Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

""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 >>

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

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

""Contesting the binaries that still exist between modernist and First World War writing, this critical group study...  Read More >>

Situated between Europe and Asia, and surrounded by three seas, Turkey comprises a diverse environmental and cultural...  Read More >>

Exploring the poetic fictions of prominent French, feminist writer Hélène Cixous, this open access book highlights...  Read More >>

Tracing the genre through fiction, visual art, film and videogames from the 1980s to the present, this book offers...  Read More >>

The first study of the literature of dissent that has emerged from the veterans of the global War on Terror.  Read More >>

The first study of Anglophone and Italian novels by Somali diasporic authors, offering a new critical framework...  Read More >>

This book offers the first sustained analysis of the interactions between British writers, propaganda and culture...  Read More >>

Rachel Cusk is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary British authors. Her diverse...  Read More >>

A wide-ranging critical survey of British fiction of the 1930s, from Virginia Woolf and George Orwell to Sylvia...  Read More >>

A wide-ranging critical survey of British fiction of the 1960s, from J.G. Ballard and Angela Carter to A.S. Byatt,...  Read More >>

Showcasing the most exciting work currently being carried out on D. H. Lawrence, this magisterial collection serves...  Read More >>

The first study of the translations of Andy Warhol's writing and ideas, Translating Warhol reveals how translation...  Read More >>

A wide-ranging critical survey of British Fiction in the 1950s, from J.R.R. Tolkien to Samuel Beckett, Kingsley...  Read More >>

A complete introduction to the comics of Lynda Barry, this book maps her historical and biographical contexts, key...  Read More >>

The first study of creative and cultural afterlives of Gulliver’s Travels produced over the past 3 centuries that...  Read More >>