Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

This study of Nicholas Nickleby takes the Dickens novel which is perhaps the least critically discussed, though...  Read More >>

Initially described by Dickens as a 'savage stenographic mystery', shorthand was to become an essential and influential...  Read More >>

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Senior colonial officer from 1813 to 1859, Inspector General James Barry was a pioneering medical reformer who after...  Read More >>

This book explores the relationship between Dickens and canonical Romantic authors: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge,...  Read More >>

This collection of fifteen original essays and one original poem explores the theme of “place” in the life, works,...  Read More >>

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The poetry of Horace was central to Victorian male elite education and the ancient poet himself, suitably refashioned,...  Read More >>

In Battle Lines, Eliza Richards charts the transformation of Civil War poetry, arguing that it was fueled by a symbiotic...  Read More >>

Have industrial-age technologies and visual discourses transformed us into spectators of the real, and can realist...  Read More >>

The book analyses the theories and practices of editors who worked on Shakespeare, but also on complete editions...  Read More >>

This five-volume series, British Women’s Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, historically contextualizes...  Read More >>

Consisting of sixteen original essays by experts in the field, including leading and lesser-known international...  Read More >>

Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture offers a series of readings of poetry, the novel...  Read More >>

An innovative three-part approach, combining close reading the evidence of reading, scrutiny of international book...  Read More >>

George Eliot for the Twenty-First Century reexamines Eliot two hundred years after her birth and offers an innovative...  Read More >>

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At the turn of the twentieth century, tuberculosis was a leading cause of death across America, Europe, and the...  Read More >>

This collection establishes the term ‘medical paratexts’ as a useful addition to medical humanities, book history,...  Read More >>

Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain: Cultures of Investment defines the cultures that emerged in...  Read More >>

"Despite his reputation as a ""hermit,"" Flaubert made many trips closely related to his work, even though he did...  Read More >>

This book analyzes the four novels and fifty-six stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle describing the adventures...  Read More >>