Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

The story of Apollonius King of Tyre has rightly been called the most popular romance of the Middle Ages. From Iceland...  Read More >>

Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts and Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace are both works which defy attempts to assign them to...  Read More >>

A quintessential depiction of the Byronic hero, Byron's poetic drama Manfred centres on the interior sufferings...  Read More >>

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This book brings a renewed critical focus to the history of novel writing, publishing, selling and reading, expanding...  Read More >>

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This anthology presents substantial selections from the work of twenty Manchu women poets of the eighteenth and...  Read More >>

Investigates the transformations that religious painting underwent in mid-Victorian England. This book assesses...  Read More >>

Sibling bonds, both literal and figurative, have had a crucial role in American writings of queer desire and identity....  Read More >>

States that the 19th-century representations of childhood and adolescence - in paintings, various forms of visual...  Read More >>

What does drug addiction mean to us? This book uncovers the influences that shaped the creation and the various...  Read More >>

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The question should really be, Why not Ruskin? Revered by Tolstoy, Gandhi, William Morris, Carlyle and Shaw for...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the notion of desire in the Italian fin de siècle. It narrates how this notion informs the...  Read More >>

This international and intercultural book examines translation histories and outstanding readings of the words of...  Read More >>

Drawing on original archival research, A Feminine Enlightenment argues that women writers shaped Enlightenment conversations...  Read More >>

This book provides an in-depth study of translation and translators in nineteenth-century Ireland, using translation...  Read More >>

This book of interdisciplinary essays serves to situate the original Sherlock Holmes, and his various adaptations,...  Read More >>

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Bradley Deane explores popular literature of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras to reveal how imperial politics...  Read More >>

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