Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

An innovative new edition of nine classic short stories from one of the greatest writers of the Victorian era.I cannot think other than in stories,...

This newly selected edition of William Morris's works brings together poetry and prose, lectures, articles, and letters from his life, ordered chro...

Dante beyond influence is the first study to conceptualise and historicise the hermeneutic turn in Dante reception history and Victorian cultural h...

Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval (Isabelle Émilie de Tessier, 18471890), o...

A ground breaking new book that considers all Siddal poems with reference to female and primarily male counterparts, adding substantially to knowle...

Gothic Romanticism, winner of the 2010 MLA Prize for Independent Scholars, is a study of the relationship between British Romanticism and the Gothi...

An emblematic figure of the 'bourgeois century,' the parvenu represents the Other on which a society depends. This drama of exclusion is symptomati...

This book examines over 125 American, English, Irish and Anglo-Indian plays by 70 dramatists which were published in 14 American general interest p...

From Jewish publishers to Appalachian poets, Green s cultural study reveals the role of Mountain Whites in American racial history. Part One (1880-...

Nichols chronicles the Enlightenment view of 'Nature' as static and separate from humans as it moved towards the Romantic 'nature' characterized by...

This text explores the reception of the royal family during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and its representation in fiction, ...

Making extensive use of untranslated texts, Arnold Schmidt discusses the impact of Byron's life and works on the discourse of Italian nationalism b...

This innovative book draws together literature, law and economic and social history to investigate the meanings and uses of legitimacy in nineteent...

This book brings together the experiences of Anglo-American teachers and discusses some of the challenges which face teachers of nineteenth-century...

Sublime Coleridge focuses on the role of the Opus Maximum in explaining Samuel Taylor Coleridge's ideas about religion, psychology, and the sublime...

This book helps to bridge the gap between science and literary scholarship. Building on findings in the evolutionary human sciences, the authors co...

Wordsworth and Coleridge: Promising Losses  assembles essays spanning the last thirty years, including a selection of Peter Larkin's original verse...

Populism, Gender, and Sympathy in the Romantic Novel is a richly historicized account that explores anxieties about crowds, fiction and disguise, w...

Why are material objects so prominent in European Romantic literature, both as symbol and organizing device? This collection of essays maintains th...

Victorian Medicine and Social Reform traces Florence Nightingale s career as a reformer and Crimean war heroine. Her fame as a social activist and ...

India was the object of intense sympathetic concern during the Romantic period. But what was the true nature of imaginative engagement with British...

No play in the history of the American stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book traces the major dramatiza...

From the artistic practice of improvisation to the politics of nationalism, the essays in this volume break new ground and significantly extend our...

This comprehensive study ranges from Irving's Knickerbockers, Emerson's Transcendentalists, and Garrison's abolitionists to the popular serial fict...