Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

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Victorian Jesus: J.R. Seeley, Religion, and the Cultural Significance of Anonymity

Victorian Jesus: J.R. Seeley, Religion, and the Cultural...

Author: Ian Hesketh ,  Adele Perry
ISBN: 9781442645776
Format: Hardback
$110.00

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American Enchantment: Rituals of the People in the Post-Revolutionary World

American Enchantment: Rituals of the People in the Post-Revolutionary...

Author: Assistant Professor Michelle Sizemore (University of Kentucky)
ISBN: 9780190627553
Format: Undefined
$216.48

The demise of the monarchy and the bodily absence of a King caused a representational crisis in the early republic,...  Read More >>

Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture

Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary...

Author: Catherine Maxwell (Professor of Victorian Literature Queen Mary University of London)
ISBN: 9780191771460
Format: Undefined
$121.31

This lively, accessible book is the first to explore Victorian literature through scent and perfume, presenting...  Read More >>

The Nervous Stage: Nineteenth-Century Neuroscience and the Birth of Modern Theatre

The Nervous Stage: Nineteenth-Century Neuroscience and...

Author: Matthew Wilson Smith (Stanford University)
ISBN: 9780190644116
Format: Undefined
$118.67

"Nineteenth-century investigations into the nervous system produced extraordinary discoveries that changed ways...  Read More >>

On Sympathetic Grounds: Race, Gender, and Affective Geographies in Nineteenth-Century North America

On Sympathetic Grounds: Race, Gender, and Affective...

Author: Naomi Greyser (University of Iowa)
ISBN: 9780190461003
Format: Undefined
$192.72

With its filigreed, formidable representations of tears and suffering, sentimentalism has remained a divisive genre...  Read More >>

Reading Austen in America

Reading Austen in America

Author: Dr Juliette Wells (Elizabeth Connolly Todd Distinguished Associate Professor, Goucher College, Goucher College, USA)
ISBN: 9781350012059
Format: Hardback
$140.00

""A vivid history of Jane Austen's American readers and fans, from her own day to the present""--  Read More >>

Robert Browning: A Collection of Critical Essays

Robert Browning: A Collection of Critical Essays

Author: Philip Drew (University of Calgary, Canada)
ISBN: 9781138671089
Format: Paperback
$79.99

First published in 1966. This title complies a selection of critical articles by various authors on the poetry of...  Read More >>

Byron

Byron

Author: John D. Jump (University of Calgary, Canada)
ISBN: 9781138648418
Format: Paperback
$79.99

First published in 1972. John D. Jump, a leading authority on Byron and the Romantic period, here gives an account...  Read More >>

Byron's Don Juan: A Critical Study

Byron's Don Juan: A Critical Study

Author: Elizabeth French Boyd (University of Calgary, Canada)
ISBN: 9781138651197
Format: Paperback
$79.99

When this book was published in 1945, interest in Byron’s poetry and appreciation of his titanic role in Romanticism...  Read More >>

Emily Dickinson: A Celebration for Readers

Emily Dickinson: A Celebration for Readers

Author: Suzanne Juhasz ,  Cristanne Miller
ISBN: 9781138672109
Format: Paperback
$52.99

The focus of this title, first published in 1989, begins with Dickinson’s poems themselves and the ways in which...  Read More >>

Browning

Browning

Author: Roy E. Gridley (University of Calgary, Canada)
ISBN: 9781138670952
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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Lord Byron's Marriage: The Evidence of Asterisks

Lord Byron's Marriage: The Evidence of Asterisks

Author: G. Wilson Knight (University of Calgary, Canada)
ISBN: 9781138648500
Format: Paperback
$35.99

First published in 1957. This title explores the brief marriage of Lord Byron and his wife Annabella Millbanke,...  Read More >>

At the Titan's Breakfast: Three Essays on Byron's Poetry

At the Titan's Breakfast: Three Essays on Byron's Poetry...

Author: Robert Polito
ISBN: 9781138673243
Format: Paperback
$56.99

This title, first published in 1987, comprises of three essays which examine Lord Byron’s poetry. Some of Byron’s...  Read More >>

Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning: A Creative Partnership

Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning: A Creative Partnership...

Author: Mary Sanders Pollock (Stetson University, Florida, U.S.)
ISBN: 9781138674141
Format: Paperback
$56.99

First published in 2003, this book examines the creative partnership of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, and...  Read More >>

Byron's Don Juan

Byron's Don Juan

Author: Bernard Beatty
ISBN: 9781138648562
Format: Paperback
$79.99

First published in 1985. What sort of poem is Don Juan, and how does it maintain its momentum through its long and...  Read More >>

Oscar Wilde: Philosopher, Poet and Playwright

Oscar Wilde: Philosopher, Poet and Playwright

Author: James Hodgson
ISBN: 9781910996102
Format: Paperback
$41.37

.This penetrating critical analysis is based on philosophical as well as literary points of view. It gives emphasis...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Verse and Technology: Machines of Meter

Nineteenth-Century Verse and Technology: Machines of...

Author: Jason David Hall
ISBN: 9783319535012
Format: Hardback
$206.97

This book repositions thinking about rhythm, meter and versification during the “Mechanical Age.” Cutting across...  Read More >>

Modernity and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America: Literary Representations of Communication and Transportation Technologies

Modernity and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America:...

Author: James E. Dobson
ISBN: 9783319673219
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This book examines temporal and formal disruptions found in American autobiographical narratives produced during...  Read More >>

Dickens on America & the Americans

Dickens on America & the Americans

Author: Michael Slater
ISBN: 9781911454847
Format: Paperback
$90.54

This celebrated and fully illustrated work brings Dickens into...  Read More >>

Dickens on England and the English

Dickens on England and the English

Author: Professor Malcolm Andrews
ISBN: 9781911454878
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Dickens on England and the English explores Dickens's attitudes towards and relationships to his country, drawing...  Read More >>

Emerson and the History of Rhetoric

Emerson and the History of Rhetoric

Author: Roger Thompson
ISBN: 9780809336128
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Emerson and the History of Rhetoric re-envisions Emerson's work through his significant engagement with rhetorical...  Read More >>

Dancing on the Color Line: African American Tricksters in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Dancing on the Color Line: African American Tricksters...

Author: Gretchen Martin
ISBN: 9781496814746
Format: Paperback
$71.50

Examines representative nineteenth-century works to explore the influence of black-authored (or narrated) works...  Read More >>

Dickens's Apprentice Years: The Making of a Novelist

Dickens's Apprentice Years: The Making of a Novelist...

Author: Duane Devries
ISBN: 9781911454823
Format: Hardback
$145.07

Ever since the fifth instalment of the Pickwick Papers in 1836 scholars have expressed amazement at the virtually...  Read More >>

Dickens on America & the Americans

Dickens on America & the Americans

Author: Michael Slater
ISBN: 9781911454854
Format: Hardback
$171.60

This celebrated and fully illustrated work brings Dickens into...  Read More >>

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