Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

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Marc Redfield maintains that the literary genre of the Bildungsroman brings into sharp focus the contradictions...  Read More >>

In this forceful and compelling book, Alison Booth traces through the novels, essays, and other writings of George...  Read More >>

Amanda Anderson here reconsiders the familiar figure of the fallen woman within the context of mid-Victorian debates...  Read More >>

In this highly original and critically informed book, Renata R. Mautner Wasserman looks at how, during the first...  Read More >>

In 1857, following the publication of Madame Bovary, Flaubert was charged with having committed an ""outrage to...  Read More >>

Homicide has many social and psychological implications that vary from culture to culture and which change as people...  Read More >>

This book describes and characterizes responses of American readers to fiction in the generation before the Civil...  Read More >>

'What is the meaning of a word?' In this thought-provoking book, Hagberg demonstrates how this question—which initiated...  Read More >>

George Eliot (1819-1880) is known for her psychoanalysis of the majority of her characters in her literary works....  Read More >>

Barbara Foley here focuses on the relatively neglected genre of documentary fiction: novels that are continually...  Read More >>

In Scenes of Sympathy, Audrey Jaffe argues that representations of sympathy in Victorian fiction both reveal and...  Read More >>

Examining and historicizing the concept of ""otherness"" in both literature and criticism, Lisa Lowe explores representations...  Read More >>

Tilottama Rajan illuminates a crisis of representation within romanticism, evident in the proliferation of stylistically...  Read More >>

Harry Shaw’s aim is to promote a fuller understanding of nineteenth-century historical fiction by revealing its...  Read More >>

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Wo liegt Gottfried Kellers imaginares Seldwyla? Es ist eine typische Schweizer Stadt, deren soziale Grundzuge auch...  Read More >>

Suffering from wanderlust like many of his countrymen, Mark Twain had the good fortune to be paid to offer his observations...  Read More >>

An investigation into the connections between illumination and literature; exploring the spaces between light and...  Read More >>

Discussing the relations between moral motivation, knowledge, and modernity, this book criticizes modern and romantic...  Read More >>

Vietnamese edition of Oscar Wilde's classic, The Portrait of Dorian Gray' about a handsome young man.-Dorian Gray...  Read More >>

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Using close readings from Sense and Sensibility, Mrs Dalloway, Emma, The Waves, Persuasion and The Years, this bookdemonstrates...  Read More >>

By connecting Fenian and anarchist violence found in popular fiction from the 1880s to the early 1900s with the...  Read More >>