Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

American Literature as an Expression of the National Mind (1931) is a remarkable work that traces not only the history...  Read More >>

The Hero (1925) explains tragedy itself, through a close examination of multiple texts, with a particular focus...  Read More >>

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This book tracks the rise of modern cultural regionalism across the turn of the nineteenth century. Regional Romanticism...  Read More >>

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This Element focuses on representations of social and psychological entrapment demonstrating how Dickens employs...  Read More >>

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In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Arab-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire saw a crucial change...  Read More >>

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""Godwin ... was the inspiring intelligence behind the humanist attitudes of the English Romantic poets and Utopian...  Read More >>

This volume brings together for the first time two lesser-known aspects of Gerard Manley Hopkins's creative drive:...  Read More >>

This book examines the cultural work and meaning-making of Louisa May Alcott’s representations of health and illness....  Read More >>

In her exhaustive publishing history of Frances Burney's Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress, Parisian mines an extensive...  Read More >>

Based on meticulous archival research, Dennis M. Read's study offers the most accurate and thorough account to date...  Read More >>

Charlotte Yonge, a dedicated religious, didactic, and domestic novelist, has become one of the most effectively...  Read More >>

In her re-examination of Jane Austen's Anglicanism, White suggests that engaging with Austen's world in all its...  Read More >>

Focusing on John Ruskin as a teacher and on his greatest educational work, Fors Clavigera, Sara Atwood examines...  Read More >>

Rooted in the inconceivable and unspeakable event of death, Romantic poetic forms of grief possess a self-questioning...  Read More >>

Taking up the historical evolution of Darwin and his theories and the cultural responses they have inspired, this...  Read More >>

Jessica DeSpain examines reprints by Charles Dickens, Susan Warner, Fanny Kemble and Walt Whitman to theorize the...  Read More >>

Renegotiating the cultural topography of the romantic period and the place of romanticism in subsequent cultural...  Read More >>

Challenging the idea that a writer’s work reflects his experiences in time and place, Cooper locates the action...  Read More >>

Exploring the relationship between poverty and religion in William Wordsworth’s poetry, Heidi J. Snow argues that...  Read More >>

Focusing on Algernon Charles Swinburne's poems on Apollo, Levin calls for a re-examination of the poet's place in...  Read More >>

Showing how specific rhetorical strategies used in nineteenth-century British travel writing produced fictional...  Read More >>