Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

This is the first comprehensive study of the language program of the prominent Ukrainian writer and ideologue Pantelejmon Kuli (1819-1897) whose tr...

Dostoevsky attached introductions to his most challenging narratives, including Notes from the House of the Dead, Notes from Underground, The Devil...

Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the titans of Russian literature. As mature artists, they led very different lives and wrote vastly different works, but...

Teaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature: Essays in Honor of Robert L. Belknap grew out of a conference in honor of Robert Belknap, an outsta...

This is the first study in any language of Ivan Konevskoi - poet, thinker, mystic - for many decades the 'lost genius' of Russian modernism. A fres...

Nineteenth-century Japanese literary discourse and narrative developed a striking preoccupation with ninjliterally human emotion, but often used in...

This volume approaches the fascinating figure of Iolo Morganwg stonemason, poet and literary forger from three distinct but interrelated angles. ...

The twentieth volume in the Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives series, Conrad and Turgenev: Towards the Real offers a comparative analysis of...

Reform Acts offers a new approach to prominent questions raised in recent studies of the novel. By examining social agency from a historical rather...

This book traces the development of literary biography in the eighteenth century; how writers' melancholy was probed to explore the inner life. Cas...

The Irish New Woman explores the textual and ideological connections between feminist, nationalist and anti-imperialist writing and political activ...

The decade after 1815 was a period of cultural instability, in which literature was redefined in response to a mass readership. Magazines were a pr...

This is the first comprehensive study of the language program of the prominent Ukrainian writer and ideologue Pantelejmon Kuli (1819-1897) whose tr...

This is a revisionist study of the literary and visual representation of the nation in the century following the formation of the British state. It...

Through an examination of Tennyson's 'domestic poetry' - his portrayals of England and the English - in their changing nineteenth-century context, ...

How can one make state administrative systems interesting, embody an abstract public ethos and give heroism to homogeneity? The discipline of liter...

Examining how labouring-class poets constructed themselves and were constructed by critics as part of a canon, and how they situated their work in ...

It is during the nineteenth-century, the age of machinery, that we begin to witness a sustained exploration of the literal and discursive entanglem...

By 1840, the epistolary novel was dead. Letters in Victorian fiction, however, were unmistakably alive. Postal Plots explores how Victorian postal ...

Beginning with a widespread definition of Decadence as when individual parts flourish at the expense of the whole, Regenia Gagnier - a leading cult...