Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

An emblematic figure of the 'bourgeois century,' the parvenu represents the Other on which a society depends. This...  Read More >>

Presented here, for the first time since their publication over a century ago, are twelve previously unknown published...  Read More >>

How do literacy and the development of literary culture promote the development of a national identity? This title...  Read More >>

Presented here, for the first time since their publication over a century ago, are twelve previously unknown published...  Read More >>

According to Oscar Wilde, 'the primary aim of the critic is to see the object as in itself it really is not'. Through...  Read More >>

Fifty-two of Henry Lawson's stories and sketches that he had first published in newspapers and magazines from 1888...  Read More >>

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

By reconsidering Kleist's reception of Rousseau and placing it in historical context, this book sheds new light...  Read More >>

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Featuring over fifty rare and hard-to-find illustrations, Writing with Scissors presents a fascinating cultural...  Read More >>

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Literary history has conventionally viewed Milton as the last real practitioner of the epic in English verse. Herbert...  Read More >>

This Critical Insights volume discusses Herman Melville, one of America's preeminent writers. Essays include a brief...  Read More >>

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Combining nuanced literary interpretations with significant legal cases, Family Money reveals a shared preoccupation...  Read More >>

The area of 19th-century German travel writing on Ireland has received widespread scholarly attention over the years...  Read More >>

Stalin’s Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. The volume...  Read More >>

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First published in 1961, this book examines a number of works popular in the Romantic period, during the heyday...  Read More >>

This book visits the Romantic legacy that was central to the development of literature and culture from the 1830s...  Read More >>

First published in 1979, this is a very welcome reissue of Kathleen Raine's seminal study of William Blake - England...  Read More >>

This book examines the rise of Fantastic literature on the continent in the nineteenth century, the development...  Read More >>

Charles Brockden Brown (1771 1810) is a key writer of the revolutionary era and U.S. early republic, known for his...  Read More >>