Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

The notion of beauty is inherently elusive: aesthetic judgments are at once subjective and felt to be universally valid. In Beauty Matters, Anri Ya...

On the Wonders of Land and Sea: Persianate Travel Writing initiates a comparative study of non-European travel writers in the eastern Islamic or Pe...

Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods explores the construction of the child and the development of texts for children in the ninetee...

Romantic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion provides a thorough critical, textual and historical account of the Gothic aesthetic as manifested across a...

Die Gesamtausgabe der Briefe an Goethe in Regestform erschließt mehr als 19.800 Briefe von etwa 3.500 Absendern. Die bisher erschienenen neun Bände...

Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the worl...

Body Language: Corporeality, Subjectivity, and Language in Johann Georg Hamann addresses the centrality of sensual perception to the constitution o...

A collection of political talesfirst published in British workers magazinesselected and introduced by acclaimed critic and author Michael RosenIn t...

The fascinations of John Clare's life are manifold. A labouring-class poet and naturalist, he was lionised in the early 1820s but spent his final d...

The fascinations of John Clare's life are manifold. A labouring-class poet and naturalist, he was lionised in the early 1820s but spent his final d...

Despite Dorothy Wordsworths having long ago entered the pantheon of English diarists, only brief segments of the fifteen notebook diaries that she ...

What do we gain from watching a familiar play for the nth time? This was a crucial question for Romantic-period theatre managers, who, to deliver v...

First Published in 1960, Critical Essays on the Poetry of Tennyson presents a collection of essays, most of which have been previously published in...

This book explores the interplay between literature and law, showing how writers from Victor Hugo to Annie Ernaux have influenced and reflected cha...

This book explores the construction of male sexuality in nineteenth-century American literature and overturns longstanding views. Far from desiring...

This book brings an original perspective to literary theory and criticism by using insights drawn from visual cognition and neuroscience. Employing...

In the late eighteenth century a small Shaker community travelled to America under the leadership of Mother Ann Lee. The American communities they ...

In the late eighteenth century a small Shaker community travelled to America under the leadership of Mother Ann Lee. The American communities they ...

Wichtige Erschließungshilfe der Kommentarbände und Ergänzung des Registerbandes 10: In alphabetischer Ordnung werden zentrale Begriffe und Erläuter...

Imagining Women's Property in Victorian Fiction reframes how we think about Victorian women's changing economic rights and their representation in ...