Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

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Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing and Screen Adaptation

Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing...

Author: Sarah Wootton
ISBN: 9781349555376
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing and Screen Adaptation charts a new chapter in the changing...  Read More >>

Artful Experiments: Ways of Knowing in Victorian Literature and Science

Artful Experiments: Ways of Knowing in Victorian Literature...

Author: Philipp Erchinger (senior lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies, University of Düsseldorf)
ISBN: 9781474438957
Format: Hardback
$219.00

What is the connection between Victorian writing and experiment? Artful Experiments seeks to approach the field...  Read More >>

Nature Translated: Alexander von Humboldt's Works in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Nature Translated: Alexander von Humboldt's Works in...

Author: Alison E. Martin (Professor of British Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Germersheim))
ISBN: 9781474439329
Format: Hardback
$185.00

This book shows how Alexander vonHumboldt's British translators, now largely forgotten figures, were pivotal in...  Read More >>

Unhallowed Arts

Unhallowed Arts

Author: Laetitia Wilson ,  Oron Catts
ISBN: 9781760800161
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Unhallowed Arts is part of a series of events and publications organised by SymbioticA to commemorate the bicentenary...  Read More >>

Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the Supernatural Will in American Literature

Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the Supernatural...

Author: Brad Bannon
ISBN: 9781472476296
Format: Hardback
$305.00

In a work that will be of interest to students and scholars of American literature, Romanticism, Transcendentalism,...  Read More >>

Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: From Poisoners to Doctors, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Theda Bara

Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature:...

Author: Sara L. Crosby
ISBN: 9783319964621
Format: Hardback
$168.16

This book investigates how popular American literature and film transformed the poisonous woman from a misogynist...  Read More >>

Guilty Pleasures: Popular Novels and American Audiences in the Long Nineteenth Century

Guilty Pleasures: Popular Novels and American Audiences...

Author: Hugh McIntosh
ISBN: 9780813941653
Format: Paperback
$58.30

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Temperance and Cosmopolitanism: African American Reformers in the Atlantic World

Temperance and Cosmopolitanism: African American Reformers...

Author: Carole Lynn Stewart (Associate Professor, Brock University)
ISBN: 9780271082035
Format: Hardback
$269.00

A study of select nineteenth-century African American authors and reformers who mobilized the discourses of cosmopolitanism...  Read More >>

Métamorphoses des rôles et statuts par les écritures féminines

Métamorphoses des rôles et statuts par les écritures...

Author: Cécile Gouard
ISBN: 9781433124051
Format: Hardback
$121.74

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A 'New' Woman in Verga and Pirandello: From Page to Stage

A 'New' Woman in Verga and Pirandello: From Page to...

Author: Enza de Francisci
ISBN: 9781781887837
Format: Hardback
$207.00

This book investigates the transposition of short stories to drama in the works of two leading Sicilian authors,...  Read More >>

The Secret Trollope: Anthony Trollope Uncovered

The Secret Trollope: Anthony Trollope Uncovered

Author: John Sutherland
ISBN: 9781912224456
Format: Hardback
$194.06

The first book in the new series, `Writers and their Contexts', to be published by EER. Who is more open with posterity...  Read More >>

Grenzerfahrungen: Studien Zur Asthetik Goethes

Grenzerfahrungen: Studien Zur Asthetik Goethes

Author: Mattias Pirholt
ISBN: 9783825368012
Format: Hardback
$137.28

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Guilty Pleasures: Popular Novels and American Audiences in the Long Nineteenth Century

Guilty Pleasures: Popular Novels and American Audiences...

Author: Hugh McIntosh
ISBN: 9780813941646
Format: Hardback
$151.80

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On Weight and the Will: The Forces of Form in German Literature and Aesthetics, 1890–1930

On Weight and the Will: The Forces of Form in German...

Author: Malika Maskarinec
ISBN: 9780810137707
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Charts a modern history of form as emergent from force. Offering a provocative alternative to the imagery of crisis...  Read More >>

Shelley and Synesthesia

Shelley and Synesthesia

Author: Glenn O'Malley
ISBN: 9780810138629
Format: Paperback
$118.80

Examines a little-known aspect of Percy Shelley's poetry, offering a history of synesthesia, focusing primarily...  Read More >>

Sherlock Holmes, Esq., and John H. Watson, M.D.: An Encyclopaedia of Their Affairs

Sherlock Holmes, Esq., and John H. Watson, M.D.: An...

Author: Orlando Park
ISBN: 9780810139671
Format: Paperback
$118.80

This encyclopaedia serves as a guide to the fifty-six stories and four novels that comprise the Sherlock Holmes...  Read More >>

Thackeray: The Sentimental Cynic

Thackeray: The Sentimental Cynic

Author: Lambert Ennis
ISBN: 9780810138360
Format: Paperback
$118.80

Chronicles British novelist William Thackeray's ambivalent attitudes toward society and traces his conduct during...  Read More >>

Balzac's Love Letters: Correspondence and the Literary Imagination

Balzac's Love Letters: Correspondence and the Literary...

Author: Ewa Szypula
ISBN: 9781781883457
Format: Paperback
$35.64

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Virgil and His Translators

Virgil and His Translators

Author: Susanna Braund (University of British Columbia) ,  Professor of Classics Zara Martirosova Torlone (Miami University Ohio)
ISBN: 9780191847950
Format: Undefined
$356.40

This is the first volume to offer a critical overview of the long and complicated history of translations of Virgil...  Read More >>

Gautier, Au Carrefour de l'Âme Romantique Et Décadente

Gautier, Au Carrefour de l'Âme Romantique Et Décadente...

Author: Michael G Paulson ,  Tamara Alvarez-Detrell
ISBN: 9781433151569
Format: Hardback
$341.35

Ce livre analyse l'oeuvre de Th. Gautier.  Read More >>

The Coleridge Legacy: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Intellectual Legacy in Britain and America, 1834–1934

The Coleridge Legacy: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Intellectual...

Author: Philip Aherne
ISBN: 9783319958576
Format: Hardback
$194.04

This book examines the development of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s intellectual legacy in Britain and America from...  Read More >>

Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

Author: Joseph Conrad ,  Owen Knowles (University of Hull)
ISBN: 9781108451673
Format: Paperback
$31.05

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A Christmas Carol: and Other Christmas Stories

A Christmas Carol: and Other Christmas Stories

Author: Charles Dickens ,  Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Professor of English Literature; Tutorial Fellow, Magdalen College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198822394
Format: Hardback
$40.95

A Christmas Carol has gripped the public imagination since it was first published in 1843, and it is now as much...  Read More >>

Andre Gide

Andre Gide

Author: David H. Walker
ISBN: 9781138465862
Format: Hardback
$399.00

A selection of some significant critical works on Andre Gide are collected in this book. Each essay is prefaced...  Read More >>

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