Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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""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 >>

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 >>

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An experiment in criticism that explores Henry James’s late works through the lens of minimalism.   Henry James’s...  Read More >>

This collection explores the genesis of John Polidori's foundational novella The Vampyre (1819). It then tracks...  Read More >>

Part recovery and part new reading method, this work locates the few kept mistresses in Victorian literature, while...  Read More >>

This book argues that early Romantic-Period women novelists used female madness to critique patriarchal structures...  Read More >>

The Re-Enchanted Ghost in Contemporary American Fiction examines an emerging trend in spectrality in contemporary...  Read More >>

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This book is about J. G. Ballard. This book is also about death, love and time travel.  Read More >>

This book explores how African fiction offers revolutionary models for understanding temporality and reimagining...  Read More >>

This book is a short introduction to Witold Gombrowicz’s life and work as one of the most prominent figures in twentieth-century...  Read More >>

Known for shaping an expansive fictional universe filled with complex characters, Stan Lee also used his work to...  Read More >>

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Kir Kuiken argues for the existence of a geopoetic literary genre extending from the late eighteenth century to...  Read More >>

Contrasting works by queer Chicano writers against the legal landscape of sexuality and migration to interrogate...  Read More >>

Magic can’t fix bad economics—discover why the wizarding world is still stuck in the Dark Ages! Discover the Shocking...  Read More >>

This new theory of reader response describes “perverse attachment,” or the powerful desire to intervene in a story,...  Read More >>