Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

This book explores the poetic articulations of a shift from a transcendent to an immanent worldview, as reflected...  Read More >>

A scrupulously forensic literary appreciation of Edward Lear and his 'nonsenses' by one of our most cherished historians...  Read More >>

This is the first publication in a new series from Cambridge University Press studying literary decades in the nineteenth...  Read More >>

Richard Menke links media innovation to imaginative literature, making the case for writers from Whitman to Twain,...  Read More >>

A major biography of this fascinating literary legend, E. Nesbit, the captivating and contradictory author of The...  Read More >>

Henry Thoreau is widely considered to be one of the greatest nature writers, among whose best-known works are Walden...  Read More >>

"Jumping frogs, high society, San Francisco's Emperor Norton and the stray dogs that followed on his heels-nothing...  Read More >>

This collection reappraises and retheorizes Marie Corelli’s diverse fictional writings and locates them in their...  Read More >>

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Gothic Remains: Corpses, Terror and Anatomical Culture, 17641897 traces anatomical culture in Gothic texts from...  Read More >>

This book looks at Irish Gothic and horror texts, in both English and Irish, from the beginning of the nineteenth...  Read More >>

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For some, Colin Firth emerging from a lake in that clinging wet shirt is one of the most iconic moments in television....  Read More >>

On a summer day in 1828, Book of Mormon scribe and witness Martin Harris was emptying drawers, upending furniture,...  Read More >>

Focusing on the transition from political economy to economics, this volume seeks to restore social content to economic...  Read More >>

This book argues that emblematic strategies play a more central role in Pre-Raphaelite poetics than has been acknowledged,...  Read More >>

In Dickensian Affects: Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity, Joshua Gooch argues that Dickens’s novels offer...  Read More >>

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is eminently, delightfully, and delectably quotable. This...  Read More >>

Showing how the Gothic can be read as a complex reaction to Enlightenment methods of historical representation,...  Read More >>

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The first critical edition of Henry James's The Sacred Fount, featuring a full critical apparatus including introduction,...  Read More >>

How are we to comprehend, diagnose, and counter a system of racist subjugation so ordinary it has become utterly...  Read More >>

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Presents interpretations of American literature and politics, focusing on the work of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson,...  Read More >>