Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

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...

In his study of the journalist George Augustus Sala, Peter Blake discusses the way Salas personal style, along with his innovations in form, influe...

Critical assessments of Elizabeth Gaskell have tended to emphasise the regional and provincial aspects of her writing, but the scope of her influen...

Focusing on the significance of travel in Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, Robert Burden shows how trave...

This book analyzes the theme of homelessness in American literature from the Civil War through the depression. Drawing on the work of Harriet Beech...

This title was first published in 2000: Thackeray's minor writings remain caught in a debate about what constitutes literature and whether magazine...

This engaging volume provides readers with the essential criticism on nineteenth-century poetry, organised around key areas of debate in the field....

This title was first published in 2001: Hundreds of European travelogues produced by British travellers between 1750 and 1800 remain out of sight i...

In many fictional narratives, the progression of the plot exists in tension with a very different and powerful dynamic that runs, at a hidden and d...

The revolutionary boy at the barricades was memorably envisioned in Eugène Delacroixs painting Liberty Leading the People (1830) and Victor Hugos n...

Exploring how discourse is figured in the texts of key European Romantic authors such as Wackenroder, Coleridge, Byron, and Hugo, this volume offer...

Exploring the intense relationship between Romantic literature and Methodism, Helen Boyles argues that writers from both movements display an ambiv...

Thomas Hardy penned nearly fifty short stories, but in spite of this impressive number, his contributions to the genre have been relatively underst...

This book was first published in 1968 First appearing in 1907, René Huchon with the help of original manuscripts rewrote the biography of Crabbe pu...

Bringing together leading and newly emerging scholars, The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope offers a comprehensive overview of Trol...

Everyone knows Rumpelstiltskins storyor thinks they do. But this innocent-seeming tale hides generations of womens shrewd accounts of their relatio...

This book examines illustrations created to accompany fictions written by several of the most popular authors published in Britain and America betw...

During the nineteenth century, British and American naval supremacy spanned the globe. The importance of transoceanic shipping and trade to the Eur...

Inheritance in Nineteenth-century French Culture

The two Muslim poets featured in Scott Kugle's comparative study lived separate lives during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the D...

Exploring the relationship between poverty and religion in William Wordsworths poetry, Heidi J. Snow challenges the traditional view that the poets...

Challenging the idea that a writers work reflects his experiences in time and place, Andrew M. Cooper locates the action of William Blakes major il...

This volume offers new and challenging interdisciplinary approaches to the use and study of literary archives. Interrogating literary and archival...

Emerging in several different versions during the author's lifetime, Lewis Carroll's Alice novels have a publishing history almost as magical and m...

While historians of science have focused significant attention on Erasmus Darwins scientific ideas and milieu, relatively little attention has been...

This book examines the relationship between critical work on early German women writers and feminist criticism more generally. It is emerged from a...

Offering provocative readings of Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, Clough's Amours de Voyage, and Browning's The Ring...

Edwardian Culture: Beyond the Garden Party is the first truly interdisciplinary collection of essays dealing with culture in Britain c.1895-1914. B...

There is an unfortunate argument being made that feminist scholarship of eighteenth-century literary studies has fulfilled its potential in academi...

Examining writing for and about education in the period from 1740 to 1820, Rebecca Daviess book plots the formation of a written paradigm of matern...

In his study of Romantic naturalists and early environmentalists, Dewey W. Hall asserts that William Wordsworth and Ralph Waldo Emerson were transa...

In The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920, Karen E. Laird alternates between readings of nineteenth-century stage and twentieth-centur...

By the 1850s, the expansion of printing and distribution technologies provided writers with more readers and literary outlets than ever before, whi...

While Kierkegaard is perhaps known best as a religious thinker and philosopher, there is an unmistakable literary element in his writings. He often...

This monograph is the study of the poetry of Fernando Pessoa and W. B. Yeats within a comparative case studies framework. It examines Yeats's and P...

The influences of William Wordsworths writing and evolutionary theorythe nineteenth centurys two defining visions of natureconflicted in the Victor...

An edited collection of interdisciplinary essays on the work of Elizabeth Robins Pennell, the American-born, London-based journalist, author, and a...