Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

A collection of essays on Zadie Smith's oeuvre to date, which proposes to investigate Smith's works from different...  Read More >>

This critical edition of The Abbey of Clugny will introduce Elizabeth Meeke and her work to the larger public, particularly...  Read More >>

This monograph challenges popular and critical orthodoxies about twentieth and twenty-first century literature and...  Read More >>

This book develops a new approach to readerly engagement with constellations of characters in the novel. It argues...  Read More >>

A gripping journey through the dark shadows of human storytelling-and a bold unmasking of the real animals we turned...  Read More >>

Origins of Apocalyptic Science Fiction: The Last Man argues that apocalyptic science fiction found its origins in...  Read More >>

Investigates permutations of the terror to examine the complex political and intellectual transformation of literary...  Read More >>

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The English Novel in the Twentieth Century (1984) discusses 6 authors whom Dr Green saw as the most interesting...  Read More >>

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""In 2024 the literary community commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Conrad. This volume of...  Read More >>

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Focusing on the difference between lower-level perceptual processes in the “neural unconscious” and higher-order...  Read More >>

Theorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US...  Read More >>

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This book offers a new and unique interpretation of Argentine essayist and fiction writer Jorge Luis Borges as...  Read More >>

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

The definitive, all-access biography of one of the world's most beloved literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant...  Read More >>

Explores the productive tension between historicist and nonhuman readings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake  Read More >>

First published in 1934, The Idea in Fiction by H. W. Leggett explores storytelling methods, tracing an idea’s journey...  Read More >>

This volume is the first to introduce autobiogeography as a new interpretative framework for reading travel writing...  Read More >>

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Analyses more than a dozen pieces of Ernest Hemingway’s celebrated short fiction, with a focus on manuscripts and...  Read More >>

An investigation of the specific uses of the motif of melancholy in modern Kurdish novels  Read More >>

This volume explores the evolution of Arab women's self-representations in literature, highlighting their resistance...  Read More >>