Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

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

A Companion to Charles Dickens concentrates on the historical, ideological, and social forces that defined Dickenss world. Puts Dickenss work int...

Decadent Poetics explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates previously held assumptions ...

Victorian Time examines how literature of the era registers the psychological impact of the onset of a modern, industrialized experience of time as...

This collection of essays throws vast new light on the most significant literary-political journal of the Romantic age. Its chapters analyze Blackw...

What role do objects play in realist narratives as they move between societies and their different systems of value as commodities, as charms, as g...

Incorporating a broad range of contemporary scholarship, A History of Victorian Literature presents an overview of the literature produced in Great...

This study of the afterlife of Robinson Crusoe offers insights into the continued popularity and relevance of Crusoe's story and how modern concept...

After the first phase of industrialization in Britain, the child emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism. This book explores the cha...

Through a close analysis of the pamphlets, reviews, lectures, journalism, editorials, poems, and novels surrounding the introduction of the gold st...

The first detailed study on the subject of Victorian unfinished novels, this book sheds further light on novels by major authors that have been neg...

This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in 'autonomous' poetry's redistribution of affect. No slave of Whig ...

The first full-length autobiography in Bengali, Amar Jiban (My Life) was written in the early nineteenth century by an upper-caste rural housewife ...

The British Romantic era was a vibrant and exciting time in the history of the novel. Yet, aside from a few iconic books Pride and Prejudice, Fran...

This book is about the human desire to experiment with empire. In the past it was done with real soldiers and expeditions and slaves and trade and ...

Reading Melville is not only reading. Reading Melville means being already engaged in the abyssal process of reading reading. Reading what reading ...

Thomas Hardy's The Dynasts and Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace are both works which defy attempts to assign them to a particular genre but might seem t...

Emily Brontës beloved novel Wuthering Heights has been adapted countless times for film and television over the decades. Valérie V.Hazette offers h...

This book aims to provide readers with an inclusive reading of Kristevan theories on subjectivity, focusing on semiotic and symbolic phases of the ...

How is Hardy's development of thematics and characters matched by that of narrative techniques and his handling of time? This book uses narratologi...

Tennyson was one of the true great Victorian poets - much of his work is known throughout the world:'Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and...

Romantic writers often asserted their individuality, but this assertion tended to take the form of positioning themselves in relation to other auth...