Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

Explores how intersections between French antisemitism and imperialism shaped the development of European racial...  Read More >>

Focusing on the publisher’s series, this book explores the leading audience demographics in the late-Victorian railway...  Read More >>

The first major collection of essays on the contemporary British short story cycle, this volume offers in-depth...  Read More >>

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Two centuries ago, a teenage genius created a monster that still walks among us. In 1818, Mary Shelley published...  Read More >>

""This book looks at Anglo-American comic representations of China, arguing that that there is a forgotten history...  Read More >>

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This book argues that theology is central to an understanding of the literary ghost story. This book, however, uses...  Read More >>

This book examines how Coleridge staged his private woes in the public space of the newspaper.  Read More >>

This book reveals how the period’s transforming identities affected by social, economic, religious, and national...  Read More >>

John Galt (1779–1839) was a contemporary of Walter Scott, Jane Austen, and Lord Byron. His writings are full of...  Read More >>

The orphan has turned out to be an extraordinarily versatile literary figure. By juxtaposing diverse fictional representations...  Read More >>

This volume examines the emergence of the idea of the fourth dimension in fiction of the fin de siècle and how these...  Read More >>

This Companion brings together a wealth of information about the perennially fascinating lives and writings of the...  Read More >>

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Vacillating between the longue durée and microhistory, between ideological critique and historical sympathy, between...  Read More >>

Through the lens of Hopkins's 'masterwork', The Philosophical Mysticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins readdresses Hopkins's...  Read More >>

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This is a new edition of the second volume of an anthology that has been called “the new standard.”  Read More >>

Secular Lyrics interrogates the distinctivelyindividual ways that Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson adapt ancient and...  Read More >>

In a series of brilliant readings, Greenblatt shows how identity is constructed in the work of Shakespeare, Marlowe,...  Read More >>

The Preface is a statement of Wordsworth’s poetic vision and offers an explanation of the poetic process behind...  Read More >>