Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

Author of the enduringly popular Alice books, mathematician, Anglican cleric, and pioneer photographer, Lewis Carroll...  Read More >>

Focusing on questions of space and locale in children’s literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and...  Read More >>

"A systematic exploration of Thomas Hardy's imaginative assimilation of particular Victorian sciences, this study...  Read More >>

This is the definitive textual analysis of all of Hardy's collected short stories, tracing the development of each...  Read More >>

Engaging with Victorian scientific texts, popular and specialist periodicals and the work of leading mid-century...  Read More >>

Building on theories of space and place, this collection examines the global reach of Elizabeth Gaskell’s influence...  Read More >>

Examining the underexplored intersection of sport, literature, and culture, this collection situates sport within...  Read More >>

In her study of Dickens’s relationship to canines, Gray shows that dogs, real and invented, were intrinsic to Dickens’s...  Read More >>

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George Gissing and the Woman Question reads Gissing's novels, short stories and personal writings as a crux in European...  Read More >>

This is an interdisciplinary study of the noted British newspaper proprietor, publisher and editor, George Newnes,...  Read More >>

This volume explores the intersection between culinary history and literature across a period of profound social...  Read More >>

In 1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti published the first version of his sonnet sequence The House of Life. The next thirty...  Read More >>

Beginning with the premise that the portrait was undergoing a shift in meaning during the Romantic age, Joe Bray...  Read More >>

From 1854 to 1855, George Eliot spent eight months in Germany, a period that marked the start of her life with George...  Read More >>

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pictorial Text explores the genesis, production and the critical appreciation of...  Read More >>

In The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920, Karen E. Laird alternates between readings of nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

From 1850 to 1859, Charles Dickens 'conducted' Household Words, a weekly miscellany intended to instruct and entertain...  Read More >>

The author examines the evolution of Byron's poetry from Childe Harold I and II through to the composition of Beppo....  Read More >>

As Mary Hammond observes in her wide-ranging publishing history of the novel, Great Expectations' life has extended...  Read More >>

Seeking to understand Tennyson's poetry as the work of a man concerned with making and then living up one of the...  Read More >>

Examining the little-known memoirs and autobiographies of British soldiers during the Romantic period, Ramsey shows...  Read More >>

In a career that spanned over forty years, Ella Hepworth Dixon (1857-1932) was alternately journalist, critic, essayist,...  Read More >>

William Clark Russell wrote more than forty nautical novels. Immensely popular in their time, his works were admired...  Read More >>