Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

The central argument of Edward Said's Orientalism is that the relationship between Britain and its colonies was...  Read More >>

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Taking up the historical evolution of Darwin and his theories and the cultural responses they have inspired, this...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1951, this book contains the French text of six contes by Voltaire, including his famous...  Read More >>

Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical...  Read More >>

Romantic Englishness investigates how narratives of localised selfhood in English Romantic writing are produced...  Read More >>

This book addresses a critically neglected genre used by women writers from Gaskell to Woolf to complicate Victorian...  Read More >>

Drawing on previously unseen archival material, The Beginnings of University English explores the innovative and...  Read More >>

This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of...  Read More >>

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

Scholarly interest in 'the Irish Gothic' has grown at a rapid pace in recent years, but the debate over exactly...  Read More >>

Blake's Drama challenges conventional views of William Blake's multimedia work by reinterpreting it as theatrical...  Read More >>

How is Hardy's development of thematics and characters matched by that of narrative techniques and his handling...  Read More >>

This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and concerns—both practical and theoretical—related to the...  Read More >>

Fin-de-Siècle Fictions, 1890s- 1990s focuses on fin-de-siècle British and postmodern American fictions of apocalypse...  Read More >>

Historical Writing in Britain, 1688-1830 explores a series of debates concerning the nature and value of the past...  Read More >>

In this engaging new study, Claire White reveals how representations of work and leisure became the vehicle for...  Read More >>

Women Writers and the Hero of Romance studies the nature of the hero and his meaning for the female seeker, or quester,...  Read More >>

Collects all of Brown's writings, consisting of letters and a diary, some appearing in print for the first time,...  Read More >>

Etudes sur le paysage et les sensations, à partir de Flaubert et d'autres voyageurs.  Read More >>

Who owns, who buys, who gives, and who notices objects is always significant in Austen's writing, placing characters...  Read More >>

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