Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

A groundbreaking analysis of the nineteenth-century novel.  Read More >>

What is utopia if not a perfect impossible world? Anahid Nersessian reveals the basic misunderstanding of that ideal....  Read More >>

Franz Anton Mesmer's concept of animal magnetism exercised a profound influence on key European and American thinkers....  Read More >>

Frazer, with Freud, Marx, and Jung, is one of the thinkers who have had a deep and pervasive influence on modern...  Read More >>

Formalist criticism of the modern novel has concentrated on its spatial aspects. Patricia Tobin focuses, instead,...  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 >>

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What place do Dostoevsky's works occupy in the history of the novel? To answer this question, Michael Holquist focuses...  Read More >>

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

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In an original and provocative demonstration that Coleridge's later poetry took on a powerful metaphysical conception,...  Read More >>

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

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

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

Tragedy in the eighteenth century is often said to have expired or been deflected into nondramatic forms like history...  Read More >>

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

Shelley's tragedy, The Cenci, has been regarded as an avant-garde attack on orthodox Christian principles, a celebrated...  Read More >>

By attempting to suspend moral, ideological, or psychological assumptions, a phenomenological interpretation of...  Read More >>

Contents: I. Religion, evolution, and the novel; 1. 1888 and a look backwards; 2. George Eliot, Walter Pater, and...  Read More >>

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By a judicious use of psychoanalytic concepts, Richard Onorato interprets the Wordsworth revealed in the poem The...  Read More >>

Victor Hugo's work presents the reader with a paradox nowhere more apparent than in the collection of more than...  Read More >>

Giving a close critical reading to major texts by Dickens, Poe, Eliot, Melville, James, Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce,...  Read More >>

Three major conventional figures dominated Hawthorne's romances: the noble Founding Father, the ""narrow Puritan,""...  Read More >>