Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature the willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty.

The stylistic remnants of cabaret music from Weimar-era Germany are all around us.

Explains how new print technologies and the expansion of print culture allowed eighteenth-century writers to develop the novel form.

A memoir and meditation on the themes of separation and silence, The Summer of the Elder Tree was Marie Chaix's first book to appear in fourteen years, and deals with the reasons for her withdrawal from writing and the events in her life since the death of her mother (as detailed in Silences, or a Woman's Life).

We live in an information economy, a vast archive of data ever at our fingertips.

The figure of the detective has long excited the imagination of the wider public, and the English police detective has been a special focus of attention in both print and visual media.

Barricade Books re-introduces Up, Up, and Oy Vey to the book publishing world.

Most frequently regarded as a writer of the supernatural, Poe was actually among the most versatile of American authors, writing social satire, comic hoaxes, mystery stories, science fiction, prose poems, literary criticism and theory, and even a play.

This book draws on a wide range of evidence to explore the facts about the relationship between substance misuse and domestic violence and their effect on children, and examines the response of children's services when there are concerns about the safety and welfare of children.

Jane Austen and Lord Byron are often presented as opposites, but here they are together at last.

First published anonymously, as 'a lady', Jane Austen is now among the world's most famous and highly revered authors.

As a teacher of Plato in Oxford's Literae Humaniores, Walter Pater was informed by philosophy from his earliest essays to his last book.

Poised between the Mediterranean and the Mitteleuropa, crossroads of civilizations and seat of vibrant cultural and literary life, Trieste is now acknowledged as enjoying unrivalled cultural status amongst Italian cities.

A 2007 exploration of how the Brontës'' fiction engages with the intense debates on education in the nineteenth century.

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Why do Israelis dislike fantasy?

It's a rare comic character who can make audiences laugh for well over half a century--but then again, it's a pretty rare cartoon hero who can boast of forearms thicker than his waist, who can down a can of spinach in a single gulp, or who generally faces the world with one eye squinted completely shut.

First scholarly edition of Samuel Richardson''s correspondence with Aaron Hill, Richardson''s closest literary adviser for many years, and his daughters.

Written by one of the leading authorities on writing, publishing and teaching science fiction, The Science of Science Fiction Writing offers the opportunity to share in the knowledge James Gunn has acquired over the past forty years.

This book critically examines how a Hero is made, sustained, and even deformed, in contemporary cultures.

Charles Fort was an American researcher from the early twentieth century who cataloged reports of unexplained phenomena he found in newspapers and science journals.

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945 provides insight into the critical traditions shaping the literary landscape of modern Britain.

Transgression and Redemption in American Fiction is a critical study of classic American novels.

This Companion covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth.

***FEATURED ON BBC 2's BETWEEN THE COVERS WITH SARA COX***The Faber Book of Reportage is John Carey's remarkable collection of eyewitness accounts that draws on the voices and emotions of the people who experienced some of history's most memorable events.

This collection of essays explores the hotel as a site of modernity, a space of mobility and transience that shaped the transnational and transcultural modernist activity of the first half of the twentieth century.

Christian Isobel Johnstone's Clan-Albin: A National Tale was published in 1815, less than a year after Walter Scott's Waverley; or 'tis Sixty Years Since enthralled readers and initiated a craze for Scottish novels.

This book is dedicated to the research of the "e;pleasure phenomenon"e; as the most important factor in individual and socio-cultural development.

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

This Element harnesses digital resources to unpack Voltaire''s complex and prodigious correspondence for the modern reader.

The werewolf in popular fiction has begun to change rapidly.

A hilarious, heartfelt memoir about one woman's midlife obsession with Benedict Cumberbatch, and the liberating power of reclaiming our passions as we age, whatever they may be.

For more than 60 years, Captain America was one of Marvel Comics' flagship characters, representing truth, strength, liberty, and justice.

Arguably the most important living Russian writer, Sasha Sokolov is an acknowledged literary master.

The years of the Spanish Civil War filled twentieth-century Spain with hope, frustration and drama.

Visions of post-apocalyptic worlds have proved to be irresistible for many 21st-century writers, from literary novelists to fantasy and young adult writers.

Mining the borderlands where history meets literature in Britain and Europe as well as America, this book shows how the imminence and outbreak of World War II ignited the imaginations of writers ranging from Ernest Hemingway, W.

The British and Irish Short Story Handbook guides readers through the development of the short story and the unique critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction.

This collection explores British attitudes to Continental Europe that explain the Brexit decision.

Right now, there is no city in the United States more "e;it"e; than Nashville, TN.

"e;Since the revelation of Iris Murdoch's (1919-1999) affair with Elias Canetti (1905-1994), scholarship on their relationship has been largely biographical, focusing in particular on Canetti's alleged role as the real-life model for some of Murdoch's most invidious protagonists.

Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days.

Written by leading scholars, this collection of essays offers the first comprehensive and accessible book on Dickens''s style.

Scholarly accounts of Joyce's early work have traditionally resorted to two historical keys to try to unlock it: a concept of the Dublin and Ireland in which he grew to adulthood as stagnant and backward, and an emphasis on 1904, the year of the supposedly crucial break in which Joyce quit Ireland for continental Europe and could begin his great modernist literary project.