Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

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Elastizitaet: The Poetics of Space, Movement and Character in Frank Wedekind’s Theater

Elastizitaet: The Poetics of Space, Movement and Character...

Author: Horst Daemmrich ,  Jennifer Ham
ISBN: 9780820430836
Format: Hardback
$298.98

Frequenting circuses in Paris and Berlin, Frank Wedekind, best known for ""Spring Awakening"" and the Lulu plays,...  Read More >>

Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen

Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen

Author: J. Frick
ISBN: 9780230114074
Format: Hardback
$145.17

No play in the history of the American stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin. This...  Read More >>

Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries

Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries

Author: Helen Vendler
ISBN: 9780674066380
Format: Paperback
$68.64

The unrivaled doyenne of close reading offers an interpretive introduction to Emily Dickinson’s brilliant, enigmatic...  Read More >>

The Novel and the Sea

The Novel and the Sea

Author: Margaret Cohen
ISBN: 9780691155982
Format: Paperback
$54.99

For a century, the history of the novel has been written in terms of nations and territories: the English novel,...  Read More >>

Dreyfus and the Literature of the Third Republic: Secularism and Tolerance in Zola, Barres, Lazare and Proust

Dreyfus and the Literature of the Third Republic: Secularism...

Author: Evlyn Gould
ISBN: 9780786472147
Format: Paperback
$145.20

""Captain Alfred Dreyfus, French Jewish army officer, spent twelve years in solitary confinement for a crime he...  Read More >>

Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society: From Dagger-Fans to Suffragettes

Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature...

Author: E. Godfrey
ISBN: 9780230300316
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This exploration into the development of women's self-defence from 1850 to 1914 features major writers, including...  Read More >>

British Women's Travel to Greece, 1840-1914: Travels in the Palimpsest

British Women's Travel to Greece, 1840-1914: Travels...

Author: Churnjeet Mahn ,  Professor Vincent Newey
ISBN: 9781409432999
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Beginning with the publication of the first Murray guidebook to Greece in 1840 and ending with Virginia Woolf's...  Read More >>

The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry: Experiments in Form

The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women's...

Author: Lee Christine O'Brien
ISBN: 9781611493917
Format: Hardback
$142.95

This feminist recuperation of the work of numerous women across the Romantic and Victorian periods presented in...  Read More >>

Institutionelle Mechanismen der Kanonbildung in der Académie française: Die ""Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes"" im Frankreich des 17. Jahrhunderts

Institutionelle Mechanismen der Kanonbildung in der...

Author: Christoph Mayer
ISBN: 9783631625873
Format: Hardback
$171.03

Die Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes – Streit zweier Parteien der Académie française auf dem Höhepunkt des Absolutismus...  Read More >>

Hearing the Gospel through Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” Second Edition

Hearing the Gospel through Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas...

Author: Reverend Cheryl Anne Kincaid
ISBN: 9781443841993
Format: Paperback
$89.63

Most people don’t realize Charles Dickens has a biblical foundation. Each of the spirits that appear in A Christmas...  Read More >>

The Language of Jane Austen (Routledge Revivals)

The Language of Jane Austen (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Norman Page
ISBN: 9780415688017
Format: Paperback
$88.99

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Bodies and Things in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Bodies and Things in Nineteenth-Century Literature and...

Author: K. Boehm
ISBN: 9780230369382
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book provides fresh perspectives on the object world, embodied experience and materiality in nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians

A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians

Author: Timothy Larsen (Professor of Christian Thought, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois)
ISBN: 9780199667819
Format: Paperback
$68.95

This book vividly recovers the lost world of the Victorians in which everyone thought, spoke, and argued through...  Read More >>

Poe's Pervasive Influence

Poe's Pervasive Influence

Author: Barbara Cantalupo
ISBN: 9781611461268
Format: Hardback
$125.95

Complementing and extending a project begun by Lois Vines, this book includes essays on Poe’s influence abroad from...  Read More >>

The Spanish American Crónica Modernista, Temporality and Material Culture: Modernismo's Unstoppable Presses

The Spanish American Crónica Modernista, Temporality...

Author: Andrew Reynolds
ISBN: 9781611484687
Format: Hardback
$142.95

Modernismo's Unstoppable Presses, a treatise on Spanish American literary journalism at the turn of the twentieth...  Read More >>

Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural: Transcendent Vision and Bodily Spectres, 1789-1852

Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural:...

Author: Gavin Budge
ISBN: 9780230238466
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This fascinating interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between literary interest in visionary kinds...  Read More >>

Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves: Women Writers and French Colonial Slavery

Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves: Women Writers and French...

Author: Doris Kadish
ISBN: 9781846318467
Format: Hardback
$296.27

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Empire and the Animal Body: Violence, Identity and Ecology in Victorian Adventure Fiction

Empire and the Animal Body: Violence, Identity and Ecology...

Author: John Miller
ISBN: 9780857285348
Format: Hardback
$115.00

'Empire and the Animal Body' develops recent work in animal studies, ecocriticism and postcolonial studies to reassess...  Read More >>

The Complicity of Friends: How George Eliot, G. H. Lewes, and John Hughlings-Jackson Encoded Herbert Spencer’s Secret

The Complicity of Friends: How George Eliot, G. H. Lewes,...

Author: Martin Raitiere
ISBN: 9781611484182
Format: Hardback
$154.95

The Complicity of Friends offers an entirely original perspective within which to appreciate four eminent Victorians:...  Read More >>

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