Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

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Focusing on place-specific, local writing published before 1860, this work examines a period often overlooked in...  Read More >>

Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) crossed paths during their lifetimes, and though...  Read More >>

In the mid-1880s, the Realist author and Anglophile Theodor Fontane observed: ‘nowhere is so much translation done...  Read More >>

This book examines Austen's novels in relation to her philosophical and religious context, demonstrating that the...  Read More >>

This book shows for the first time the power of the British law against divorce, Coleridge's anguish at his entrapment...  Read More >>

Performing Libertinism in Charles II's Court examines the performative nature of Restoration libertinism through...  Read More >>

This text explores the reception of the royal family during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries,...  Read More >>

Culinary Aesthetics and Practices in Nineteenth-Century American Literature examines the preponderance of food imagery...  Read More >>

Jane Austen wrote when sociology was being established as the new discipline to understand social issues such as...  Read More >>

This book is the first interdisciplinary treatment of the cultural significance of the Decembrists' mythic image...  Read More >>

This book provides a clear historical and theoretical framework for reading three important novels published in...  Read More >>

This collection reveals the variety of literary forms and visual media through which travel records were conveyed...  Read More >>

Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature examines the relationship between antislavery texts...  Read More >>

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This is the innovative, trail-blazing enquiry into the importance, range, and history of the publishers' series...  Read More >>

Features 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 'The Task of the Translator' and 'Theses on the...  Read More >>

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Balzac et consorts. Scénographies familiales des conflits historiques dans le roman du XIXe siècle analyse la façon...  Read More >>

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This volume asks how and why issues of sexuality, desire, and economic processes intersect in the literature and...  Read More >>

Black Roads traces the impact of the Famine on Irish literature from William Carlton's The Black Prophet (from which...  Read More >>