Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

The first study of Anglophone and Italian novels by Somali diasporic authors, offering a new critical framework...  Read More >>

A wide-ranging critical survey of British fiction of the 1960s, from J.G. Ballard and Angela Carter to A.S. Byatt,...  Read More >>

Literature for the Masses is the first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as...  Read More >>

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 >>

An accessible and wide-ranging all-in-one craft guide and anthology to the mode of speculative fiction writing,...  Read More >>

The first full-length study of the late Victorian and Edwardian writing advice industry, exploring how primary instructive...  Read More >>

Focusing on the international circulation of culture and ideas by women in the early modern period through the long...  Read More >>

Examining three of the most influential writers of the modern fantasy tradition, this book looks at how they engage...  Read More >>

The first study of creative and cultural afterlives of Gulliver’s Travels produced over the past 3 centuries that...  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 >>

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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 >>

A powerful exploration of how women have written animals into literature and history. This collection examines how...  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 >>

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