Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

Die Tagebuch-Aufzeichnungen von 1819 bis 1820. In den Aufzeichnungen der beiden Jahre spiegeln sich eine politisch spannungsvolle Zeit, Goethes Arb...

Die täglichen Aufzeichnungen von 1821 bis 1822. Im ersten Jahr vollendet Goethe den Roman Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre. Erster Theil , im zweiten d...

John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer addresses the little-considered personal and literary relationships of John Ruskin and four major Victor...

For fans new and old, an enjoyable tour through the world of Dickens in the hands of a master critic. Charles Dickens, the 'Great Inimitable', crea...

The modern media world came into being in the nineteenth century, when machines were harnessed to produce texts and images in unprecedented numbers...

This wide-ranging and entertaining book explores blank space from incunabula to Google books. Blanks are a paradox--simultaneously nothing and some...

What did British people in the late eighteenth century think and feel about their relationship to nonhuman animals? This book shows how an apprecia...

Dieser Band enthält die Erläuterungen zu den beiden Bänden Lebenszeugnisse, Teil I (Schillers Kalender, Schillers Bibliothek) und Teil IIA (Dokumen...

Der Band 19 II der Schiller Nationalausgabe bietet erstmals einen umfassenden historisch-kritischen Anmerkungsapparat zu den in den Bänden 17 und 1...

Frederick Douglass and the Philosophy of Religion: An Interpretation of Narrative, Art, and Politics addresses Douglass's narrative method and the ...

This book focuses on the cultural reception of Milton and his works in nineteenth-century America. Using reception theory, the work analyzes the co...

Who is the Proust of the Paphuans?, Saul Bellow infamously inquired, as if this vast expanse were too small, scattered and backward to deserve con...

The Romantic period witnessed decisive interest in how feeling might align with forms of artistic expression. Many critical studies have focused on...

Practicing Romance sets out to re-tell the story of Hawthorne's career, arguing that he is best understood as a cultural analyst of extraordinary a...

In the nineteenth century, American and British culture experienced an explosion of interest in writings about the brain. The years between 1800 an...

Gothic Mash-Ups explores the role of intertextuality in Gothic storytelling through the analysis of texts from diverse periods and media. Drawing o...

Mobility and Corporeality in 19th and 21st Century Anglophone Literature: Bodies in Motion aims at exploring the intersection of literary, mobility...

This edited volume offers new models for engaging with the work of John Ruskin, the Victorian art critic, architectural and educational theorist, a...

Many are familiar with European modernists' interest in Chinese art and poetry, however less well known is that Russian literature and art at the t...

The earliest environmental criticism took its inspiration from the Romantic poets and their immersion in the natural world. Today the romanticising...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In 1816, when eighteen-year old Mary Godwin began writing Frankenstein, the idea that a wom...