Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

Hawthorne's Histories, Hawthorne's World collects together the essays Professor Colacurcio has written on Hawthorne...  Read More >>

The social novel in 19th-century Britain has been considered the effort of a mostly male canon of writers. In this...  Read More >>

At the heart of this book, first published in 1990, is a friendship between two women: Jane Carlyle and the novelist...  Read More >>

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Explores the influence of literary form on the ways in which our worldly experiences are shaped. The volume considers...  Read More >>

An exciting new contribution to the expanding but still largely uncharted territory of collaboration studies, Late...  Read More >>

Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction explores the dialogue between popular literature...  Read More >>

Reading The Romantic Ridiculous aims to take Romantic Studies from the sublime to the ridiculous, building on recent...  Read More >>

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A comparative study of iconographic and fictional representations of department stores in France and Egypt, as sites...  Read More >>

Covers sex in William Blake’s works and Blake’s personal views about sex, and offers a more general overview of...  Read More >>

When Parisian workers took to the streets in February 1848, they adopted the rallying cry of droit au travail. In...  Read More >>

Perhaps no period better clarifies our current crisis of digital information than the nineteenth century. Self-aware...  Read More >>

Curious Subjects makes the striking and original argument that what we find at the intersection between women subjects...  Read More >>

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At the heart of the book is a departure from the obsession with ""modernity"" that has been so prominent in nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

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This book investigates how Victorian fiction reconfigures the narrative and social conventions of inheritance by...  Read More >>

Exploring Gaskell’s tactile imagination, an embodied relationship with fabrics and sewing, a function of her daily...  Read More >>

This handbook is an invaluable resource about Victorian literature, art, and culture which challenges its readers...  Read More >>

A diverse and multinational volume, this book showcases the passages of Joseph Conrad’s narratives across geographical...  Read More >>

This book explores the relationship between ekphrasis and memory in the novel. Drawing on À la recherche du temps...  Read More >>

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