Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

A timely look at John Buchan's much-loved pre-First-World-War novel - what inspired it, its themes and metaphors...  Read More >>

Presents the study of how people make choices while interacting with others - is one of the most popular technical...  Read More >>

A bibliography of books and articles about 19th century women writers. There is a convenient author list in the...  Read More >>

Recent years have witnessed important new initiatives in the study of popular fictional modes of writing. At one...  Read More >>

Before about 1840, there was little prestige attached to the writing of novels, and most English novelists were...  Read More >>

Examining how feminist theory and women's fiction can reflect and illuminate each other, (Un)like Subjects traces...  Read More >>

Focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinised contemporary...  Read More >>

‘Postmodernism’ and ‘feminism’ have become familiar terms since the 1960s, developing alongside one another and...  Read More >>

How do women writers use science fiction to challenge assumptions about the genre and its representations of women?...  Read More >>

This collection of essays by major scholars explores the writings of the great eighteenth-century French thinker...  Read More >>

Contemporary master of suspense and horror  Read More >>

Este libro muestra que Gabriel Miró no ha sido olvidado, sino...  Read More >>

A careful and intimate study on the ways Nabokov’s world perception and fictional universe were influenced by his...  Read More >>

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Contemporary African Literature in English explores the contours of representation in contemporary Anglophone African...  Read More >>

An exploration of the authors and literary works that identify with the American thriller, this volume examines...  Read More >>

A close analysis of Farah's novels is used to track the contradictions implicit in the notion of the modern, disengaged...  Read More >>

Novels began to incorporate literary theory in unexpected ways in the late twentieth century. Through allusion,...  Read More >>

""By making friends with signs"", Lennard Davis argues, ""we are weakening the bond that anchors us to the social...  Read More >>

First published in 1983, this book explores a number of avenues of critical thinking about Joseph Conrad, showing...  Read More >>

This collection of essays investigates the various connections between Willa Cather’s fiction and her aesthetic...  Read More >>

The Jewish presence in Latin America has produced a remarkable body of literature that gives voice to the fascinating...  Read More >>

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Essays exploring the relationship between environmental disaster and visions of apocalypse through the lens of science...  Read More >>

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