Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

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Mark Twain's San Francisco: Uninhibited Dispatches on ""The livest heartiest community on our continent"" by America's Greatest Writer

Mark Twain's San Francisco: Uninhibited Dispatches on...

Author: Mark Twain ,  Bernard Taper
ISBN: 9781597144896
Format: Paperback
$47.52

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

Worlds Enough: The Invention of Realism in the Victorian Novel

Worlds Enough: The Invention of Realism in the Victorian...

Author: Elaine Freedgood
ISBN: 9780691193304
Format: Hardback
$62.99

A short, provocative book that challenges basic assumptions about Victorian fictionNow praised for its realism and...  Read More >>

Marie Corelli: Modernism, Morality, and Metaphysics

Marie Corelli: Modernism, Morality, and Metaphysics...

Author: Carol Margaret Davison (University of Windsor, Canada) ,  Elaine M. Hartnell (University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia)
ISBN: 9780367405267
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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

Engine of Modernity: The Omnibus and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Engine of Modernity: The Omnibus and Urban Culture in...

Author: Masha Belenky
ISBN: 9781526138590
Format: Hardback
$183.99

Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Rough Beasts: The Monstrous in Irish Fiction, 1800–2000

Rough Beasts: The Monstrous in Irish Fiction, 1800–2000...

Author: Jack Fennell
ISBN: 9781789620344
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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There's Something About Darcy

There's Something About Darcy

Author: Gabrielle Malcolm
ISBN: 9781911445562
Format: Paperback
$25.85

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

The Lost 116 Pages: Reconstructing the Book of Mormon's Missing Stori

The Lost 116 Pages: Reconstructing the Book of Mormon's...

Author: Don Bradley
ISBN: 9781589587601
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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From Political Economy to Economics through Nineteenth-Century Literature: Reclaiming the Social

From Political Economy to Economics through Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Elaine Hadley ,  Audrey Jaffe
ISBN: 9783030241575
Format: Hardback
$232.85

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

Mark Twain at the Gallows: Crime and Justice in His Western Writing, 1861-1873

Mark Twain at the Gallows: Crime and Justice in His...

Author: Jarrod D. Roark
ISBN: 9781476679730
Format: Paperback
$118.80

Provides a literary exploration of Mark Twain's writings on crime in the American West and its intersection with...  Read More >>

Walter Besant: The Business of Literature and the Pleasures of Reform

Walter Besant: The Business of Literature and the Pleasures...

Author: Kevin A. Morrison
ISBN: 9781789620351
Format: Hardback
$283.33

In the 1880s and 1890s, Walter Besant was one of Britain’s most lionized living novelists. Today he is comparatively...  Read More >>

Emblematic Strategies in Pre-Raphaelite Literature

Emblematic Strategies in Pre-Raphaelite Literature

Author: Heather McAlpine
ISBN: 9789004407633
Format: Hardback
$403.92

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

Dickensian Affects: Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity

Dickensian Affects: Charles Dickens and Feelings of...

Author: Joshua Gooch
ISBN: 9780367416096
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes

The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes

Author: Jane Austen ,  Devoney Looser
ISBN: 9780226655444
Format: Paperback
$27.95

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

Sinister Histories: Gothic Novels and Representations of the Past, from Horace Walpole to Mary Wollstonecraft

Sinister Histories: Gothic Novels and Representations...

Author: Jonathan Dent
ISBN: 9781526143518
Format: Paperback
$45.99

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

The Sacred Fount

The Sacred Fount

Author: Henry James ,  T. J. Lustig (Keele University)
ISBN: 9781107032637
Format: Hardback
$266.51

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Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States

Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United...

Author: Travis M Foster (Associate Professor Villanova University)
ISBN: 9780191874611
Format: Undefined
$171.60

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

The Ruskin Revival: 1969-2019

The Ruskin Revival: 1969-2019

Author: Suzanne Fagence Cooper ,  Robert Hewison
ISBN: 9781843681823
Format: Paperback
$44.99

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A Desire Called America: Biopolitics, Utopia, and the Literary Commons

A Desire Called America: Biopolitics, Utopia, and the...

Author: Christian Haines
ISBN: 9780823286959
Format: Paperback
$87.12

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Alternative Modernities in French Travel Writing: Engaging Urban Space in London and New York, 1851–1986

Alternative Modernities in French Travel Writing: Engaging...

Author: Gillian Jein
ISBN: 9781785271816
Format: Paperback
$40.00

Examining the aesthetics and politics at stake in urban travel writing as spatial practice, this book explores French...  Read More >>

Before Einstein: The Fourth Dimension in Fin-de-Siècle Literature and Culture

Before Einstein: The Fourth Dimension in Fin-de-Siècle...

Author: Elizabeth L. Throesch
ISBN: 9781785271786
Format: Paperback
$40.00

Before Albert Einstein proposed the concept of four-dimensional spacetime, late Victorian scientists, radical philosophers...  Read More >>

A Desire Called America: Biopolitics, Utopia, and the Literary Commons

A Desire Called America: Biopolitics, Utopia, and the...

Author: Christian Haines
ISBN: 9780823286942
Format: Hardback
$277.20

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

Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Iconic Poet

Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places...

Author: Marta McDowell
ISBN: 9781604698220
Format: Hardback
$49.99

From New York Times bestselling author Marta McDowell, an illustrated exploration of how gardening and plants inspired...  Read More >>

Chapters from My Autobiography

Chapters from My Autobiography

Author: Mark Twain
ISBN: 9781989708248
Format: Paperback
$23.26

Chapters from My Autobiography are twenty-five pieces of autobiographical work published by American author Mark...  Read More >>

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