Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

Here Ekbert Faas examines the complex interrelationships among the fields of early psychiatry, poetry, and aesthetics...  Read More >>

Frederick Garber takes up in detail several problems of the self broached in his previous book, The Autonomy of...  Read More >>

By making his argument about In Memoriam a continuous argument for it, Timothy Peltason brings to light a wider...  Read More >>

In this provocative study, Susan Mizruchi argues that the act of writing history is the key to the political concerns...  Read More >>

In this work William Ulmer boldly advances our understanding of Shelley's concept of love by exploring eros as a...  Read More >>

The novelist Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) is known primarily as a chronicler of his age and crafter of elegant prose--like...  Read More >>

Thoreau turned toward Indians in his writing as well as in his life, and this book traces the long and arduous process...  Read More >>

The life of William Morris (1834-1896) is revealed in significant new detail by his complete surviving correspondence,...  Read More >>

This book focuses particular attention on the six-month interrogation of the doomed poet, and it provides a critical...  Read More >>

In a new interpretation of the fiction of Anthony Trollope, Coral Lansbury argues that Trollope's work in the Post...  Read More >>

How does the consciousness of being a woman affect the workings of the poetic imagination? With this question Margaret...  Read More >>

Once a controversial genre of Victorian fiction that produced the major best sellers of its century, the now-forgotten...  Read More >>

In the 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville prophesied that American writers would slight, even despise, form--that they...  Read More >>

These volumes bring to a close the only comprehensive edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris...  Read More >>

These volumes bring to a close the only comprehensive edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris...  Read More >>

Elizabeth Helsinger's iconoclastic book explores the peculiar power of rural England to stand for conflicting ideas...  Read More >>

Addressing vital issues in the current revision of American literary studies, Olaf Hansen carries out an exposition...  Read More >>

Thoreau's Reading charts Henry Thoreau's intellectual growth and its relation to his literary career from 1833,...  Read More >>

This fresh look at the social and political themes of Blake's poetry shows that he was a phenomenologist of liberation,""...  Read More >>

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One of the most influential works on Sir Walter Scott, The Hero of the Waverley Novels is a model for reconstructing...  Read More >>

Integrating the study of both music and art into an exploration of the early poetry of Eugenio Montale (1896-1982),...  Read More >>

This book explores how Theodore de Banville's remarkably coherent body of verse theory and practice, shaped debates...  Read More >>

The public debate on abortion stretches back much further than Roe v. Wade, to long before the terms ""pro-choice""...  Read More >>

A study of popular eighteenth-century stories which shaped Britons' and Americans' views of the Atlantic world,...  Read More >>