Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

The first literary and cultural history of African American crime literature, unveiling the untold story of black...  Read More >>

A fun guide to applying the wisdom of The Hobbit to everyday life.  Read More >>

A fun guide to applying the wisdom of The Hobbit to everyday life.  Read More >>

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The Canadian Postmodern examines the theory and practice of postmodernism as seen through both contemporary cultural...  Read More >>

Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful,...  Read More >>

The last of Alexandre Dumas's many mistresses, the American actress Adah Menken, called him ""the king of romance.""...  Read More >>

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This book offers a variety of essays and perspectives on some of the foreigners and traders who came to the Malay...  Read More >>

Landress explores the intricacies of fiction about Orthodox women in contemporary contexts, offering a subtle interpretation...  Read More >>

world greatest short stories. greatest literature. Best writer of the year. This book is the best seller of 2012....  Read More >>

This volume presents a dozen original essays by leading scholars in the fields of the ancient novel, Julio-Claudian...  Read More >>

The first ever biography of Demosthenes written in English for a popular audience, set against the rich backdrop...  Read More >>

Explores the emergence of a post-secular condition of the contemporary world, in which organized, conventional religion...  Read More >>

This book discusses the significance of late twentieth century and early twenty first century American fiction written...  Read More >>

Visiting late Victorian debates about the morality of literature, this book reconsiders the ways in which novels...  Read More >>

Who was Mary De Morgan and why should she be dragged out of the shadows cast by her illustrious parents, her male...  Read More >>

Including an account of his seven months as doctor aboard a whaling ship, his collaboration with J. M. Barrie, and...  Read More >>

Moncure Conway (1832–1907), the free-thinking preacher, was acquainted with many figures in the literary world....  Read More >>

This two-volume collection of reminiscences by historian and social critic Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) was edited...  Read More >>

Explores the degree to which Fitzgerald was in tune with the social, historical and cultural contexts of the 1920s...  Read More >>

By examining some of Dickens’s works that contain the imperfect child, Malkovich considers the construction, romanticization,...  Read More >>

Drawing on a variety of theoretical approaches including trauma theory, psychoanalysis, genre theory, narrative...  Read More >>

Talks about the various forms of irony: verbal irony, ambient irony, visual irony and dramatic irony. Including...  Read More >>