Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

This book explores how monsters articulate questions about the sacred in nineteenth-century Irish Gothic literature....  Read More >>

Introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880-1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh through the tumultuous...  Read More >>

Willa Cather's novels do not behave like other novels. Indeed, her art is famously uncategorizable. She is not much...  Read More >>

Western science fiction has evolved to reflect the social, cultural, and political issues of the contemporary world....  Read More >>

Vecna is more than a villain - he is a legend whispered across worlds, a god born from forbidden knowledge, ambition,...  Read More >>

A new translation of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (1924). The story of Hans Castorp's seven-year stay at a tuberculosis...  Read More >>

Published for the first time, John Berger and Susan Sontag's collaboration and correspondence across a quarter-century...  Read More >>

Richly illustrated with manuscripts, printed objects, and art works, Bibliophobia tells a 5000-year history of writing...  Read More >>

George Orwell: His Life and Legacy by Robert Colls is an intellectual biography which offers an original account...  Read More >>

Part of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe, this volume presents the first fully annotated edition...  Read More >>

This is the first in-depth study exploring the theatrical afterlives of nineteenth-century women novelists--including...  Read More >>

Based on two decades of original research and exclusive access to unpublished material, a ground-breaking biography...  Read More >>

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

This Element shows how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result...  Read More >>

A cultural and social critique of early-twentieth-century America, addressing issues of race, ethnicity, class and...  Read More >>

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

This Element shows how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result...  Read More >>

Antonin Artaud's last large-scale work, published in its complete form in English for the first time. Drawings...  Read More >>

Virginie Despentes is a literary, feminist, and punk icon. This book is the first holistic, interdisciplinary approach...  Read More >>

Analyzes the technical elements of racial representation in comics, demonstrating that the ink-on-paper materiality...  Read More >>

'The Life of Herod The Great – like Hurston herself – is a masterpiece, a miracle, and a marvel. In other words,...  Read More >>

Analyzes the technical elements of racial representation in comics, demonstrating that the ink-on-paper materiality...  Read More >>

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Fühlen Sie sich oft, als ob in dieser Welt etwas nicht stimmt? Als ob Sie nur ein kleines Rädchen in einem riesigen...  Read More >>

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