Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

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Colorful, irreverent, romantic, skeptical, a master of comic asides, a bittersweet humorist, and an unflinching critic of human pretensions, Mark T...

In Shakespeare and Science Fiction Sarah Annes Brown investigates why so many science fiction writers have turned to Shakespeare when imagining hum...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines Leo Tolstoys unorthodox and provocative approach to spirituality, as presented in his numerous...

What were the consequences of Tolstoy's unusual reliance on members of his family as source material for War and Peace? Did affection for close rel...

Bolesaw Prus and the Jews shows the complexity of the so-called Jewish question in nineteenth-century Congress Poland and especially its significan...

Is each moment in history unique, or do essential situations repeat themselves? The traumatic events associated with the man who reigned as Tsar Dm...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. So runs one of the most famou...

Examining the personal library and the making of self When writer Edith Wharton died in 1937, without any children, her library of more than five t...

Examining the personal library and the making of self When writer Edith Wharton died in 1937, without any children, her library of more than five t...

Translations in Travels from Dostoevsky's Siberia, gathered from archives and appearing in English for the first time, offer a fresh look at Dostoe...

Translations in Travels from Dostoevsky's Siberia, gathered from archives and appearing in English for the first time, offer a fresh look at Dostoe...

A new literary-cultural history of the Industrial Revolution in Britain from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Working against t...

Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion provides readers with close textual analyses regarding the role of subversive acts or te...

Baudelaires Bitter Metaphysics: Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre reconstructs a philosophical trialogue that might have been...

In his short life, William Morris (1834-96) combined the roles of poet, author, painter, designer, translator, lecturer, political activist, journa...

The social practice of tact was an invention of the nineteenth century, a period when Britain was witnessing unprecedented urbanization, industrial...

This book collects, for the first time, Colm Toibin's critical essays on Henry James. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novel about James's ...

Blake Neviuss close analysis and appraisal of Edith Whartons novels and stories reveals the modernity of her fiction and shows why she should have ...

The powerful, impassioned, and often frenetic prose of Fedor Dostoevsky continues to fascinate readers in the twenty-first century, even though we ...

The powerful, impassioned, and often frenetic prose of Fedor Dostoevsky continues to fascinate readers in the twenty-first century, even though we ...