Novel Books

New and Published Books

1. Novel and Romance 1700-1800 (Routledge Revivals)

   A Documentary Record

   By Ioan Williams

   The documents collected in this volume, first published in 1970, trace the development of novel criticism during one of the most formative periods in the history of fiction: from 1700-1800. The material includes prefaces to collections, translations and original novels; essays written for journals...

   Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
2. Sir Walter Scott on Novelists and Fiction (Routledge Revivals)

   Edited by Ioan Williams

   First published in 1968, this collection of essays and reviews represents all that Sir Walter Scott wrote on the subject of novels and novelists, and will be invaluable for the study of Scott, both as novelist and critic. The work provides a survey of the novel at an important...

   Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
3. Pynchon and the Political

   By Samuel Thomas

   Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

   Thomas Pynchon's writing has been widely regarded as an exemplary form of postmodern fiction. It is characterized as genre-defying and enigmatic, as a series of complex and esoteric language games. This study attempts to demonstrate, however, that an oblique yet compelling sense of the "political"...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
4. Narrative Fiction

   Contemporary Poetics

   By Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan

   Series: New Accents

   A synthesis of approaches to narrative fiction, considering Anglo-American New Criticism, Russian Formalism and French Structuralism that formulates the ways readers can, should, and do read narrative fiction....

   Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge
5. Cancelled Words

   Rediscovering Thomas Hardy

   By Rosemarie Morgan

   The manuscript of Hardy's first great novel Far From the Madding Crowd vanished shortly after its first publication. Rediscovered in 1918 it sheds remarkable new light on the whole of Hardy's work. The manuscript pages, some of which are reproduced here in facsimile, reveal Hardy's original...

   Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
6. George Orwell

   Edited by Jeffrey Meyers

   This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by...

   Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
7. Benjamin Constant

   A Biography

   By Dennis Wood

   `For forty years I have defended the same principle: freedom in everything, in religion, in philosophy, in literature, in industry, in politics - and by freedom I mean the triumph of the individual.' Constant thus summarized his beliefs at the end of his life. A political theorist and a passionate...

   Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
8. Daniel Defoe

   The Critical Heritage

   Edited by Pat Rogers

   The Critical Heritage gathers together a large of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves....

   Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
9. Intertextual and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cormac McCarthy

   Borders and Crossings

   Edited by Nicholas Monk

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

   This collection offers a fresh approach to the work of Cormac McCarthy, one of the most important contemporary American authors. Essays focus on his work across the genres and/or in constellation with other writers and artists, presenting not only a different "angle" on the work, but setting him...

   Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
10. The Brontë Novels (Routledge Revivals)

    By W. A. Craik

    First published in 1968, this reissue of Dr. Craik’s critical appreciation of the completed novels of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë is seminal for the way in which it shifts emphasis away from the Brontë family biography towards a detailed critical analysis of the novels themselves. Separate...

    Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge