Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

A comprehensive introduction to Hemingway and his works.

Provides twenty-first century readers with a new, comprehensive and suggestive account of the sentimental novel in the eighteenth century.

For every famous author there is a score of individuals working behind the scenes to promote and maintain her celebrity status.

The dissertation contributes to the research on post-socialist German autobiographies and analyses representative autobiographical works of Günter de Bruyn, Monika Maron, Wulf Kirsten, and Heiner Müller.

Controversy surrounded Zola during his life-time, and controversy has followed him ever since.

The Emotional Life of the Great Depression documents how Americans responded emotionally to the crisis of the Great Depression.

This interdisciplinary volume of contributed essays focuses on issues of gender in the British novel of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly Hardy and Trollope.

What is behind Outlander fever--the hit television drama's popularity?

We must see to it that we put the best of ourselves in our letters; for there is nothing to suggest that we shall see each other again soon.

This book illustrates how rigid ideas about gender have perpetuated a legacy of violence and exclusion in the United States.

A 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleLiterature's Children offers a new way of thinking about how literature for children functions didactically.

An overview of Kipling''s work, his career and postcolonial views on his often controversial position on imperialism.

Reading Harry Potter Again: New Critical Essays extends the discussion of the Harry Potter books by covering the entire series in one new and comprehensive volume.

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Exorbitant Enlightenment compels us to see eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature and culture in new ways.

Since their inception, detective novels have been a wildly successful genre of American fiction, featuring a uniquely American belief in rugged individualism.

Originally published in 1991, Reflecting on Miss Marple looks at the incongruous combination of violence, murder and a sweet, white-haired old lady, and examines why this makes such a potent but unlikely formula.

We live in an information economy, a vast archive of data ever at our fingertips.

Imagining the figure of the fictional detective as an archetype in the study of modern culture, the author argues that contemporary detective fiction can help us better comprehend fundamental shifts of the Digital Age--in communication, family, entertainment, society, even the way we think as individuals.

Originally published in Seoul in 1938, soon after the outbreak of the Pacific War, "e;Peace Under Heaven"e; is a satirical novel centering on the household of a Korean landlord during the Japanese colonial occupation.

The essays in this collection provide in-depth analyses of Samuel Beckett's major works in the context of his international presence and circulation, particularly the translation, adaptation, appropriation and cultural reciprocation of his oeuvre.

Best International Debut in 2017 (awarded by Romanian General and Comparative Literature Association) Most Prestigious Publication in the Humanities (awarded by the Senate of the University of Bucharest)Surrealism began as a movement in poetry and visual art, but it turned out to have its widest impact worldwide in fiction-including in major world writers who denied any connection to surrealism at all.

First published in 1986, the aim of this book is to present some of the changing thinking on popular writing to a wider audience in view of the enormous growth of mass culture after the war, but also to offer a historical perspective on a specific form of popular fiction: the romance.

One of the greatest American authors, Mark Twain holds a special position not only as a distinctly American cultural icon but also as a preeminent portrayer of youth.

During his lifetime E.

Reviewers and critics have not always agreed on how well the science fiction label fit Ray Bradbury, but the immense popularity of works like The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man leaves no doubt as to the enduring status of this important writer.

Outlander is much more than a television romance about a World War II nurse and a Jacobite soldier in a fetching kilt.

From the early stories, to the great popular triumphs of the Sherlock Holmes tales and the Professor Challenger adventures, the ambitious historical fiction, the campaigns against injustice, and the Spiritualist writings of his later years, Conan Doyle produced a wealth of narratives.

In 1971, a war which took place in Pakistan that resulted in the establishment of two separate countries; East Pakistan became Bangladesh, leaving the remaining four western provinces to comprise a truncated Pakistan.

John le Carré and the Cold War explores the historical contexts and political implications of le Carré's major Cold-War novels.

English Literature in the 1960s soon threw off its post-war weariness and the tepid influences of the previous decade.

Forms of Speech in Victorian Fiction examines how Victorian writers used dialogue in the presentation of characters and the relationships between them, and its contribution to the work as a whole.

The Oxford Handbook of Ecclesiology is a unique scholarly resource for the study of the Christian Church as we find it in the Bible, in history, and today.

A revised and fully updated edition, featuring five new chapters reflecting recent scholarship on Woolf.

A scholarly edition of the short fiction of Henry James, comprising nine tales including ''The Aspern Papers'' and ''The Liar''.

This collection of H.

Zu seinen Lebzeiten zählte Erich Maria Remarque zu den wirkmächtigsten deutschsprachigen Autoren.

In novels such as What A Carve Up!

English sheds new light on death and dying in twentieth- and twenty-first century Irish literature as she examines the ways that Irish wake and funeral rituals shape novelistic discourse.

Sometimes called the American Shakespeare, William Faulkner is known for providing poignant and accurate renderings of the human condition, creating a world of colorful characters in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, and writing in a style that is both distinct and demanding.

Joyce and Geometry reveals the full extent to which the modernist writer James Joyce was influenced by the radical theories of non-Euclidean geometry.

First published in 1988, this book aims to provide keys to the study of Gothicism in British and American literature.