Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

Robert Hayward Barlow (1918-1951) has become a subject of intense fascination, and not only because of his association...  Read More >>

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

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From the beginning, the superhero genre has revolved around narratives of transformation. Through traumatic experiences,...  Read More >>

""Godwin ... was the inspiring intelligence behind the humanist attitudes of the English Romantic poets and Utopian...  Read More >>

Herman Melville: A Very Short Introduction tells the story of Melville's exciting and tragic life, provides overviews...  Read More >>

Honourable Mention in the 2023 British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies Monograph Prize The Short...  Read More >>

This is the first volume in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. It contains the text of Walter Pater's...  Read More >>

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Explores Bengal’s political, social, and cultural history through Rabindranath Tagore’s music and ideas. Using critical...  Read More >>

Body Language examines how eighteenth-century medical discourse informed the comic novel. Through comic representations...  Read More >>

Jews, women, and animals have been notoriously considered in Western thought as antithetical to the “civilized,” and...  Read More >>

In an era when a future audience is very much not guaranteed, what possible purpose could there be in something...  Read More >>

Fühlen Sie sich auch beobachtet? Haben Sie das Gefühl, dass Ihr Geld immer weniger wert ist und Ihre Freiheit Stück...  Read More >>

This book investigates the nature of ‘home’ and nation in post-imperial British novels, which deal with the loss...  Read More >>

This book illustrates how literary narratives can function as a type of activism, spanning socio-cultural, cognitive,...  Read More >>

In an era when a future audience is very much not guaranteed, what possible purpose could there be in something...  Read More >>

In this important study, originally published in 1985, Ronald Hayman scrutinizes Grass’s development and assesses...  Read More >>

This book, originally published in 1983, begins with an analysis of the patterns of Graham Greene’s mind. It explores...  Read More >>

Examines an important novelistic genre of the early German Democratic Republic for what it tells us about the country's...  Read More >>