Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

In the flirtation plots of novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and W.

The world stands before a landmark date: October 31, 2017, the quincentennial of the Protestant Reformation.

Prominent American author, lecturer, and social reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) is best known for her 1898 treatise Women and Economics, which ascribed gender inequality to women's economic dependence upon men, and for her 1892 short story "e;The Yellow Wall-Paper,"e; which depicts a woman's descent into madness.

Amitav Ghosh is an authoritative critical introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of one of the most celebrated and significant literary voices to have emerged from India in recent decades.

The writer's fascination with America's spiritual and religious evolution in the 19th century.

The first volume of critical essays on the contemporary Portuguese novel in English, this book theorizes the concept of the 'hypercontemporary' as a way of reading the novel after its postmodern period.

How did the Victorians read novels?

A wide-ranging account of the relationship between romance and history from the medieval to the early modern period.

The Oxford Handbook of Ecumenical Studies is an unparalleled compendium of ecumenical history, information and reflection.

Beginning with the publication of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in 1950 and concluding with the appearance of The Last Battle in 1956, C.

Since the establishment of sensation fiction in the 1860s, key trends have emerged in critical readings of these texts.

I became what I am today at the age of twelve.

Despite its well-earned reputation as the richest world in fantasy, there exists a notable, troubling problem in Tolkien's legendarium: the existence of a sentient, rational being for whom no sympathy or moral feeling is ever shown.

Anthony Trollope is perhaps best known for the group of Barsetshire novels, a rich and enduring picture of society in a small cathedral town.

Translates an important example of late seventeenth-century French hybrid experimental fiction that provided the primary literary backdrop for the first French fairy tales.

Longlisted for the 2022 International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith Prize

The bestselling genre of Frankenfiction sees classic literature turned into commercial narratives invaded by zombies, vampires, werewolves, and other fantastical monsters.

An analysis of the life of the eccentric author of The Trial, and his quest for meaning in his work.

Richard Marsh was one of the most popular and prolific authors of the late-Victorian and Edwardian periods.

Using socially and culturally engaged discourse stylistics, Fulton explores ideologies of social formation, gender, and sexuality in the novel.

At the heart of crime fiction is an investigation into an act of violence.

This volume brings together a group of most highly acclaimed Canadian writers and distinguished international experts on Canadian literature to discuss what potential Janice Kulyk Keefer's concept of "e;historiographic ethnofiction"e; has for ethnic writing in Canada.

The past decade has given us explorations of such forms as the Bildungsroman, the Kunstleroman, the utopian and Gothic novel as women have written them; studies are even now emerging of the female-authored elegy, sonnet sequence and other pure and mixed poetic modes.

Reassessing Lawrence''s relationship to American modernism and his American literary contemporaries, Jenkins offers new insights into the literary exchange between America and Europe.

Did you know that smell can change our feelings?

Reading Contemporary Chinese Migrant Fiction examines the spectrum of Chinese migrant writing about memory since the 1990s and what it tells us about history, memory and trauma in contemporary China.

Doblin's texts, which range widely across contemporary discourses, are paradigms of the encounter between literary and scientific modernity.

This informative Companion offers a combination of original readings and factual background information.

This collection gathers together original essays dealing with Melville's relations with his historical era, with class, with the marketplace, with ethnic otherness, and with religion.

What is it about certain books that makes them bestsellers?

"e;This eye-opening book deserves a spot on the bookshelves of anyone who not only enjoys collecting, but also has a great interest in all facets of the history of our hobby.

This volume is a response to a renewed interest in narrative form in contemporary literary studies, taking up the question of literary narratives and their encounters with modernism and postmodernism within the German-language milieu.

Reading Paul Howard: The Art of Ross O'Carroll Kelly offers a thorough examination of narrative devices, satirical modes, cultural context and humour in Howard's texts.

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?

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?

Arguing that contemporary celebrity authors like Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Eimear McBride and Anna Burns position their work and public personae within a received modernist canon to claim and monetize its cultural capital in the lucrative market for literary fiction, this book also shows how the corporate conditions of marketing and branding have redefined older models of literary influence and innovation.

Over a 60-year career, Graham Greene was a prolific and widely read writer.

Challenging Canada is the first book-length study to bring a Bakhtinian approach to bear on Canadian literature.

What happens inside Latin American prisons?

The 1990s were a period of tremendous artistic vigour, experimentation, and liberation for Ukrainian culture.

With thirty-nine original chapters from internationally prominent scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf is designed for scholars and graduate students.

The Politics of Literary Prestige provides the first comprehensive study of prizes for Spanish American literature.

The fully-lived, yet tragically ended life of Ernest Hemingway has attracted nearly as much attention as his extensive canon of writings.

Christianity Today 2025 Award of Merit (Culture, Poetry, and the Arts)"Wilson does a great service in resurrecting one of O'Connor's lesser-known works.