Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

The Waiting Water addresses one of the most recurrent and troubling motifs in German Realist literaturedeath by drowning. Characters find themselve...

The Waiting Water addresses one of the most recurrent and troubling motifs in German Realist literaturedeath by drowning. Characters find themselve...

In a famous review of Nathaniel Hawthornes Mosses from an Old Manse, Herman Melville took the critics to task for missing the darkness as the heart...

Un o dadau cenedlaetholdeb modern yw Emrys ap Iwan (18481906), y pregethwr Methodist o Ddyffryn Clwyd. Hon ywr gyfrol gyntaf arno syn dadansoddin f...

'I spring from the pages into your arms' Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass stands as one of the most influential and innovative literary works of the...

Focusing on the difference between lower-level perceptual processes in the neural unconscious and higher-order thought in the frontal lobes, this o...

Source détude mais également dinspiration, lOrient a influencé de nombreux penseurs, historiens et écrivains anglais du XVIIIe siècle, dont les tex...

'No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.' Northanger Abbey is a comedy about rea...

The writer and aesthete William Beckford (1760-1844) was a fascinating embodiment of the sublime egotist. Because of his extravagance, fabulousness...

Art for art's sake is a vile catchword, but I confess it appeals to me' Gentleman by day and thief by night, A. J. Raffles lives a double life. Ta...

Victorians and Modern Greece examines the representation of nineteenth-century Greece in British magazines, fiction, poetry, and travel writing, re...

Growing up in Bulgaria, Julia Kristeva was warned by her father not to read Dostoyevsky. Of course, and as usual, she recalls, I disobeyed paternal...

Twenty-First-Century Symbolism was the winner of the 2023 R. Gapper Book Prize. How do the writings of Verlaine, Baudelaire, and Mallarmé speak to ...

The Edinburgh Companion to Comic Gothic explores the role of irony, satire, parody, pastiche and the absurd in Gothic texts dating from the eightee...

Since the mid-1970s, the colloquial term zone has often been associated with the troubled post-war housing estates on the outskirts of large French...

June 1849: Dr William Wilde, passing a wretched hovel in Dublins Liberties, discovers James Clarence Mangan in a state of indescribable misery and ...

'A MARVEL' PHILIP PULLMAN Can you remember the first time you fell in love with a book? The stories we read as children matter. The best ones are...

Novel-Poetry examines the verse-novel--a hybrid genre that emerged in the middle decades of Britain's nineteenth century--to make a larger claim ab...

A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832-1937 offers a new critical perspective on the weird that combines two ways of looking at weird and cosmic horror. ...

Examines the way the corporation a legal concept of enduring and timely importance in the Anglo-American legal tradition was imagined in the ni...