Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

Dealing with issues of social, economic and intellectual history, this work offers an investigation into one of...  Read More >>

Questioning a literary history that, since Ian Watt's ""Rise of the Novel"", has privileged the courtship plot,...  Read More >>

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The Victorian illustrated book came into being, flourished, and evolved during the nineteenth century. Catherine...  Read More >>

Examines the ghost stories of writer and academic Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936). Focuses on the intersection...  Read More >>

This book is the first collection of essays to discuss Oscar Wilde’s love and vast knowledge of philosophy. Addressing...  Read More >>

Ultimately, Natures in Translation demonstrates that-far from being separate from the dominant concerns of British...  Read More >>

The characters and relationships described by Jane Austen continue to be equally valid despite the changes that...  Read More >>

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This book, first published in 1926, aimed to introduce to English readers to a great and complex foreign writer...  Read More >>

In this book, first published in 1943, Janko Lavrin provides an overview of the development of the Russian novel...  Read More >>

Responding to work by Eve Sedgwick and recent media attention to queer suicide, this project theorizes performative...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1950, could best be described as a combination of literary, psychological and social...  Read More >>

The variety of applications of the term mysticism has forced me to restrict myself here to a discussion of that...  Read More >>

‘Emer O’Sullivan has made an indispensable contribution to Wildean literature … Compelling, informative and fascinating’...  Read More >>

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This collection includes twelve provocative essays from a diverse group of international scholars, who utilize a...  Read More >>

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Michel Foucault continues to be regarded as one of the most essential thinkers of the twentieth century. A brilliantly...  Read More >>

First published in 1927 (this edition in 1967), this book is about Blake, his symbols, and their meanings. As Ward...  Read More >>

First published in 1953, this book examines Blake’s vision and its impact on the work of Yeats who imitated Blake...  Read More >>

First published in 1998, this book formed part of an ongoing effort to restore politics and history to the centre...  Read More >>