Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

Studies of the English Romantic poets generally portray them either as transcending the workings of capitalism or as working in complicity with an ...

In The Sign of the Cannibal Geoffrey Sanborn offers a major reassessment of the work of Herman Melville, a definitive history of the post-Enlighten...

From 1929 to the latest issue, American Literature has been the foremost journal expressing the findings of those who study our national literature...

Many recent discussions of working-class culture in literary and cultural studies have tended to present an oversimplified view of resistance. In t...

How does one teach Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, a book as controversial as it is central to the American literary canon? This collection of essay...

Nearly a hundred years after its debut in 1897, Dracula is still one of the most popular of all Gothic narratives, always in print and continually ...

In The Sign of the Cannibal Geoffrey Sanborn offers a major reassessment of the work of Herman Melville, a definitive history of the post-Enlighten...

America at the last fin de siècle was in a period of profound societal transition. Industrialization was well under way and with it a burgeoning se...

In The Errant Art of Moby-Dick, one of America’s most distinguished critics reexamines Melville’s monumental novel and turns the occasion into a me...

Moving beyond views of European Romanticism as an essentially poetic development, Lessons of Romanticism strives to strengthen a critical awareness...

In this study of modernist aesthetics, Beryl Schlossman reveals how for such writers as Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, and Charles Baudelaire, th...

Throughout the era of the Cold War a consensus reigned as to what constituted the great works of American literature. Yet as scholars have increasi...

This book situates Walter Scott's novels on monarchy within both their historical contexts and biopolitical theory, particularly regarding the King...

The King and the Adulteress brings together two essays that propose radically revisionary readings of two of the most important literary works in t...

Using black feminist theory and African American studies to read Victorian culture, Impossible Purities looks at the construction of “Englishness” ...

Never has the Victorian novel appeared so perverse as it does in these pages—and never his its perversity seemed so fundamental to its accomplishme...

Many recent discussions of working-class culture in literary and cultural studies have tended to present an oversimplified view of resistance. In t...

Black Venus is a feminist study of the representations of black women in the literary, cultural, and scientific imagination of nineteenth-century F...

In The Genuine Article Paul Gilmore examines the interdependence of literary and mass culture at a crucial moment in U. S. history. Demonstrating f...

When did Americans first believe they were at the center of a truly global culture? How did they envision that culture and how much do recent attit...

Nineteenth-century England witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of publications and institutions devoted to the creation and the disse...

A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism is a translation (from the original Portuguese) of Roberto Schwarz’s renowned study of the work of Brazilia...

Never has the Victorian novel appeared so perverse as it does in these pages—and never his its perversity seemed so fundamental to its accomplishme...

When did Americans first believe they were at the center of a truly global culture? How did they envision that culture and how much do recent attit...