Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

Decadent Poetics explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates...  Read More >>

Through an examination of Tennyson's 'domestic poetry' - his portrayals of England and the English - in their changing...  Read More >>

Social Reform in Gothic Writing provides a transatlantic view of the politically transformative power that Gothic...  Read More >>

This comprehensive guide to the poems, prose, biography, ideas and contexts of Percy Bysshe Shelley features entries...  Read More >>

This book examines the impact of the new liberalism on English literary discourse from the fin-de-siècle to World...  Read More >>

Jane Austen the Reader explains Austen's excellence and endurance by showing how her writing developed as a response...  Read More >>

Examining popular contexts of Greek revivalism associated with women, Comet challenges the masculine narrative of...  Read More >>

By 1840, the epistolary novel was dead. Letters in Victorian fiction, however, were unmistakably alive. Postal Plots...  Read More >>

This is a revisionist study of the literary and visual representation of the nation in the century following the...  Read More >>

This collection of essays throws vast new light on the most significant literary-political journal of the Romantic...  Read More >>

Victorian Time examines how literature of the era registers the psychological impact of the onset of a modern, industrialized...  Read More >>

Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire looks at the relationship between epidemics and famines in south Asia and...  Read More >>

This book takes a fresh look at childhood in Dickens' works and in Victorian science and culture more generally....  Read More >>

This innovative collection explores the life stories of Chinese women and men between the seventeenth and twenty-first...  Read More >>

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

Visibility beyond the Visible. The Poetic Discourse of American Transcendentalism is the first study to entirely...  Read More >>

Recientes aproximaciones a la literatura estudian la influencia de las artes y las culturas de Asia sobre la producción...  Read More >>

Chateaubriand aime les choses: leur aspect, présence, allure, texture. Sans doute pourrait-on parler d'un parti...  Read More >>

This book considers how the utopian vision of the city in turn came to impinge on prose writing by poets: in Saint-Simonian...  Read More >>

A truly cosmopolitan Irish writer, George Moore (1852-1933) was a fascinating figure of the fin de siècle, moving...  Read More >>

Presents the latest research on the Swedish playwright August Strindberg and his relation to modern and contemporary...  Read More >>

The prolific nineteenth-century writer E. D. E. N. Southworth enjoyed enormous public success in her day—she published...  Read More >>

This guide helps you discover all things Charles Dickens from his plots and leading characters to his fights with...  Read More >>

Gothic Romanticism, winner of the 2010 MLA Prize for Independent Scholars, is a study of the relationship between...  Read More >>

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