Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

Romanticism and the Museum argues that museums were integral to Britain's understanding of itself as a nation in the wake of the French Revolution....

This study shows how George Eliot, a leader in the nineteenth-century intellectual world of Darwin and the Industrial Revolution, wrestled in her e...

In the nineteenth century the beauty of the night sky is the source of both imaginative wonder in poetry and political and commercial power through...

This collection offers students and scholars of Eliots work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including her poetry and non-fiction, refl...

Irish writing in the modernist era is often regarded as a largely rural affair, engaging with the city in fleeting, often disparaging ways, with Jo...

Women Writers and the Hero of Romance studies the nature of the hero and his meaning for the female seeker, or quester, in romance fiction from Wut...

Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire looks at the relationship between epidemics and famines in south Asia and Victorian literature and culture. ...

In this engaging new study, Claire White reveals how representations of work and leisure became the vehicle for anxieties and fantasies about class...

Race, Ethnicity and Publishing in America considers American minority literatures from the perspective of print culture. Putting in dialogue Europe...

The proper organisation of rural communities was central to political and social debates at the turn of the eighteenth century, and featured strong...

This five-volume series, British Womens Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 18401940, historically contextualizes and traces developments in womens ...

Fin-de-Siècle Fictions, 1890s- 1990s focuses on fin-de-siècle British and postmodern American fictions of apocalypse and investigates the ways in w...

Hospitality and the Transatlantic Imagination, 1815-1835 argues that a select group of late-Romantic English and American writers disrupted nationa...

Drawing on previously unseen archival material, The Beginnings of University English explores the innovative and scholarly ways in which English li...

Blake's Drama challenges conventional views of William Blake's multimedia work by reinterpreting it as theatrical performance. Viewed in its dramat...

William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England offers a thorough re-appraisal of William Cobbett (1763-1835), situating his journalism and rural radi...

This study treats the Victorian Antipodes as a compelling site of romance and satire for middle-class writers who went to New Zealand between 1840 ...

This book lays bare numerous sexy Blakes, arguing for both chastity and pornography, violence and domination as well as desire and redemption, and ...

Examining a range of Coleridge's writings, this book uses recent scientific research to understand how we have evolved to make mental representatio...

These essays explore the impartial critical outlook American writers acquired through their experiences in Europe since 1850. Collectively, contrib...

This innovative collection explores the life stories of Chinese women and men between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. It draws on both ...

Tennyson experienced at first hand the all-pervasive nature of celebrity culture. It caused him to retreat from the eyes of the world. This book de...