Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

Trollope fans and all who want to increase their knowledge of that great Victorian novelist will welcome this guide...  Read More >>

These volumes continue the only complete edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris (1834- 1896),...  Read More >>

Focusing in a new and thoroughgoing way on Keats's widely discussed interest in Greek myth, Professor Van Ghent...  Read More >>

After discussing Lavater's place in eighteenth-century German letters and his importance in the history of Western...  Read More >>

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This book has a double purpose: to compare the literary projects, theories, and careers of Balzac and Henry James,...  Read More >>

These volumes continue the only complete edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris (1834- 1896),...  Read More >>

This study oilers a new definition of Shelley s place in English radical culture. Treating the poet's literary career...  Read More >>

Professor Fellows presents a map of Ruskin's mind as it shifts from conditions of mastery to madness. In his study,...  Read More >>

Originally written as three complete books, this one-volume edition includes A Small Boy and Others, Notes of a...  Read More >>

Bringing together more than a thousand unpublished letters as well as all the widely scattered published ones, these...  Read More >>

Bringing together more than a thousand unpublished letters as well as all the widely scattered published ones, these...  Read More >>

Professor Ellison demonstrates that the characteristic difficulties of Emerson's prose--its repetitiveness, discontinuity,...  Read More >>

Honoring the centennial of Stevens' birth, this volume presents original essays by many of Stevens' best-known critics....  Read More >>

In a controversial examination of the conceptual bases of Blake's myth, Leopold Damrosch argues that his poems contain...  Read More >>

In this deconstructionist interpretation of a major eighteenth-century work, William Dowling analyzes Boswell's...  Read More >>

This critical biography of Vladislav Khodasevich (1886-1939), David M. Bethea introduces to the Western reader the...  Read More >>

Stephen Railton's study of the American Renaissance proposes a fresh way of conceiving the writer as a performing...  Read More >>

Practicing Romance sets out to re-tell the story of Hawthorne's career, arguing that he is best understood as a...  Read More >>

Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) was one of Spain's outstanding novelists and the author of two vast cycles of novels...  Read More >>

As the first full treatment of Walt Whitman's French sources and his later impact on French writers, this book revises...  Read More >>

In this examination of the role of ornament in nineteenth-century French literature, Rae Beth Gordon shows that...  Read More >>

Reading Public Romanticism is a significant new example of the linking of esthetics and historical criticism. Here...  Read More >>

This masterful synthesis of criticism and biography surveys all of Hermann Hesse's major works and many of his minor...  Read More >>

In this ambitious work Anita Levy exposes certain forms of middle-class power that have been taken for granted as...  Read More >>