Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

The work traces the afterlife of Victorian sensation fiction, taking in the neo-Gothic writing of Daphne du Maurier...  Read More >>

Studies the role popular literature in the systematic racism present in easy-going activities, ordinary feelings,...  Read More >>

Oscar Wilde: A Literary Life tracks the intellectual biography of one of the most influential minds of the nineteenth...  Read More >>

Ecofictions, Ecorealities and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World brings together critical studies...  Read More >>

Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture is a collection of original essays that explore the representation...  Read More >>

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Analyzing stories set in Europe by the famous and not-so-famous writers belonging to the Egyptian Nahda movement,...  Read More >>

Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863–1938) was one of the most prominent and innovative directors of modern theatre, and...  Read More >>

The social practice of tact was an invention of the nineteenth century, a period when Britain was witnessing unprecedented...  Read More >>

Anxieties of Experience offers a new interpretation of US and Latin American literature. Rereading a range of canonical...  Read More >>

This book explores women’s short supernatural fiction between the emergence of first wave feminism and the post-suffrage...  Read More >>

This study provides a broad examination of the use of realism in literature. In particular, the author analyzes...  Read More >>

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In the 19th century, biological knowledge fascinated writers, who found it the source of a new poetry, of an imaginary...  Read More >>

This book is the first monograph of the travel writings of Marguerite Blessington (17881849) and offers the first...  Read More >>

The Roxburghe Club, founded in 1812, has an unbroken publishing history from 1814 to the present day. This work...  Read More >>

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Theo Davis argues that ornamental aesthetics are central to Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman's writing, exploring...  Read More >>

The first philosophical history of sentimentality in American literature.  Read More >>

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Long before the word “interdisciplinary” entered the landscape of higher education, William Morris embodied that...  Read More >>

The first philosophical history of sentimentality in American literature.  Read More >>

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How African American writers used Victorian literature to create a literature of their ownTackling fraught but fascinating...  Read More >>