Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

The letters collected here comprise an important chapter in the life of Walter Pater's literary career. They record...  Read More >>

The re-emergence into critical esteem of the literature of the English mid-nineteenth century has been one of the...  Read More >>

Introduction Part One: The Novel Publishing World, 1830-1870 1. Novel Publishing 1830-1870 2. Mass Market and Big...  Read More >>

Dr Ball offers an analysis and evaluation of a number of Victorian long poems and groups of lyrics which trace the...  Read More >>

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This Anglo-American collection of essays on Middlemarch comprises a many-faceted study of a great and much-discussed...  Read More >>

In this closely argued book Dr Ball is concerned to analyse the imaginative process of self-understanding which...  Read More >>

Boswell and Johnson are two names that may well be placed together: a great artist and his great subject; indeed...  Read More >>

The current Gothic revival in literature and film encourages us to look again to the earliest Gothic novels written...  Read More >>

Through a comprehensive study of Dickens’ career this work examines the crucial role played by London in the character...  Read More >>

Mr Holbrook here offers a new interpretation of Dylan Thomas which seeks, by uncovering the roots of his predicament...  Read More >>

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For all its fame in the wider world, Edward FitzGerald's 'Rubiyt of Omar Khayym' (1859) has been largely ignored...  Read More >>

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Throughout history the poetic muse has tended to be (a passive) female and the poet male. Parker looks at fin-de-siecle...  Read More >>

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This book considers the impact of the eighteenth century on Shakespeare, and vice versa. It describes how actors,...  Read More >>

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