Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

In many fictional narratives, the progression of the plot exists in tension with a very different and powerful dynamic...  Read More >>

Scholars and critics commonly align W. B. Yeats with the poetry of Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and the modernist movement...  Read More >>

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Focusing on Algernon Charles Swinburne's poems on Apollo, Levin calls for a re-examination of the poet's place in...  Read More >>

Transnationalism and American Serial Fiction explores the vibrant tradition of serial fiction published in U.S....  Read More >>

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This is a collection of commentaries and essays on the majority of the novels, and many of the short stories, of...  Read More >>

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This book builds a picture of how Greek literature was reworked by the authors of seventeenth-century French tragedy....  Read More >>

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This book examines Voltaire's claim that La Mort de Cesar is ""in the English taste"". It presents the results of...  Read More >>

Wyndham Lewis, as writer and painter, was one of the great creative geniuses of this century and also one of the...  Read More >>

This major work of historical and interpretative scholarship draws upon fresh evidence to set the Songs in a new...  Read More >>

The years between the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) and of John...  Read More >>

The study of Thackeray’s major fiction reconstructs the novelist’s working methods with the help of manuscript material,...  Read More >>

Scott was the first British novelist to discover in landscape a literary as well as a pictoral medium, an insight...  Read More >>

‘There is a science of the aspects of things, as well as of their nature’ – if this dictum of Ruskin is central...  Read More >>

This collection of lectures, broadcasts, reviews, and articles (several of which have not previously been published)...  Read More >>

The aim of this book is to let us see our language as a living and developing human activity in a period of history...  Read More >>

It is still true that most readers of eighteenth-century poetry approach it by way of nineteenth-century poetry;...  Read More >>

What he himself characteristically called ‘his idiosyncratic mode of regard’ is a factor few readers of Hardy’s...  Read More >>

Essays analysing the decline of Aldous Huxley as a novelist have become a commonplace of literary criticism over...  Read More >>

First published in 1879 by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London.  Read More >>

This volume makes conveniently available to students and others the group of chapters in Professor Geoffrey Tillotson’s...  Read More >>