Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

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This book draws on the assumption of certain essential continuities between Romanticism and realism, both in the...  Read More >>

This book focuses on interpretations of the myth that lead to the Symbolist period and explores the Symbolist understanding...  Read More >>

In the mid-1880s, the Realist author and Anglophile Theodor Fontane observed: ‘nowhere is so much translation done...  Read More >>

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Published in 1999, this pioneering study looks at the personal relations of Lord Byron and Madame de Stael, from...  Read More >>

In this book, the author challenges the notion that French Realist fiction is peculiarly and intrinsically hostile...  Read More >>

This book mobilizes the unexplored interpretative and critical potential of the taboo as a way of reading accounts...  Read More >>

This book is about the power of narrative realism as a critique of the ideology of inwardness in the German-speaking...  Read More >>

This book presents a philosophical context to show how Oscar Wilde broke from idealism, and challenges recent neo-historicist...  Read More >>

The author shows how this tension is played out especially through the characters of servants in short fiction and...  Read More >>

Since Ovid, the concept of metamorphosis has been a temptation for writers, not only as a metaphor for shifting...  Read More >>

This book shows that the novel of German women's emancipation in the late nineteenth century has been marginalized...  Read More >>

This book traces Coleridge's discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German...  Read More >>

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This collection of essays by scholars in transatlantic British and American literatures interrogates the diverse...  Read More >>

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The plight of the fallen woman is one of the salient themes of nineteenth-century art and literature. In notable...  Read More >>

This book argues that Walter Pater and Algernon Swinburne draw upon the legacy of Romantic Hellenism in order to...  Read More >>

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This book reinforces Franco Moretti's findings, by examining whether they apply to the relationship that Machado...  Read More >>