Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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.

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.