Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

What does it mean to live as a ghost? Exploring spectrality as a metaphor in the contemporary British and American...  Read More >>

The electricity of the relationship between the androgynous, pubescent Sasha and the lovely Lyudmilla, with her...  Read More >>

Starting with the history of apocalyptic tradition in the West and focusing on modern Japanese apocalyptic science...  Read More >>

Many believe that Robert A. Heinlein was the most important American science fiction writer of the 20th century....  Read More >>

In this concise introduction to Pope’s life and work, first published in 1975, the poet’s highly successful career...  Read More >>

This invaluable collection of essays by published novelists focuses on the journey of writing a first novel. Writers...  Read More >>

This study analyses the characterization of the protagonists in the five extant 'ideal' Greek novels. De Temmerman...  Read More >>

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Robert Penn Warren has distinguished himself in many areas of endeavor—as a poet, a novelist, a critic, and an observer...  Read More >>

This is an authoritative and timely guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Ireland...  Read More >>

This is an authoritative and timely guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Ireland...  Read More >>

Neo-Victorian writers invoke conflicting viewpoints in diaries, letters, etc. to creatively retrace the past in...  Read More >>

Contemporary Asylum Narratives marks a transition from traditional modes of diasporic belonging to the need for...  Read More >>

This book deepens our understanding of the dynamics between nature and culture in Japanese thought and feeling....  Read More >>

This volume presents a variety of new essays on Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. This classic novella, published in...  Read More >>

Drawing on literary history and folklore, Stories about Stories offers an introduction to the fantasy genre's popularity...  Read More >>

Featuring over thirty illustrations, Novel Craft illustrates the cultural and economic importance of handicrafts...  Read More >>

No Accident, Comrade argues that chance became a complex yet conflicted cultural signifier during the Cold War,...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature will offer a cutting-edge assessment of the period's...  Read More >>

How does Victorian fiction represent personality? How does it express emotion and how does it imagine the mind?...  Read More >>

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First published in 1972, this is the first detailed study of the milieu of the eighteenth-century literary hack...  Read More >>

First published in 1979, this title presents the basic facts and the background information needed by a modern reader...  Read More >>

The purpose of Point of View, first published in 1990, is twofold: from the perspective of linguistics, to analyse...  Read More >>

A comprehensive and cutting-edge collection of essays on the works of Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823) that provides compelling...  Read More >>