Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

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

Every literary household in nineteenth-century Britain had a commonplace book, scrapbook, or album. Coleridge called his collection Fly-Catchers, w...

This is the first book-length study of imperial crossings in Thomas Hardys novels and short stories. Combining the strengths of world-literary and ...

Shows that the work of Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) forms a philosophy of dialogue and communication that is crucially relevant to contemporary...

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies?This volume trac...

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies?This volume expl...

What makes fiction recognizable as fiction? Texts are shaped by their material print, but this book argues that they can also be made in response t...

Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition takes the uncanny and unsettling fiction of Thomas Hardy as fundamental in examining the lineage of Hard...

Drawing from diverse multilingual sources, Krzemie delves into Solomon Dubno's life (17381813), unraveling complexities of the Haskalah movement's ...

Perhaps no period better clarifies our current crisis of digital information than the nineteenth century. Self-aware about its own epochal telecomm...

Perhaps no period better clarifies our current crisis of digital information than the nineteenth century. Self-aware about its own epochal telecomm...

Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the om...

Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the om...

Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic breaks new ground in uncovering penny titles which have been hitherto largely neglected from literary discourse reve...

Within the Euro-American literary tradition, Gothic stories of childhood and adolescence have often served as a tool for cultural propaganda, advan...

Thomas Owens explores some of the exultant visions inspired by Wordsworth's and Coleridge's close scrutiny of the night sky, the natural world, and...

Wovon »sprechen« Brahms Symphonien, was ist ihr musikalischer Gehalt? War Johannes Brahms ein formtreuer Klassizist oder ein »verkappter Programmmu...

Bazaar Literature reorients our understanding of Victorian social reform fiction by reading it in light of the copious amount of literature generat...