The Fiction of History sets out a number of themes in the relationship between history and fiction, emphasising...  Read More >>

Space is, then, as the author shows, both a political fact and a powerful metaphor whose imaginary potential continually...  Read More >>

In The New Orleans of Fiction: A Research Guide, James A. Kaser provides detailed synopses for more than 500 works...  Read More >>

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William Trevor is a master of contemporary fiction. He writes with equal authority about the frustrations of life...  Read More >>

First published in 1969, this title examines the works of Jonathan Swift from both a literary and an historical...  Read More >>

One of the first book-length studies of a female modernist writer and the professions, this monograph explores the...  Read More >>

An homage to Nabokov's Lectures on Literature, this collection of essays sheds new light on canonical authors such...  Read More >>

""Tolkien and Philosophy"" is a theme that has not yet been studied with the ""philological"" accuracy and the textual...  Read More >>