Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

""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 >>

An accessible and wide-ranging all-in-one craft guide and anthology to the mode of speculative fiction writing,...  Read More >>

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

Take a tour of New York City as inspiration, place and context in the work of America's greatest playwright of the...  Read More >>

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

In this important study, originally published in 1985, Ronald Hayman scrutinizes Grass’s development and assesses...  Read More >>

This book, originally published in 1983, begins with an analysis of the patterns of Graham Greene’s mind. It explores...  Read More >>

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Examines an important novelistic genre of the early German Democratic Republic for what it tells us about the country's...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1970, this account of Tolstoy’s achievement as a novelist concentrates on the best known...  Read More >>

First published in 1914, Joseph Conrad's female-centred, uncharacteristically optimistic Chance represented a new...  Read More >>

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

The essential companion to Toni Morrison's work, written by Namwali Serpell, 'one of the most innovative and intelligent...  Read More >>