Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

This book shows how Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days changed the global imagination. Through his novel,...  Read More >>

How much choice do you have in life? Charles Dickens’s dramatisation of the relationship between characters and...  Read More >>

Whitman in Washington analyses Whitman's integrated life, writings, and government work in his urban context to...  Read More >>

This book explores those moments of repetition, placing them in the early nineteenth century context from which...  Read More >>

A witty, refreshing, and fun book on the experience of reading Marcel Proust that allows author and reader to meet...  Read More >>

Offering a revisionist account of the history of the novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Lauren Gillingham...  Read More >>

Throwing new light on how Victorians conceptualized identity, deception, originality and the relations between sciences...  Read More >>

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A pioneering introduction to the oppositional, referential techniques Woolson developed to enter contested nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

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Exploring the controversial history of an aesthetic – realism – this book examines the role that realism plays in...  Read More >>

The latest volume in Oxford's new edition of Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen, this volume brings together...  Read More >>

This book builds upon recent theoretical approaches that define queerness as more of a temporal orientation than...  Read More >>

The ‘golden age’ of children’s literature in the late 19th and early 20th century coincided with a boom in the production...  Read More >>

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A survey, within one volume, of the history of critical responses to LGBTQ literature from the beginning to the...  Read More >>

Der Band 19 II der Schiller Nationalausgabe bietet erstmals einen umfassenden historisch-kritischen Anmerkungsapparat...  Read More >>

This is the first book to focus on women illustrators in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It...  Read More >>

Gary Saul Morson brings to life the intense intellectual debates shaping two centuries of Russian writing. Dialogues...  Read More >>

Shows how L. Frank Baum exploited the freedoms of children’s literature, in its carnivalesque celebration of a world...  Read More >>

Gothic literature is very popular today, and many places have become tourist attractions because they are either...  Read More >>

Shows how L. Frank Baum exploited the freedoms of children’s literature, in its carnivalesque celebration of a world...  Read More >>

Published in 1899, Fecondite, the first volume of the novel cycle of the Quatre Evangiles, offers a story that moves...  Read More >>

Nahum Dimitri Chandler offers a philosophical interpretation of W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1897 American Negro Academy address,...  Read More >>