Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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This fully annotated critical edition of Northanger Abbey is based on the text of the novel as published posthumously...  Read More >>

Jane Austen's first published novel introduced many of the themes which would dominate Austen's future work. Austen...  Read More >>

Prodigiously learned, alive to the massive social changes of her time, defiant of many Victorian orthodoxies, George...  Read More >>

Recognized as a major innovator in the weird story, H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an author whose influence was...  Read More >>

This book argues that the term 'Romanticism' should be more culturally-inclusive, recognizing the importance of...  Read More >>

This informative study calls overdue attention to the ways in which literary celebrity is the result not only of...  Read More >>

Proposing a new approach to Jamesian aesthetics, Daniel Hannah examines the complicated relationship between Henry...  Read More >>

This study examines the vital centrality of 'readings' of nature in a variety of literary forms in the period 1830-1914....  Read More >>

The widest-ranging exploration to date of the interaction between English Canadian literature and film.  Read More >>

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Sons and Lovers is one of the great works of twentieth-century literature. In 1913, at the time of its first publication,...  Read More >>

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOW In 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist,...  Read More >>

This is the story of Christopher Isherwood’s parents – their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father...  Read More >>

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTON Subtitled 'An education in the twenties', this work blends autobiography...  Read More >>

Shows how Coetzee makes us reconsider certain basic formal and existential questions such as the nature of literary...  Read More >>

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If the September 11 terror attacks opened up an era of crises and exceptions of which we are yet to see the end,...  Read More >>

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On the strength of novels such as Futility and The Polyglots, William Gerhardie was hailed as the most brilliant...  Read More >>

Human colonies have been established on Mars, after the first manned mission inadvertently began to terraform it....  Read More >>

Human colonies have been established on Mars, after the first manned mission inadvertently began to terraform it....  Read More >>

James Boswell's is one of the raciest and most entertaining of all Edinburgh diarists. This is a one-volume edition...  Read More >>

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