Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Literature for the Masses is the first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as...  Read More >>

Argues that literature has a special role to play in developing a wishful, visionary, and utopian sensibility for...  Read More >>

This engaging volume provides an authoritative assessment of the middle period in the career of the widely-read,...  Read More >>

Considers how Joseph Conrad's works engage with silence  Read More >>

Encouraging closer personal readings of modern Irish literature.  Read More >>

Quixotic Authority reveals how deeply absorbed reading was inextricable from and essential to British women's professional...  Read More >>

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Challenges the conventional idea of the ""wild"" in North America showing how assumptions of colonial mastery and...  Read More >>

This book introduces readers to key concepts in international relations and strategy through the interstellar narratives...  Read More >>

Joseph Ashmore argues that early modern literature became a key site for handling questions of faith during the...  Read More >>

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Examining a range of Chinese Canadian literature, this book incorporates elements of the author's own family story-her...  Read More >>

In a world where survival is brutal and morality is blurred, Saints, Sinners, and Clickers delves into the haunting,...  Read More >>

Excerpt: ... dread that her father was deceiving her kept strengthening  Read More >>

Gu, Wu and Moratto explore how Chinese Science Fiction transcends cultural and linguistic barriers with its unique...  Read More >>

An exploration of how comics illuminate medicine, religion, and identity  Read More >>

Examining the relationship between borders and the environment in Scottish literature from the nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

A study of how Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels respond to and represent the world via characters that are profoundly limited...  Read More >>

Moving from the micro world of quantum physics to the macro scales of earth science, this book considers how, in...  Read More >>

Examines the corporeality of Philip Roth’s fiction, arguing that Roth interrogates both how Jewishness has been...  Read More >>

This collection of essays offers crucial and luminous insights into one of the best-known Czech authors, Milan Kundera,...  Read More >>

Crossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book rediscovers Flann O’Brien’s attempt to synthesise a...  Read More >>

P.G. Wodehouse saw his first article published when still at school, and went on to become the leading humour writer...  Read More >>

This Norton Critical Edition includes: Over sixty fairy tales from around the world and across the ages, many...  Read More >>

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