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O.V. Vijayan (1930-2005) is regarded as one of the most gifted novelists to contribute to the literature of the South Indian state of Kerala. His The Legends of Khasak (1969) [...]

Since her first novel, Lightning Field, appeared in 2001, Dana Spiotta has published new novels in five-year increments, with Eat the Document in 2006, Stone Arabia in 2011, Innocents and [...]

Fiona Kidman is one of New Zealand's premier contemporary novelists with a writing career spanning about half a century. A prolific writer in multiple genres, including the novel, short story, [...]

More than a one observer has called the work of Julian Barnes 'odd' or 'strange' (Greaney 225). Part of this surely comes from the form his books tend to take--some [...]

Rachel Ferguson's eccentric 1931 novel, The Brontes Went to Woolworths, troubles many assumptions about modernism and the middlebrow and modernity's distinctions between these categories. The novel's meaning emerges only amidst [...]

Though seemingly counter-intuitive, the violence of enslavement has both sublime and traumatic dimensions that can be considered in relation to Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl [...]

When Lucky Jim first appeared in 1954, it received varied responses from different classes of readers and critics. Of course, the general response was favorable. It was positively reviewed by [...]

The nation's memory was held to be powerfully unified; no more discontinuity existed between our new Greco-Roman cradle and the colonies of the Third Republic than between the high erudition [...]

Nathaniel Hawthorne's preoccupation with history or the burden of the past is widely embodied in his art. Denis Donoghue argues that there is a greater sense of history in Hawthorne's [...]

In the last decades of the twentieth century, the literary production in Scotland saw such an important revitalization that the period has been recorded by literary historians as the 'Second [...]

In an early essay titled 'Against Dryness: A Polemical Sketch,' Murdoch claims that the novelist, in the search for 'consolation,' is often attracted to a type of 'closed,' 'clean crystalline [...]