Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

One of the most racy, entertaining, and valuable contemporary accounts of Byron, Medwin's Conversations created...  Read More >>

Most of these letters are 'finds,' never previously published and serving to deepen and to give order to our awareness...  Read More >>

Clark Griffith seeks to demonstrate that, if we come to terms with her true intellectual position, we find that...  Read More >>

This is the first time these essays have been collected and identified as De Quincey's. Each essay or article is...  Read More >>

In this book the author express more completely than in her earlier studies what were the implications for the poet...  Read More >>

McClure's was the leading muckraking journal among the many which flourished at the turn of the century. Both a...  Read More >>

Arnold is among the most inaccessible of 19th-century poets, a fact of which he himself was well aware. Asking a...  Read More >>

In a series of closely related essays, Professor Lindenberger analyzes the language, style, imagery, and organization...  Read More >>

In this radical reinterpretation, Mr. Thompson argues that Melville, seeking to disguise his agonized conviction...  Read More >>

""The primary aim of this book is to give its readers an idea of the places Thoreau describes in his own books....  Read More >>

English literary culture from the death of Thomas Carlyle to the First World War was paradoxical and diverse. In...  Read More >>

Based upon the London edition of 1834, this text uses a copy annotated, underlined, and marginally marked by Byron's...  Read More >>

Originally written as three complete books, this one-volume edition includes A Small Boy and Others, Notes of a...  Read More >>

The oddly diverse character of James Fenimore Cooper's writings and activities has led many critics to view his...  Read More >>

Professor Ellison demonstrates that the characteristic difficulties of Emerson's prose--its repetitiveness, discontinuity,...  Read More >>

Confrontations brings, together in one volume six essays by the distinguished critic Rene Wellek. Five have been...  Read More >>

In a controversial examination of the conceptual bases of Blake's myth, Leopold Damrosch argues that his poems contain...  Read More >>

In this deconstructionist interpretation of a major eighteenth-century work, William Dowling analyzes Boswell's...  Read More >>

In a new interpretation of the fiction of Anthony Trollope, Coral Lansbury argues that Trollope's work in the Post...  Read More >>

Susan Dean uses Hardy's own metaphor--the diorama of a dream--to interpret The Dynasts, his largest and last major...  Read More >>

Arguing that psychoanalytic method enlarges and enriches the significance of literature by discovering a fundamental...  Read More >>

Through a probing study of Flaubert's novels which brings out their nuances of tone, technique, vision, and meaning,...  Read More >>

First published in Russian in 1921 and never translated, Andrey Bely's long narrative poem--considered to be one...  Read More >>

This critical biography of Vladislav Khodasevich (1886-1939), David M. Bethea introduces to the Western reader the...  Read More >>

Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) was one of Spain's outstanding novelists and the author of two vast cycles of novels...  Read More >>