Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

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The Modern Arabic Bible: Translation, Dissemination and Literary Impact

The Modern Arabic Bible: Translation, Dissemination...

Author: Rana Issa
ISBN: 9781474467162
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Explores how nahda translations of the Bible transformed Arabic language and literature  Read More >>

Ottoman Translation: Circulating Texts from Bombay to Paris

Ottoman Translation: Circulating Texts from Bombay to...

Author: Marilyn Booth ,  Claire Savina
ISBN: 9781399502580
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Studies translation into and amongst the Ottoman Empire's many languages  Read More >>

Assessing Intelligence: The Bildungsroman and the Politics of Human Potential in England, 1860 1910

Assessing Intelligence: The Bildungsroman and the Politics...

Author: Sara Lyons
ISBN: 9781474497671
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Examines how novelists engaged with the emergence of the IQ concept of intelligence and the meritocratic ideal  Read More >>

Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status: Forms of Absence in the Age of Reform

Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status: Forms of...

Author: D. Albert Pionke
ISBN: 9781399507714
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Reconstructs the surprising, self-interested, at times paradoxical attempts of Victorian novelists to define the...  Read More >>

Domestic Architecture, Literature and the Sexual Imaginary in Europe, 1850 1930

Domestic Architecture, Literature and the Sexual Imaginary...

Author: Aina Marti-Balcells
ISBN: 9781474463089
Format: Paperback
$51.72

This book sheds light on the contributions of architecture and its literary representations to a series of changes...  Read More >>

Dion Boucicault: The Vampire (1852) and The Phantom (1873)

Dion Boucicault: The Vampire (1852) and The Phantom...

Author: Matthew Knight ,  Gary D. Rhodes
ISBN: 9781837721504
Format: Hardback
$157.95

Previously unpublished versions of plays by one of the most popular and prolific dramatists of the Victorian age....  Read More >>

Romanticism, Liberal Imperialism, and Technology in Early British India: “The all-changing power of steam”

Romanticism, Liberal Imperialism, and Technology in...

Author: Daniel E. White
ISBN: 9783031607042
Format: Hardback
$118.77

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Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of Water

Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of Water

Author: Ursula Kluwick
ISBN: 9780813950983
Format: Paperback
$92.40

In the nineteenth century, water left its traces on politics, urban reform, societal divisions, and conceptualizations...  Read More >>

Approaches to Teaching Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Approaches to Teaching Jacobs's Incidents in the Life...

Author: Lynn Domina
ISBN: 9781603296540
Format: Hardback
$149.60

""Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Addresses race,...  Read More >>

Beckett a la Lumiere de Dostoievski

Beckett a la Lumiere de Dostoievski

Author: Llewellyn Brown
ISBN: 9782406172437
Format: Paperback
$105.60

From his reading of Dostoevsky, Beckett drew certain motifs which are recurrent in his work. The presence of wider...  Read More >>

The Collected Poems of Henry Kirke White

The Collected Poems of Henry Kirke White

Author: Tim Fulford
ISBN: 9781802074703
Format: Hardback
$323.44

This book is the first-ever scholarly edition of one of the bestselling and most revered poets in the nineteenth...  Read More >>

Collected Verse

Collected Verse

Author: Paul Valéry ,  Paul Ryan
ISBN: 9780198820321
Format: Paperback
$20.95

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Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910: Decay, Desire, and the Pagan Revival

Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910:...

Author: Dennis Denisoff (University of Tulsa)
ISBN: 9781108994279
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Decadent Ecology illuminates the networks of nature, paganism, and desire in 19th- and early 20th-century decadent...  Read More >>

Rediscovering Rubén Darío through Translation

Rediscovering Rubén Darío through Translation

Author: Dr. Carlos F. Grigsby
ISBN: 9798765119112
Format: Hardback
$200.00

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William Morris: Selected Writings

William Morris: Selected Writings

Author: Dr Ingrid Hanson (Lecturer in English Literature, Lecturer in English Literature, University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9780192894816
Format: Hardback
$234.95

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series brings together a selection of William Morris's poetry and...  Read More >>

What Jane Austen's Characters Read (and Why)

What Jane Austen's Characters Read (and Why)

Author: Susan Allen Ford (Delta State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350416727
Format: Hardback
$110.00

The first detailed account of Austen’s characters’ reading experience to date, this book explores both what her...  Read More >>

Wordsworth’s Trauma and Poetry: 1793–1803

Wordsworth’s Trauma and Poetry: 1793–1803

Author: Richard E. Matlak
ISBN: 9780367715427
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This study reads the Poet’s reactions to the Terror in passages from The Prelude as explicitly about his twenty-three-year-old-self...  Read More >>

Political Liberalism and the Rise of American Romanticism

Political Liberalism and the Rise of American Romanticism...

Author: Scott M. Reznick (Assistant Professor of English, State University of New York at Plattsburgh)
ISBN: 9780198891956
Format: Hardback
$149.95

This volume traces how American literature evolved in response to widespread conflicts over the very nature of US...  Read More >>

Curious Travellers: Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820

Curious Travellers: Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820...

Author: Mary-Ann Constantine (Professor of Celtic Studies, Professor of Celtic Studies, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies)
ISBN: 9780198852124
Format: Hardback
$219.95

Mary-Ann Constantine provides a literary study of British tours of Wales in the Romantic period (c. 1760-1820)....  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Science Fiction

Shakespeare and Science Fiction

Author: Sarah Annes Brown
ISBN: 9781835537763
Format: Paperback
$64.66

In Shakespeare and Science Fiction Sarah Annes Brown investigates why so many science fiction writers have turned...  Read More >>

The Idea of Education in Golden Age Detective Fiction

The Idea of Education in Golden Age Detective Fiction...

Author: Roger Dalrymple (University of Oxford, UK) ,  Andrew Green (Brunel University London, UK)
ISBN: 9780367725037
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book presents an exploration of how Golden Age detective fiction encounters educational ideas, particularly...  Read More >>

Jane Austen, the Secret Radical

Jane Austen, the Secret Radical

Author: Helena Kelly
ISBN: 9781837731237
Format: Paperback
$26.99

An iconoclastic re-evaluation of one English Literature's most celebrated novelists.  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author: Christopher Hanlon (Professor of United States Literature, Professor of United States Literature, Arizona State University)
ISBN: 9780192894373
Format: Hardback
$277.95

This book is a collection of essays about Ralph Waldo Emerson written from a wide variety of critical perspectives....  Read More >>

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