Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

As its startling and aggressive title suggests, Dickens Novels as Verse is no standard work of literary criticism.

Edward Gibbon's presentation of character in both the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and in his posthumously published Memoirs demonstrates a prevailing interest in the values of transcendent heroism and individual liberty, but also an insistent awareness of the dangers these values pose to coherence and narrative order.

The first volume in English about the German Democratic Republic and its legacy as a cultural phenomenon.

A new survey of twentieth-century U.

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Revisioning Beckett reassesses Beckett's career and literary output, particularly his engagement with what might be called decadent modernism.

Advertisements for Myself, a diverse and freewheeling tour through Mailer's early career, covers the many subjects with which he'd grapple for the rest of his life: sex, race, politics, literature, and the systems of power that shape American life.

First published in 1968, Jane Austen's Emma is a critical study of Miss Austen's last completed novel.

First published in 1968, this book sets out to refute the idea of Trollope as a 'mild cathedral-town novelist, describing storms in ecclesiastical tea cups' which prevailed at the time in spite of his stature during his lifetime.

In 1989, Steven Moore published the first scholarly study of all three of William Gaddis's novels and since then it has been generally regarded as the best book on this difficult but major writer's work.

This book explores the concept of 'quiet' - an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles - and argues for the term's application to the study of contemporary American fiction.

Under the threat of climate change, corruption, inequality and injustice, Americans may feel they are living in a dystopian novel come to life.

Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth argues that Roth's novels teach us that Jewish anxiety stems not only from fear of victimization but also from fear of perpetration.

Doris Lessing was one of the most impressive, prolific and vital of twentieth century writers.

Despite the great diversity of settings in Tanith Lee's novels--from the pre-historic origins of Christianity to robot-dominated futurescapes--certain underlying thoughts and references appear consistently.

This book examines materials of writing in William Faulkner''s novels and stories from parchment to typewriters, letters to telegrams.

Originally published in 1990, Virginia Woolf and the Poetry of Fiction, provides a stylistic study of the fiction of Virginia Woolf.

America's post-World War II prosperity created a boom in higher education, expanding the number of university-educated readers and making a new literary politics possible.

This comparative study examines Scarlett O'Hara as a literary archetype, revealing critical prejudice against strong female characters.

1919, Revolution in München – und alle sind vor Ort: Ernst Toller, Thomas Mann, Erich Mühsam, Rainer Maria Rilke, Gustav Landauer, Oskar Maria Graf, Viktor Klemperer, Klaus Mann .

Offering a world full of traumatized characters trapped in a consumerist society where men, women, sex and gender have become unstable commodities, Chuck Palahniuk has become one of the most controversial of contemporary novelists.

There is a long history of interest in 'strangers' and 'strangeness' in the West.

David Mitchell is one of the most critically acclaimed authors in contemporary global writing.

Hindus and Christians have a long history of interaction on the Indian subcontinent.

Since Superman first appeared on the cover of Action Comics #1 in 1938, the superhero has changed with the times to remain a relevant icon of American popular culture.

The Gothic and death offers the first ever published study devoted to the subject of the Gothic and death across the centuries.

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This ethnographic study focuses on the religious imagery and practices of a sample of Buddhist temples and Muslim mosques in the greater Los Angeles area.

Magic, and especially performance magic, has been a part of crime fiction since its inception: both art forms surged in popularity in Western Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century and influenced each other in profound ways.

The first full-length study of Daniel Defoe''s attitude toward England''s colonial venture in the Americas.

Roger Willemsen und die Bücher – das war eine mitreißende Liebe, übermütig und intensiv.

This book reassesses the modernist canon and produces a wealth of new comparative analyses that radically revise the novel''s history.

In the fourth and final volume of the Memory Ireland series, Frawley and O'Callaghan explore the manifestations and values of cultural memory in Joyce's Ireland, both real and imagined.

This is the first academic volume to examine the librarian and archival professional through the lens of sequential art.

A useful and illuminating overview, covering the major works in detail.

The American Villain: Encyclopedia of Bad Guys in Comics, Film, and Television provides one go-to reference for the study of the most popular and iconic villains in American popular culture.

Interviews from the Edge presents a selection of conversations, drawn from 50 years of the international journal New Orleans Review, that dive head-first into the most enduring aesthetic and social concerns of the last half century.

This study examines a selection of Chesterton's novels, poetry, and literary criticism and outlines the distinctive philosophy of history that emerges from these writings.

Hemingway''s letters, many previously unpublished, trace his literary apprenticeship in the legendary milieu of expatriate Paris (1923–1925).

Biofiction is literature that names its protagonist after an actual historical figure, and it has become a dominant literary form over the last 35 years.

This guide provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies.