Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

Historical research has dispelled a number of myths surrounding Word War I: whereas the outbreak of war was...  Read More >>

The first fully illustrated introduction to John Ruskin, art critic, architectural visionary, social reformer, environmentalist...  Read More >>

A historic guide to the world of Penguin Classics from its UK origin, covering a span from the ancient world to...  Read More >>

The author of Clinical Lessons on Life and Madness: Dostoevsky’s Characters draws on Dostoevsky's universe to illuminate...  Read More >>

The Victorian illustrated book came into being, flourished, and evolved during the nineteenth century. Catherine...  Read More >>

In late nineteenth-century South Asia, the arrival of print fostered a dynamic and interactive literary culture....  Read More >>

This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures for 2016, is about the use made by poets and novelists of street songs...  Read More >>

While the field of childhood studies has blossomed in recent years, few scholars have taken up the question of age...  Read More >>

History, Abolition, and the Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Writing examines the meaning and possibilities...  Read More >>

Regional Writing and the Puzzles of Place-Time is a study of literary regionalism. It focuses on the fiction of...  Read More >>

Exorbitant Enlightenment offers new ways to think about eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature and...  Read More >>

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Argues that the fear of infected books energized aesthetic and political debates about the power of reading, which...  Read More >>

At the height of modernism in the 1920s, what did it mean to believe and how was it experienced? Craig Woelfel seeks...  Read More >>

Whether deathbed pronouncements, political capitulations, or seafaring farewells, “parting words” played a crucial...  Read More >>

Facets of Wuthering Heights is a collection of essays by one author concerned to throw critical light on several...  Read More >>

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Le Cousin Pons is Balzac's final novel. Its disparities and varied coloration are the objects of this book, which...  Read More >>

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

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Conrad and Nature is the first collection of critical essays examining nature and the environment in Joseph Conrad’s...  Read More >>

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Analyses Harriet Wilson's Our Nig, Elizabeth Keckly's Behind the Scenes, Anna Julia Cooper's A Voice From the South,...  Read More >>

«Pagan, Turk and Jew», a phrase appearing as early as 1548, came to denominate fictional stand-ins for Irish Catholics,...  Read More >>

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