Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

In his travel narrative Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879), Robert Louis Stevenson declares, ""I travel...  Read More >>

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The passions are at the heart of human experience. Literature captures the complexity of the passions more acutely...  Read More >>

In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism...  Read More >>

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels,...  Read More >>

A major new work on the life of Charlotte Bronte and her most famous novel, Jane Eyre  Read More >>

The definitive biography of the world's most popular novel.  Read More >>

The definitive biography of the world's most popular novel.  Read More >>

Putting a century of scholarship on one of the world's most enduring popular novels into accessible, narrative form,...  Read More >>

This book shows how the Brontes writings engage with the major issues which dominate twentieth century theoretical...  Read More >>

The first part of this book analyzes Conrad’s first novel, Almayer’s Folly, and four of his greatest works: Lord...  Read More >>

The essays in Visionary of the Word bring together the latest scholarship on Herman Melville's treatment of religion...  Read More >>

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This book shows that the publishers and editors of the radical press deployed Romantic-era texts for their own political...  Read More >>

The essays in Visionary of the Word bring together the latest scholarship on Herman Melville's treatment of religion...  Read More >>

Offers a groundbreaking critical biography of the German-born British poet Mathilde Blind (1841-1896) - a freethinking...  Read More >>

John Ruskin had an extraordinary ability to bring together aesthetics, religion, ecology, and social issues in a...  Read More >>

In-depth critical discussions of Mark Twain's novel - Plus complimentary, unlimited online access to the full content...  Read More >>

The life of Thomas De Quincey – a dynamic and unique biography of the most mysterious member of the Wordsworth circle...  Read More >>

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

The book concludes with an examination of Austen fandom based on an online survey conducted by the author, which...  Read More >>

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We've all encountered protagonists who become more complicated over the course of a novel, but what does one do...  Read More >>

Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction r provides an accessible, concise and reliable overview of core critical...  Read More >>

Figures of Natality reads metaphors and narratives of birth in the age of Goethe (1770-1832) as indicators of the...  Read More >>