Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Christmas Books for Children investigates continuities and new trends in this hugely significant part of the children''s book market.

Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) was the most influential poetry critic of his generation.

"e;One of the primary social changes ushered in by the French Revolution was the legalization of divorce in 1792.

In the mid-1980s, Easton Press began publishing a series of leather-bound collector editions called "e;Masterpieces of Science Fiction"e; and "e;Masterpieces of Fantasy,"e; which featured some of the most important works in these genres.

This book is about some of the ways in which the world got ready to be connected, long before the advent of the technologies and the concentrations of capital necessary to implement a global 'network society'.

How are a reader's perceptions of a plot impacted by its presentation through textual clues rather than explicit narration, and why would an author choose this comparatively indirect mode of narration?

So many questions surround the key figures in the English literary canon, but most books focus on one aspect of an author's life or work, or limit themselves to a single critical approach.

'Jane Austen and her Readers, 1786-1945' is a study of the history of reading Jane Austen's novels.

Ever since the first appearances of Superman and Batman in comic books of the late 1930s, superheroes have been a staple of the popular culture landscape.

The Encyclopaedia of World Religions and Interfaith Dialogues is an initiative to deal with the subject of religion and interfaith dialogue in its totality.

This collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic sensibilities and the discursive network of the Renaissance.

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.

This book advocates for a new analytical framework that extends our understanding of multimodal meaning-making in the novel.

The International Society of Literary Fellows (Lsi) is the society of creative writers and scholars from African and the world with a critical interest in current developments around modern cultures of indigenous and foreign language expressions.

Henry James defied posterity to disturb his bones: he was adamant that his legacy be based exclusively on his publications and that his private life and writings remain forever private.

When Sara Rose returns to live in her recently deceased grandmother's Tasmanian cottage, her past and that of her mother and grandmother is ever-present.

The Value of Virginia Woolf explores the writings of Virginia Woolf from her early texts to her inventive novels.

Still Life: Suspended Development in the Victorian Novel rethinks the nineteenth-century aesthetics of agency through the Victorian novel's fascination with states of reverie, trance, and sleep.

Proposes that a distinct strain of literary modernism emerged in Europe in response to historical catastrophe.

Detective Fiction on the Case of Community uses one of the most popular forms of modern literature to examine one of modernity's most trenchant problems.

A spirited and essential companion to Orwell and his works, covering all the novels and major essays An intellectual who hated intellectuals, a socialist who didn't trust the state-our foremost political essayist and author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four was a man of stark, puzzling contradictions.

Charles Dickens called his sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth his 'best and truest friend'.

John Updike is one of the most seminal American writers of the 20th century and one of the most prolific as well.

Reading the work of African American and Jewish American authors alongside and through one another.

The Author's Effects: On the Writer's House Museum is the first book to describe how the writer's house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomenon across Britain, Europe, and North America.

For someone who did not actually fight in the American Civil War, Stephen Crane was extraordinarily accurate in his description of the psychological tension experienced by a youthful soldier grappling with his desire to act heroically, his fears, and redemption.

In The Inklings, the Victorians, and the Moderns, the author examines the dynamics of a small group of twentieth-century traditionalists who reacted in opposition to the spirit of the intellectual movements of the modern age.

Scholars of cultural studies, fairy-tale studies, folklore, and television studies will enjoy this first-of-its-kind volume.

Honorable Mention - American Association for Ukrainian Studies (AAUS) 2018-2019 Book PrizeHaving exploded on the margins of Europe, Chornobyl marked the end of the Soviet Union and tied the era of postmodernism in Western Europe with nuclear consciousness.

Conrad''s life in his own words, now edited for scholarly use for the first time.

Motherhood, Fatherland and Primo Levi: The Hidden Groundwork of Agency in his Auschwitz Writings offers major new insights into the political dimensions of Levi's thought by using those texts conventionally thought to be marginal to his oeuvre (i.

'a genuinely interesting contribution to George Eliot scholarship by one of the leading postwar critics of Victorian fiction.

A novelist, poet, literary critic and anthropologist, Andrew Lang is best known for his publications on folklore, mythology and religion; many have grown up with the 'colour' Fairy Books which he compiled between 1889 and 1910.

Possibly the most influential figure in the history of American letters, William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was, among other things, a leading novelist in the realist tradition, a formative influence on many of America's finest writers, and an outspoken opponent of social injustice.

This introduction places the fiction of Salman Rushdie in a clear historical and theoretical context.

Mark Twain's letters for 1874 and 1875 encompass one of his most productive and rewarding periods as author, husband and father, and man of property.

'Mirza's theorization of resistance is a substantive addition to feminist and postcolonial scholarship, and her rich readings of different literary texts make a valuable contribution to feminist literary studies.

Kevin Hayes examines the impact of nineteenth-century print culture on Edgar Allan Poe''s work.