Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

This book is an attempt to assess the creative potential of alchemy as a master trope in Coleridges conception of authorship and imagination. It be...

The volume encompasses eleven articles which discuss the critical views that Polish and Russian women writers have articulated with regard to the n...

While issues surrounding women and work may be more subtle today than in the past, problems of workplace equity, child-rearing, and domestic labor ...

Academic work in a range of disciplines has been making an important contribution to the fraught and confusing debate around ageing, and through wr...

The present work is an interdisciplinary study cutting across the disciplines of translation studies, genre studies, literary history and cultural ...

Inspired by the conversations of like-minded professors interested in promoting eighteenth-century literature through informed, innovative teaching...

Henry James Today is a collection of seven essays focused on the relevance of Henry Jamess work for an understanding of current problems. This volu...

Elizabeth Gaskells writings abound in references to a cultural materiality encompassing different types of fabric, stuffs, calicoes, chintzes and f...

This book is an exercise in ethical criticism. It draws on and works with ideas and suggestions from two of its notable exponents, Wayne C. Booth a...

Comparisons of Scott and Byron, so natural to 19th century readers, are scarce nowadays. Using a variety of critical and philosophical vocabularies...

Travel has often been taken as a metaphor for human life, and the concept of travel and the traveller has varied across centuries, cultural traditi...

Byron and Bob is the first book ever to be dedicated to the most important literary relationship in Byrons career that with the Poet Laureate, Rob...

In part a sequel to his earlier Death and Fantasy, William Grays Fantasy, Art and Life: Essays on George MacDonald, Robert Louis Stevenson and Othe...

Without a doubt, Walt Whitman is one of the most philosophical poets. His writings are overflowing with conceptions that range from the Presocratic...

Beddoes poses a peculiar problem for critics and scholars who wish to redress the marginal position that he occupies in the Romantic canon a probl...

Pregnancy and the Novel is a study of covert representations of pregnancy and birth in canonical eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels. The res...

Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature identifies kept mistresses in British Victorian narrative and offers ways to understand ...

The biggest challenge of the twenty-first century is to bring the effects of public life into relation with the intractable problem of global atmos...

This collection of essays explores the life and works of the British poet and author of short stories Charlotte Mew (1869-1928). It represents the ...

In the mid-nineteenth century, thirty-six expeditions set out for the Northwest Passage in search of Sir John Franklin's missing expedition. The ar...