Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

In the late eighteenth-century English novel, the question of feminism has usually been explored with respect to how women writers treat their hero...

Wordsworth's Vagrants explores the poet's treatment of the 'idle and disorderly' in the context of the penal laws of the 1790s, when the terror of ...

Wordsworth's Vagrants explores the poet's treatment of the 'idle and disorderly' in the context of the penal laws of the 1790s, when the terror of ...

Focusing on Algernon Charles Swinburne's later writings, this collection makes a case for the seriousness and significance of the writer's mature w...

Arguing that American colonists who declared their independence in 1776 remained tied to England by both habit and inclination, Jennifer Clark trac...

By the 1850s, the expansion of printing and distribution technologies provided writers with more readers and literary outlets than ever before, whi...

In nineteenth-century Britain, the effects of democracy in America were seen to spread from Congress all the way down to the personal habits of its...

While Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are often credited with inventing American environmental writing, Matthew Wynn Sivils argues that...

The nineteenth century was the heyday of travel, with Britons continually reassessing their own culture in relation to not only the colonized but a...

This collection of published papers on the development of the publishing cycle from author to reader includes work by many of the leading authoriti...

What did the 13th Earl of Derby, his twenty-two-year-old niece, Manchesters Belle Vue Zoo, and even some ordinary laborers all have in common? All ...

Focusing on Algernon Charles Swinburne's poems on Apollo, Yisrael Levin calls for a re-examination of the poet's place in Victorian studies in ligh...

In her study of the opening of the English Lake District to mass tourism, Saeko Yoshikawa examines William Wordsworths role in the rise and develop...

Exploring the relationship between poverty and religion in William Wordsworths poetry, Heidi J. Snow challenges the traditional view that the poets...

Proposing the concept of transformation as a key to understanding the Victorian period, this collection explores the protean ways in which the nine...

The History of the Book in South Asia covers not only the various modern states that make up South Asia today but also a multitude of languages and...

Challenging the idea that a writers work reflects his experiences in time and place, Andrew M. Cooper locates the action of William Blakes major il...

Starting with the hypothesis that not only human intelligence but also its antithesis 'intellectual disability' are nothing more than historical co...

Starting with the hypothesis that not only human intelligence but also its antithesis 'intellectual disability' are nothing more than historical co...

In her exhaustive publishing history of Frances Burney's Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress, Catherine Parisian mines an extensive archival record t...

How did romanticism define its relationship with its sources? How has romanticism since been understood and misunderstood across a range of cultura...

To Samuel Taylor Coleridge, tragedy was not solely a literary mode, but a philosophy to interpret the history that unfolded around him. Tragic Cole...

Based on meticulous archival research, Dennis M. Read's study offers the most accurate and thorough account to date of the engraver, editor, and ar...

This volume contains key articles and chapters which represent both seminal and innovative scholarship on European theatre performance practice fro...