Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

This innovative new book combines environmental justice scholarship with a material ecocriticism to explore the way in which early Victorian litera...

Bringing together concerns in border studies, the environmental humanities and Scottish literary studies, this open access book examines the relati...

The advent of print heralded a significant chapter in the history of colonial modernity in South Asia that led to the emergence of new literary cul...

This book on modern and contemporary Irish theatre traces how social, cultural and economic capital are circulated in order to demonstrate complex ...

While the it-narrative, the thing-poem and thing theatre have been around for some time, the essay which is often considered literatures fourth ge...

Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature is a comprehensive study of the family in Anglophone childrens and Young Adult literature from the ...

The 1850s United States witnessed a far-reaching political, social, and economic crisis. Symptomatic of this, a wide range of narrative fiction fro...

Claudia Brodsky marshals her equal expertise in literature and philosophy to redefine the terms and trajectory of the theory and interpretation of ...

Amidst the popularization of race science and rapid colonial expansion that characterized the Romantic era, newly urgent discussions about the mora...

Amidst the popularization of race science and rapid colonial expansion that characterized the Romantic era, newly urgent discussions about the mora...

Long portrayed as a masculine endeavor, the African American struggle for progress often found expression through an unlikely literary figure: the ...

Lenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and ins...

Winner of the 2021 Best International Book Award from the Mormon History Association In the late nineteenth century, numerous French plays, novels,...

First published in 1968, Jane Austens Emma is a critical study of Miss Austens last completed novel. While often pausing to analyse and comment on ...

Der Band 43 der Schiller Nationalausgabe bringt Korrekturen und Ergänzungen, darunter viele Briefe sowie Schillers Fieberschrift (seine erste Disse...

The Suicidal State theorizes a biopolitics of suicide by mapping the entwinement between the Progressive-Era discourse of race suicide and period r...

Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy examines a revolutionary period in microscopical technology and practice. At first considered a mere toy...

The first collection of essays published on trailblazing nineteenth-century Black feminist, activist, journal, and educator, Mary Ann Shadd Cary Ma...

The book illuminates the spatial utopianism of South Asian anti-colonial texts by showing how they refuse colonial spatial imaginaries to re-imagin...

2024 erscheint der 63. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs. Er enthält u.a. Joseph A. Kruses Auseinandersetzung mit Heinrich Heines Poetisierungen zweier ...

Considers Tennyson's poems, from the elegiac In Memoriam to the Arthurian Idylls of the King, in the context of Victorian interest in philology. ...

This volume looks to core ideas defining Goethes work and his influence on his contemporaries and inheritors. Contributions to this volume explore ...

Redefines Romantic sociability through a reading of social contract theoryThe Politics of Romanticism examines the relationship between two major t...

Concerns about Haiti suffused the early American print public sphere from the outbreak of the revolution in 1791 until well after its conclusion in...

How were the genres of literature changed by new methods of serialization and publishing? How did a widespread culture of performance emerge in the...

Introduces Tennyson's famous elegy to first-time readers, students and teachers of the poem. In Memoriam is one of the most famous and influential ...

What did it mean to have an Irish dwelling in the nineteenth century? How did Irish people write about, think about, visually represent or imagine ...

In Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, Isobel Armstrong rescued Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as a moralised form ...

Opens up the rich topic of Joseph Conrad's complex relationship with languageJoseph Conrad was, famously, trilingual in Polish, French and English,...

This study focuses on Anthony Trollope's stylistic innovations in relation to Victorian liberalismIn his biography of William Makepeace Thackeray, ...

British India and Victorian Literary Culture extends current scholarship on the Victorian period with a wide-ranging and innovative analysis of the...

Examines the way in which the British transformed the Pacific islands during the nineteenth centuryThe discovery of the Pacific islands amplified t...

Drawing on original archival research, A Feminine Enlightenment argues that women writers shaped Enlightenment conversations regarding the role of ...

New Men in Trollope's Novels challenges the popular construction of Victorian men as patriarchal despots and suggests that hands-on fatherhood may ...

This book explores the tension between the conservatism and the imaginative process across the entirety of Rudyard Kiplings fiction. It shows how K...

The power of poetry, a topos since Plato, undergoes a radical transformation in literary texts between 1770 and 1830. Concepts of divine or uncons...

Ahad Ha'am (the pen name of Asher Ginsberg) is mainly remembered as the 'father of cultural Zionism'. But there was much more to the man and his th...

This book is about the parlance of political economic ideas with scientific practices in the Duchy of Milan, from the late eighteenth-century Habsb...

Das Kleist-Jahrbuch 2024 enthält erstmals die Rubrik Kleist-Funde, in der fünf bislang unbekannte Briefe Heinrich von Kleists an Joseph von Buol-Be...

This title was first published in 2001. When the Chartist leader Ernest Jones emerged from prison in 1850, he was determined to capture the public'...