Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Robert Storey's lively and gracefully written study of Pierrot is the first scholarly history of this fascinating...  Read More >>

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Is the historical novel the outmoded genre that some people imagine--form inseparable from romanticism, nationalism,...  Read More >>

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Professor Fellows presents a map of Ruskin's mind as it shifts from conditions of mastery to madness. In his study,...  Read More >>

Professor Ellison demonstrates that the characteristic difficulties of Emerson's prose--its repetitiveness, discontinuity,...  Read More >>

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Practicing Romance sets out to re-tell the story of Hawthorne's career, arguing that he is best understood as a...  Read More >>

John M. Ganim presents a revised theory of late medieval literary history based on the relationship of the poet...  Read More >>

Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) was one of Spain's outstanding novelists and the author of two vast cycles of novels...  Read More >>

This examination of the last two tales of Cervantes' Novelas ejemplares reveals the Christian Humanist tradition...  Read More >>

Investigating autobiographical writing of Mary McCarthy, Henry James, Jean-Paul Sartre, Saul Friedlander, and Maxine...  Read More >>

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As femme fatale, cabaret siren, and icon of Camp, the Christopher Isherwood character Sally Bowles has become this...  Read More >>

In the work he considered his masterpiece, Persiles and Sigismunda, Cervantes finally explores the reality of woman--an...  Read More >>

The subjects Wolf addressed have dominated Homeric scholarship for almost two centuries. Especially important were...  Read More >>

In this provocative study, Susan Mizruchi argues that the act of writing history is the key to the political concerns...  Read More >>

The Iranian writer Sadeq Hedayat is the most influential figure in twentieth-century Persian fiction--and the object...  Read More >>

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Fiction criticism has a long and influential history in pre-modern China, where critics would read and reread certain...  Read More >>

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Mary Reynolds studies the rhetorical and linguistic maneuvers by which Joyce related his work to Dante's and shows...  Read More >>

Although Chinese narrative, and especially the genres of colloquial fiction, have been subjected to intensive scholarly...  Read More >>

Author of over seventy books, including novels, poems, criticism, travel essays, and memoirs, Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939)...  Read More >>