Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

The first book-length study of the psychoanalytic memoir, this book examines key examples of the genre, including Sigmund Freud's mistitled An Autobiographical Study, Helene Deutsch's Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue, Wilfred Bion's War Memoirs 1917-1919, Masud Khan's The Long Wait, Sophie Freud's Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family, and Irvin D.

This is a book about translation and literary influence.

Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) defines sympathy as a series of shifts in perspective by which one sees from a different point of view.

Focuses on notable journalists-turned-novelists who have worked on the margins of fact and fiction since the early eighteenth century.

This History presents a comprehensive history of Jewish American literature from its origins to the present day.

This book offers a critical study and analysis of American fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Men are allowed to cry.

This new edition corrects shortcomings of earlier editors by providing a text which incorporates neglected or unavailable material from Greek manuscripts, recently published papyri, and quotations from the orations by rhetoricians dating from antiquity through to the Byzantine period.

Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel is a major contribution to the study of the literary influence of the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens.

Short Writings from Bulawayo won the Literature in English category at the 2005 Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association awards.

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This essay collection explores the life and work of science fiction doyen Ray Bradbury from a variety of perspectives.

How did the Victorian woman cope with the image of herself as a writer?

An engaging introductory guide to Chekhov, one of the most important and influential modern writers of fiction and drama.

The life story of the Victorian novelist George Eliot is as dramatic and complex as her best plots.

This project examines the representation of anxiety about technology that humans feel when encountering artificial intelligences in four science fiction novels: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

The interviews in this collection cover Walter Mosley's career and reveal an overarching theme: a belief in the transformative power of reading and writing.

This collection of original essays on Virginia Woolf by leading scholars in the field opens up new debates on the work of one of the foremost modernists of the 20th century.

Narrating Desire: Moral Consolation and Sentimental Fiction in Fifteenth-Century Spain proposes a new taxonomy and conceptual frame for the controversial Iberian genre of sentimental fiction.

First comprehensive critical edition of Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) analyses Hardy''s many revisions and offers essential contextual material.

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years.

This, the first critical biography of Arthur Morrison (1863-1945), presents his East End writing as the counter-myth to the cultural production of the East End in late-Victorian realism.

From debates about reparations to the rise of the welfare state, the decades following World War I saw a widespread turn across disciplines to questions about the nature and role of gifts: What is a gift?

From 1949 to 1968 author Robert van Gulick wrote 15 novels, two novellas and eight short stories featuring Judge Dee, a Chinese magistrate and detective from the Tang dynasty.

Let it be said, Philip Roth was never uncontroversial.

Prag 1968: Wie viele andere Tschechen schöpft Pavel Vodák Hoffnung.

Originally published in 1970.

In this concise introduction to Pope's life and work, first published in 1975, the poet's highly successful career as a man of letters is seen against the background of the Augustan age as a whole.

Key dimensions of Tolstoy''s writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays.

Penny politics offers a new way to read early Victorian popular fiction such as Jack Sheppard, Sweeney Todd, and The Mysteries of London.

This book looks at the figure of the English teacher in Indian classrooms and examines the practice and relevance of English and India's colonial legacy, many decades after independence.

Vasily Grossman (1905-1964) was a successful Soviet author and journalist, but he is more often recognized in the West as Russian literature's leading dissident.

Handley explains that once its enemies are gone, imperialism brings violence home in retrospective narratives that allegorise national pasts and futures through intimate relationships.

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1990s shape contemporary British Fiction?

First published in 1987, this title tracks the spy thriller from John Buchanan to Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carre, and shows how these tales of spies, moles, and the secret service tell a history of modern society, translating the political and cultural transformations of the twentieth century into the intrigues of a shadow world of secret agents.

"e;Bernardin de St Pierre (1737-1814) was a major figure of the late French Enlightenment.

From debates about reparations to the rise of the welfare state, the decades following World War I saw a widespread turn across disciplines to questions about the nature and role of gifts: What is a gift?

How did the Victorians read novels?

Examining the creative thought that arose in response to 19th-century religious controversies, this book demonstrates that the pressures exerted by historical methods of biblical scholarship prompted an imaginative recovery of wisdom literature.

"e;Bloomsbury on the Mediterranean,"e; is how Vanessa Bell described France in a letter to her sister, Virginia Woolf.

This new Companion offers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner in the twenty-first century.

This book examines the role of ''legless angels'' (George Orwell), ''angry women'' and ''good daughters'' in Dicken''s narratives.

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A fresh account of Irish Romanticism and the Irish novel in turbulent political times.