Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

First English translation of an unjustly overlooked novel by the great German realist novelist Theodor Fontane....  Read More >>

The first comprehensive study of the Goncourt brothers' etchings, including never-before published images of their...  Read More >>

This book examines the metanarratives promoted by the state that determine the ideological framework and how these...  Read More >>

The book argues that Ian McDonald’s globalized science fiction functions as a complex, hybrid fusion of magic realism...  Read More >>

This book examines Clarice Lispector’s body of work, foregrounding its theoretical insights and exploring its philosophical...  Read More >>

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Why does China act the way it does? Not through Western analysis. Through Chinese eyes. YIN AND YANG: THE TWO...  Read More >>

""A sympathetic and illuminating account of The Stories of John Cheever, and the intersecting life and work of legendary...  Read More >>

This is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of sympathy in the early modern period, providing an...  Read More >>

This book redefines the non-Western roots of world literature. A humanist imagination negotiated the struggles of...  Read More >>

The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels studies how the detective as a literary character evolved...  Read More >>

This book follows a close textual analysis approach and offers a discussion of love as portrayed in ‘Modern’ popular...  Read More >>

¿Y si todo lo que creías sobre la realidad fuera una mentira? En un mundo donde la información está manipulada,...  Read More >>

With critical commentary by L.M. Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre, Schooled with Briars reprints six of Montgomery's...  Read More >>

Narrative Personae and Desire in Modernist Fiction explores how narrative language renders subjective states of...  Read More >>

With critical commentary by L.M. Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre, Schooled with Briars reprints six of Montgomery's...  Read More >>

Dans Le Merveilleux autrefois et aujourd'hui, Paul de Rémusat retrace l'histoire du surnaturel et des mythes, révélant...  Read More >>

It re-evaluates magical realism in response to its enduring popularity in 21st century transnational fiction. Challenging...  Read More >>

From the pre-Islamic Jahilia, early modern Sikri and Florence, to postcolonial Bombay and Karachi, cities have played...  Read More >>

In a world of increasingly sophisticated AI, the relationship between creator and creation has shifted. Robot lovers...  Read More >>

In the first decades of the twenty-first century, science fiction literature has been transformed in many ways,...  Read More >>

What Has Been, originally published in 1801, is an affecting, lively, and accessible read for scholars and students...  Read More >>

From the pre-Islamic Jahilia, early modern Sikri and Florence, to postcolonial Bombay and Karachi, cities have played...  Read More >>

This volume addresses the notion of wandering in English-speaking literary modernism. Focusing on the interwar period,...  Read More >>