Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

Leading international scholars, critics and translators explore Pater's reception and afterlives throughout Europe....  Read More >>

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In the United States miscegenation is not merely a subject of literature and popular culture. It is in many ways...  Read More >>

One of the most famous quotations in the history of Russian literature is Fedor Dostoevskii's alleged assertion...  Read More >>

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Why does interrogation silence its object and not make it speak? Silence vs speech is a central issue in classical...  Read More >>

Provides fresh insights on the intersection of race and class in black fiction from the 1880s to 1900s  Read More >>

With special attention to Emily Dickinson's growth into a poet, this literary biographical study charts Dickinson's...  Read More >>

This collection examines the intersection of historical recollection, strategies of representation, and reading...  Read More >>

Examining how labouring-class poets constructed themselves and were constructed by critics as part of a canon, and...  Read More >>

Examining a range of Coleridge's writings, this book uses recent scientific research to understand how we have evolved...  Read More >>

This book lays bare numerous sexy Blakes, arguing for both chastity and pornography, violence and domination as...  Read More >>

Moving away from orthodox narratives of the Raj and British presence in India, this book examines the significance...  Read More >>

The proper organisation of rural communities was central to political and social debates at the turn of the eighteenth...  Read More >>

This study examines the vital centrality of 'readings' of nature in a variety of literary forms in the period 1830-1914....  Read More >>

Between 1870 and 1910 male authors were actively engaged with imagining new possibilities for women, at the same...  Read More >>

Using unpublished manuscript writings, this book reinterprets material, social, literary, philosophical and religious...  Read More >>

This book traces the development of literary biography in the eighteenth century; how writers' melancholy was probed...  Read More >>

How can one make state administrative systems interesting, embody an abstract public ethos and give heroism to homogeneity?...  Read More >>

The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction: 'Kitchen Literature' explores why Victorian sensation fiction was derided...  Read More >>

Tennyson experienced at first hand the all-pervasive nature of celebrity culture. It caused him to retreat from...  Read More >>

This book offers new perspectives on the concept of habit in the nineteenth-century novel, delineating the complex,...  Read More >>

Through a close analysis of the pamphlets, reviews, lectures, journalism, editorials, poems, and novels surrounding...  Read More >>

The Irish New Woman explores the textual and ideological connections between feminist, nationalist and anti-imperialist...  Read More >>