Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

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 ...

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Arabic-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire saw a crucial change in attitudes towards sexuality. Notion...

The unquenchable thirst of Dracula. The animal lust of Mr. Hyde. The acquiescence of Lewis Carroll's Alice. Victorian literature--with its overtone...

The Victorian Novel On File argues that the nineteenth-century information explosion shapes the novel form. In a world teeming with data, the novel...