Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

This book deals with true crime writings of the late 1800s published by ‘lowbrow publishing houses’ which had an...  Read More >>

This edition of Albert Samain's OEuvres en prose, which is partly original, is the most complete to date. It contains...  Read More >>

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This edition of Albert Samain's OEuvres en prose, which is partly original, is the most complete to date. It contains...  Read More >>

Gothic literature imagines the return of ghosts from the past. But what about the ghosts of the classical past?...  Read More >>

The definitive and revealing life story of the author ofThe Secret Garden,Ann Thwaite creates a sympathetic but...  Read More >>

This innovative collection of essays is the first to situate comedy and laughter as central rather than peripheral...  Read More >>

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Comprising twenty-one essays by leading international scholars, this volume offers a comprehensive account of Gothic...  Read More >>

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Si Nae Park examines how the culture of Chosŏn Seoul gave rise to a new vernacular literary form (yadam), anonymously...  Read More >>

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This book shows how Alexander vonHumboldt's British translators, now largely forgotten figures, were pivotal in...  Read More >>

What is the connection between Victorian writing and experiment? Artful Experiments seeks to approach the field...  Read More >>

Victorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical offers an alternative history of Victorian poetry that...  Read More >>

This book analyses how Victorian novels and plays used the actress, a significant figure for the relationship between...  Read More >>

This collection examines Gothic fiction written by female authors in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries....  Read More >>

This book investigates adaptations of The Lady of Shalott and Elaine of Astolat in Victorian and post-Victorian...  Read More >>

This book brings together 11 essays by international specialists in Victorian culture and modernism and provides...  Read More >>

Robert Irvine’s introduction sets the novel in the context of the literary and intellectual history of the period,...  Read More >>

Sentimentalism is usually studied through US-British relations after the American Revolution or in connection to...  Read More >>

The book builds on current interventions in modernist scholarship in order to rethink Joseph Conrad's contribution...  Read More >>

Fascinated and often baffled by China, Anglophone writers turned to classics for answers. In poetry, essays, and...  Read More >>

The modern media world came into being in the nineteenth century, when machines were harnessed to produce texts...  Read More >>