Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

In this book Paul Contino offers a theological study of Dostoevsky's final novel, The Brothers Karamazov. He argues...  Read More >>

This book considers the complex ways in which the hotel functions to express the shifting experiences of modernity...  Read More >>

This volume examines the emergence of modern popular culture between the 1830s and the 1860s, when popular storytelling...  Read More >>

This book discusses George Sand's relationships with novelistic traditions and engages gender as a critical tool...  Read More >>

In his art criticism, Joris-Karl Huysmans conducts an aesthetic reflection that, in turn, influences his poetics....  Read More >>

This volume questions the reliability of attempts to identify metaphor based on dichotomy and instead advocates...  Read More >>

"This collection foregrounds progress as ""improvement"" as a constitutive theme of Scottish writing during the...  Read More >>

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Breaking away from conventionally fixed discourses and dichotomies, this book utilizes an interdisciplinary approach...  Read More >>

Exploring a hitherto neglected field, Writing Place: Mimesis, Subjectivity and Imagination in the Works of George...  Read More >>

This rich volume of essays restores meaning itself as the focal point of one of our most thoughtful modern writers,...  Read More >>

This book seeks to uncover how today’s ideas about climate and catastrophe have been formed by the thinking of Romantic...  Read More >>

Remediating Shakespeare in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries analyzes literary remediations of Shakespeare’s...  Read More >>

What is work? Why do we do it? Since time immemorial the answer to these questions, from both the left and the right,...  Read More >>

This book explores the ways in which poetic inspiration came to be associated with madness in early nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

The essays in this volume discuss critical developments in the philosophy, pedagogy, psychology, politics, and poetics...  Read More >>

This book discusses George Sand's relationships with novelistic traditions and engages gender as a critical tool...  Read More >>

In his art criticism, Joris-Karl Huysmans conducts an aesthetic reflection that, in turn, influences his poetics....  Read More >>

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"Romantic Capabilities discusses the relationship between popular new media uses of literary texts. Devising and...  Read More >>

"Focusing on U.S. slavery and its aftermath in the nineteenth century, The Archive of Fear explores the traumatic...  Read More >>

Die jungen, oft unbekannt gebliebenen, meist prekär lebenden Autoren wirkten im Spannungsfeld aus Selbstbehauptung...  Read More >>

Fascinated and often baffled by China, Anglophone writers have turned to classics to provide interpretative paradigms...  Read More >>

A bilingual collection of essays that celebrates Marko Pavlyshyn's contribution to the study of modern and contemporary...  Read More >>

So muchmore than an acclaimed novelist and short story writer, Wharton is reconsidered in this book as a controversial...  Read More >>