Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

How could novels like Uncle Tom’s Cabin change the hearts and minds of thousands of mid-nineteenth-century readers,...  Read More >>

Explores the performance of aging in the ""late style"" of Günter Grass, Ruth Klüger, Christa Wolf, and Martin Walser....  Read More >>

Provides the first history of the North American farm novel, a genre which includes John Steinbeck's The Grapes...  Read More >>

Apuleius' Metamorphoses, our only complete Latin novel, tells the story of Lucius, a young man turned into a donkey....  Read More >>

Rashundari Debi, who gave birth to eleven children - her first was born when she was eighteen years old, the last...  Read More >>

Questa ricca uscita si presenta con ben 126 pagine di articoli e saggi sullo scrittore e la sua opera. Si parte...  Read More >>

From Walt Whitman forward, a century and a half of radical experimentation and bold speech by gay and lesbian poets...  Read More >>

Uncovers the neglected role of translation in Angela Carter's fairy-tale-inspired fiction.  Read More >>

Apuleius' Metamorphoses, our only complete Latin novel, tells the story of Lucius, a young man turned into a donkey....  Read More >>

"""Drawing on a wide variety of critical approaches, from philology to ecocriticism ... this collection explores...  Read More >>

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Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus  Read More >>

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An annotated scholarly edition including versions of the Malcolm Lowry novella that at different times was titled...  Read More >>

By situating a range of contemporary literary texts against the backdrop of the legacies of a vast rural network...  Read More >>

A new volume of Peanuts comics follows such plot developments as Linus's maturity into a speaking and blanket-wielding...  Read More >>

America is Elsewhere provides a rigorous and creative reconsideration of hard-boiled crime fiction and the film...  Read More >>

America is Elsewhere provides a rigorous and creative reconsideration of hard-boiled crime fiction and the film...  Read More >>

American Blood argues that many nineteenth-century authors challenged preconceptions of the family and portrayed...  Read More >>

This collection uses the concept of 'story' to connect literary materials and methods of analysis to wider issues...  Read More >>

This fully updated second edition traces the ways in which centuries of human beings have used narrative to make...  Read More >>

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This New Companion offers fifteen short, lively essays on a range of topics in Melville studies, including a number...  Read More >>

Bombay, London, New York and Delhi, cities are central to Salman Rushdie's novels. Reading his urban representations,...  Read More >>

"Is time an illusion? Do past, present, and future co-exist in a timeless whole, or are our experiences of change...  Read More >>