Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

What place do Dostoevsky's works occupy in the history of the novel? To answer this question, Michael Holquist focuses...  Read More >>

How does the consciousness of being a woman affect the workings of the poetic imagination? With this question Margaret...  Read More >>

As the first full treatment of Walt Whitman's French sources and his later impact on French writers, this book revises...  Read More >>

Blake's two finished epics have been widely regarded as combinations of brilliant set pieces which yield to no systematic...  Read More >>

Collected in this volume are the 1889--1905 letters of one of the first African-American literary artists to cross...  Read More >>

Reading Public Romanticism is a significant new example of the linking of esthetics and historical criticism. Here...  Read More >>

By attempting to suspend moral, ideological, or psychological assumptions, a phenomenological interpretation of...  Read More >>

These volumes bring to a close the only comprehensive edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris...  Read More >>

These volumes bring to a close the only comprehensive edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris...  Read More >>

In the 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville prophesied that American writers would slight, even despise, form--that they...  Read More >>

These volumes continue the only complete edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris (1834- 1896),...  Read More >>

As an epoch of ""censorship terror"" drew to a close with the death of Nicholas I and the end of the Crimean War,...  Read More >>

Thoreau's Reading charts Henry Thoreau's intellectual growth and its relation to his literary career from 1833,...  Read More >>

In this work William Ulmer boldly advances our understanding of Shelley's concept of love by exploring eros as a...  Read More >>

Frederick Garber takes up in detail several problems of the self broached in his previous book, The Autonomy of...  Read More >>

Stevenson's fiction is evaluated in the light of the significant Romantic traditions that have influenced the novel...  Read More >>

This work examines the dialectic of desire and value, as it affects the protagonist's identity, in fiction from...  Read More >>

Starting from Hawthorne's statement that his works are attempts to open an intercourse with the world, Kenneth Dauber...  Read More >>

Contents: I. Religion, evolution, and the novel; 1. 1888 and a look backwards; 2. George Eliot, Walter Pater, and...  Read More >>

Drawing on modern studies of rhetoric and the concept of the Trickster, the author examines Herman Melville, Mark...  Read More >>

After discussing Lavater's place in eighteenth-century German letters and his importance in the history of Western...  Read More >>

Focusing in a new and thoroughgoing way on Keats's widely discussed interest in Greek myth, Professor Van Ghent...  Read More >>

Frazer, with Freud, Marx, and Jung, is one of the thinkers who have had a deep and pervasive influence on modern...  Read More >>

This book has a double purpose: to compare the literary projects, theories, and careers of Balzac and Henry James,...  Read More >>

Formalist criticism of the modern novel has concentrated on its spatial aspects. Patricia Tobin focuses, instead,...  Read More >>