Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Take a tour of New York City as inspiration, place and context in the work of America's greatest playwright of the...  Read More >>

An interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which women’s violence, victimhood and villainy are portrayed in...  Read More >>

A long-overdue reappraisal of the groundbreaking nineteenth-century writer who reshaped the literary and social...  Read More >>

First published in 1914, Joseph Conrad's female-centred, uncharacteristically optimistic Chance represented a new...  Read More >>

The contributions illustrate the value of studying Jewish humor that decenters the US and Ashkenazi-centered analysis,...  Read More >>

Incudes both literary masterpieces-including classic stories by Poe, Hawthorne, Twain, James, and Wharton-and new...  Read More >>

Mae’r gyfrol hon yn mynd i’r afael â gwaith T. Gwynn Jones (1871–1949), un o brif feirdd Cymraeg yr ugeinfed ganrif,...  Read More >>

Când un nume apare pe listă... moartea nu mai poate fi oprită. Mara nu a vrut casa. Nu a vrut moștenirea. Și...  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 >>

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

Thayer Lane is adrift in a life that has lost all color and meaning. A simple but strange assignment from his therapist-to...  Read More >>

This book explores how monsters articulate questions about the sacred in nineteenth-century Irish Gothic literature....  Read More >>

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Mary Shelley's The Last Man is a novel set in the aftermath of climate disaster and a war between Greece and Turkey...  Read More >>

Vecna is more than a villain - he is a legend whispered across worlds, a god born from forbidden knowledge, ambition,...  Read More >>

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Richly illustrated with manuscripts, printed objects, and art works, Bibliophobia tells a 5000-year history of writing...  Read More >>

Deluxe slipcased edition of this previously unknown short satirical fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien edited by his son,...  Read More >>

Jackie Kay: Critical Essays offers the first full-length critical study of Jackie Kay’s work. It brings together...  Read More >>

This Element shows how Poland became a gothic setting in British fiction between the 1790s and the 1830s as a result...  Read More >>

A cultural and social critique of early-twentieth-century America, addressing issues of race, ethnicity, class and...  Read More >>

Dean Koontz, a master storyteller, stands as one of the most versatile and prolific authors in contemporary American...  Read More >>

This book assesses the life and works of leading Zimbabwean poet and novelist, Chenjerai Hove. Proposing a reading...  Read More >>

Jackie Kay: Critical Essays offers the first full-length critical study of Jackie Kay’s work. It brings together...  Read More >>