Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

The fact that Eliot disapproved of Romanticism is clear from his critical essays, where he often appears to reject...  Read More >>

Dickens' relationship to cities is part of his modernity and his enduring fascination. His sense of London as monumental...  Read More >>

A volume of essays that examines Dickens' complex representations of sexuality and gender as well as his use of...  Read More >>

From their first appearance in print, Dickens' fictions immediately migrated into other media, and particularly,...  Read More >>

Presents a collection of essays that traces the shifting importance given to childhood in Dickens' criticism. This...  Read More >>

Britain's most widely read author of the late twentieth century, Catherine Cookson published more than 100 books,...  Read More >>

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Who was Alexander von Humboldt? Was he really a lone genius? Was he another European apologist for colonialism in...  Read More >>

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Places Dickens at the centre of a dynamic and expanding Victorian print world and tells the story of his career...  Read More >>

Presents a collection of essays that provides a selection of leading contemporary scholarship which situates Dickens...  Read More >>

Through close engagement with the work of Wordsworth, Austen, and Byron, this study posits the emergence of the...  Read More >>

Ayres, in her long overdue critical biography of the novelist once referred to as the 'first Southern woman to enter...  Read More >>

Tracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship between literature and science in the long nineteenth...  Read More >>

Highlighting neo-Victorian humour’s crucial role in shaping contemporary re-visions of nineteenth-century culture,...  Read More >>

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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved,...  Read More >>

Bringing together leading scholars from the USA, UK and Europe, this is the first substantial study of the seminal...  Read More >>

Melville’s Philosophies departs from a long tradition of critical assessments of Melville that dismissed his philosophical...  Read More >>

Hans Christian Andersen was the most prominent Danish author of the nineteenth century. Now known primarily for...  Read More >>