Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

With seemingly obsessive regularity, American authors, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, evoke the...  Read More >>

Imagination and Evolution is the history of that conversation, which brought what we now call science fiction into...  Read More >>

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Investigating the peculiar literary history of interpolated tales and the ways in which they persistently unnerve...  Read More >>

Great writing can seem to be an act of mystery, a gift given to just a few, but these renowned writers pull back...  Read More >>

Providing a methodology for identifying literary narratives of climate change, this book draws on historical narrative...  Read More >>

Studying texts by Lorenzo Valla, Erasmus, Saint Jerome, George Gascoigne, and Fulke Greville, this volume explores...  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 >>

Take a step – if you dare – into the shadows, and discover the blood-curdling history of horror across the world...  Read More >>

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

Gone Girls, 1684-1901 examines how the persistent trope in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novels of...  Read More >>

This book presents a cultural history of Promethean Horror in the modern age, tracing the rise of a sub-genre of...  Read More >>

This book explores how literature, theatre and music revive the dead to explore the dynamics of grief and mourning....  Read More >>

Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped...  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 study of the literature of dissent that has emerged from the veterans of the global War on Terror.  Read More >>

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 >>

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

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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 >>