Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Imelda Whelehan provides an overview of popular women's writing from the late 1960s to the present, looking at how key feminist texts such as The Women's Room, Kinflicks and Fear of Flying have influenced popular contemporary fiction such as Bridget Jones' Diary and Sex and the City.

London's adventure tale The Call of the Wild explores the complex relationships between man and nature, and animals' struggle with their own nature in man's world.

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

The rise of suburbs and disinvestment from cities have been defining features of life in many countries over the course of the twentieth century.

Explores the life, work and literary significance of the late Poet Laureate.

One Man Zeitgeist: Dave Eggers, Publishing and Publicity undertakes the first extensive analysis of the works of Dave Eggers, an author who has grown from a small-time media upstart into one of the most influential author-publishers of the twenty-first century.

Eschewing old clunkers like "e;military intelligence"e; and "e;student-athlete,"e; this volume features well over 200 fresh and original oxymorons with commentaries-all with a satirical twist.

An expansive study of the novel''s moral ambivalence toward procreation, from the nineteenth century through modernism to the present.

Focusing on work by Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and J.

A comprehensive account of the life and work of this key eighteenth-century literary figure.

What were the consequences of Tolstoy's unusual reliance on members of his family as source material for War and Peace?

First published in 1983.

Examines how Gothic romances like Dracula and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde expressed fears and visionary possibilities suggested by neurological research.

An overview of the greatest achievements of American fiction writing of the nineteenth century.

Specially commissioned essays by major Fitzgerald scholars.

Family Money explores the histories of formerly enslaved women who tried to claim inheritances left to them by deceased owners, the household traumas of mixed-race slaves, post-Emancipation calls for reparations, and the economic fallout from anti-miscegenation marriage laws.

This book identifies a major turn in contemporary British literature in response to environmental crisis.

First study of a long tradition of mixed-mode writing, largely favored by British women novelists, that combined fully-transcribed letters with third-person narrative.

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature.

Home Away from Home: Immigrant Narratives, Domesticity, and Coloniality in Contemporary Spanish Culture examines ideological, emotional, economic, and cultural phenomena brought about by migration through readings of works of literature and film featuring domestic workers.

Wilhelm Heinse gilt noch immer als philosophischer Außenseiter, als ästhetischer Opponent, als Vertreter eines "anderen Klassizismus" oder als dionysisch bewegter Antimoralist.

The focus of this book is on speech production and speech processing associated with cleft palate, covering phonetic (perceptual and instrumental), phonological and psycholinguistic perspectives, and including coverage of implications for literacy and education, as well as cross-linguistic differences.

This book recovers a major nineteenth-century literary figure, the American Claimant.

Can novels contribute to the ethical lives of readers?

As a writer and forward-thinking social critic, Lillian Smith (1897-1966) was an astute chronicler of the twentieth-century American South and an early proponent of the civil rights movement.

A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent the social and economic inequalities of the present, this book examines writing in English, Italian, Kannada, and Spanish by authors from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Italy, India and Mexico.

The challenges and changes that take place when religions move from one cultural context to another present unique opportunities for interreligious dialogue.

This book presents a wide range of previously unpublished works by Radclyffe Hall.

This volume proposes a fresh strategy for ecumenical engagement - 'Receptive Ecumenism' - that is fitted to the challenges of the contemporary context and has already been internationally recognised as making a distinctive and important new contribution to ecumenical thought and practice.

In the first half of the nineteenth century most leading French Romantic authors wrote travel books.

A stimulating collection of new essays on the development of the novel in Latin America.

The first book-length study of the psychoanalytic memoir, this book examines key examples of the genre, including Sigmund Freud's mistitled An Autobiographical Study, Helene Deutsch's Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue, Wilfred Bion's War Memoirs 1917-1919, Masud Khan's The Long Wait, Sophie Freud's Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family, and Irvin D.

Intersecting with fan studies, TV and comics studies, queer, disability and feminist studies, as well as popular culture and media scholarship, this collection of essays is the first to offer critical examinations of Riverdale, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and the broader Archie/Sabrina comics universe.

An introductory guide to the life, work and legacy of George Orwell - one of the most influential literary twentieth-century figures.