Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

This book examines illustrations created to accompany fictions written by several of the most popular authors published in Britain and America betw...

During the nineteenth century, British and American naval supremacy spanned the globe. The importance of transoceanic shipping and trade to the Eur...

Inheritance in Nineteenth-century French Culture

The two Muslim poets featured in Scott Kugle's comparative study lived separate lives during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the D...

Exploring the relationship between poverty and religion in William Wordsworths poetry, Heidi J. Snow challenges the traditional view that the poets...

Challenging the idea that a writers work reflects his experiences in time and place, Andrew M. Cooper locates the action of William Blakes major il...

This volume offers new and challenging interdisciplinary approaches to the use and study of literary archives. Interrogating literary and archival...

Emerging in several different versions during the author's lifetime, Lewis Carroll's Alice novels have a publishing history almost as magical and m...

While historians of science have focused significant attention on Erasmus Darwins scientific ideas and milieu, relatively little attention has been...

This book examines the relationship between critical work on early German women writers and feminist criticism more generally. It is emerged from a...

Offering provocative readings of Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, Clough's Amours de Voyage, and Browning's The Ring...

Edwardian Culture: Beyond the Garden Party is the first truly interdisciplinary collection of essays dealing with culture in Britain c.1895-1914. B...

There is an unfortunate argument being made that feminist scholarship of eighteenth-century literary studies has fulfilled its potential in academi...

Examining writing for and about education in the period from 1740 to 1820, Rebecca Daviess book plots the formation of a written paradigm of matern...

In his study of Romantic naturalists and early environmentalists, Dewey W. Hall asserts that William Wordsworth and Ralph Waldo Emerson were transa...

In The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920, Karen E. Laird alternates between readings of nineteenth-century stage and twentieth-centur...

By the 1850s, the expansion of printing and distribution technologies provided writers with more readers and literary outlets than ever before, whi...

While Kierkegaard is perhaps known best as a religious thinker and philosopher, there is an unmistakable literary element in his writings. He often...

This monograph is the study of the poetry of Fernando Pessoa and W. B. Yeats within a comparative case studies framework. It examines Yeats's and P...

The influences of William Wordsworths writing and evolutionary theorythe nineteenth centurys two defining visions of natureconflicted in the Victor...

An edited collection of interdisciplinary essays on the work of Elizabeth Robins Pennell, the American-born, London-based journalist, author, and a...

This book investigates how De Quincey's writing was shaped by his work as a translator. Drawing on a wide range of materials and readings, it trace...

Godwin and the Book explores a network of controversies concerning the relationship of media form to social futurity in Romantic-period Britain thr...

This book is the first extensive study of seventeen works of short fiction by one of Scotland's most influential writers of all time. It examines t...