Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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"""Fantastika are those abundant modes of telling the world that open out beyond myth, legend, prophecy and tales...  Read More >>

Mankind is threatened with extinction as superhuman beings known as primal aspects make it their goal to overthrow...  Read More >>

Synthesizing the histories of masculinity, manners, and radicalism, Rakes, Highwaymen, and Pirates offers a fresh...  Read More >>

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First published in 1987, this title tracks the spy thriller from John Buchanan to Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John...  Read More >>

Arguing that gender and difference are conceptual and performative, Schneider examines many of Conrad's best-known...  Read More >>

Nabokov gained international fame with Lolita, a highly erotic and morally disturbing novel. Through its comprehensive...  Read More >>

Italian Women Writers looks at the work of three of the most significant women in late nineteenth century Italy...  Read More >>

This book focuses on Henry James and his engagement with the fast-developing consumer culture of the late nineteenth...  Read More >>

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A smart and passionate exegesis of Chester Brown's seminal comic book, Yummy Fur.  Read More >>

The author was a masterful letter writer whose correspondents included Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, Gore Vidal and Pier...  Read More >>

The presence of Irish writers is almost invisible in literary studies of London. This study considers how Irish...  Read More >>

Offering the first comparative literary history of Hebrew and Yiddish modernist prose, Diasporic Modernisms argues...  Read More >>

The presence of Irish writers is almost invisible in literary studies of London. This study considers how Irish...  Read More >>

This resounding defence of the principles of free expression revisits the Satanic Verses uproar of 1989, as well...  Read More >>

Discusses fictional encounters between Europeans and purportedly “savage” people in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

The Lord of the Rings rarely makes an appearance in college courses that aim to examine modern British and American...  Read More >>

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Argues that Paule Marshall's work collectively constitutes a multigenerational saga of the African diaspora across...  Read More >>

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Rich in social detail, profound in its psychology and essential for an understanding of the militaristic period,...  Read More >>

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