Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

The theatrical tale in five acts and the prose narrative about Bluebeard by Ludwig Tieck had never been translated...  Read More >>

Marie Mennessier-Nodier (1811-1893), daughter of Charles Nodier and the Salon de l'Arsenal's muse, was a musician...  Read More >>

This book examines British invasion and spy literature and the political, social, and cultural attitudes that it...  Read More >>

A walking companion for fans of the Bronte family and the Yorkshire countryside.  Read More >>

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Published around 1860, the Legendes are endowed with a romantic religious supernatural to which Gustavo Adolfo Becquer...  Read More >>

This study explores the interrelationship between spatiality and subjecthood in the work of Stephane Mallarme, Guillaume...  Read More >>

Weaving in authors from Antiquity to Agamben, Williams shows how European - and, above all, German - Romanticism...  Read More >>

Jenny Hartley introduces Charles Dickens's life and works, looking at the vitality of his characters and the energy...  Read More >>

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Dostoevsky and the Realists: Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy​ offers a radical redefinition of Realism as a historical...  Read More >>

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Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain is an innovative study of the stylistic...  Read More >>

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This volume deals with Dostoevsky's wide-ranging interests and engagement with philosophical, religious, political,...  Read More >>

The key to the mystery of Twain’s writings, as this book contends from a broader perspective, is also such an absence....  Read More >>

Weaving in authors from Antiquity to Agamben, Williams shows how European - and, above all, German - Romanticism...  Read More >>

The first thoroughly interdisciplinary study to examine how the transatlantic relationship between the United States...  Read More >>

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Glimmerings of ecofeminist theory that would emerge a century later can be detected in women's poetry of the later...  Read More >>

A collection of essays that focus on the most significant writing about the American Civil War by participants who...  Read More >>

This book is an anthology of extracts of literary writing (in prose, verse and drama) about London and its diverse...  Read More >>