Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

In this volume, deeper levels of meaning in James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Last of the Mohicans are studied by...  Read More >>

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The history of music is most often written as a sequence of composers and works. But a richer understanding of the...  Read More >>

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"Recent criticism on Emily Brontë and her novel has tried to correct the deep-rooted belief that Emily Bronte was...  Read More >>

Energy, Ecocriticism, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Novel Ecologies draws on energy concepts to revisit some of...  Read More >>

A volume on translation and language in China from the fifteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. It uses fictional...  Read More >>

This book examines constructions of childhood in the works of Louisa May Alcott. Analyzing Alcott as a writer for...  Read More >>

"Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), besides writing famous novels such as War and Peace, also wrote on political thought,...  Read More >>

Traces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-century...  Read More >>

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Focusing on the publisher’s series, this book explores the leading audience demographics in the late-Victorian railway...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1999, Victorian Culture and the Idea of the Grotesque is the first fully interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

New Men in Trollope's Novels challenges the popular construction of Victorian men as patriarchal despots and suggests...  Read More >>

This study of Eliot as a psychological novelist examines her writings in the context of a large volume of nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Mark Twain as a Literary Comedian looks at how Mark Twain addressed social issues through humour.  Read More >>

This essay collection, bringing together British, European, and North American literary critics and cultural historians...  Read More >>

This book argues that, due to political and ideological shifts in the last decades of the nineteenth century-a time...  Read More >>

In this collection the multidimensional story of children’s literature in the formative period of the long nineteenth...  Read More >>

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The volume is organized into three sections: Language and Romantic Discourse Systems; Women Writers and Romantic...  Read More >>

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Originally published in 1984, Brother Fabian's Manuscript and Other Poems includes Brother Fabian's Manuscript and...  Read More >>

An edited collection of interdisciplinary essays on the work of Elizabeth Robins Pennell, American-born, London-based...  Read More >>