Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

The effects -- both inhibitory and creative -- of the 1819-1848 censorship on German-language literary writing. In 1819, the German Confederation ...

Despite the grave misgivings of both their families, Valeria Brinton and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to sus...

In 1987 the Houghton Library observed the 150th anniversary of the death of Aleksandr Pushkin with an exhibition of materials drawn from the extrao...

The arrival of two newcomers in the quiet village of Mellstock arouses a bitter feud and leaves a convoluted love affair in its wake. While the Rev...

When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the simple woodsman Giles Winte...

New research on Freeman's fiction that challenges and expands earlier feminist readings of the female realm Contextualizes key developments in Fre...

Home is a powerful metaphor guiding the literature of African Americans throughout the twentieth century. While scholars have given considerable at...

The book analyses attempts by Dickens and other nineteenth-century writers to challenge established ways of using the distinction between upper and...

Clare's highly personal evocations of landscape and place are some of the most poignant lyrics in English poetry. His celebration of all forms of ...

Coloured by poverty and horrifying brutality, Gorky's childhood equipped him to understand - in a way denied to a Tolstoy or a Turgenev - the life ...

TWO ON A TOWER (1882) is a tale of star-crossed love in which Hardy sets the emotional lives of his two lovers against the background of the stella...

Twain's account of travelling in Europe, A TRAMP ABROAD (1880), sparkles with the author's shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on O...

James McCarroll (1814–1892) was a talented Irish poet, journalist, humorist, musician, and arts critic who left his mark on nineteenth-century Cana...

A 'romance of many dimensions' that has fascinated generations of readers with its clever blend of social satire and mathematical theory, the Pengu...

"An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man," Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote--and in this book, the leading scholar of New England literary...

Weathering critical scorn, Lady Audley's Secret quickly established Mary Elizabeth Braddon as the leading light of Victorian 'sensation' fiction, s...

A comprehensive study of the influence Spenser had on the forms, images, and style of the principal Romantic poets, this volume explores how Spense...

Completing Juliette Wells’ groundbreaking trio of books on Austen’s readers, this latest volume revolutionizes our understanding of how Austen came...

Hazlitt is one of the greatest masters of English prose style and this new selection demonstrates the variety and richness of his writing. The volu...

This collection brings together scholars from disciplines including Children’s Literature, Classics, and History to develop fresh approaches to chi...

Examines Olive Schreiner's writing, networks and legacies in new global, historical and contemporary contexts Examines aspects of Schreiner's radi...

When Elfrise Swanston meets Stephen Smith she is attracted to his handsome face, gentle bearing and the sense of mystery which surrounds him. Alth...

At birth Edmund Gosse was dedicated to 'the Service of the Lord'. His parents were Plymouth Brethren. After his mother's death Gosse was brought up...