Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is widely recognised as one of the central and defining figures in Scottish literature and in European and American Ro...

Émile Zola was the leader of the literary movement known as 'naturalism' and is one of the great figures of the novel. In his monumental Les Rougon...

This book tracks the rise of modern cultural regionalism across the turn of the nineteenth century. Attending specifically to literature and litera...

The central argument of Edward Said's Orientalism is that the relationship between Britain and its colonies was primarily oppositional, based on co...

The Ideas in Things explores apparently inconsequential objects in popular Victorian texts to make contact with their fugitive meanings. Developing...

Ever since human beings first travelled, cities have constituted important material and literary destinations. While the city has formed a key them...

Ever since human beings first travelled, cities have constituted important material and literary destinations. While the city has formed a key them...

Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction explores the dialogue between popular literature and medical and scientifi...

Representations of Health, Illness, and Repair in the Works of Louisa May Alcott analyzes a remarkably wide range of wholesome and unwholesome soci...

A critical account of the idea of intelligence in modern French literature and thoughtIn the late nineteenth century, psychologists and philosopher...

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the poetry and prose of Matthew ...

Hawthornes Histories, Hawthornes World picks up Hawthorne where The Province of Piety left him, extending the  historical and theological reading t...

This powerful new reading of Moby-Dick brings into play some of the most consequential theoretical developments of the last three decades in philos...

Die Schriften Rahel Levin Varnhagens (17711833) sind ästhetisch und thematisch komplex. Sie umfassen kleine Formen, u.a. Aphorismen und Lektürerefl...

Victorian Alphabet Books and the Education of the Eye shows how the familiar genre went beyond mere reading instruction to offer nineteenth-century...

Women and madness in the early Romantic novel returns madness to a central role in feminist literary criticism through an updated exploration of hy...

This book provides a critical and biographical account of the fascinating hand-made book of rector William Greswell (1848-1923), in which he assemb...

Specters, Monsters, and the Damned examines a rich selection of Spanish fantastic literature to illustrate how the language of the supernatural exp...

Specters, Monsters, and the Damned examines a rich selection of Spanish fantastic literature to illustrate how the language of the supernatural exp...