Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

This book examines the imperial spectacles and startling reversals of fortune related in William H. Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico (1...

Narratives of Womens Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel looks extensively at hysteria discourse through medical and sociological t...

This collection explores how anthologizers and editors of Edgar Allan Poe play an integral role in shaping our conceptions of Poe as the author we ...

When the first issue of The Liberal was published on 10 October 1822, the periodical was largely dismissed by the British press as a political proj...

After a long period of comparative neglect, starting almost immediately upon his death in 1900, John Ruskin began to attract, from the 1960s onward...

Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921), the most important female author of Spains nineteenth century, was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, crit...

Wilde Between the Sheets: Oscar Wilde, Mail Bondage and De Profundis argues that Oscar Wildes narrative strategies reveal a quick-witted, ingenious...

This book offers an entertaining study of the facts and fantasies associated with the vacuum cleaner as it evolved from a luxury gimmick to a house...

Walking and its relationship to our mental and cultural lives has been a topic of huge academic and popular interest in the last few years. Here, A...

The Aesthetic Movement, a collection of artists, writers and thinkers who rejected traditional ideas of beauty as guided and judged by morals and u...

This book asks why so many authors drew on Cornwall for inspiration across the long nineteenth century, and considers the seismic cultural changes ...

American Literature as an Expression of the National Mind (1931) is a remarkable work that traces not only the history and development of literatur...

This multidisciplinary volume examines the ongoing effects of James G. Frazers The Golden Bough in modern Humanities and its wide-ranging influence...

Liber amicorum H. R. Woudhuysen: a Bibliographical Tribute is a Festschrift for Henry Woudhuysen, one of the most senior and influential early mode...

Romantic Responses to Revolution through Miltonic Ideas of the Fall explores the influence of John Miltons epic poem, Paradise Lost, on a range of ...

The Gothic Chapbook, Bluebook, and Shilling Shocker, 1797-1835 breaks new ground surveying the origins of the gothic chapbook, its publishers and a...

In this book, acclaimed Dostoevsky biographer Joseph Frank explores some of the most important aspects of nineteenth and twentieth century Russian ...

In The Lost Thread, Rancière debunks the notion of Flaubert, Baudelaire, Conrad, Woolf and Keats as reactionary producers of bourgeois mythologie...

Jane Austen and Masculinity is an eclectic collection of contemporary scholarship addressing the representation of men and masculinity in the ficti...

Winner of the ASLE-UKI Book Prize 2023. The commons and enclosure are among the most vital ways of thinking about poetry today, posing urgent ecolo...