Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

By focusing on the figure of the doctor rather than on a scientific theme or medical field, this title emulates...  Read More >>

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A study of literary representations of women and portable property during the period 1850 to 1900 that reveals how...  Read More >>

Concentrating on works by authors such as Fergus Hume, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, LT Meads, and Marie Belloc...  Read More >>

This accessible, informed, and engaging book offers fresh, new avenues into Keats’s poems and letters, including...  Read More >>

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Explores issues of orientalism, otherness, gender and sexuality that arise in artistic British representations of...  Read More >>

In this far-reaching and provocative study, Nathan K. Hensley shows how the modern state's anguished relationship...  Read More >>

Connects the trope of music with Shelley's larger formal aesthetic, political, and philosophical concerns, showing...  Read More >>

Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) has often been considered a particularly British writer in part as his official...  Read More >>

Focusing on the role of genre in the formation of dominant conceptions of death and dying, this title examines literary...  Read More >>

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By analyzing how Victorian literary texts both reveal and reconcile historical anxieties about the meaning of manliness,...  Read More >>

Focusing on major works by Austen, Gaskell, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, and Forster, Valerie Wainwright draws upon new...  Read More >>

Musicologists and theorists have been intensely preoccupied with Brahms's compositions. The relationship between...  Read More >>

As theatre and drama of the Romantic Period undergo a critical reassessment among scholars internationally, the...  Read More >>

Was there an Atlantic Enlightenment? This collection offers insights into the conditions that generated a major...  Read More >>

Offers an interpretive framework for understanding the specific formulation of child cruelty popularized by the...  Read More >>

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How did the arguments developed in the debate to abolish the slave trade help to construct a British national identity...  Read More >>

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Focusing on the critical reception of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot, this work offers examinations...  Read More >>

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