Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

John Jakes, often called the people's author and godfather of the historical novel, has made American history come to life in his series The Kent Family Chronicles and The North and South Trilogy.

In 2024 the literary community commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Conrad.

Although the preoccupation of Gothic storytelling with the family has often been observed, it invites a more systematic exploration.

New York Times Bestseller: "e;Wilder's letters display a writer who kept her head amid growing fame, remaining sweet, down-to-earth, and immensely likable.

In this book, Delphine Letort examines the plots and ploys that intermingle fiction and history in Barry Jenkins' television adaptation of The Underground Railroad, allowing viewers to experience enslavement and flight through the eyes of the female protagonist, Cora.

Through a series of incisive and insightful essays by accomplished scholars, this Companion offers readers a new window to the world of Ulysses.

Showcases the diversity and rich complexity of literature in Ireland in the eighteenth century.

In 1995 and 1996 six film or television adaptations of Jane Austen's novels were produced -- an unprecedented number.

In Hitler in the Movies: Finding Der Fuhrer on Film, a Shakespearean and a sociologist explore the fascination our popular culture has with Adolf Hitler.

In this authorised biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but a dominant figure in post-war British writing, as novelist, poet, critic and polemicist.

Ein neuer, subjektiver, frischer Blick auf die große Literatur Lateinamerikas.

A Generation Abandoned explores the disruptive cultural events especially of the past half century as these have undermined the confidence of the young in themselves and in civil society, and finally in our place in the universe.

Der deutsch-amerikanische Schriftsteller Reinhard Lettau (1929 - 1996) wurde vor allem für die Fantasie und Sprachkunst seiner Gedichte, Kurzgeschichten und Essays gelobt.

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This text charts the history of the short story from the nineteenth century, with detailed analysis of key works.

The Collected Critical Heritage II comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors.

An intra-ethnic study of Latina/o fiction written in the United States from the early 1990s to the present, Forms of Dictatorship examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope.

Robots in Popular Culture: Androids and Cyborgs in the American Imagination seeks to provide one go-to reference for the study of the most popular and iconic robots in American popular culture.

The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature explores the interplay between the domination of nature and the oppression of women, as well as liberatory alternatives, bringing together essays from leading academics in the field to facilitate cutting-edge critical readings of literature.

Leading scholars provide illuminating and engaging perspectives on a long neglected, yet incredibly eventful, period (1930-1965) of Asian American literature.

Modernist epic is more interesting and more diverse than we have supposed.

A study of the brilliant satirist and polemicist Jonathan Swift, by one of the foremost scholars of our time.

In his classic study Supernatural Horror in Literature, H.

Jonathan Coe is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed contemporary British writers.

The novel The Godfather (1969) and the movie of the same name (1972) entrenched the myth of the Mafiosi as valiant knights, men of honor, and defenders of the traditional concept of family.

This significant new study is concerned with the role of interpreting in Nazi concentration camps, where prisoners were of 30 to 40 different nationalities.

That devil's trick is the first study of nineteenth-century hypnotism based primarily on the popular - rather than medical - appreciation of the subject.

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This book investigates the perceptions of motherhood in Spanish author Lucia Etxebarria's fiction and offers views of the importance of motherhood in society.

This is the definitive bibliography of the writings of J.

Los Angeles is a city of borders and lines, from the freeways that transect its neighborhoods to streets like Pico Boulevard that slash across the city from the ocean to the heart of downtown, creating both ethnic enclaves and pathways for interracial connection.

This study breaks new ground surveying the origins of the Gothic chapbook, its publishers and authors, in order to establish conclusively the impact these pamphlets had on the development of the Gothic genre.

A new collection of essays that offers exciting new critical approaches to the most famous vampire in literature and film.

'Richard Marsh' (Richard Bernard Heldmann, 1857-1915) was a bestselling, versatile and prolific author of gothic, crime, adventure, romantic and comic fiction.

You Never Can Tell is an interweaving of timeless plots that merit a fresh retelling - and the reader is the benefector of Mike Sharpe's spirited reinventions.

Entertaining television challenges the idea that the BBC in the 1950s was elitist and 'staid', upholding Reithian values in a paternalistic, even patronising way.

What is often termed 'Nordic Noir' has dominated detective fiction, film and television internationally for over two decades.

This book shows how realism in twentieth-century Indian literature functioned as a mode of experimentation and aesthetic innovation.

Demonstrates the importance of attending to literary style in Victorian novels and provides exemplary readings of major novelists.

This book investigates the crucial question of 'restitution' in the work of W.

Explores how early modern Europeans responded to suffering and asks how they both described and practised compassion.

Nintendo''s hugely popular and influential video game console system considered as technological device and social phenomenon.

This book examines the developments in British serial detective fiction which took place in the seven years when Sherlock Holmes was dead.

"e;Themes of a colorful assortment of stories range from life on other planets to alternative history .

Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo's America is a fresh and engaging study of "e;last things"e; in Don DeLillo's works-things like death, mourning, and the decline of the American empire, but then also the apocalypse, the last judgment, and the end of the world more generally.

Kevin De Ornellas argues that in Renaissance England the relationship between horse and rider works as an unambiguous symbol of domination by the strong over the weak.