Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

This book takes a closer look at the diversity of fiction writing from Diderot to Markson and by so doing call into...  Read More >>

The theater was one of the most enduring passions of Goncourt brothers: their theatrical production spanned a period...  Read More >>

This volume covers a broad range of everyday private and public, touristic, commercial and fictional encounters...  Read More >>

Comprehensive and illuminating, this study illustrates the significance and impact of the multi-narrator structure...  Read More >>

Secretary to the Salem witch trials, Cotton Mather is the most reviled of our national historians. Yet James Russell...  Read More >>

This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American...  Read More >>

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Julien Sorel's favorite book in Le Rouge et le Noir, the Memorial of Saint-Helene is one of the main founding texts...  Read More >>

The second volume of the Memorial de Saint-Helene covers the period from July 1816 to November 1816, when the Count...  Read More >>

This book features a collection of essays, shedding subversively new light on Romanticism and its canon of big-six,...  Read More >>

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This book explores the importance of the touch to social and cultural issues of embodiment in mid to late-Victorian...  Read More >>

The Gothic Chapbook, Bluebook, and Shilling Shocker surveys the rise of the short tale of terror and horror at the...  Read More >>

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Lower-Middle-Class Nation provides an unparalleled interdisciplinary cultural history of the lower-middle-class...  Read More >>

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The secret of a poem, no less than a jest's prosperity, lies in the ear of him that hears it. Yield to itsspell,...  Read More >>

This book focuses on literal and metaphorical ruins, as they are appropriated and imagined in different forms of...  Read More >>

The nineteenth century witnessed a proliferation of alternative religious currents and practices, appropriating...  Read More >>

"A literary ""meteor,"" Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) became a universal symbol of revolt. Beyond his life story, his...  Read More >>

"This open access book discusses British literature as part of a network of global entangled modernities and shared...  Read More >>

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

"A literary ""meteor,"" Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) became a universal symbol of revolt. Beyond his life story, his...  Read More >>

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

Charts developments in literary realism between fin-de-siècle naturalism and early modernism by examining a wide...  Read More >>