Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

Vividly re-contextualising crises including deep time, globalization, evolution, and extinction, this study shows...  Read More >>

This first collected discussion of Pater's significance for English literary criticism reveals his importance in...  Read More >>

Exploring the relationship between Henry James's ethical vision and his densely metaphorical style, his experiments...  Read More >>

What if we've been reading Jane Austen and romantic classics all wrong? A funny, brainy, eye-opening take on how...  Read More >>

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In the nineteenth century, American and British culture experienced an explosion of interest in writings about the...  Read More >>

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In this monograph, Castagnino suggests that contemporary Italian fiction often uses fantastic tropes to address...  Read More >>

Cet ouvrage se propose de relire l'¶uvre poâetique en prose de Charles Baudelaire, en la replaðcant dans son contexte...  Read More >>

Contributeurs: Michel Cagin, Coralie Chambe, Francois Escoube, Antoine Guillot, Nina Hellerstein, Othman Louati,...  Read More >>

The treatises collected here, from the end of the Grand Siecle to the beginning of the nineteenth century, show...  Read More >>

Cet ouvrage se propose de relire l'¶uvre poâetique en prose de Charles Baudelaire, en la replaðcant dans son contexte...  Read More >>

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The comprehensive guide to a deeply human tradition of memory, mourning and consolation Elegy is among the world's...  Read More >>

This one-of-a-kind cultural history explores caricature as a distinctively literary phenomenon, exploring how realism...  Read More >>

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures...  Read More >>

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures...  Read More >>

A work is about minor characters and the qualities of minorness in Victorian novels. It offers casual readers and...  Read More >>

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Band I von Reiner Wilds Gesamtdarstellung der Alterslyrik Goethes behandelt die Zeitspanne zwischen dem Todesjahr...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1981 and now reissued with a new preface by Randolph Splitter, this volume examines Proust’s...  Read More >>

Penny politics explores how and why Victorian popular literature from the 1830s and 1840s appealed to politicised,...  Read More >>

Spectral Dickens posits a spectral dimension of literary character. By analyzing Dickens' illustrated novels through...  Read More >>

Uncovers the central and leading roles of women in the development of organised consumer activism in the UK and...  Read More >>

This book examines the way in which Balzac mobilises the imaginary world of brigandage. Writers and historians examine...  Read More >>