Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

This book shows that novelists often responded to newspapers by reworking well-known events covered by Victorian...  Read More >>

This book pioneers a subfield of Romantic periodical studies, distinct from its neighbours in adjacent historical...  Read More >>

Argues against the repeated emphasis on literary form and for the artistic importance of literary content  Read More >>

This book brings together a range of new models for modern living that emerged in response to social and economic...  Read More >>

Starting with his lectures at the Ecole normale in the 1880s, Ferdinand Brunetiere laid the foundations of the philological...  Read More >>

This book depicts Senancour as a thinker who puts the immanent and universal force of nature at the heart of a fundamental...  Read More >>

The legendary characters from Karl May's travel and youth stories - from Winnetou and Old Shatterhand to Sam Hawkens...  Read More >>

Starting with his lectures at the Ecole normale in the 1880s, Ferdinand Brunetiere laid the foundations of the philological...  Read More >>

This book depicts Senancour as a thinker who puts the immanent and universal force of nature at the heart of a fundamental...  Read More >>

"World famous at twenty-four, brilliant and reckless, hard-living and scandalous, Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge...  Read More >>

"World famous at twenty-four, brilliant and reckless, hard-living and scandalous, Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge...  Read More >>

Written in Portugal in 1843 by a homesick student longing for Brazil, Song of Exile has inspired thousands of parodies,...  Read More >>

In this first comprehensive English-language portrait of the Brothers Grimm as political thinkers and actors, Jakob...  Read More >>

Synthesizing music, literature and theory, Fraser Riddell reveals the importance of music in emergent queer identities...  Read More >>

A Handbook devoted to the American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-86) that explores form and genre, reception of her...  Read More >>

Offers readers the opportunity to uncover the social, political, economic, and cultural connections between the...  Read More >>

Energy, Ecocriticism, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Novel Ecologies draws on energy concepts to revisit some of...  Read More >>

Angels have never been so present as they were during modernity, when the religious was called into question. What...  Read More >>

"The essays of Emile Faguet, then a very influential critic, illustrate the volatility of the reception of Michel...  Read More >>

Angels have never been so present as they were during modernity, when the religious was called into question. What...  Read More >>

"The essays of Emile Faguet, then a very influential critic, illustrate the volatility of the reception of Michel...  Read More >>

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A study of the notion of the everyday in the work of William Wordsworth, George Eliot, and Ludwig Wittgenstein that...  Read More >>

In Common Things explores the implacable agency of common substances in the life and literature of the Romantic...  Read More >>

Applies critical terrorism studies to fiction by Eliot, Trollope, and others to argue that Victorians ushered in...  Read More >>