Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

Re-Reading Zola and Worldwide Naturalism continues the discussion of Émile Zola and French naturalism with examinations of unexplored areas of the ...

How do Spanish writers of the 19th and 20th century define and represent madness, a basic and controversial aspect of world culture, and how do the...

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

Master mariner and pioneer author of Modernist technique Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) achieved such eminence in his lifetime that his presence, explic...

This is the first study to explore the connections between the development of travel and the rapid expansion of the periodicals market in the secon...

A STUNNING CELEBRATORY EDITION OF THE SUNDAY TIMES-BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY, COMPLETE WITH NEW INTRODUCTION AND EPILOGUE: THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ANY JA...

Charles Dickens is one of the best-loved icons of British literature, but many of his novels stem from his connections with Europe. Does it make se...

This book establishes deconstructive dialogues between texts which are generically, chronologically and stylistically very different. Each chapter ...

The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron offers the latest in critical thinking about the poet that defined the Romantic era across Europe and beyond. The...

This book is about the political wisdom embodied in Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain, the self-declared best book by arguably Am...

Edward Lear wrote a well-known autobiographical poem that begins How pleasant to know Mr Lear! But how well do we really know him? On the one hand ...

The manuscript of Coleridge's Logic is published here in its entirety for the first time, along with the texts of manuscripts that are directly rel...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Fyodor Dostoevsky became the writer best known for his treatment of the big questions of et...

This book re-assesses the significance to Pre-Raphaelitism of the fundamental relationship of poem to painting, of the visual to the verbal, to exa...

Contemporary scholarship about W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) is increasingly clear about the implications of his being a nationalist from a Protestant bac...

Many of the ideas that appear in Arnold's Preface of 1853 to his collection of poems and in his later essays are suggested in the letters that Arno...

Author, political activist and salonnière, Germaine de Staël has become the focal point of groundbreaking research in womens studies, in performing...

Henry Crabb Robinson (17751867) earned his place in literary history as a perceptive diarist from 1811 onwards. Drawing substantially on hitherto u...

A.E. Housman's poetry (especially A Shropshire Lad) remains well-known, widely read and often quoted. However, Housman did not view himself as a pr...

In the age of Enlightenment the concept of night evolved from being a time of dread to a time for pleasure. Between the start of the Régence (1715-...

Véritable Strabon français pour ses contemporains, Jean-Baptiste dAnville est considéré comme lun des plus grands géographes des Lumières. Ce livre...