Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

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Explores the many ways this mid-nineteenth-century U.S. bestseller functions as world literature and enduring icon...  Read More >>

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Vathek (alternatively titled Vathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Caliph Vathek) is a Gothic novel written...  Read More >>

The definitive biography of the world's most popular novel.  Read More >>

This book examines women’s domestic occupations in the Romantic-period novel at the most intimately human level....  Read More >>

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This study of a leading nineteenth-century Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, and Fine Arts offers...  Read More >>

Enormous political and social changes brought about by modernization have naturally found expression in the literatures...  Read More >>

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The French fin de siècle witnessed a sharpening of the battle between literature and journalism, with literary authors...  Read More >>

A groundbreaking bicentenary edition of Frederick Douglass’s most famous work.  Read More >>

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This book presents a fundamental reassessment of Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge the religious author was the peer...  Read More >>

Focusing on poems by William Wordsworth, John Keats, Felicia Hemans, and Robert Burns, and on Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe,...  Read More >>

In refocusing attention on the Paris Commune as a key event in American political and cultural memory, Sensational...  Read More >>

Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press investigates how periodicals cultivated innovative...  Read More >>

This study explores lyric poetry's response to a crisis of relevance in Victorian Modernity, offering an analysis...  Read More >>

Engaging with the critical frameworks of cultural geography, cartography, and the burgeoning field of oceanic studies...  Read More >>

Part biography, part detective story- the extraordinary life of the eccentric writer Frederick Baron Corvo One...  Read More >>

Wrongly believed to be a parodic divertissement by the nineteenth-century English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne,...  Read More >>

The Lady on the Drawingroom Floor reclaims Coleridge’s reputation by featuring familiar works alongside unpublished...  Read More >>

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In Noble Subjects, Bella Grigoryan examines the rise of the Russian novel in relation to the political, legal, and...  Read More >>

Through innovative readings of seven novels, Creating character demonstrates how the Victorian sensation authors...  Read More >>