Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine, and Political Economy is a reassessment of the languages and methodologies used, throughout the nineteenth century, for discussing extreme hunger in Britain.

George Orwell and Communist Poland is the first major account of George Orwell's Polish reception during the Second World War and the Cold War era.

Understanding an epic story's key belief patterns can reveal community-level values, the nature of familial bonds, and how divine and human concerns jockey for power and influence.

Examining how economic change influences religion, and the way literature mediates that influence, this book provides a thorough reassessment of modern American culture.

Men are allowed to cry.

This comprehensive new study offers a detailed analysis of all of Byatt's fiction and also discusses her critical output.

A collection of short stories by scriptwriter-poet turned fiction writer Taeko Tomioka.

A clearly written account of the development of the novel over the course of the long eighteenth century.

This book explores the ordinary turns of phrase by which major nineteenth-century British writers created character.

The first dedicated exploration of the short fiction of Shirley Jackson for three decades, this volume takes an in-depth look at the themes and legacies of her 200-plus short stories.

The omnipresence of narrative in our real-life experience and in the media world makes it a vital and relevant factor for study.

A survey of the development of the novel since 1900, with detailed information about individual novels, themes and subgenres.

Examines debates central to postwar British culture, showing the pressures of reconstruction and the mutual implication of war and peace.

Starting from the botanical crazes inspired by Linnaeus in the eighteenth century, and exploring the variations it spawned--natural history, landscape architecture, polemical battles over botany's prurience--this study offers a fresh, detailed reading of the courtship novel from Jane Austen to George Eliot and Henry James.

Will F.

This collection provides new readings of Frankenstein from a myriad of established and burgeoning theoretical vantages including narrative theory, cognitive and affect theory, the new materialism, media theory, critical race theory, queer and gender studies, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and others.

This book reflects the nascent sensibilities at work in literature emanating from Northeast India.

Women and madness in the early Romantic novel returns madness to a central role in feminist literary criticism through an updated exploration of hysteria, melancholia, and love-madness in novels by Mary Wollstonecraft, Eliza Fenwick, Mary Hays, Maria Edgeworth, and Amelia Opie.

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Originally published in 1967.

American Fiction in Transition is a study of the observer-hero narrative, a highly significant but critically neglected genre of the American novel.

John Polidori's novella The Vampyre (1819) is perhaps 'the most influential horror story of all time' (Frayling).

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university.

This book provides a sophisticated introduction to the life and work of Cormac McCarthy appropriate for scholars, teachers and general readers.

Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848 proposes an entirely new way of reading the transition into the modern.

Throughout its hundred-year history, the game Jetan has influenced many writers and game designers.

WINNER - Prix du livre d'Ottawa 2016 WINNER - Prix Jean-Ethier-Blais 2015 WINNER - Prix Gabrielle-Roy 2014 FINALIST - Prix litteraire Trillium 2015 From the founding of New France to the present day, Quebec women have had to negotiate societal expectations placed on their gender.

This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels.

John Edgar Tidwell and Steven C.

Colonial and Postcolonial Literature is the leading critical overview of and historical introduction to colonial and postcolonial literary studies.

Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel is a major contribution to the study of the literary influence of the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens.

This volume argues that the 1980s is the most significant American literary decade in the late twentieth century.

Terry Pratchett's writing celebrates the possibilities opened up by inventiveness and imagination.

This book presents twenty essays written in honor of the noted theologian and ecumenist Geoffrey Wainwright, Cushman Professor of Christian Theology at Duke University.

God and the Gothic: Romance and Reality in the English Literary Tradition provides a complete reimagining of the Gothic literary canon to examine its engagement with theological ideas, tracing its origins to the apocalyptic critique of the Reformation female martyrs, and to the Dissolution of the monasteries, now seen as usurping authorities.

Though Orton's roots lay in traditions as diverse as those represented by such writers as Wycherley, Congreve, Wilde, Shaw, Carroll, Firbank, Feydeau, Beckett and Pinter, he developed a form of 'anarchic farce' which was very much his own - hence the word 'Ortonesque'.

The question of whether Protestant ministers are validly ordained remains a barrier for ecumenical reconciliation between Roman Catholics and Protestants.

Late 19th century science fiction stories and utopian treatises related to morals and attitudes often focused on economic, sociological and, at times Marxist ideas.

First published in 1987.

This book presents a long-ranging and in-depth study of South African writing set in London during the apartheid years and beyond.

Richard Matheson's 1954 novel I Am Legend has spawned a series of iconic horror and science fiction films, including The Last Man on Earth (1964), The Omega Man (1971) and I Am Legend (2007).

What do you know about the sense of smell?

Since the beginnings of white settlement in Newfoundland, writers have set down greatly varying impressions of its landscape and distinctive culture.

Ghost stories as a window on the American settler psyche In this innovative book, Sladja Blaan explains the foundational role of ghost stories in fostering the cultural imaginary, offering a medium for framing political ideologies, philosophical thought, racial anxieties, and social concerns.

The Ever-Present Now examines the meaning and possibilities of the present and its relationship to history and historicity in a number of literary texts; specifically, the writings of several figures in antebellum US literary history, some, but not all of whom, associated with the period's romantic movement.