Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

Redrawing the conventional map of Victorian PoeticsVictorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical offers an alternative history of Vic...

Re-establishes the enduring presence and value of classical literature in the Romantic eraThe Call of Classical Literature in the Romantic Age reve...

Charts the origins and development of the little magazine genre in the Victorian periodFed up with the commercial and moral restrictions of the mai...

Reflections on the Bicentenary of the 1819 Massacre of Reformers in ManchesterTwo hundred years after the massacre of protestors in Manchester, kno...

Traces and measures the material impact of Dickens' fiction in London's built environmentDickens and Demolition examines how tropes, characters, or...

Examining the transatlantic writings and professional careers of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, this book explores the impact of literary,...

This volume is a critical edition of a Victorian scrapbook, composed of cuttings from advertising images from the 1880's. These images are arranged...

This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861...

The novels of Henry James are filled with ghosts, but most of them escape dramatic treatment. These elusive specters are the voices of precursors t...

An Open Access edition of this book will be available on publication on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Engaging with...

This collection explores the multifaceted relationship between letters and bodies in the long eighteenth century, featuring a broad selection of wo...

Cervantes now mythical character of Don Quixote began as a far different figure than the altruistic righter of wrongs we know today. The transforma...

First published in 1971, Professor Knights book draws analytic attention to poets including Tennyson, Masefield, and Brooke, who are shown to hold ...

This book reconstructs the history of print and publishing in colonial Bengal by tracing the unexpected journey of Bharat Chandras Bidyasundar, the...

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). Polish born, learnt English from scratch when he arrived in Britain. Writings include: Heart of Darkness, The Secret Age...

In her study of the unsuccessful nineteenth-century emigrant, Tamara S. Wagner argues that failed emigration and return drive nineteenth-century wr...

From the 1750s to the 1830s, numerous British intellectuals, novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, translators, educationalists, politicians, b...

In this, the first book-length study of astronomy in Hardy's writing, historian of science and literary scholar Pamela Gossin brings the analytical...

A valued icon of British manhood, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has been the subject of numerous biographies since his death in 1930. All his biographers ...

Why were the Victorians more fascinated with secrecy than people of other periods? What is the function of secrets in Victorian fiction and in the ...

Friendship has always been a universal category of human relationships and an influential motif in literature, but it is rarely discussed as a them...

Race Matters, Animal Matters challenges one of the grand narratives of African American studies: that African Americans rejected racist association...

This study focuses on Dickens's response to questions of identity, conduct, and social organization that emerged in an era of major cultural unsett...