Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

Timothy J. Golden presents an existential, phenomenological, and political interpretation of Douglass's use of narrative....  Read More >>

Marriage was historically not only a romantic ideal, but a tool of exploitation of women in many regards. Discourses...  Read More >>

This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American...  Read More >>

This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American...  Read More >>

Andreas Höfele presents the first critical account of the role of Shakespeare in the intellectual tradition of the...  Read More >>

First published in 1986. This book explores the thesis that the ideas of the Romantics always contained powerful...  Read More >>

First published in 1996, Selected Writings of Hannah More brings together some of More’s most powerful work, illustrating...  Read More >>

Examining the 'Australianness' of Australian romance writing, and considering the attitudes of several authors in...  Read More >>

"""What to make of the British?"" is a question that puzzled Stendhal throughout his whole life. In this new work,...  Read More >>

Don Catrín de la Fachenda, here translated into English for the first time, is a picaresque novel by the Mexican...  Read More >>

Don Catrín de la Fachenda, here translated into English for the first time, is a picaresque novel by the Mexican...  Read More >>

Anxiety about adoring humans more than God frequently overshadows and sometimes derails the progress of romance...  Read More >>

Byronism, Napoleonism and Nineteenth-Century Realism offers a fresh analysis of the nineteenth-century European...  Read More >>

This book brings together an analysis of the theoretical connection of genre, reception, and frame theory and a...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Visions of Race: British Travel Writing about America concerns the depiction of racial Others...  Read More >>

Unearthing previously unseen manuscript and print evidence, the book redefines the notion of Dante's reception by...  Read More >>

This monograph examines Italian women as protagonists and consumers of literature, theatre, opera, and film. Using...  Read More >>

Explores how late Victorian, Edwardian, and modernist literary texts responded and adapted to institutional change...  Read More >>

Drawing on primary sources including novels, Victorian periodical literature, legislative debate, case law and legal...  Read More >>

Taking the representation of the Southern African San as its case study, it uses methodologies drawn from critical...  Read More >>

From Ancient Greece, to King Arthur’s Knights, to the detective work of Sherlock Holmes, parasitologists manipulated...  Read More >>

Die Arbeit untersucht die grundlegenden Veranderungen des Gattungsverstandnisses und des Erzahlverfahrens in Goethes...  Read More >>

Music and Sound in the Life and Literature of James Joyce: Joyces Noyces offers a fresh perspective on the Irish...  Read More >>

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Shortlisted for the Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize 2022, The Tramp in British Literature, 1850-1950 offers a unique...  Read More >>