Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

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

Throughout her works, Mary Wollstonecraft interrogates and represents the connected network of theater, culture, and self-representation, in what L...

Exploring the ways in which transatlantic relationships functioned in the nineteenth century to unsettle hierarchical models of gender, race, and n...

The cafe is not only a place to enjoy a cup of coffee, it is also a space - distinct from its urban environment - in which to reflect and take part...

In her study of Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Martineau and George Eliot, Lesa Scholl shows how three Victorian women writers broadened their capacity...

Victorian Verse: The Poetics of Everyday Life casts new light on nineteenth-century poetry by examining the period through its popular verse forms ...

'A tremendous sentimental education of a book ... scholarly discernment mixed with a wild-card flair ... an exceptional anthology, fascinating and ...

Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods. Analyzing the dis...

The volume asks how the literatures of the Americas and the Caribbean present multiple or internally differentiated spaces and how these are distin...

This edited volume explores the historical, cultural and literary legacies of Polish Britain, and their significance for both the British and Polis...

This book offers the first full-length study of Henry James's relationship with, and literary treatment of, New York. It shows how the city, whethe...

Narratives of Injury redescribes the history of injury from the perspective of those most at risk, rather than medical professionals and other outs...

The Mediterranean is ubiquitous in nineteenth-century British literature, but this study is the first to fully recover and explore the region's cen...

The Hero (1925) explains tragedy itself, through a close examination of multiple texts, with a particular focus on Shakespeare. It references many ...

The Early English Text Society (EETS) was founded in 1864 by F. J. Furnivall, in part to supply lexicographical material for the Philological Socie...

A group biography of five women who played path-breaking roles in the transcendentalist movement In November 1839, a group of young women in Bosto...

This book fills a unique gap in the research on the cultural history of vegetarianism and veganism, children's literature and Victorian periodicals...

This book fills a gap in existing scholarship on the history of the novel in relation to visual culture by discussing the visual fascination that n...

This volume includes sources relating to a range of social and cultural contexts, including the proliferation of natural history crazes (ferns, aqu...

A Book of the Year in The Times & Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Spectator, Irish Times and TLS. 'Superb' Daily Mail, 'Book of the Week''Brilliant' ...

Die These des Buches ist, dass in der frühen Neuzeit die Literatur den Vorrang vor der Naturbetrachtung beanspruchte. Verschiebungen gab es über Ph...

This book places major literary works within the context of the topics that engaged a great number of American writers in the period from the end o...

A Concise Companion to Realism offers an accessible introduction to realism as it has evolved since the 19th century. Though focused on literature ...