Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Black Panther was the first black superhero in mainstream comic books, and his most iconic adventures are analyzed here.

This book contributes to the development of contemporary historical fiction studies by analysing neo-Georgian fiction, which, unlike neo-Victorian fiction, has so far received little critical attention.

Scott's Shadow is the first comprehensive account of the flowering of Scottish fiction between 1802 and 1832, when post-Enlightenment Edinburgh rivaled London as a center for literary and cultural innovation.

First published in 1985.

Breaking with linearity - the ruling narrative model in the Jewish-Christian tradition since the ancient world - many 20th-century European writers adopted circular narrative forms.

Representing a shift in Carter studies for the 21st century, this book critically explores her legacy and showcases the current state of Angela Carter scholarship.

Thomas Pynchon's writing has been widely regarded as an exemplary form of postmodern fiction.

The invention of the present-tense novel is a literary event whose importance is on par with the discovery of perspective in painting.

This volume provides an introduction Nathaniel Hawthorne and demonstrates why he continues to be a significant figure in American literature.

"e;Francophone writers from North Africa and the Middle East often choose to write within a sacred context, sometimes engaging directly with Islamist rhetoric.

This study to analyzes romantic fiction's depiction of women as part of the broader history of ideas about women.

Metafiction has long been associated with the heyday of literary postmodernism-with a certain sense of irresponsibility, political apathy, or outright nihilism.

The all-new essays in this book respond to the question, How do spaces in science fiction, both built and unbuilt, help shape the relationships among humans, other animals and their shared environments?

In This Thing Called the World Debjani Ganguly theorizes the contemporary global novel and the social and historical conditions that shaped it.

Annabel Patterson here turns her well-known concern with political history in early modern England into an engine for investigating our own era and a much wider terrain.

An exploration of the strange poetry of Dickens's imagination by leading academic and critic John Carey.

This book, first published in 1980, is a guide to the major forces in the subculture of science fiction.

A study of Ælfric''s saint''s Lives in their contemporary political and intellectual setting.

Writing autobiography is a complicated, often fraught activity for both writer and reader.

Against the social and economic upheavals that characterized the nineteenth century, the border-bending nosferatu embodied the period's fears as well as its forbidden desires.

From her childhood in Whitby to her long old age in Cambridge, the life of Margaret Storm Jameson (1891-1986), novelist, autobiographer, and political activist, spanned almost the whole of the twentieth century.

The awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Canadian writer Alice Munro in 2013 confirmed her position as a master of the short story form.

Following the material turn in the humanities, this book brings perspectives from science and ecology into dialogue with children's fiction written and published in the UK and the USA in the 21st century.

Boleslaw Prus and the Jews shows the complexity of the so-called "e;Jewish question"e; in nineteenth-century Congress Poland and especially its significance in Prus' social concept, reflected in his extensive body of journalistic work, fiction, and treatises.

A comprehensive and innovative guide to the British novel in its formative decades.

This volume revisits important moments from 1920 to 1970, key years for Caribbean literature, to open up new perspectives.

This is the definitive bibliography of the writings of J.

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

This book examines the range of issues that echo in James Baldwin's short stories.

At the 2013 "e;Celebrating The Hobbit"e; conference at Valparaiso University--marking the 75th anniversary of the book's publication and the first installment of Peter Jackson's Hobbit movies--two plenary papers were presented: "e;Anchoring the Myth: The Impact of The Hobbit on Tolkien's Legendarium"e; by John D.

How does one construct a role for oneself in the fourth-century democratic city?

This bold and ambitious volume argues that postcolonial historical fiction offers readers valuable resources for thinking about history and the relationship between past and present.