Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

This volume provides an accessible and engaging guide to American drama. Designed to support students in reading,...  Read More >>

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This volume provides an accessible and engaging guide to American drama. Designed to support students in reading,...  Read More >>

Household goods, souvenirs, junk or rubbish - the literature of Realism reflects the changed relationships between...  Read More >>

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"The work constitutes a type of masculinity in Russian literature of the second half of the 19th century and traces...  Read More >>

More than any other genre, the sentimental novel is subject to the prejudice of trivial rapture, which is supposed...  Read More >>

Introduces seventy Victorian urban legends ranging from ‘Beetle Eyes’ to the ‘Shoplifter’s Dilemma’ and from ‘Hands...  Read More >>

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

This study argues that eighteenth-century 'belles lettres' rhetorical theory played a key role in developing a horizon...  Read More >>

This is a new account of the literary and cultural history of the Civil War era. It offers scholarly histories of...  Read More >>

Tracing the historical contexts, global coordinates, and present reverberations of American literature in the decades...  Read More >>

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This volume presents a complex portrait of a US grappling with the trials of national adolescence. Subjects include:...  Read More >>

Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this edition of Celia in Search of a Husband contributes to this...  Read More >>

"About A Dish of Orts Read the thoughts of the man who influenced three generations of philosophers and writers....  Read More >>

This special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is devoted to William Blake. It explores the British...  Read More >>

- Das Buch begibt sich auf Spurensuche nach den Anfängen der Romantik, beobachtet einen Wandel im Nachdenken über...  Read More >>

Contributeurs: Jeremie Alliet, Eric Bordas, Peter Brooks, Francesco Fiorentino, Francesco Gambino, Kathia Huynh,...  Read More >>

Confessional poetry, romans a clef, personal essays, gossip columns, and more gave Romantic-era readers exceptional...  Read More >>

Confessional poetry, romans a clef, personal essays, gossip columns, and more gave Romantic-era readers exceptional...  Read More >>

A comprehensive, multicultural study of the influential and complex presence of race in American literature by top...  Read More >>

A study of Charles Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris (1859) that explores how the practice of reading prose poems...  Read More >>

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World Literature and the Question of Genre in Colonial India describes the way Marathi literary culture, entrenched...  Read More >>