Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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

Takes stock of the extraordinary range of book-based adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, comprising reimaginings,...  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 >>

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 >>

A powerful exploration of how women have written animals into literature and history. This collection examines how...  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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The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world’s greatest storytellers, now...  Read More >>

This book is the first comprehensive critical introduction to the life and career of one of the most significant...  Read More >>

From two of the most acclaimed writers in the field today, a groundbreaking look at how SF and fantasy writing--and...  Read More >>

This book is the first comprehensive critical introduction to the life and career of one of the most significant...  Read More >>

Irish literary studies has long subordinated the nineteenth century to the experimental triumphs of Irish modernism,...  Read More >>

This collection of essays investigates both the elements that locate Israeli speculative fiction in relation to...  Read More >>

Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor...  Read More >>

A new translation of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (1924). The story of Hans Castorp's seven-year stay at a tuberculosis...  Read More >>

This scholarly monograph explores the published eyewitness testimonies, poetry and literature surrounding the 1986...  Read More >>

A one-of-its-kind biography of Hannibal Lecter, the fictional character with many lives in literature, film, and...  Read More >>

This is the first in-depth study exploring the theatrical afterlives of nineteenth-century women novelists--including...  Read More >>

A critical study of Agatha Christie's AND THEN THERE WERE NONE.  Read More >>

""An account of the endangerment and survival of utopian fiction in the 21st century, and how they can provide a...  Read More >>

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""Originally published in 2024 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain""--Title page verso.  Read More >>

This critical edition of The Abbey of Clugny will introduce Elizabeth Meeke and her work to the larger public, particularly...  Read More >>