Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

In Dickens and the Imagined Child, leading scholars explore the function of the child and childhood within Dickens’s...  Read More >>

Reading the diaries of well-known writers and public figures such as Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, Henry Crabb Robinson,...  Read More >>

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was one of the literary sensations of the Victorian period. His iconoclastic...  Read More >>

Romantic Wars is a collection of eight specially commissioned essays focusing on the relations between British Romantic...  Read More >>

Challenging the theory that the Bluestockings spanned only the period from the 1750s through the 1790s, this collection...  Read More >>

An outstanding group of international Shelley scholars takes full advantage of new editions and the evidence of...  Read More >>

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This interdisciplinary collection presents new research on the Brontës' intense and varied relationship to the wider...  Read More >>

"The book considers their personal and literary relationships with Dickens, with each other, and with other writers...  Read More >>

Demonstrating that nineteenth-century historical novelists played their rational, trustworthy narrators against...  Read More >>

"Drawing on the rhetorical work of James Phelan, Wayne Booth's ethical criticism, recent work on William Makepeace...  Read More >>

In her study of English theatre during the Peninsular War, Susan Valladares contextualizes the theatrical treatment...  Read More >>

An intense fascination with the experience of time has long been recognised as a distinctive feature of the writing...  Read More >>

This book is the first full-length study of one of the most widely read publications of Victorian Britain, the London...  Read More >>

Orientalist Poetics is the only book on literary orientalism that spans the nineteenth century in both England and...  Read More >>

Between 1880 and 1914, England saw the emergence of an unprecedented range of new literary forms, which meant new...  Read More >>

This book investigates the role of anonymous periodical journalism in the fashioning of women's authorial identities...  Read More >>

Focusing on everyday life in nineteenth-century Britain and its imperial possessions”from preparing tea to cleaning...  Read More >>

Focusing on key members of the Pisan Circle, Byron, the Shelleys, and Leigh Hunt, Maria Schoina explores configurations...  Read More >>

Examining the Victorian serial as a text in its own right, Catherine Delafield analyses five novels by Elizabeth...  Read More >>

Tonya J. Moutray argues that the politico-religious crises initiated by the French Revolution inspired a range of...  Read More >>

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This book deals with important aspects of nineteenth-century culture, literary, philosophical and scientific, which...  Read More >>

In focusing on the poetic treatment of self and literary form in Keats and Shelley, Mark Sandy shows how using Nietzsche's...  Read More >>

This book studies the ways Hardy writes about music, and argues that this focus allows for a close and varied investigation...  Read More >>