Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

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

Being a detective is not a profession you choose lightly. It is a way of seeing the world, of interpreting reality,...  Read More >>

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

Originally published in 1970, this account of Tolstoy’s achievement as a novelist concentrates on the best known...  Read More >>

Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano is now recognized as one of the major novels of the 20th Century, whose breadth...  Read More >>

When it was originally published in 1986, this book was the first full-length study of Farrell’s fiction. Ronald...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1982, this study examines Orton’s principal plays, but its main concern is to identify his...  Read More >>

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Unfolding the spiritual and mythical background of the pagan narrative, this book shows how the contest between...  Read More >>

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

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

Gothic Genesis: The Transmission Through Time and Territory offers a concise yet rigorous account of the Gothic's...  Read More >>

Denkst du, du weißt alles über Stranger Things? Denk nochmal nach!Mach dich bereit für eine Achterbahnfahrt durch...  Read More >>

Providing a survey of Anglophone African detective fiction, from the late 1940s to the present day, this study traces...  Read More >>

This volume addresses Gaskell’s works, networks, contexts, and legacies. Contributors draw on ecocriticism, queer...  Read More >>

Pathbreaking study of recent novels by former East German authors that contribute, by employing tropes of retreat...  Read More >>

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David Meara explores the enduring popularity of sleeper trains in film and fiction. Illustrated with many film stills,...  Read More >>

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