Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

In this volume, scholars from diverse research fields (literature, history, art history, and folklore studies) scan...  Read More >>

This book challenges the status quo of studies in literature and religion by returning to “experience” as a bridge...  Read More >>

This book focuses on Dostoevsky's first literary publication-his 1844 translation of the first edition of Balzac's...  Read More >>

A bold attempt at solving the riddle of Gogol's novel Dead Souls. Gogol constructed the novel strictly according...  Read More >>

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This book traces the emergence of modern pessimism in nineteenth-century France and examines its aesthetic, epistemological,...  Read More >>

A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. ‘Highly...  Read More >>

This book shows how prose writers in the Victorian period grappled with the sea as a setting, a shaper of plot and...  Read More >>

This book is to free the humanities from their anthropocentric frame and explore how they might instead deepen our...  Read More >>

Charting an 'aesthetic', post-realist tradition of writing, this book considers the significant role played by John...  Read More >>

The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry surveys the variety of ways in which Persia, and the multitude of ideological,...  Read More >>

Integrating forgotten tales of literary communities across Iran, Afghanistan and South Asia at a time when Islamic...  Read More >>

First published in 2001, this book presents a clear exposition of Tolstoy's What is Art?, highlighting the value...  Read More >>

This three-volume book investigates the Russian transformations of one of the central concepts of Greek Christology,...  Read More >>

The premise of the present book is that GE’s oeuvre is a compact macrotext where themes, motifs, patterns and cultural...  Read More >>

Building on the notion of fiction as communicative act, this collection brings together an interdisciplinary range...  Read More >>

First published in 1947, The Last Romantics elucidates on the major preoccupations of the leaders of thought in...  Read More >>

This monograph focuses on reading, literary genre and seaside resorts between the 1840s and the 1930s. As the railway...  Read More >>

A first-rate reference, this study focuses on Hugo's style as a mirror of the word. At a time when debates pit national...  Read More >>

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This book explores how authors profited from their writings in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries,...  Read More >>

Jane Austen is one of the most widely-read novelists in the English language, and one of very few pre-Victorian...  Read More >>

The dissertation offers an alternative perspective on Goethe's epic project as it traces the 20th century's restitution...  Read More >>

Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan narrates forgotten stories of cross-cultural friendship and love...  Read More >>

This book tells the story of how nineteenth-century writers turned to the realist novel in order to reimagine Jesus...  Read More >>