Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

This study of the poetry and drama of Percy Bysshe Shelley reads the letters and their biographical contexts to...  Read More >>

She was Australian born, an international bestselling author and a member of the glamorous literary, intellectual...  Read More >>

This book argues that embryology and the reproductive sciences played a key role in the rise of the Gothic novel...  Read More >>

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Cather Studies, Volume 13 explores the myriad ways Willa Cather’s writing career was shaped by the decade she lived...  Read More >>

Victorian Contagion: Risk and Social Control in the Victorian Literary Imagination examines the literary and cultural...  Read More >>

Where previous studies have examined the writers of short stories individually, The 19th-Century French Short Story...  Read More >>

Christina Rossetti’s Environmental Consciousness provides a unique understanding of Rossetti’s identity as an artist...  Read More >>

This book examines the relationship between life writing and celebrity in English-language and comparative literary...  Read More >>

In Dickensian Affects: Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity, Joshua Gooch argues that Dickens’s novels offer...  Read More >>

This book analyses British reviews of American women fiction writers, essayists and poets between the periods of...  Read More >>

An innovative approach to literary stylistic analysis that targets students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature...  Read More >>

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Incorporation, Authorship, and Anglo-American Literature is concerned with the ways in which 19th-century authors...  Read More >>

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Employing methodologies from the fields of literature, fan studies, reception history, and media studies, Barbara...  Read More >>

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"Melissa Walker Heidari’s introduction offers a review of scholarship on King’s fiction and a discussion of King’s...  Read More >>

At once an invitation and a provocation, The Socio-Literary Imaginary represents the first collection of essays...  Read More >>

This collection is concerned with the changing approaches to Jane Austen, her writings, and her afterlives, over...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion of Victorian Literature offers 45 articles by leading international scholars working with...  Read More >>

Nordic Literature of Decadence discusses literature from five Nordic countries: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland...  Read More >>

Through individual essays on both literary and political economic writers, this volume defines and analyses the...  Read More >>