Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

This collection of essays explores the remarkable range and cultural significance of the engagement with ‘infancy’...  Read More >>

Parisian Pauline Guyot (1805-1886), who wrote under the nom de plume Camille Lebrun. Among her works is a hitherto-untranslated...  Read More >>

This book investigates the transposition of short stories to drama in the works of two leading Sicilian authors,...  Read More >>

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

This five-volume series, British Women’s Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840–1940, historicallycontextualizes...  Read More >>

The book shows how literary fiction invented the notion of unconscious before psychoanalysis in the nineteenth century,...  Read More >>

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

Examines the role that disability, both as a concept and an experience, played in seventeenth-century debates about...  Read More >>

A collection of essays to mark the tercentenary of the death of writer and politician, Joseph Addison (1672-1719)...  Read More >>

This book explores how nineteenth-century science stimulated the emergence of weird tales at the fin de siècle,...  Read More >>

The respective chapters explore both the politics of emotion and the emotional register of political discussion...  Read More >>

This book attends to four poets – John Clare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edward Thomas, and Ivor Gurney – whose poems...  Read More >>

Anticipatory Materialisms explores nineteenth and early twentieth-century literature thatanticipates and pre-empts...  Read More >>

Utilizing recent developments in book history and digital humanities, this book offers a cultural, economic, and...  Read More >>

This book explores the extraordinary proliferation of novels based on Henry James’s life and works published between...  Read More >>

Literature and Modern Time is a collection of essays that explore literature in the context of a wave of challenges...  Read More >>

Poetical Matter examines the two-way exchange of language and methods between nineteenth-century poetry and the...  Read More >>

The periodicals in which Gaskell’s shorter pieces were published offer a microcosm of nineteenth-century society,...  Read More >>

This book explores the ways that critics writing in the early nineteenth century developed arguments in favour of...  Read More >>

This book explores the boundaries of British continental travel and tourism in the nineteenth century, stretching...  Read More >>

The book shows how literary fiction invented the notion of unconscious before psychoanalysis in the nineteenth century,...  Read More >>

Examining the notion of migration and transnationalism within the life and work of Joseph Conrad, this book situates...  Read More >>

This literary, cultural history examines Russian tourism via the prism of cosmopolitanism, pitted against provinciality...  Read More >>

The book focuses on the early period of Roma publishing (from the nineteenth century until the Second World War)...  Read More >>

Many of the best-known British authors of the 1800s were fascinated by the science and technology of their era....  Read More >>