Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

2024 erscheint der 63. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs. Er enthält u.a. Joseph A. Kruses Auseinandersetzung mit Heinrich Heines Poetisierungen zweier ...

Considers Tennyson's poems, from the elegiac In Memoriam to the Arthurian Idylls of the King, in the context of Victorian interest in philology. ...

This volume looks to core ideas defining Goethes work and his influence on his contemporaries and inheritors. Contributions to this volume explore ...

Redefines Romantic sociability through a reading of social contract theoryThe Politics of Romanticism examines the relationship between two major t...

Concerns about Haiti suffused the early American print public sphere from the outbreak of the revolution in 1791 until well after its conclusion in...

How were the genres of literature changed by new methods of serialization and publishing? How did a widespread culture of performance emerge in the...

Introduces Tennyson's famous elegy to first-time readers, students and teachers of the poem. In Memoriam is one of the most famous and influential ...

What did it mean to have an Irish dwelling in the nineteenth century? How did Irish people write about, think about, visually represent or imagine ...

In Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics, Isobel Armstrong rescued Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as a moralised form ...

Opens up the rich topic of Joseph Conrad's complex relationship with languageJoseph Conrad was, famously, trilingual in Polish, French and English,...

This study focuses on Anthony Trollope's stylistic innovations in relation to Victorian liberalismIn his biography of William Makepeace Thackeray, ...

British India and Victorian Literary Culture extends current scholarship on the Victorian period with a wide-ranging and innovative analysis of the...

Examines the way in which the British transformed the Pacific islands during the nineteenth centuryThe discovery of the Pacific islands amplified t...

Drawing on original archival research, A Feminine Enlightenment argues that women writers shaped Enlightenment conversations regarding the role of ...

New Men in Trollope's Novels challenges the popular construction of Victorian men as patriarchal despots and suggests that hands-on fatherhood may ...

This book explores the tension between the conservatism and the imaginative process across the entirety of Rudyard Kiplings fiction. It shows how K...

The power of poetry, a topos since Plato, undergoes a radical transformation in literary texts between 1770 and 1830. Concepts of divine or uncons...

Ahad Ha'am (the pen name of Asher Ginsberg) is mainly remembered as the 'father of cultural Zionism'. But there was much more to the man and his th...

This book is about the parlance of political economic ideas with scientific practices in the Duchy of Milan, from the late eighteenth-century Habsb...

Das Kleist-Jahrbuch 2024 enthält erstmals die Rubrik Kleist-Funde, in der fünf bislang unbekannte Briefe Heinrich von Kleists an Joseph von Buol-Be...

This title was first published in 2001. When the Chartist leader Ernest Jones emerged from prison in 1850, he was determined to capture the public'...

From Napoleon's invasion of Portugal in 1807 to his final defeat at Waterloo, the English theatres played a crucial role in the mediation of the Pe...

From early colonial encounters to the ecological disasters of the twenty-first century, the performativity of contact has been a crucial element in...

Although postcolonialism has emerged as one of the most significant theoretical movements in literary and cultural studies, it has paid scant atten...

Beginning with the premise that the biopic is a form of adaptation and an example of intermediality, this collection examines the multiplicity of '...

Once seen as a relatively marginal figure, George Gissing (1857-1903) persists in sparking interest among new generations of radical critics who co...

Focusing on everyday life in nineteenth-century Britain and its imperial possessionsfrom preparing tea to cleaning the kitchen, from packing for im...

The human sciences established and developed in the nineteenth century have slowly disintegrated. It is an ironic end. It was in the name of the gr...

This book argues that, due to political and ideological shifts in the last decades of the nineteenth century-a time when the class system in Englan...

Early nineteenth-century British literature is overpopulated with images of dead and deadly animals, as Chase Pielak observes in his study of anima...

The figure of the child and the imaginative and emotional capacities associated with children have always been sites of lively contestation for rea...

For Decadent authors, Romanticism was a source of powerful imaginative revisionism, perversion, transition, and partial negation. But for all these...

Interrogating the multiple ways in which travel was narrated and mediated, by and in response to, nineteenth-century British travelers, this interd...