Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

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In Biological Time, Historical Time, 19th century scientific and literary works are analysed with regard to their...  Read More >>

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

Newly jacketed reissue of Andrew Motion's celebrated biography of one of England's best-loved poets, John Keats....  Read More >>

The first major biography of Oscar Wilde in thirty years is the most complete telling of his life and times to date....  Read More >>

The unquenchable thirst of Dracula. The animal lust of Mr. Hyde. The acquiescence of Lewis Carroll's Alice. Victorian...  Read More >>

The flaneur is a cultural and literary phenomenon usually associated with nineteenth–century Paris, but the type...  Read More >>

The unquenchable thirst of Dracula. The animal lust of Mr. Hyde. The acquiescence of Lewis Carroll's Alice. Victorian...  Read More >>

This book explores the evolution of male writers marked by peculiar traits of childlike immaturity. In the period...  Read More >>

Focusing on a range of important antislavery figures, including David Walker, Nat Turner, Maria Stewart, Harriet...  Read More >>

Ziel des 'material turn' in der Kulturwissenschaft ist es, traditionelle Dualismen, die das komplexe Verhaltnis...  Read More >>

Employs an innovative approach by ""stages"" to offer a unified vision of European Romanticism over the half-century...  Read More >>

This volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1883-1884 includes 174 letters, of which 116 are published for...  Read More >>

This book argues that ‘deviance’ represents a central issue in neo-Victorian culture, and that the very concept...  Read More >>

This book offers the first account of the dead as an imagined community in the early nineteenth-century. It examines...  Read More >>

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A vivid, visual, history of Mary Shelley's famous book, which explains its enduring popularity in the theatre, the...  Read More >>

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An original collection providing an accessible overview of the history of English melodrama, an introduction to...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works...  Read More >>

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