Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

Beginning where volume one of The Common Touch leaves off, selections of English popular literature from the Restoration...  Read More >>

As the first encyclopedia solely devoted to the popular romance fiction genre, this resource provides a wealth of...  Read More >>

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The story of how a group of precocious young artists shook up the British art establishment, told through their...  Read More >>

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Writing the Time of Troubles traces recurring fictional representations of the man who briefly reigned as Tsar Dmitry,...  Read More >>

The years between 1880 and 1930 are usually seen as a time in which American writers replaced values and traditions...  Read More >>

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This book is the first major ecocritical study of the relationship between British Romanticism and climate change....  Read More >>

Over the centuries, Portugal has been shaped by waves of occupation and religious transformation. This book explores...  Read More >>

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Gérard de Nerval’s French translations of Goethe’s Faust are key works in Franco-German cultural relations. This...  Read More >>

Lawrence Ferlinghetti's I Am Waiting is one of the most significant politically motivated poems of the 20th century:...  Read More >>

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This intriguing book examines Max Weber’s disenchantment thesis, engaging with the idea that modern life was to...  Read More >>

This book argues that the female philosopher, a literary figure brought into existence by Mary Wollstonecraft’s...  Read More >>

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Tracing the variety of women’s responses to the medieval revival through Gothic literature, travel writing, scholarship,...  Read More >>

This collection of essays focuses on works by prominent poets and writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a...  Read More >>

Explores how Mary Shelley's exchanges with her children - in utero, in birth, in life, and in death - infuse her...  Read More >>

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

The greatest work of one of France's greatest writers, Victor Hugo's Les Misérables seemed stylistically and even...  Read More >>

A leader of the transcendentalist movement and one of the country's first public intellectuals, Ralph Waldo Emerson...  Read More >>

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