Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

Leading scholars combine here a sustained attempt to trace the growth of socialist fiction in the crucial period...  Read More >>

This pioneering work traces the history of the socialist novel, covering 150 years of creative writing. It spans...  Read More >>

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During his lifetime, the biracial French writer Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870), grandson of a Caribbean slave, faced...  Read More >>

En tant que spectateurs de peinture, Diderot et Baudelaire furent aussi toujours et d’abord créateurs. Ce livre...  Read More >>

Fossil Poetry provides the first book-length overview of the place of Anglo-Saxon in nineteenth-century poetry in...  Read More >>

Examines reactions to best-selling fiction in the United States from 1850 to 1920, including reader response to...  Read More >>

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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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This book is the first full critical history of incognito social investigation texts – in other words, works detailing...  Read More >>

This book argues that the Romantic movement influenced Charles Darwin and his theory of natural selection. Given...  Read More >>

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This volume brings together Frye's extensive writings on Shakespeare and other Renaissance writers (excluding Milton,...  Read More >>

This book explains why narrating the recent past is always challenging, and shows how it was particularly fraught...  Read More >>

A collection of aphorisms, fragments, and observations on philosophy and pessimism.  Read More >>

Chris Danta provides a major reassessment of the fable and of the literary representation of the human-animal relationship...  Read More >>

This book brings a renewed critical focus to the history of novel writing, publishing, selling and reading, expanding...  Read More >>