Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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 >>

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

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

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

Offers compelling and multiple contexts of Ngugi's writing over the five decades and in the process underscoring...  Read More >>

Focusing on four contemporary francophone writers with roots in West and Central Africa—Fatou Diome, Alain Mabanckou,...  Read More >>

The narrative tropes of living fossils, lost worlds, and last humans have long foreshadowed the modern discourse...  Read More >>

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A celebration of every series and film in the Star Trek franchise, finding the good throughout all of it, a fan's...  Read More >>

Featuring contributions from key names in the field alongside some of the most exciting new voices, this collection...  Read More >>

Through new ecocritical readings of 18th and 19th century English genre fictions, this book explores the intersection...  Read More >>

Using critical race theory to explore the racial, colonial and imperial ideologies underpinning Enid Blyton's fiction,...  Read More >>

Using works by Hafid Bouazza, Najat El Hachmi, Tsjêbbe Hettinga, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Leïla Slimani, Zadie Smith,...  Read More >>