Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Globalisation, Science Fiction and the Poetics of Residue turns to science fiction as a guide to map globalisation's...  Read More >>

The first book to investigate what writers, publishers, and editors knew about the Stasi and how, rethinking the...  Read More >>

Telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and telekinesis: these attributes of the paranormal mind are widely dismissed...  Read More >>

Telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and telekinesis: these attributes of the paranormal mind are widely dismissed...  Read More >>

Presents authoritative, annotated versions of major stories and essays from three late eighteenth-century American...  Read More >>

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Beginning with its central insight--that the life of literature is in fact a double life, a life shared between...  Read More >>

A rethinking of the evolution of the British novel that departs from dominant narratives and argues for an importantly...  Read More >>

Providing a survey of Anglophone African detective fiction, from the late 1940s to the present day, this study traces...  Read More >>

This volume addresses Gaskell’s works, networks, contexts, and legacies. Contributors draw on ecocriticism, queer...  Read More >>

This fourth volume of The Collected Works of Charles and Mary Lamb contains Essays of Elia and Last Essays of Elia,...  Read More >>

Justin Mann analyzes the work of Octavia E. Butler, Colson Whitehead, Janelle Monáe, and other Black writers, musicians,...  Read More >>

Pathbreaking study of recent novels by former East German authors that contribute, by employing tropes of retreat...  Read More >>

Charlie Brown's America tells the story of how and why the lovable kids and an adventurous beagle of Peanuts became...  Read More >>

Justin Mann analyzes the work of Octavia E. Butler, Colson Whitehead, Janelle Monáe, and other Black writers, musicians,...  Read More >>

A powerful exploration of how women have written animals into literature and history. This collection examines how...  Read More >>

Introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880-1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh through the tumultuous...  Read More >>

A young mother, her infant son and a Catholic priest are all murdered by a delusional young man.  Read More >>

Tom Stoppard in Context provides cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts to help readers enjoy one of the...  Read More >>

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Groundless Noir: Ontology and Latin American Crime Fiction explores the dominant noir moods of precarity and uncertainty...  Read More >>

The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world’s greatest storytellers, now...  Read More >>