Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

One of the most influential works on Sir Walter Scott, The Hero of the Waverley Novels is a model for reconstructing...  Read More >>

This book offers an in-depth investigation into the writings of one of modern Japan's most gifted poet-scholars,...  Read More >>

In the nineteenth century, the French lyric poets imposed their diction on the theatrical genre and thus illuminated...  Read More >>

Elizabeth Helsinger's iconoclastic book explores the peculiar power of rural England to stand for conflicting ideas...  Read More >>

Michel Benamou's essays have established his reputation as a critical interpreter of Stevens' relation to the French...  Read More >>

Studying the nature of symbol in Coleridge's work, Father Barth shows that it is central to Coleridge's intellectual...  Read More >>

Evelyn Barish began this book partly to inquire into a silence--Ralph Waldo Emerson's failure to discuss or mourn...  Read More >>

This masterful synthesis of criticism and biography surveys all of Hermann Hesse's major works and many of his minor...  Read More >>

Honoring the centennial of Stevens' birth, this volume presents original essays by many of Stevens' best-known critics....  Read More >>

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First published in 1914, as part of the Cambridge Modern German Series, this book presents a selection from the...  Read More >>

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This is a thought-provoking synthesis of the Victorian period, focusing on the themes of science, religion, politics...  Read More >>

First published in 2003, this book examines the creative partnership of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, and...  Read More >>

A sweeping cultural history that draws on music, literature, painting, and film, History of a Shiver uncovers how...  Read More >>

The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature offers a fresh new look at the origins of literary modernism in...  Read More >>

ADELAIDE BECKER-social outcast and sarcastic know-it-all-enjoys her quiet life until a giant alien crash-lands into...  Read More >>

Returning to the range of historical fiction written before Scott, Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning...  Read More >>

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This study of Egyptian theatre and its narrative construction explores how representations of Egypt are created...  Read More >>