Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

This volume includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis's most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962....  Read More >>

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After The WGC's takeover of the Earth's governments was complete, and the residual major and minor challenges were...  Read More >>

An investigation of the historical insights revealed in selected letters penned by the Roman senator and orator...  Read More >>

In Tidings, one of America’s best-loved authors paints a vivid scene of an unusual family Christmas.  Read More >>

This is the second volume of Vonnegut’s autobiographical writings – a collage of his own life story, snipped up...  Read More >>

From the early years of the nineteenth century, cultural pessimists imagined in fiction the political forces that...  Read More >>

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How did authors such as Jonson, Donne and Milton think about the past lives of the words they used? Drawing together...  Read More >>

In each case, he focuses on a specific 'type' of lightness, whether it be the refined triviality of Sei Shonagon's...  Read More >>

Drawing on postcolonial and gender studies, as well as affect theory, the book interrogates cosmopolitan philosophies....  Read More >>

This is a collection of essays on the life and work of Ernest Hemingway by noted literary scholar Peter Hays. Collected...  Read More >>

What he himself characteristically called ‘his idiosyncratic mode of regard’ is a factor few readers of Hardy’s...  Read More >>

Essays analysing the decline of Aldous Huxley as a novelist have become a commonplace of literary criticism over...  Read More >>

First published in 1879 by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London.  Read More >>

This topical, lively and wide-ranging book examines the material conditions under which the contemporary English...  Read More >>

Previous edition published in 1985 by The Athlone Press.  Read More >>

In this substantial essay on the novel (first published in 1964) Barbara Hardy distinguishes three integral aspects...  Read More >>

The study of Thackeray’s major fiction reconstructs the novelist’s working methods with the help of manuscript material,...  Read More >>

Through a comprehensive study of Dickens’ career this work examines the crucial role played by London in the character...  Read More >>

Nature, not art, makes us all story-tellers. Daily and nightly we devise fictions and chronicles, calling some of...  Read More >>

This Anglo-American collection of essays on Middlemarch comprises a many-faceted study of a great and much-discussed...  Read More >>

Wyndham Lewis, as writer and painter, was one of the great creative geniuses of this century and also one of the...  Read More >>

The current Gothic revival in literature and film encourages us to look again to the earliest Gothic novels written...  Read More >>