Literary studies: general books

Originally published in 1985, fourteen foremost writers of fiction give detailed accounts of their writings in this...  Read More >>

In this study of John le Carré', originally published in 1986, the first to include an interpretation of A Perfect...  Read More >>

First published in 1988, the last few decades had seen the appearance of some brilliant and complex new kinds of...  Read More >>

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First published in 1984, John Colmer’s study of novelist, Patrick White, was the first to survey all his published...  Read More >>

First published in 1984, Ann Swinfen presents a wide-ranging and comprehensive view of fantasy: what it is, what...  Read More >>

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This book identifies the importance of Hughes’s children’s writing from an ecocritical perspective.  Read More >>

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In this study, first published in 1985, Paul Levine follows E. L. Doctorow’s progress as a novelist and traces the...  Read More >>

First published in 1990, this book assesses a shift in the presentation of self-consciousness in 2 pairs of novels...  Read More >>

Published in 1900, Conrad’s Lord Jim can in many ways be seen as the first ‘modern’ novel. This important full study...  Read More >>

First published in 1984, Iris Murdoch, widely regarded as one of the major British novelists of her generation....  Read More >>

In the early 1980s Donald Barthelme was widely recognized in the United States as one of the major figures in contemporary...  Read More >>

In this comprehensive introductory study, originally published in 1982, Jerome Klinkowitz traces Vonnegut’s influences...  Read More >>

This study, originally published in 1983, surveys Doris Lessing's epic output from her early, African writings to...  Read More >>

Margaret Drabble is read and studied throughout the world, her novels attract both the general reader and the literary...  Read More >>

Since The Grass is Singing was published in 1950, Doris Lessing has commanded a widespread and heterogeneous readership....  Read More >>

First published in 1983, this title lists and annotates reference sources to help readers select primary materials...  Read More >>

John Fowles had gained great popularity as a contemporary novelist on both sides of the Atlantic. In this comprehensive...  Read More >>

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The special issue responds to two concurrent phenomena: the re-emergence in the 21st century of religion as a political...  Read More >>