Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

From the Test Card to the TARDIS: A Journey Through Sci-Fi TV History Unlock the secrets of the shows that shaped...  Read More >>

'Imprinted' is a history of reading and the development of a literary culture in the Caribbean. It explores the...  Read More >>

Examines how post-war presidential history is portrayed in contemporary American novels.  Read More >>

Studies literary and cinematic representations of sex work in Cambodia and Vietnam to rethink claims about the 'truth'...  Read More >>

A queer, postcolonial reading of twentieth-century Irish women's writing.  Read More >>

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

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A variety of essays by Mansfield scholars presenting criticism on Katherine Mansfield's relationship to London  Read More >>

Recovers a forgotten and short-lived form of American fiction: the midcentury minor novel  Read More >>

Examines the work and reception of the Arab emigre writer Gibran...  Read More >>

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

Imagines great artificial fiction that represents the world in creatively nonhuman ways while challenging how we...  Read More >>

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From the beginning, the superhero genre has revolved around narratives of transformation. Through traumatic experiences,...  Read More >>

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

How one visionary inspired 200 years of art, poetry, and protest. Weaving between the historical, cultural and personal,...  Read More >>

Herman Melville: A Very Short Introduction tells the story of Melville's exciting and tragic life, provides overviews...  Read More >>

This is the first volume in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. It contains the text of Walter Pater's...  Read More >>

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Body Language examines how eighteenth-century medical discourse informed the comic novel. Through comic representations...  Read More >>

Being a detective is not a profession you choose lightly. It is a way of seeing the world, of interpreting reality,...  Read More >>

This book investigates the nature of ‘home’ and nation in post-imperial British novels, which deal with the loss...  Read More >>

This book illustrates how literary narratives can function as a type of activism, spanning socio-cultural, cognitive,...  Read More >>