Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

In this fresh look at the relationship between an author and his publishers, Peter L. Shillingsburg reassesses W.M. Thackeray's writing within the ...

Balzac made a conscious effort in Comedie Humaine to multiply the reappearance, from book to book, of some of his characters. This careful analysis...

This monograph proposes a re-reading of D''Annunzio''s female characters in five selected novels -Il Piacere, L''Innocente, Il Trionfo della Morte,...

Seventeenth-century French author Paul Scarron''s Roman comique has often been dismissed by critics as episodic and disorganized. This, in part, st...

Frame narratives--stories within stories--are featured in nearly every canonical Gothic novel. Sometimes dismissed as a shopworn convention of t...

The animal stories produced around the turn of the 20th century have maintained a remarkable hold on the imagination of children worldwide. This...

For nearly 150 years, William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the famed antislavery newspaper The Liberator, has been represented by scholars, educat...

The most popular mystery writer of all time concocted a rich recipe of intrigue, character, and setting. All of Agatha Christie's 66 detective ...

Charles Dickens travelled to North America twice, in 1842 and twenty-five years later in 1867--68, and on both trips Massachusetts was part of his ...

Charles Dickens travelled to North America twice, in 1842 and twenty-five years later in 1867--68, and on both trips Massachusetts was part of his ...

The period known as the long nineteenth century, stretching between the cataclysmic events of the French Revolution and World War I, was one of rad...

First published in 1865, Alices Adventures in Wonderland began as a story told to Alice Liddell and her two sisters on a boating trip in July 1862....

Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583-1634), one of the most famous and controversial personalities of the Thirty Years War, gained heightened prominenc...

This book places Victorian poetry within the context of a radical shift over the last 150 years in the key European model for human definition and ...

In this fresh look at the relationship between an author and his publishers, Peter L. Shillingsburg reassesses W.M. Thackeray's writing within the ...

Most people dont realize Charles Dickens has a biblical foundation. Each of the spirits that appear in A Christmas Carol directly correlates with a...

The House, the World, and the Theatre departs from three ideologically resonant spatial metaphors to explore key aspects of nineteenth-century lite...

theological, philosophical, scientific, social, and psychological matters, plans for and fragments of works, and many other items of great interest...

**Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year**The Penguin Classics Book is a reader's companion to the largest library of classic literature in t...

Emer OSullivan has made an indispensable contribution to Wildean literature Compelling, informative and fascinating - Stephen Fry The Fall of th...

For at least a century, scholarship on realist narrative, and occasional polemics against realist narrative, have assumed that realism promotes the...

In the spring of 1861, Ambrose Bierce, just shy of nineteen, became Private Bierce of the Ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. For the next four years...

From her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time at Harvard, where she studied the Victorian ancestors of the form, and later as a wr...

The femme fatale appears with unceasing regularity in the texts of major poets of the nineteenth century. She symbolises an intractable mystery, a ...

Aspects of Byrons Don Juan is, in part, a proceedings volume from the 2012 conference held by the Newstead Byron Society at Nottingham Trent Univer...

This book offers an original approach to a number of nineteenth-century authors in terms of what are seen as the constitutive affective dynamics of...

According to Oscar Wilde, the primary aim of the critic is to see the object as in itself it really is not'. Through a series of close and often un...