Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

Poetical Matter examines the two-way exchange of language and methods between nineteenth-century poetry and the...  Read More >>

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"This book is to free the humanities from their anthropocentric frame and explore how they might instead deepen...  Read More >>

At the height of the Civil War in 1863, the Union instated the first-ever federal draft. Patriotism By Proxy develops...  Read More >>

Unearths a performance history, on and off the stage, of Restoration libertine drama in Britain's eighteenth and...  Read More >>

Unearths a performance history, on and off the stage, of Restoration libertine drama in Britain's eighteenth and...  Read More >>

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Explores a broad canvas of canonical and non-canonical writing during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries...  Read More >>

American Literature and American Identity uses techniques of cognitive and affective science to examine the complex...  Read More >>

This book is about some of the ways in which the world got ready to be connected, long before the advent of electronic...  Read More >>

Mettant fin au silence lyrique qu'il observait depuis les Rayons et les Ombres (1840), le recueil, sommet de sa...  Read More >>

American Literature and American Identity uses techniques of cognitive and affective science to examine the complex...  Read More >>

This insightful and elegantly written book examines how the popular media of the Victorian era sustained and transformed...  Read More >>

This book takes a fascinating look at the iconic figure of the Native American in the British cultural imagination...  Read More >>

Comprising nine original essays by specialists in material culture, book history, literary criticism and curatorial...  Read More >>

The nineteenth century introduced developments in science and medicine that made the eradication of pain conceivable...  Read More >>

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A New York Times Notable Book of 2019 A unique exploration of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling in Gilded Age...  Read More >>

This book argues for the importance of blasphemy in shaping the literature and readership of Percy Bysshe Shelley...  Read More >>

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This book recovers a major nineteenth-century literary figure, the American Claimant. For over a century, claimants...  Read More >>

Henry James criticized the impressionism that was revolutionizing French painting and fiction. He satirized the...  Read More >>

Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848 proposes an entirely new way of reading the transition...  Read More >>

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