Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

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...

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 ...