Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

The most intriguing aspect of Cormac McCarthy's writing is the irresistible premonition that his sentences carry...  Read More >>

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Focusing on literary and popular poets, as well as work by women, African Americans, and soldiers, this book considers...  Read More >>

""Ouvrage publiâe avec le soutien de l'universitâe Stendhal-Grenoble 3 et de la râegion Rhãone-Alpes""--P. before...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of cannibalism in literature and film, spanning colonial fiction, Gothic texts and contemporary...  Read More >>

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George Meredith was a lyrical yet searingly honest poet, and an influential novelist whose fiction distilled, contributed...  Read More >>

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Fascinating analysis of the significance of the gift, and its increasingly complicated role in an emerging capitalist...  Read More >>

Considers rhetoric of burial reform, cemeterial customs, and epitaphic writing in Great Britain from mid-nineteenth...  Read More >>

Examining the work of three authors: Richardson, Haywood and Burney, and their representation of domestic space,...  Read More >>

A study tracing issues of race, class and imperialism in the South Pacific through the work of Robert Louis Stevenson...  Read More >>

Nathaniel Hawthorne's status as an artist rests as much on ""The Scarlet Letter"" as on his short fictions. In this...  Read More >>

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This is the first comprehensive look at African-American picture books from the mid- nineteenth century to today....  Read More >>

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In recent years, the interest in the house has grown irresistibly, to the point that in many ways houses seem to...  Read More >>

Mysticism is, in truth, a temper rather than a doctrine, an atmosphere rather than a system of philosophy. Various...  Read More >>

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