Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

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...

Law and Literature: The Irish Case is a collection of fascinating essays by literary and legal scholars which explore the intersections between law...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. In this book Michele Speitz assembles the first full-length ...

Situated at the intersection of affect studies, ecocriticism, aesthetics, and Romantic studies, this book presents a genealogy of love in Romantic-...

The edition brings together the known writings in poetry and prose of Edward Rushton (1756--1814). Blinded by trachoma after an outbreak on the sla...

This volume of essays explores the multiple forms and functions of reading and writing in nineteenth-century Ireland. This century saw a dramatic t...

George Meredith was a lyrical yet searingly honest poet, and an influential novelist whose fiction distilled, contributed to and animated the major...

This book explores the theme of gambling in a wide range of nineteenth-century English novels. It examines the representation of gambling in the no...

The sense of smell has long been the most neglected of the human senses in literature. Common Scents sets out to undo this forgetting of olfactory ...

Is the novel a category of knowledge that merits serious study? Even if the novel has shed the stigma of being mindless entertainment, one might ea...

The essays collected in this book constitute a new contribution to our understanding of the originality and significance of Chekhovs prose. A close...

John Polidoris novella The Vampyre (1819) is perhaps the most influential horror story of all time (Frayling). Polidoris story transformed the sham...

This collection explores Gissings place in the narrative of fin-de-siècle literature. Together, chapters here theorise how late-Victorian spatial a...

This volume deals with the various (direct and indirect) connections between literary figures, artists and locations during the Victorian era. It a...

This volume is a comprehensive and transatlantic literary study of womens nineteenth-and-twentieth-century fiction. Firstly, it introduces and expl...

Employing a wide range of interpretive and theoretical approaches, this collection brings together distinguished James scholars from four continent...

Alexandre Dumas, author of The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Man in the Iron Mask, is the most famous French writer of the n...

Henry James and the Poetics of Duplicity aims to advance the field of studies on the life and work of Henry James by fully exploring the authors us...