Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

Percy Bysshe Shelley joined the deluge of sightseers that poured into the Continent after Napoleon's defeat in 1814....  Read More >>

The Romantic Era witnessed a series of conflicts concerning definitions of health and disease. Here, Wallen discusses...  Read More >>

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Over the course of the nineteenth century, women in Britain participated in diverse and prolific forms of artistic...  Read More >>

Extending the critical discussion which has focused on the hymns of Isaac Watts as an influence on Emily Dickinson's...  Read More >>

Tackling fraught but fascinating issues of cultural borrowing and appropriation, this groundbreaking book reveals...  Read More >>

A novelist, poet, literary critic and anthropologist, Andrew Lang is best known for his publications on folklore,...  Read More >>

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A novelist, poet, literary critic and anthropologist, Andrew Lang is best known for his publications on folklore,...  Read More >>

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Expanding our understanding of what it meant to be a nineteenth-century author, Amanda Adams takes up the concept...  Read More >>

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Playing on the frequently used metaphors of the 'turn toward' or 'turn back' in scholarship on religion, this title...  Read More >>

In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged...  Read More >>

Traces a series of self-reflective organizational schemes associated with baroque artifice in the work of Herman...  Read More >>

Documents the way medical discourse consolidates a body susceptible to medical authority that is then represented...  Read More >>

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Biographical poems on artist Horace H. Pippin, who left an invaluable record of African American life during World...  Read More >>

An innovative transnational literary study, Black Prometheus tracks the mythical figure's surprising resonance in...  Read More >>

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Examining how the rise of book illustration affected the historic hegemony of the word, the author explores the...  Read More >>

Focusing on representations of women's literary celebrity in nineteenth-century biographies, autobiographical accounts,...  Read More >>

Providing a wide range of methodological approaches from the fields of literary studies, art history, sociology...  Read More >>

Love letters during the Napoleonic wars were largely framed by concepts of love which were promoted through novels...  Read More >>

A collection of essays that first appeared in the Regency World magazine. It celebrates the quirkiest corners and...  Read More >>