Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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From teleportation and space elevators to alien contact and interstellar travel, science fiction and fantasy writers...  Read More >>

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The emergence of the short story in Britain in the Victorian and modernist period coincided with the rise of the...  Read More >>

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Essays that illuminate crime stories, whodunits, and quandaries in the Nobel Laureate's fiction  Read More >>

After reading Neuromancer for the first time, literary scholar Larry McCaffery wrote, I knew I had seen the future...  Read More >>

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Covering territory from Rififi to Run Lola Run to Spiral, a guide to the edgy, gritty best of European noir...  Read More >>

Investigating the status of several popular genres, from historical fiction to romance, this third volume is dedicated...  Read More >>

Revolutionary trains, encountering pervert-priests, dwarf hermaphrodites and pondering the homicidal tendencies...  Read More >>

Introducing the work of 6 contemporary satiric novelists through contemporary theory, this book explores the possibility...  Read More >>

This study examines representations of tuberculosis in Victorian fiction, analyzing consumptive characters for insights...  Read More >>

Mary Hays was a radical feminist whose writings brought her to the attention of her contemporaries William Blake,...  Read More >>

Good fantasy literature is far more than a bunch of elves, dwarves, hobbits or other imaginary creatures running...  Read More >>

This book is a study of the narrative techniques which developed for two very popular forms of fiction in the nineteenth...  Read More >>

Examines how realism in the nineteenth-century novel became so extreme in its portrayal of human experience that...  Read More >>

This book offers new perspectives on the concept of habit in the nineteenth-century novel, delineating the complex,...  Read More >>

This book addresses the religious scope of Cormac McCarthy’s fiction, one of the most controversial issues in studies...  Read More >>

A comprehensive introduction and guide to new Spanish American novels and novelists.  Read More >>

Metaphors are ubiquitous and yet—or, for that very reason—go largely unseen. We are all variously susceptible to...  Read More >>