Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

Professor Baker is concerned primarily with Shelley's development ns a philosophical and psychological poet, and...  Read More >>

In a fascinating study of what, during the last decade, rekindled an avid readership, Judith Wilt proposes a new...  Read More >>

Meredith's reputation as an ""unreadable"" novelist prompted Judith Wilt to examine the relationship between author...  Read More >>

This study oilers a new definition of Shelley s place in English radical culture. Treating the poet's literary career...  Read More >>

Three major conventional figures dominated Hawthorne's romances: the noble Founding Father, the ""narrow Puritan,""...  Read More >>

Trollope fans and all who want to increase their knowledge of that great Victorian novelist will welcome this guide...  Read More >>

Bringing together more than a thousand unpublished letters as well as all the widely scattered published ones, these...  Read More >>

Richard Cross assesses the French writer's impact on his Irish counterpart through a comparison of tone, theme,...  Read More >>

Bringing together more than a thousand unpublished letters as well as all the widely scattered published ones, these...  Read More >>

The rich and fascinating life of Lou Andreas-Salome (1861-1937) has been reconstructed by Professor Binion on a...  Read More >>

Thoreau turned toward Indians in his writing as well as in his life, and this book traces the long and arduous process...  Read More >>

Despite their hopeful aspirations to wholeness in life and spirit, Thomas McFarland contends, the Romantics were...  Read More >>

Professor Fellows presents a map of Ruskin's mind as it shifts from conditions of mastery to madness. In his study,...  Read More >>

Long accustomed to writing in the tradition of the flamboyant kabuki, Japanese dramatists had a more difficult struggle...  Read More >>

By a judicious use of psychoanalytic concepts, Richard Onorato interprets the Wordsworth revealed in the poem The...  Read More >>

Tragedy in the eighteenth century is often said to have expired or been deflected into nondramatic forms like history...  Read More >>

In an original and provocative demonstration that Coleridge's later poetry took on a powerful metaphysical conception,...  Read More >>

Shelley's tragedy, The Cenci, has been regarded as an avant-garde attack on orthodox Christian principles, a celebrated...  Read More >>

Exploring the consciousness and creative impulse of William Dean Howells, Professor Vanderbilt finds that Howells'...  Read More >>

Victor Hugo's work presents the reader with a paradox nowhere more apparent than in the collection of more than...  Read More >>

Although Balzac's work has been much studied, practically nothing has been written on his use of linguistic concepts....  Read More >>

This book traces the sources and development of Ruskin's aesthetic and critical theories. In his attempt to skirt...  Read More >>

Once a controversial genre of Victorian fiction that produced the major best sellers of its century, the now-forgotten...  Read More >>

In this study the author singles out the ideas of K. S. Aksakov (1817-1860), philologist, poet, historian, and sometime...  Read More >>

Giving a close critical reading to major texts by Dickens, Poe, Eliot, Melville, James, Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce,...  Read More >>