Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

According to Adam Smith, vanity is a vice that contains a promise: a vain person is much more likely than a person...  Read More >>

This volume charts the rise of professional women writers across diverse fields of intellectual enquiry and through...  Read More >>

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This study challenges the notion that closeted secrecy was a necessary part of social life for gay men living in...  Read More >>

Hannah Milena Klima etabliert die These, dass Rilke in der poetologischen Reflexion eine ‚Kunstmetaphysik‘ entwickelt,...  Read More >>

Relying on the author's established expertise in rhetorical theory and political communication, this book re-contextualizes...  Read More >>

An insightful study of the theological and eschatological themes at the core of the work of the great Russian writer...  Read More >>

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

Focuses on the important role played by popular 19th century French and British novelists in defining national identity...  Read More >>

H.G. Wells’s novel is put in its varied scientific, literary, and political contexts in this new edition.  Read More >>

Romantic Dialectics: Culture, Gender, Theater aims to emphasize the collaborative undertaking in new exploration...  Read More >>

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'Sisters and the English Household' revalues unmarried adult sisters in nineteenth-century English literature as...  Read More >>

An indispensable guide for students and literature lovers, and emphatically shows why Charlotte is as relevant today...  Read More >>

In this far-reaching and provocative study, Nathan K. Hensley shows how the modern state's anguished relationship...  Read More >>

As the essays in this volume reveal, Keats’s places could be comforting, familiar, grounding sites, but they were...  Read More >>

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

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Bodies abound in Rimbaud's poetry in a way that is nearly unprecedented in the nineteenth-century poetic canon....  Read More >>

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This book examines the various ways in which the German philosopher Friedrich Schelling was read and responded to...  Read More >>

Performing Intimacies with Hawthorne, Austen, Wharton, and George Eliot analyzes literary reproductions of everyday...  Read More >>