Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major Romantic Poets and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the...  Read More >>

Transplantation is a boundary practice unsettling distinctions between self and other, life and death. This book...  Read More >>

This Pivot engages with current debates about anthropocentrism and the Anthropocene to propose a reappraisal of...  Read More >>

Widespread panic once generated by 'tramps' produced interdisciplinary and international dialogue on race, work,...  Read More >>

This is the first bilingual annotated edition of two landmark autobiographies by late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1986, explores the allusions in Dickens’s work, such as current events, social customs,...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1988, reveals the great care Dickens took with the planning and preparation of A Tale...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1988, is the most comprehensive annotation of Bleak House ever undertaken. It describes...  Read More >>

Literary Slumming: Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France reveals how the use of slang in French literature...  Read More >>

Bitches in Bonnets examines how six novels of quiet English life, penned by parochial Regency spinster Jane Austen,...  Read More >>

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Adding to Coleridge's already substantial role as a multifaceted intellectual of the Romantic period, Ann Colley...  Read More >>

The Mercurial Mark Twains(s) examines the way Twain, his texts, and his image have been constructed by common readers,...  Read More >>

Explores the complex racial mythology created by the upper classes of the antebellum South in the wake of divisive...  Read More >>

A convenient source of critical commentary on the careers and works of acclaimed authors who died between 1800 and...  Read More >>

Explores the importance of chance, coincidence, and contingency in the Victorian realist novel.  Read More >>

Ballad-singers were central to the cultural, social and political life of Britain for three centuries. Focusing...  Read More >>

Can literature be investigated through quantitative methods? Can style, empathy, and prestige be measured? This...  Read More >>

Watch and Ward is James' first novel. Serialised in 1871 and published in book form in 1878, it marks an important...  Read More >>

Can sexual restraint be good for you? Many Victorians thought so. This book explores a surprisingly positive view...  Read More >>

First published in 1972, Ghalib presents aspects of Ghalib, the last great literary figured produced by Mughal India...  Read More >>

Play Up and Play the Game (1973) examines the type of fictional hero imbued with the spirit of fairplay, loyalty,...  Read More >>

Published around 1860, these fantastical stories are adorned with supernatural religious elements typical of Romanticism,...  Read More >>

A revelatory portrait of Chekhov during the most extraordinary artistic surge of his life.  Read More >>

Provides a uniquely detailed and accessible insight into the terminology and culture of the Victorian period  Read More >>