Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Cricket, Fiction and Nation examines how cricket has been used by fiction writers from the early nineteenth century...  Read More >>

In the infinite expanse between a heartbeat and a supernova, where logic dances with wonder, this book of sci-fi...  Read More >>

The book analyzes the evolution of antebellum literary explorations of sympathy and human contact in the 1850s and...  Read More >>

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This issue of ALT provides content narratives, critical frames and theoretical constructs to read and critique writings...  Read More >>

What if history had chosen mercy over conquest? In this sweeping reimagining of the world, Africa never fell to...  Read More >>

Surveys the career of the influential Nobel-prize winning author Ernest Hemingway. Pays close attention to prose...  Read More >>

With Orwell claimed by all sides of the culture wars, returning to his own world and words offers sharp and surprising...  Read More >>

Shows how US literary representations of mothering across racial, ethnic, and LGBTQ communities challenge ideological...  Read More >>

Surveys the career of the influential Nobel-prize winning author Ernest Hemingway. Pays close attention to prose...  Read More >>

In the infinite expanse between a heartbeat and a supernova, where logic dances with wonder, this book of sci-fi...  Read More >>

""Godwin ... was the inspiring intelligence behind the humanist attitudes of the English Romantic poets and Utopian...  Read More >>

A leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire...  Read More >>

Rethinks the relationship between architecture, literature and (in)visibility in the nineteenth-century city  Read More >>

Demonstrates how women's writing formed a crucial, if underappreciated, part of the history of sexuality in the...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of the representations of disability and illness in the fiction of J. M. Coetzee  Read More >>

Develops a new theory of literary imagination for the Anthropocene by analysing descriptions of the environment...  Read More >>

Offers a national approach to the issue of Europe as a geographical, political, cultural and ideological signifier...  Read More >>

Provides a comprehensive overview of the essay, with a focus on current debates about the form.  Read More >>

The revealing biography of a leading and enigmatic Australian novelist.  Read More >>

The conversation between Draco Malfoy and Albus Dumbledore, in the chapter ""The Lightning-Struck Tower"" from Harry...  Read More >>

Explore the writings and ideas of literary legends George Orwell with this handy hardback guide, complete with helpful...  Read More >>

Giovanni P. Marana was probably the first writer to use the device of a series of letters written by a visitor to...  Read More >>

Investigates permutations of the terror to examine the complex political and intellectual transformation of literary...  Read More >>

Annie S. Swan was a Scottish writer during the Victorian era. Swan is best known for romantic novels for young women...  Read More >>