Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

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Focusing on the past two centuries, this volume investigates the links among trade, colonialism, and forms of representation,...  Read More >>

New Men in Trollope's Novels challenges the popular construction of Victorian men as patriarchal despots and suggests...  Read More >>

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Utopias fail. Utopias of one do not. They are perfect worlds. Yet their success comes at a cost. They are radically...  Read More >>

This book offers a new and insightful look at the interconnections between the United States, Brazil and Mexico...  Read More >>

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This study, part of growing interest in the study of nineteenth-century medievalism and Anglo-Saxonism, closely...  Read More >>

The first of its kind to address the ecogothic in American literature, this collection of fourteen articles illuminates...  Read More >>

In Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child, Eileen Hunt Botting contends that Frankenstein is a profound work of...  Read More >>

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

This book seeks to frame the “the idea of India” in the American imaginary within a transnational lens that is attentive...  Read More >>

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This volume analyses the role of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and its sequels in the evolution of the Gothic.  Read More >>

For much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the prevailing critical view was that Jane Austen has no discernible...  Read More >>

For much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the prevailing critical view was that Jane Austen has no discernible...  Read More >>

Covering Brahms's 32 song opuses published during four decades of song-writing, this book offers a way of understanding...  Read More >>

Vision and Character: Physiognomics and the English Realist Novel offers a study into the physiognomics and aesthetics...  Read More >>

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

This celebrated Gothic novel is explored through essays providing critical, historical, anthropological, philosophical...  Read More >>

Tracks the emergence and vicissitudes of attitudes to wrongdoing in Spain from the 19th century through the decades...  Read More >>

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Stevenson belonged to a newly commercial literary world, an era of mass readership, marketing, and celebrity. He...  Read More >>

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