Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

This book explores the representation of the first generations of women who studied at Oxford and Cambridge in popular...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1981 and now reissued with a new preface by Randolph Splitter, this volume examines Proust’s...  Read More >>

Body Language examines how eighteenth-century medical discourse informed the comic novel. Through comic representations...  Read More >>

Reconsiders major thinkers and works of German Idealism and their legacy for our own restless times.  Read More >>

The first English translation of Hölderlin's complete correspondence, with a full introduction and notes.  Read More >>

Body Language examines how eighteenth-century medical discourse informed the comic novel. Through comic representations...  Read More >>

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Providing a collection of E.S. Dallas's work, this volume explores the significance of the Scottish writer’s practical...  Read More >>

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Uncovers the previously neglected links between the nineteenth-century American canon and twentieth-century Asian...  Read More >>

Explores the Romantic-era ballad revival in Britain, Germany and Scandinavia as a transnational phenomenon.  Read More >>

This book argues that the history of 19th-century German philosophy has neglected a crucial narrative: the philosophy...  Read More >>

Now in paperback , A Companion to Charles Dickens concentrates on the historical, ideological, and social forces...  Read More >>

This book offers an original reinterpretation of the literary history of British socialism in the long twentieth...  Read More >>

This book offers the first modern, critical edition of the diary of John William Polidori (1795-1821). Polidori’s...  Read More >>

Victorians and Videogames will examine how games interact with 19th Century genres, aesthetics, and literary themes...  Read More >>

and contemporary writers China Miéville and Jennifer Egan. In/Visible Subjects aims to establish a new literary...  Read More >>

Embodiment, Aesthetics, and Ethics in Romantic Literature and Science makes an unprecedented intervention into debates...  Read More >>

This book examines the relationship between literature and philosophy.  Read More >>

This study reads the Poet’s reactions to the Terror in passages from The Prelude as explicitly about his twenty-three-year-old-self...  Read More >>

Henrik Ibsen’s plays were written at a critical juncture in late nineteenth-century European culture. By reading...  Read More >>

This book discusses Keats’s poetry with regard to post/non-anthropocentric, alternative subject positions and subject-object...  Read More >>

John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer addresses the little-considered personal and literary relationships of...  Read More >>

Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, 1885-1914 explores the complex network of metaphors that emerged...  Read More >>

James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family is the first monograph focusing on Sweeney Todd and Varney the...  Read More >>