Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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In this speculative treatment of literature as a social institution, Alvin B. Kernan explores the inability of contemporary...  Read More >>

In the three decades following Stalin's death, major underground Russian writers have subverted Soviet ideology...  Read More >>

""In the Greek romances,"" writes David Konstan, ""sighs, tears, and suicide attempts are as characteristic of the...  Read More >>

This volume presents a wide-ranging new perspective on Swift's literary and political achievement in its English...  Read More >>

In this book, Dustin Griffin explores the lifelong conversation between two great eighteenth-century English writers....  Read More >>

A study of the relationship between realism, probability and chance - including gambling and magic - in eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

The Modernist fascination with the visual is not only palpable in the development of media and the visual arts,...  Read More >>

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Eleven essays on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, written from the perspective of the working fantasy writer. How...  Read More >>

Flint explores how eighteenth-century writers, among them Swift, Haywood, Defoe, Richardson, Sterne and Austen,...  Read More >>

From the Golden Age of the 1940s, through the Silver Age of the '60s, up until the early '80s--the end of the Bronze...  Read More >>

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A study of popular eighteenth-century stories which shaped Britons' and Americans' views of the Atlantic world,...  Read More >>

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The X-Men comic book franchise is one of the most popular of all time and one of the most intriguing for critical...  Read More >>

Widely considered one of the leading experts on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, Thomas Alan Shippey has informed...  Read More >>

Literature after Postmodernism explores the use of literary fantastic storylines in contemporary novels which begin...  Read More >>

The collection brings together experts in the field of twentieth-century writing to provide a volume that is both...  Read More >>

This book offers a significant statement about the contemporary British novel in relation to three authors: Graham...  Read More >>

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Michael Chabon's America: Magical Words, Secret Worlds, and Sacred Spaces is the first comprehensive scholarly collection...  Read More >>

In this revised edition of his acclaimed Bibliographical Catalogue of the works of Henry James, David J.  Read More >>