Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

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Ritual, Myth and the Modernist Text: The Influence of Jane Ellen Harrison on Joyce, Eliot and Woolf

Ritual, Myth and the Modernist Text: The Influence of...

Author: Martha Carpentier
ISBN: 9781138985483
Format: Paperback
$103.00

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

Author: Catherine Maxwell ,  Stefano Evangelista
ISBN: 9780719099960
Format: Paperback
$70.00

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Gringoire: Comédie en un acte en prose

Gringoire: Comédie en un acte en prose

Author: A. Wilson-Green
ISBN: 9781316601709
Format: Paperback
$38.79

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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley

Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft...

Author: Charlotte Gordon
ISBN: 9780099592396
Format: Paperback
$29.99

***AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4*** NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER 'A gripping account of the heartbreaks and...  Read More >>

Jane Eyre's Fairytale Legacy at Home and Abroad: Constructions and Deconstructions of National Identity

Jane Eyre's Fairytale Legacy at Home and Abroad: Constructions...

Author: Abigail Heiniger
ISBN: 9781472468611
Format: Hardback
$336.00

Exploring the literary microcosm, this book focuses on the nationalistic stakes of the mythic and fairytale paradigms...  Read More >>

Arthur O'Shaughnessy, A Pre-Raphaelite Poet in the British Museum

Arthur O'Shaughnessy, A Pre-Raphaelite Poet in the British...

Author: Jordan Kistler ,  Dennis Denisoff
ISBN: 9781472467355
Format: Hardback
$326.00

Arthur O'Shaughnessy's career as a natural historian in the British Museum, and his consequent preoccupation with...  Read More >>

British Writers and Paris: 1830-1875

British Writers and Paris: 1830-1875

Author: Elisabeth Jay (Professor Emerita, Professor Emerita, Oxford Brookes)
ISBN: 9780199655243
Format: Hardback
$238.00

This book tells the story of the way in which the turbulent, hedonistic world of mid-nineteenth-century Paris touched...  Read More >>

The Moral Economies of American Authorship: Reputation, Scandal, and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Marketplace

The Moral Economies of American Authorship: Reputation,...

Author: Susan M. Ryan (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of Louisville)
ISBN: 9780190274023
Format: Hardback
$146.95

The Moral Economies of American Authorship argues that the moral character of authors became a kind of literary...  Read More >>

Romance's Rival: Familiar Marriage in Victorian Fiction

Romance's Rival: Familiar Marriage in Victorian Fiction...

Author: Talia Schaffer (Professor of English, Professor of English, Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York)
ISBN: 9780190465094
Format: Hardback
$253.00

Challenging conventional understandings of the marriage plot in Victorian fiction, Romance's Rival re-reads classic...  Read More >>

The Comfort of Strangers: Social Life and Literary Form

The Comfort of Strangers: Social Life and Literary Form...

Author: Gage McWeeny (Professor of English, Professor of English, Williams College)
ISBN: 9780199797202
Format: Hardback
$154.95

The Comfort of Strangers argues for a new understanding of the relation between literary form and the socially dense...  Read More >>

Confessions of the Nun of St Omer: by Charlotte Dacre

Confessions of the Nun of St Omer: by Charlotte Dacre...

Author: Lucy Cogan
ISBN: 9781848935303
Format: Hardback
$231.00

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Victorian Murderesses: The Politics of Female Violence

Victorian Murderesses: The Politics of Female Violence...

Author: Naz Bulamur
ISBN: 9781443887281
Format: Hardback
$189.95

Victorian Murderesses investigates the politics of female violence in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891),...  Read More >>

Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German

Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English...

Author: James P. Wilper
ISBN: 9781557537317
Format: Paperback
$104.00

Examines a key moment in the development of the modern gay novel by analysing four novels by German, British, and...  Read More >>

Tales of Berlin in American Literature up to the 21st Century

Tales of Berlin in American Literature up to the 21st...

Author: Joshua Parker
ISBN: 9789004312081
Format: Hardback
$509.52

This book traces the ways Berlin has been narrated across three centuries by some 100 authors. It presents a composite...  Read More >>

Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture: Time, Politics and Class

Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature...

Author: C. White
ISBN: 9781349476404
Format: Paperback
$116.41

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The Ecology of Wonder in Romantic and Postmodern Literature

The Ecology of Wonder in Romantic and Postmodern Literature...

Author: Louise Economides
ISBN: 9781349694402
Format: Paperback
$250.80

This book traces the aesthetic of wonder from the romantic period through contemporary philosophy and literature,...  Read More >>

Dirt in Victorian Literature and Culture: Writing Materiality

Dirt in Victorian Literature and Culture: Writing Materiality...

Author: Sabine Schülting (Free University Berlin, German)
ISBN: 9781138932906
Format: Hardback
$326.00

Addressing the Victorian obsession with the sordid materiality of modern life, this book studies dirt in nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Wordsworth and the Passions of Critical Poetics

Wordsworth and the Passions of Critical Poetics

Author: S. Allen
ISBN: 9781349320424
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in 'autonomous' poetry's redistribution...  Read More >>

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