Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

Karl Marx's youngest daughter Eleanor (1855-98) is one of the most significant figures in the cultural politics of the late nineteenth century. As ...

Scholarly understanding of the Victorian literary field has changed dramatically in the past thirty years, due in large part to the extensive recov...

First published in 1999, this is a guide which provides easy access to a fairly complete range of the long poetry written in the Romantic and Victo...

This book investigates the reappearance of the 19th-century dream-child from the Golden Age of Children's Literature, both in the Harry Potter seri...

First published in 1933, this study, which underwent revision in the 1960s, is a comprehensive survey of the verse of English nineteenth-century po...

The author of Clinical Lessons on Life and Madness: Dostoevskys Characters draws on Dostoevsky's universe to illuminate psychoanalytic theory and p...

The Radical Ecology of the Shelleys: Eros and Environment is the first full-length study to explore a radically queer ecology at work in writings b...

In the first critical study wholly devoted to Joseph Conrad's use of techniques associated with the literary tradition of romance, the author argue...

This book evaluates the parallels, divergences, and convergences in the literary legacies of Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats. Coming 150 y...

This title was first published in 2003. Though Friedrich Schiller enjoyed prominent literary standing and great popularity in nineteenth century li...

Charles Baudelaires flâneur, as described in his 1863 essay The Painter of Modern Life, remains central to understandings of gender, space, and the...

This interdisciplinary study examines the role interpersonal and place attachment bonds play in crafting a national identity in American literature...

A collection of prefaces, reviews and articles by Americans on American and European fiction. Charted in these three volumes, which span 1776 to 19...

This title was first published in 2000. Rosa Nouchette Carey (1840-1909), the English author of forty-one domestic novels, was continuously in prin...

This title was first published in 2001. Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-49) was a powerful poet of the English Romantic period, who has been and is sti...

This title was first published in 2003. Though Friedrich Schiller enjoyed prominent literary standing and great popularity in nineteenth century li...

The division between North and South in Europe represents a geographical as well as a cultural boundary that has influenced the way many European n...

This volume offers a critical insight into the life and work of the controversial Victorian explorer and translator Richard Francis Burton (1821-18...

Examining the appropriations and revisions of Indian identity first carried out by Anglo-American engravers and later by early Anglo-American women...

This volume aims to introduce undergraduates, graduates, and general readers to the diversity and richness of Canadian short story writing and to t...

This book is the study of a religious metaphor: the idea of God as a mother, in British and US literature 18501915. It uncovers a tradition of writ...

This book examines the imperial spectacles and startling reversals of fortune related in William H. Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico (1...

Narratives of Womens Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel looks extensively at hysteria discourse through medical and sociological t...

This collection explores how anthologizers and editors of Edgar Allan Poe play an integral role in shaping our conceptions of Poe as the author we ...

When the first issue of The Liberal was published on 10 October 1822, the periodical was largely dismissed by the British press as a political proj...

After a long period of comparative neglect, starting almost immediately upon his death in 1900, John Ruskin began to attract, from the 1960s onward...

Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921), the most important female author of Spains nineteenth century, was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, crit...

Wilde Between the Sheets: Oscar Wilde, Mail Bondage and De Profundis argues that Oscar Wildes narrative strategies reveal a quick-witted, ingenious...

This book offers an entertaining study of the facts and fantasies associated with the vacuum cleaner as it evolved from a luxury gimmick to a house...

Walking and its relationship to our mental and cultural lives has been a topic of huge academic and popular interest in the last few years. Here, A...

The Aesthetic Movement, a collection of artists, writers and thinkers who rejected traditional ideas of beauty as guided and judged by morals and u...

This book asks why so many authors drew on Cornwall for inspiration across the long nineteenth century, and considers the seismic cultural changes ...

American Literature as an Expression of the National Mind (1931) is a remarkable work that traces not only the history and development of literatur...

This multidisciplinary volume examines the ongoing effects of James G. Frazers The Golden Bough in modern Humanities and its wide-ranging influence...

Liber amicorum H. R. Woudhuysen: a Bibliographical Tribute is a Festschrift for Henry Woudhuysen, one of the most senior and influential early mode...

Romantic Responses to Revolution through Miltonic Ideas of the Fall explores the influence of John Miltons epic poem, Paradise Lost, on a range of ...

The Gothic Chapbook, Bluebook, and Shilling Shocker, 1797-1835 breaks new ground surveying the origins of the gothic chapbook, its publishers and a...

In this book, acclaimed Dostoevsky biographer Joseph Frank explores some of the most important aspects of nineteenth and twentieth century Russian ...

In The Lost Thread, Rancière debunks the notion of Flaubert, Baudelaire, Conrad, Woolf and Keats as reactionary producers of bourgeois mythologie...

Jane Austen and Masculinity is an eclectic collection of contemporary scholarship addressing the representation of men and masculinity in the ficti...

Winner of the ASLE-UKI Book Prize 2023. The commons and enclosure are among the most vital ways of thinking about poetry today, posing urgent ecolo...

The notion of beauty is inherently elusive: aesthetic judgments are at once subjective and felt to be universally valid. In Beauty Matters, Anri Ya...

On the Wonders of Land and Sea: Persianate Travel Writing initiates a comparative study of non-European travel writers in the eastern Islamic or Pe...