Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

Evolutions of Jewish Character in British Fiction: Nor Yet Redeemed builds upon recent scholarship concerning representations of Jews in the Britis...

From 1809 until just before her death, Jane Austen lived in a small, all-female household at Chawton, where reading aloud was the evening's enterta...

This, the first critical biography of Arthur Morrison (1863-1945), presents his East End writing as the counter-myth to the cultural production of ...

Sensational Deviance: Disability in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Fiction investigates the representation of disability in fictional works by the le...

The memsahibs of the British Raj in India are well-known figures today, frequently depicted in fiction, TV and film. In recent years, they have als...

The memsahibs of the British Raj in India are well-known figures today, frequently depicted in fiction, TV and film. In recent years, they have als...

Through the lens of Hopkins's 'masterwork', The Philosophical Mysticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins readdresses Hopkins's frequently overlooked mystic...

Gerard Manley Hopkins and Tractarian Poetry for the first time locates Hopkins and his work within the vital aesthetic and religious cultures of hi...

Examining the place of nature in Victorian women's poetry, Fabienne Moine explores the work of canonical and long-neglected women poets to show the...

This anthology brings together for the first time a collection of autobiographical accounts of their childhood by a range of prominent nineteenth-c...

The essays in this volume interpret Jane Austens fiction through the lens of various sciences of the mind and brain, especially the cluster of disc...

This book argues that the negotiation of agency is central not only to the experience of war but also to its representation in cultural expressions...

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

Applying ecocritical theory to the work of Victorian writers, this collection explores what a diversity of ecocritical approaches can offer student...

The memsahibs of the British Raj in India are well-known figures today, frequently depicted in fiction, TV and film. In recent years, they have als...

Branding Oscar Wilde traces the development and perception of Wildes public persona and examines the impact of interpretations of his writing. Thro...

This book examines the genre and gender issues at stake in Marie Bashkirtseff's bid to go public with the personal. It explores the discursive stra...

The plight of the fallen woman is one of the salient themes of nineteenth-century art and literature; indeed, the ubiquity of the trope galvanized ...

A revolutionary figure throughout his career, Dante Gabriel Rossettis work provides a distinctly revolutionary lens through which the Victorian per...

For Decadent authors, Romanticism was a source of powerful imaginative revisionism, perversion, transition, and partial negation. But for all these...

Within weeks of Thomas Hardys return to his native Dorchester in June 1883, he began to compile his Facts notebook, which he kept up throughout the...

Published in 1999. Lord Byron and Madam de Stael made a great impression on Europe in the throes of the Napoleonic Wars, through their personalitie...

Published in 1927: The purpose of the present work is consequently to serve as a guide to English horror-romanticism and by presenting the chief ma...

This title was first published in 2001. Ruskin said that 1860 marked the beginning of his 'proper work'. This study presents new, historicized read...

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...