Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

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This book brings to light an extraordinary satiric epic on Britain’s empire, one suppressed right after its publication...  Read More >>

This book explores Tennyson's poetic relationship with Wordsworth through a close analysis of Tennyson's borrowing...  Read More >>

In three of his contemporary novels, Le Roi vierge (1881), Zo'har (1886), and Mephistophela (1890), Catulle Mendes...  Read More >>

Madeleine Wood argues that the mid-Victorian novels present their protagonists in a state of damage, provoked and...  Read More >>

In three of his contemporary novels, Le Roi vierge (1881), Zo'har (1886), and Mephistophela (1890), Catulle Mendes...  Read More >>

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Caribbean was known as the 'grave of Europeans'. Drawing on...  Read More >>

Reveals how literary works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries frequently challenged the prevailing view...  Read More >>

Wordsworth has traditionally been understood as the 'poet of memory'. This book argues that 'unremembered pleasure',...  Read More >>

Bringing together the human story of care with its representation in film, fiction and memoir, this book combines...  Read More >>

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In A Scholarly Edition of Samuel P. Newman’s A Practical System of Rhetoric, Beth L. Hewett argues that Newman and...  Read More >>

The first study to focus exclusively on the baby in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Drawing on novels...  Read More >>

Die Natur hat alles getan, um die Schweiz zu einer unabhangigen Nation zu bilden, so schreibt Johann Gottfried Ebel...  Read More >>

Absurd, monstrous, pathological, degenerate. . . throughout the nineteenth century, the concept of the genius weathered...  Read More >>

Defines the domesticated bachelor, examines the effects of the blurring of boundaries between the public and private...  Read More >>

This collection gathers together an exciting new series of critical essays on the Romantic- and Victorian-period...  Read More >>

Absurd, monstrous, pathological, degenerate. . . throughout the nineteenth century, the concept of the genius weathered...  Read More >>

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The Duke's Children is a novel about sorrow and loss, and about a parent s pained discovery that our children inevitably...  Read More >>

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This monograph demonstrates that in British Guiana, the indenture scheme was habitually unstable owing not just...  Read More >>

In uber 500 erhaltenen Briefen von seinen und an seine Schuler geht es um fachliche und allgemein menschliche Probleme,...  Read More >>

Reviving a dramatic past in which women playwrights used theatre to empower their culture and themselves.  Read More >>