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...