Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

An experiment in criticism that explores Henry James’s late works through the lens of minimalism.   Henry James’s...  Read More >>

This collection explores the genesis of John Polidori's foundational novella The Vampyre (1819). It then tracks...  Read More >>

Part recovery and part new reading method, this work locates the few kept mistresses in Victorian literature, while...  Read More >>

This book argues that early Romantic-Period women novelists used female madness to critique patriarchal structures...  Read More >>

The Re-Enchanted Ghost in Contemporary American Fiction examines an emerging trend in spectrality in contemporary...  Read More >>

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This book is about J. G. Ballard. This book is also about death, love and time travel.  Read More >>

This book explores how African fiction offers revolutionary models for understanding temporality and reimagining...  Read More >>

This book is a short introduction to Witold Gombrowicz’s life and work as one of the most prominent figures in twentieth-century...  Read More >>

The Accord does not govern Vael Tareth. It authors it. For one hundred and eighty-eight years, reality in this...  Read More >>

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Kir Kuiken argues for the existence of a geopoetic literary genre extending from the late eighteenth century to...  Read More >>

Contrasting works by queer Chicano writers against the legal landscape of sexuality and migration to interrogate...  Read More >>

This new theory of reader response describes “perverse attachment,” or the powerful desire to intervene in a story,...  Read More >>

This study focuses on Doris Lessing’s claim to improve a virtuous life not only for the individual but also for...  Read More >>

It examines one of modernity’s most trenchant problems.The project rests on the argument that detective fiction...  Read More >>

It is a collection of essays analysing works of contemporary fiction concerned with innovative models of the mind,...  Read More >>

This book explores the meanings of European peripheries in postcolonial literary imagination. Acknowledging the...  Read More >>

The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction provides an overview of the study of science fiction across multiple...  Read More >>

This book examines the questions of conformity and resistance with respect to Premchand’s literary corpus. It examines...  Read More >>

George Egerton: Terra Incognitas is the first published work to focus solely on Egerton and her literary legacy....  Read More >>

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This book explores how African fiction offers revolutionary models for understanding temporality and reimagining...  Read More >>

This book tries to critically examine the changing dimensions and criticality of Postcolonial theory and praxis...  Read More >>

An exploration of Stephen King's writing from the first academic granted full access to King's archives.  Read More >>