Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

By considering both male and female friendships, this book uncovers parallels between them in novels and poetry...  Read More >>

Demonstrating that a negotiation with folklore was central to the canon of British literature, this book explicates...  Read More >>

Examines the shift away from the cult of the sublime that characterized the early part of the nineteenth century...  Read More >>

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Argues that the social construction of the public schoolboy, a figure made ubiquitous by a huge body of fictional,...  Read More >>

"Examines the representational, emblematic, and rhetorical uses of horses in a diversity of nineteenth-century texts....  Read More >>

An examination of the importance of language in forming a nexus among popular fiction, biology, and philology at...  Read More >>

A monograph that discusses the Victorian critic Walter Pater's attitude to sculpture. It brings together Pater's...  Read More >>

This book presents Austen as a novelist who put her distinctive voice and extraordinary imagination to the service...  Read More >>

Examining the experiences of very young 'native' children in three British colonies, the authors focus on the shared...  Read More >>

Focusing primarily on non-canonical texts, this collection takes up the diversity of religious discourse in nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

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In Jane Austen's works, a name is never just a name. In fact, the names Austen gives her characters and places are...  Read More >>

Goc applies Critical Discourse Analysis to infanticide news in the period 1822-1922 to reveal both the broader patterns...  Read More >>

This book examines the construction of adolescent girlhood across a range of genres in the closing decades of the...  Read More >>

This book addresses a deceptively simple question: what accounts for the global success of A Doll’s House, Henrik...  Read More >>

This book maps the history of literary celebrity from the early nineteenth century to the present, paying special...  Read More >>