Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

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

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Bringing together leading researchers in law and humanities scholarship, this volume focuses on nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Jane Austen is one of the most extensively read writers in English literature, yet little is often known about her....  Read More >>

This book is the first full critical history of incognito social investigation texts – in other words, works detailing...  Read More >>

The book argues that images of the Paris urchin addressed transformations at the heart of modernity, including the...  Read More >>

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Conversations with Trotsky provides a unique insight into Canadian Trotskyism during the Radical 1930s through an...  Read More >>

John Galt (1779–1839) was a contemporary of Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen, and a friend and biographer of Lord...  Read More >>

 Focusing on adventure fiction published from 1899 to 1919, Patrick Scott Belk looks at authors such as Joseph Conrad,...  Read More >>

The colonial literature of the British Empire often depicted the imperial infrastructure: railways, telegraph wires,...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism assembles critical responses to the works of 19th-Century authors of all...  Read More >>

This book is about the rise of a new ethos in British mountaineering during the late nineteenth century.  Read More >>

This title, first published in 1970, consists of essays on the individual tales and novels of George Eliot, with...  Read More >>

Challenges the persistent assumption that the first decades after the Great Irish Famine were marked by a pervasive...  Read More >>

Modern readers and writers find it natural to contrast the agency of realistic fictional characters to the constrained...  Read More >>

The construction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as an Anglo-American sage and literary icon was the product of a...  Read More >>

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What Marcel Proust wanted from life most of all was unconditional requited love, and the way he went after it cost...  Read More >>

The metamorphoses of the myth of Lucretia are innumerable. Even preserving her essence and profound meaning, the...  Read More >>

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The Princess's Novelettes was a successful Victorian ‘penny’ magazine aiming at the market of mainly working class...  Read More >>

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Focusing on the language, style, and poetry of Dickens’ novels, this study breaks new ground in reading Dickens’...  Read More >>