‘Reading this book is every bit as enjoyable as reading one of the hundreds of novels which Staines cites in this first comprehensive history of Canadian fiction in English from its beginnings to the ...
Focussing on how major authors from Samuel Richardson to Jane Austen made church weddings a lynchpin of their fiction, The Origins of the English Marriage Plot offers a truly innovative account of the ...
There is no scarcity of books about Jews in English literature ... Jewish Stereotypes in English Fiction, no one had bothered to ask the important questions: why the picture of the villanious ...
Most prose fiction is presented in the form of a novel, novella or short story. The word ‘novel’ comes from Latin and Italian origin and means 'new’. Novels became popular with readers in ...