Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

The incredible story of Emile Zola's escape to London in the aftermath of the scandalous Dreyfus Affair.  Read More >>

Novel Politics aims to change the current consensus of thinking about the nineteenth-century novel, which assumes...  Read More >>

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A Neat and accessible introduction the life, work and times of W. B. Yeats.  Read More >>

Analyzes the reception of nineteenth-century French women poets, including Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Amable Tastu,...  Read More >>

This volume brings together a number of contributors to look at how and why certain writers have attained celebrity...  Read More >>

This book is about mapping the future of eighteenth-century women’s writing and feminist literary history, in an...  Read More >>

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--McGill University.  Read More >>

Before Albert Einstein proposed the concept of four-dimensional spacetime, late Victorian scientists, radical philosophers...  Read More >>

Presents a bold new reading of one of Denmark’s greatest writers of the nineteenth century, situating him, first...  Read More >>

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Offers a general introduction to the emerging field of postcolonial Scottish studies, assessing both its potential...  Read More >>

A great starting point for students seeking an introduction to Joseph Conrad and the critical discussions surrounding...  Read More >>

This book is about the historical moment when writers and critics first used the term “realism” to describe representation...  Read More >>

Instead of prizing one approach over the other, as many participants in those debates have done, Baker focuses on...  Read More >>

This book is about selected Victorian texts and authors that in many cases have never before been subject to sustained...  Read More >>

The first biography of the man who launched the self-help phenomenon. Based on contemporary sources, many previously...  Read More >>

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This edition offers a new and comprehensive selection of the writings of Algernon Charles Swinburne, presenting...  Read More >>

The book investigates the dispersed emergence of the new visual regime associated with nineteenth-century pre-cinematic...  Read More >>

Showing how nineteenth-century literary history works when confronted by technological repurposing, electronic-based...  Read More >>

Within the narrow confines of Haworth Parsonage the Brontë children constructed a multiform fantasy world and to...  Read More >>

The Poems of Patrick Branwell Brontë, first published in 1990, provides a collection of Branwell Brontë’s poetry,...  Read More >>