Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

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

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Emilia Pardo Bazan’s place in Spanish and Galician literatures has been hard won, and she has yet to receive the...  Read More >>

Boes argues that the dual status of the Bildungsroman renders this novelistic form an elegant way to negotiate the...  Read More >>

How can we use art to reconstruct ourselves and the material world? Is every individual an art object? Is the material...  Read More >>

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An interdisciplinary collection of twelve essays, Romanticism/Judaica explores the four major areas of intersection:...  Read More >>

Throwing fresh light on a much discussed but still controversial field, this collection of essays places the presence...  Read More >>

Taking an original approach to Robert Browning's poetics, Martens analyses his work in relation to Romanticism and...  Read More >>

Tracing the use of legal themes in the gothic novel, Bridget M. Marshall shows novelists like William Godwin, Mary...  Read More >>

Taking as its point of departure recent insights about the performative nature of genre, The Poetics and Politics...  Read More >>

Commonly understood as a means for transcending political and economic realities, love, for several canonical Romantic...  Read More >>

At the close of the eighteenth century, Erasmus Darwin declared that he would 'enlist the imagination under the...  Read More >>

The romance novel has the strange distinction of being the most popular but least respected of literary genres....  Read More >>

In the first book-length study of Elizabeth Hamilton, Grogan addresses a significant gap in scholarship and complicates...  Read More >>

Beginning with John Keats and tracing a line of influence through Alfred Lord Tennyson and Gerard Manley Hopkins,...  Read More >>

Picturing Scotland examines the genesis and production of the first author-approved illustrations for Sir Walter...  Read More >>

An exploration of how and why the G8 and other institutions of global governance deal with increasingly comprehensive...  Read More >>

Concerned with the intermingled thematic and formal preoccupations of romantic thought and literary practice in...  Read More >>

First published in 1972, Norman Page s seminal study of The Language of Jane Austen seeks to demonstrate both the...  Read More >>

Founder of the detective genre and author of works on cryptography, Edgar Allan Poe possessed what Shawn Rosenheim...  Read More >>

Breaking with traditional analyses of Gothic literature that limit its influence to a reactive critique of current...  Read More >>

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

This book visits the 'Thing' in its various manifestations as an unnameable monster in literature and film, reinforcing...  Read More >>