Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

Considering the crises of literary authority in nineteenth-century French literature against the backdrop of the...  Read More >>

Focusing on Algernon Charles Swinburne's later writings, this collection makes a case for the seriousness and significance...  Read More >>

The position of George Eliot’s poetry within Victorian poetry and within her own canon is crucial for an accurate...  Read More >>

The first scholarly treatment of the life of William Maginn, David Latané’s meticulously researched biography follows...  Read More >>

This book is a collection of essays by current scholars spanning a range of topics and time periods that reflect...  Read More >>

Explores the central role of earthquake for disparate modes of critical engagement across a range of literary, philosophical,...  Read More >>

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This book argues that the capacious and cluttered Victorian novel was formally shaped by the nineteenth century...  Read More >>

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A Space of Their Own explores how nineteenth and twentieth-century women writers incorporated the idea of ‘place’...  Read More >>

This book examines the transnational phenomenon of Japonisme in the exoticist and ‘auto-exoticist’ literature of...  Read More >>

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This book presents a new cultural history of fin-de-siècle Russia in relation to the East. Drawing on literary texts,...  Read More >>

This collection explores the genesis of John Polidori's foundational novella The Vampyre (1819). It then tracks...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1970, this account of Tolstoy’s achievement as a novelist concentrates on the best known...  Read More >>

The nature and purpose of elementary education featured prominently in English periodicals throughout the nineteenth...  Read More >>

Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods explores the construction of the child and the development of...  Read More >>

First published in 1968, Jane Austen’s Emma is a critical study of Miss Austen’s last completed novel.  Read More >>

In travel books, Mary Kingsley described her experiences with immense detachment and humour. These lengthy works...  Read More >>

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Examining the literature of a profoundly influential decade by some of the century's major writers, this volume...  Read More >>

Uncovers the role of children's periodicals in the development of charitable ideals for children between 18401930...  Read More >>

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In the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens backed the cause of abolition of the death penalty and wrote comprehensively...  Read More >>