Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers books

In this brief but highly engaging book Joseph Epstein argues for the primacy of fiction, and specifically of the...  Read More >>

This book combines environmental justice scholarship with a material ecocriticism to explore how early Victorian...  Read More >>

An overarching study of the reciprocal relationship between Christianity and literature in the West from Augustine...  Read More >>

H. P. Lovecraft was a devotee of astronomy from the age of eleven, when he first discovered the ""myriad suns and...  Read More >>

Bram Stoker: Author of Dracula is an affectionate and revealing biography of the man who created the vampire novel...  Read More >>

This book explores ghostly presences in terrorism novels from New Yorkers Don DeLillo, Jonathan Safran Foer, Lynne...  Read More >>

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An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist...  Read More >>

Charles Sealsfield, a runaway Moravian monk, reinvented himself as an American author and the self-proclaimed founder...  Read More >>

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Plato is arguably the most influential philosopher of Greek antiquity. His philosophy is captivating through his...  Read More >>

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The Works of Lin Yutang is the first book to provide a comprehensive study of Lin Yutang’s translation theory and...  Read More >>

Questa è la storia delle circostanze, raccontate in prima persona dal protagonista, che hanno portato un giovane...  Read More >>

A Handbook on Woolf's achievements as an innovative novelist and pioneering feminist theorist. It studies her life,...  Read More >>

""A case study in international reception, pairing translated and adapted ""foreign"" material with German national...  Read More >>

""Explores semi-peripheral literary cultures and their relations to the cosmopolitan and the vernacular, using the...  Read More >>

Fantasy literature inhabits the realms of the orthodox and heterodox, the divine and demonic simultaneously, making...  Read More >>