Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Although much has been written about American feminism and its influence on culture and society, very little has been recorded about the key role played by Irish American women writers in exposing women's issues, protecting their rights, and anticipating, if not effecting, change.

Inspired by the new diversity of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in the twenty-first century, Hot Equations: Science, Fantasy, and the Radical Imagination on a Troubled Planet confronts the kinds of literary and political "e;realism"e; that continue to suppress the radical imagination.

This is the first book-length study of best-selling writer John Saul's psychological and supernatural thrillers.

This volume examines the various geographic, political, social and literary contexts through which Hemingway crystallized his unmistakable narrative voice.

This volume advances scholarly understanding of the ways in which discourse deixis underpins the workings of metafictional novels.

No American author of the early 19th century enjoys a larger international audience than Edgar Allan Poe.

Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers interrogates the vexed question of Angela Carter's feminist politics through the dusty lens of European Gothic.

For 21st-century young adults struggling for personal autonomy in a society that often demands compliance, the bestselling trilogy, The Hunger Games remains palpably relevant despite its futuristic setting.

In this pioneering study, Dr.

Finally breaking through heterosexual cliches of flirtatious belles and cavaliers, sinister black rapists and lusty "e;Jezebels,"e; Cotton's Queer Relations exposes the queer dynamics embedded in myths of the southern plantation.

George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham (1628-1687) was one of the most scandalous and controversial figures of the Restoration period.

Contributions by Mitchell Adams, Frederick Luis Aldama, Jason Bainbridge, Djoymi Baker, Liam Burke, Octavia Cade, Hernan David Espinosa-Medina, Dan Golding, Ian Gordon, Sheena C.

Though we all face a tug of war between dependency and autonomy while growing up, British author D.

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The prolonged conflict in Iraq has shown us war's transformative effect.

Family Annals, or the Sisters, Mary Hays's last novel, was originally published in 1817.

"e;Many critics regard Cervantes's Don Quixote as the most influential literary book on British literature.

What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about?

This book investigates certain recurrent structures in the history of the novel as a textual genre and as a narrative form typical of Western literature.

First published in 1968, this reissue of Dr.

Cicero has long been seen to embody the values of the Roman republic.

Nathaniel Hawthorne remains one of the most widely read and taught of American authors.

Making home explores the figure of the orphan child in a broad selection of contemporary US novels by popular and critically acclaimed authors Barbara Kingsolver, Linda Hogan, Leslie Marmon Silko, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Cunningham, Jonathan Safran Foer, John Irving, Kaye Gibbons, Octavia Butler, Jewelle Gomez and Toni Morrison.

Rough justice has often been served in the pages of serial novels, notably beginning with Don Pendleton's The Executioner in 1969.

First published in 1985.

Virtually since its inception, the United States has nurtured a dreamlike and often delirious image of itself as an essentially classless society.

This volume offers seventeen essays on Virgil from an internationally distinguished team of scholars.

THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN FICTION Accessibly structured with entries on important historical contexts, central issues, key texts and the major writers, this Handbook provides an engaging overview of twentieth-century American ction.

By mid-career, many successful writers have found a groove and their readers come to expect a familiar consistency and fidelity.

This comparative study examines Scarlett O'Hara as a literary archetype, revealing critical prejudice against strong female characters.

From the author of Think, an enlightening and entertaining exploration of narcissism and self-esteemEveryone deplores narcissism, especially in others.

This novel is a designedly political document.

Providing a broad, definitive account of how the 'archival turn' in humanities scholarship has shaped modernist studies, this book also functions as an ongoing 'practitioner's toolkit' (including useful bibliographical resources) and a guide to avenues for future work.

Afro-Greeks examines the reception of Classics in the English-speaking Caribbean, from about 1920 to the beginning of the 21st century.

In 1989, Steven Moore published the first scholarly study of all three of William Gaddis's novels and since then it has been generally regarded as the best book on this difficult but major writer's work.

First published in 1983, this book focuses on the twentieth-century writer as both a product, and an interpreter, of his or her society.

Volume 2 of the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien's life and works ever published.

Originally published in 1983, this title lists and annotates reference sources which will help readers select primary materials useful in studies of the literary portraits of women and their societal roles.

While the national narrative coming out of Ireland since the 2008 economic crisis has been relentlessly sanguine, fiction has offered a more nuanced perspective from both well-established and emerging authors.

Finalist for the 2023 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy StudiesFrom the time of Charles Dickens, the imaginative power of the city of London has frequently inspired writers to their most creative flights of fantasy.

The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between 1837 and 1901.