Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

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

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

When Fiction Feels Real offers a new approach to the phenomenology of reading by engaging with psychological research...  Read More >>

George Orwell is watching you and you're watching him. Britain pays its respects in the form of the Orwell Prize,...  Read More >>

James Williams’s account, the first book-length critical study of the poet since the 1980s, sets out to re-introduce...  Read More >>

Taking Nietzsche’s commentary on the four essays in his autobiographical work Ecce Homo as its interpretive guide,...  Read More >>

This volume considers Joseph Conrad’s use of multiple genres, including allusions to sensation fiction, pornography,...  Read More >>

This book maps the development of the boy detective in British children’s literature from the mid-nineteenth to...  Read More >>

Fossil Poetry provides the first book-length overview of the place of Anglo-Saxon in nineteenth-century poetry in...  Read More >>

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A strikingly interdisciplinary figure in Victorian literary history, Grant Allen (1848-1899) has thus far managed...  Read More >>

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Many well-known male writers produced fictions about colonial spaces and discussed the advantages of realism over...  Read More >>

This edited collection offers undergraduate Literature instructors a guide to the pedagogy and teaching of Victorian...  Read More >>

Reflecting the current critical drive to reconcile formalist and historicist approaches to literature, it uses close...  Read More >>

The essays in this volume broaden previous approaches to Atlantic literature and culture by comparatively studying...  Read More >>

This is the first collection of critical essays that explores Oscar Wilde’s interest in children’s culture, whether...  Read More >>

This book rethinks the notion of nineteenth-century capital(s) from geographical, economic and symbolic perspectives,...  Read More >>

In Singing in a Foreign Land, Karen A. Weisman examines the uneasy literary inheritance taken from British cultural...  Read More >>

Michel Foucault continues to be regarded as one of the most essential thinkers of the twentieth century. A brilliantly...  Read More >>

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War affects life writing and lives affect war writing. The traditional forms of life writing – memoir, biography,...  Read More >>

This edited collection examines the fiction of several women novelists, all immensely popular in the nineteenth...  Read More >>

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

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