Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

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...

Volume 25 of 16501850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era investigates the local textures that make up the whole cloth of the...

At 250, Walter Scott points toward our possible futures. Scott, although we necessarily look on his times as past, of course experienced them as pr...

Who would have expected Jane Austen to be up-to-date on gun technology or Virginia Woolf to recognise the class politics of plumbing?Austen and Woo...

Kate Chopin on pot smoking. Pauline Hopkins on alchemy and the undead. Sui Sin Far on cross-dressing. Emma Lazarus and Angelina Weld Grimke on lesb...

Demonstrates how the textual output of settler emigration shapes the nineteenth-century literary and artistic imaginationNineteenth-Century Settler...

In Her Own Voice examines the literary history of womens nonfiction writing through studies of individual writers, their works, and their careers. ...

Explores the interconnected creative partnerships of the Wattses and De Morgans Victorian artists, writers and suffragistsThis is the first book d...

Nathaniel Hawthorne helped to establish and validate American literature by creating a mythology of America's origins that features prophetic theme...

The Oxford Dickens edition of Pictures from Italy puts the spotlight on Dickens's 'little book' describing his travels through Italy in 1844 and 18...

Explores how nineteenth-century novels analysed the formal and social workings of newsArgues that the concept of fake news was central to the devel...

The first extensive analysis of the translation, publication and critical reception of Alexander von Humboldt's writings in nineteenth-century Brit...

An overview of the cultural transmission of the Arabian Nights within nineteenth-century BritainAn overview of the cultural transmission of the Ara...

Explores Woolf's treatment of the relationship between self and world from an existential-phenomenological perspective Breaking fresh ground in Woo...

An overview of the cultural transmission of the Arabian Nights within nineteenth-century BritainAn overview of the cultural transmission of the Ara...

A transnational approach to Risorgimento culture's contentious and exhilarating nation-building enterpriseKey FeaturesRe-imagines the parameters an...

Uncovering Wordsworth's influence on TennysonThis book explores Tennyson's poetic relationship with Wordsworth through a close analysis of Tennyson...

Reads Victorian literature and science as artful practices that surpass the theories and discourses supposed to contain themWhat is the connection ...

Examines representations of the actress in Victorian novels and theatresThis book analyses how Victorian novels and plays used the actress, a signi...

First scholarly edition of a bestselling historical novelExplores thesocio-political themes of the novel and deemed as relevant today as they were ...

Explores the politics of nineteenth-century British realismOffers a new theory of institutions grounded in temporalityOutlines a transnational theo...