Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

The third edition of the Victorian Era volume of The Broadview Anthology of British Literature includes a number...  Read More >>

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Chekhov's Children explores Anton Chekhov's stories – dating from his early writings in the 1880s – as a distinct...  Read More >>

In 1797 Robert Southey published a richly detailed account of his travels in Spain and Portugal, structured as a...  Read More >>

This study traces transformations in the pacing of prose fiction from the rise of the novel through realism and...  Read More >>

Washington Irving’s Critique of American Culture argues that Irving offers not only a critique of a culture losing...  Read More >>

Literary Slumming: Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France reveals how the use of slang in French literature...  Read More >>

'Improvisations of Empire' examines the varied career of Thomas Pringle, a Scottish poet and journalist. It engages...  Read More >>

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This work studies novels that deal with the links between religion and illness. Beyond their poetic and ideological...  Read More >>

This work studies novels that deal with the links between religion and illness. Beyond their poetic and ideological...  Read More >>

Offering innovative, psychoanalytic readings of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s mature novels, this volume expertly applies...  Read More >>

Harriet Beecher Stowe's follow-up to her popular yet controversial book, Uncle Tom's Cabin that features critical...  Read More >>

In one of the great autobiographies of the English language, Mark Twain recounts everything that ever happened to...  Read More >>

The Experimental Novel (1880) is an essay by French author mile Zola. Written at the height of his career as a leading...  Read More >>

An entirely original look at the evolution of a cultural phenomenon. As John Edgar Browning puts it in his Foreword,...  Read More >>

The Agency of Objects in English Prose, 1789–1832: Conspicuous Things engages with new materialist methodologies...  Read More >>

This is a unique study of how readers have engaged with Shakespeare's Sonnets over four centuries. Jane Kingsley-Smith...  Read More >>

Biofiction: An introduction provides readers with the history, origins, evolution, and legitimization of biofiction,...  Read More >>

An informative and thorough companion to Herman Melville's life and writings. It includes a biography of Melville...  Read More >>

Biofiction: An introduction provides readers with the history, origins, evolution, and legitimization of biofiction,...  Read More >>

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Cet ouvrage réunit des études consacrées à la littérature de langue allemande écrite à l'orée du romantisme jusqu'au...  Read More >>

Situated opposite the mouth of the Orinoco River, western Trinidad has long been considered an entrepôt to mainland...  Read More >>