Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Schweigen kann verletzen – wie Worte und doch anders als sie. Literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlich untersucht diese...  Read More >>

Mark Twain and the Colonel tells the story of America between 1890 and 1910 through the fully engaged involvement...  Read More >>

Movies and books have romanticized the life of the cowboy. To most, the heroes of countless Westerns fall into one...  Read More >>

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These new essays comprise a critical analysis of present-day crime fiction and nonfiction works set in Italy (all...  Read More >>

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This edited collection offers a variety of perspectives focusing on representation of women as heroines across printed...  Read More >>

Meyers emphasizes Fitzgerald's alcoholism, Zelda's illnesses and her doctors, Fitzgerald's love affairs both before...  Read More >>

Romanticism and the Emotions offers the first essay collection to examine the recent focus on the importance of...  Read More >>

This volume of the Cambridge Edition includes thirteen short stories published by Fitzgerald in Esquire, together...  Read More >>

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A fascinating look at the autumn of 1922, when F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda returned to New York and the seeds...  Read More >>

New Directions in the History of the Novel challenges received views of literary history and sets out new areas...  Read More >>

This edition includes a detailed account of the composition of the novel, a textual apparatus, a chronology of composition,...  Read More >>

Features Gabriel Garcia Marquez who was twenty-three, a young man experimenting with his writing when this mother...  Read More >>

Offers an epistolary dialogue between two great writers who became great friends. This book includes letters that...  Read More >>

Useful for readers and aspiring writers, this book contains what they need to know about the complexities of researching,...  Read More >>

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering,...  Read More >>

Introduces the fiction of Steven Millhauser, whose distinguished career of more than four decades includes eight...  Read More >>

Best known for Out of Africa and Babette’s Feast, Karen Blixen—often writing under the name Isak Dinesen—was an...  Read More >>

This volume approaches Tabish Khair's writings (both his theoretical proposals and his novels) from numerous different...  Read More >>

Tracing the emergence of different reading audiences, this groundbreaking study explores why some books originally...  Read More >>

This single author collection of essays tackles the usual subjects in horror literature—particularly Edgar Allan...  Read More >>

This is an eclectic collection of essays from a group of international scholars tackling various subjects on Victorian...  Read More >>

The first book about the literature of the Irish in London examines over 30 novels, short stories and autobiographies...  Read More >>