Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

From Love Story in 1970 to Prizes, his most recent bestseller, Erich Segal has created a body of fiction that testifies to the importance of traditional values and virtues in contemporary life.

Unsentimental and unselfpitying, this short but powerful novel by Chris Mlalazi vivifies an account by Rudo, a fourteen-year-old school girl who observes the terrifying events that take place in her village.

This essay collection by leading scholars provides a comprehensive guide to Jane Austen''s Emma, one of the greatest English novels.

This book shows how realism in twentieth-century Indian literature functioned as a mode of experimentation and aesthetic innovation.

The most informative and accessible single volume available on Burney''s life and works.

In welcher Wohnung wurde Musils "Mann ohne Eigenschaften" geschrieben?

The fifth and final volume of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield covers the almost thirteen months during which her attention at first was firmly set on a last chance medical cure, then finally on something very different - if death came to seem inevitable, how should one behave in the time that remained, so one could truly say one lived?

Der vorliegende Band enthält Beiträge zur Problematik der Grenzen und ihrer Erscheinungsformen im Modus literarischer Texte.

The ghost story 1840-1920: A cultural history examines the British ghost story within the political contexts of the long nineteenth century.

This book treats William Faulkner's major fiction--from Flags in the Dust through to Absalom, Absalom!

Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation spans the boundaries between literary studies and history.

Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.

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This 2007 book is an illustrated survey of the important films based on, or inspired by, nineteenth-century American fiction.

Epic battles, hideous monsters and a host of petty gods--the world of Classical mythology continues to fascinate and inspire.

The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes, first published in 2002, offers a comprehensive treatment of Cervantes'' life and work.

Argues that eighteenth-century literature defined itself as ''English'' and ''modern'' by engaging with debates about Chinese history and culture.

The great scientific, astronomical and technological advances of the 20th century inspired the science fiction genre to imagine distant worlds and futures, far beyond the discoveries of the here and now.

Authors and the World traces how four core 'modes of authorship' have developed and inflect one another in modern Germany through a series of twenty different case studies, including the work of Thomas Mann, Gunter Grass, Anna Seghers, Walter Hollerer, Felicitas Hoppe and Katja Petrowskaja, and original interview material with contemporary writers Ulrike Draesner, Olga Martynova and Ulrike Almut Sandig.

Studies of sexuality in Caribbean culture are on the rise, focusing mainly on homosexuality and homophobia or on regional manifestations of normative and nonnormative sexualities.

First published in 1990, this book represents the first full-length study of into the group of novels designated 'Rosicrucian' and traces the emergence of this distinct fictional genre, revealing a continuous occult tradition running through seemingly diverse literary texts.

"e;Contemporary fantastic fiction, particularly that written by women, often challenges traditional literary practice.

Sensational Deviance: Disability in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Fiction investigates the representation of disability in fictional works by the leading Victorian sensation novelists Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, exploring how disability acts as a major element in the shaping of the sensation novel genre and how various sensation novels respond to traditional viewpoints of disability and to new developments in physiological and psychiatric knowledge.

Originally published in 1853, Clotel is the first novel by an African American.

A BRONT ENCYCLOPEDIA This lively, absorbing, meticulously researched compendium is a rich resource both for the general reader and for the specialist Bront scholar.

By examining the works of George Eliot, Carlyle, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, George Meredith, George Gissing, Joseph Conrad, E.

Shows German Science Fiction's connections with utopian thought, and how it attempts Zukunftsbewaltigung: coping with an uncertain but also unwritten future.

First published in 1985, this book looks at the ways in which the spate of terrorist activity in the 1880s was reflected in the novels of the time.

This book, first published in 1988, is the most comprehensive annotation of Bleak House ever undertaken.

First published in 1947, The Last Romantics elucidates on the major preoccupations of the leaders of thought in late Victorian times such as the arts and their relation to religion and the social order.

Conspiracy has been a political phenomenon throughout history, relevant to any form of power from antiquity to the post-modern era.

This bibliography, first published in 1988, is intended to make more readily accessible the wealth of Dickinson criticism and scholarship that appeared from 1969 through 1985.

Dass jeder Roman auch eine persuasive Dimension hat, ist durch die idealistische Ästhetik und die auf Wahrheit und Wirklichkeit rekurrierende Literaturwissenschaft lange verdunkelt worden.

Der "Deutsch-türkische Divan" bildet mit dem "Mädchen aus der Fremde" (2008) und "Goethe" (2014) eine interkulturelle literaturwissenschaftliche Trilogie.

The setting of a novel is more than just an anonymous, interchangeable backdrop.

This book is an invitation to rethink our understanding of Turkish literature as a tale of two "e;others.

A ground-breaking and intensely revealing examination of the life of the 20th century's most iconic writer.

A Companion to the Bront s brings the latest literary research and theory to bear on the life, work, and legacy of the Bront family.

Yan Lianke is one of the most important, prolific, and controversial writers in contemporary China.