Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

This 1864 work, edited by her niece's husband, contains a memoir of the writer Lucy Aikin (1781–1864), a collection...  Read More >>

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Originally published in 1927, this book contains a selection of Swinburne's poetry for the general reader. The text...  Read More >>

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This book illuminates the impact, lasting influence, and personalities involved with the creation and development...  Read More >>

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Mark Twain enthusiasts will welcome this study of the great writer's attitude toward the Bible -- and of the influence...  Read More >>

This book is the first to consider the work of Herman Melville's later years as a whole, in the light of his life...  Read More >>

Yet the women characters who commit murder are punished because their sympathetic Victorian creators had internalized...  Read More >>

This critical/biographical study reshapes our view of the life and career of the giant of Victorian Literatures....  Read More >>

Fascinating as the Roland legend is in itself, no one has looked into the non-academic French literature to which...  Read More >>

The myth of the idyllic plantation South has had an extraordinary pervasiveness in the American consciousness. J.V....  Read More >>

A research guide for specialists in the Gothic novel, the Romantic movement, the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

The result was a tension between theoretical expression and actual discussion of mental phenomena.  Read More >>

Explores the theatre actually known and frequented by Dickens in order to show in terms of concrete structural analysis...  Read More >>

From the radical dualism of Hawthorne’s vision, Samuel Coale argues, springs a continuing tradition in the American...  Read More >>

Drawing on unpublished letters of Howells, James, Lowell, and others and on scores of articles in nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Race, Ethnicity and Publishing in America considers American minority literatures from the perspective of print...  Read More >>

In this major biography, Catherine Peters explores the complicated life of Wilkie Collins, the greatest of the Victorian...  Read More >>

As an epoch of ""censorship terror"" drew to a close with the death of Nicholas I and the end of the Crimean War,...  Read More >>

Guiding readers through the disorienting dreamworld of James Joyce's last work, Kimberly Devlin examines Finnegans...  Read More >>

Comedy cannot be understood as an abstract critical concept, argues Roger Henkle; it 'must be studied in specific...  Read More >>

Paul Magnuson contends that the relationship between Coleridge's and Wordsworth's poetry is so complex that a new...  Read More >>

This work examines the dialectic of desire and value, as it affects the protagonist's identity, in fiction from...  Read More >>