Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

When Eugene Onegin moves from St Petersburg to take up residence in the country estate he has inherited, he strikes...  Read More >>

Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863–1938) was one of the most prominent and innovative directors of modern theatre, and...  Read More >>

"E.T.A. Hoffmann, der Autor, Komponist, Zeichner und Jurist, hat mit den ""Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr nebst...  Read More >>

The Victorians are usually painted as prim, proper and repressed. Yet it was in Victoria’s Britain that the comic...  Read More >>

Addressing US literature from 1876 to 1910, this volume aims to account for the period's immense transformations....  Read More >>

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection...  Read More >>

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An in-depth comparative analysis of the family novel as it developed as a genre in Russia and England during the...  Read More >>

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Science Fiction and Anticipation focuses on American and European influential works of science fiction published...  Read More >>

A novel of hypocrisy and double standards. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager,...  Read More >>

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

Presents concepts in interdisciplinary social studies, discusses the uses of genre for rhetorical and social purposes,...  Read More >>

Around the turn of the nineteenth century, no task seemed more urgent to German Romantics than the creation of a...  Read More >>

Drawing on medical journals and fiction, as well as professional advice guides and popular periodicals, this volume...  Read More >>

The first one-volume history of Canadian fiction covering its growth and development from earliest times to the...  Read More >>

"Rüdiger Görner presents this complex context as a special case in recent literary history. This book is a translation...  Read More >>

In Victorian England, Amelia B. Edwards was an iconic cultural figure, admired by Trollope and Browning for her...  Read More >>

Shows how Dante’s Divine Comedy shaped the development of German Romanticism. The book argues that the weight of...  Read More >>

Nordic Romanticism: Translation, Transmission, Transformation is an edited collection exploring the varied and complex...  Read More >>

Enea Bianchi provides the first in-depth introduction to the pioneering thought of 20th-century Italian philosopher,...  Read More >>

In Victorian England, Amelia B. Edwards was an iconic cultural figure, admired by Trollope and Browning for her...  Read More >>

A study of the fiction of Charles Dickens that traces the intersections between nineteenth-century literature and...  Read More >>