Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

The last ten years have witnessed a renewed interest in H.P. Lovecraft in academic and scholarly circles. New Critical...  Read More >>

This book examines why the form of the detective 'whodunnit' narrative has proved so tenacious, and plots a course...  Read More >>

"About Pulp Fascism: ""Jonathan Bowden said that greatness lies in the mind and in the fist. Nietzsche combined...  Read More >>

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"Jonathan Bowden was a paradox: on the one hand, he was an avowed elitist and aesthetic modernist, yet on the other...  Read More >>

Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was the nineteenth century's best-selling novel...  Read More >>

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The author of more than twenty-five books, Percival Everett has established himself as one of America's - and arguably...  Read More >>

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Samuel Beckett's Library critically examines the reading notes and marginalia contained in the books of Samuel Beckett's...  Read More >>

A clear and engaging introduction aimed at students, lay readers and academics, which presents Kafka's works in...  Read More >>

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Richard Salmon offers a major study of the development of professional authorship in Victorian Britain. Drawing...  Read More >>

Social Reform in Gothic Writing provides a transatlantic view of the politically transformative power that Gothic...  Read More >>

This book traces the development of literary biography in the eighteenth century; how writers' melancholy was probed...  Read More >>

A collection of interviews now available from New Directions for the first time  Read More >>

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Translated for the first time into English, The Myth of the Superhero looks beyond the cape, the mask, and the superpowers,...  Read More >>

At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that the famous author called ""brilliant.""...  Read More >>

This Palgrave Pivot volume explores an exciting range of powerful novels and memoirs from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya,...  Read More >>

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A history and guide to tabletop gaming franchises set in original science-fictional milieux.  Read More >>

This is the first full-length study of the twenty-first-century novel. It examines writers from around the world...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking study assesses the genre of Indian-English fiction in the first decade of the twenty-first century...  Read More >>