Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of The Strand Magazine, in which they were first published,...

Almost fifty years before Bram Stoker penned Dracula, Dion Boucicault staged The Vampire, a three-act play that thrilled London audiences as well a...

Strategies for teaching a classic abolitionist textOne of the most commonly taught slave narratives, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Sl...

Strategies for teaching a classic abolitionist textOne of the most commonly taught slave narratives, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Sl...

The first detailed account of Austens characters reading experience to date, this book explores both what her characters read and what their litera...

'The wind is rising!... Let us try to live!' One of the preeminent intellectuals of modern French culture, Valéry is widely considered one of the ...

To write about the sea in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was to do so against a vast accretion of past deeds, patterns of thought, an...

Passion's Fictions traces the intimate links between literature and the sciences of mind and soul from the age of Shakespeare to the rise of the no...

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An absorbing survey of poetry written in one of the most revolutionary eras in the history of British literature This comprehensive survey of Briti...

With the arrival of Puritan settlers in New England in the middle decades of the 17th-century, accounts of sickness, colonial violence, and painful...

Today Blake scholarship is experiencing a period of unprecedented variety and mutuality. These essays reflect the methodological cross-fertilisatio...

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of William Blake (1757-1827...

A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary scienceThe 120 years between Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) ...

The Collected Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld presents, for the first time, all the known surviving works of this major English writer, who lived fr...