Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

<p>Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature examines distinguished classics of children's...  Read More >>

A reader's guide and a companion to this complex and great saga, a classic of world literature, comparable to the...  Read More >>

Best-sellers are the books that sell well, are read by large numbers of people, and are widely talked about in the...  Read More >>

From Frankenstein and Dracula to Psycho and The Chainsaw Massacre, horror fiction has provided our culture...  Read More >>

Apuleius of Madauros (c.AD 120–180), known to us today for his Latin fiction, the Metamorphoses, was also a Platonic...  Read More >>

A study of the occult in the popular fiction of the late Victorian period, exploring not only the immense appeal,...  Read More >>

Contemporary popular music provides the soundtrack for a host of recent novels, but little critical attention has...  Read More >>

This book illuminates the impact, lasting influence, and personalities involved with the creation and development...  Read More >>

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Reconstructs through testimonial literature the repression of women during the Franco years and recovers the writings...  Read More >>

Few could have predicted the enduring fascination with the detective Sherlock Holmes. In this book, the contributors...  Read More >>

Believing the Swedish police narrative tradition to be part and parcel of the European history of ideas and culture,...  Read More >>

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At the same time, his full-scale analyses of Spanish metafictional works will be welcomed by Hispanists and other...  Read More >>

In this lucid book a distinguished scholar and critic measures British fiction from World War I through the convulsive...  Read More >>

This study by Percy Adams will both modify opinions about the novel and its history and provide an excellent introduction...  Read More >>

The sheer volume of prolific Spanish novelist and playwright Benito Pérez Galdós's literary production has rendered...  Read More >>

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In this collection of essays an international group of scholars provides a fresh introduction to this noted author....  Read More >>

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"""We are reading our way out of sadness."" So writes Linda Rogers in her fine poem, ""Paper Stairs."" And as our...  Read More >>

Rational Scrutiny: Paradoxes and Contradictions in Detective Fiction, discusses why Chess Hanrahan and Cyrus Skeen,...  Read More >>

Yet the women characters who commit murder are punished because their sympathetic Victorian creators had internalized...  Read More >>

The importance of the ethics of form in literature has only recently gained broad recognition and has thus far been...  Read More >>