Studies followed on Walter Scott, early Victorian novelists and Jane Austen.

Proust's work was immensely influential, particularly on British novelists of the middle of the twentieth century who did not favour modernism.

James wrote many valuable critical articles on other novelists; typical is his insightful book-length study of his American predecessor Nathaniel Hawthorne.

ROCK 'n' ROLL has long exerted a pull on novelists.

My dissertation will be on twentieth-century American novelists.

Dissertation on Dostoevski's influence on English-language novelists.

It is when she focuses on novelists and poets that Cosslett faces a harder task, and she has had varying success with her four principal figures.

Brink's chapters on post-modern novelists are all fine but inevitably a bit more obvious, since the linguistic preoccupations of this fiction are generally recognized.

The big houses usually deny they concentrate on commercial books, and most of them do still take chances on first novelists, in hopes of eventually recouping their investment.

I'm doing my work on novelists who became film writers, on how work in films affects a writer's work in print.