Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

This title includes the authoritative texts for eleven pieces written between 1868 and 1902. It publishes, for the first time, the complete text of...

A scholarly edition of a significant and exciting late Victorian science fiction novelRichard Jefferies' After London is uncanny and intriguing, an...

Crime Fiction in the City: Capital Crimes expands upon previous studies of the urban space and crime by reflecting on the treatment of the capital ...

The Art of the Text contributes to the fast-developing dialogue between textual studies and visual culture studies. It focuses on the processes thr...

Just how did Jane Austen become the celebrity author and the inspiration for generations of loyal fans she is today? Devoney Looser's The Making o...

Dr. Watson, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, said Stamford, introducing us. How are you? he said cordially, gripping my hand with a strength for which I should...

From the recent spate of equine deaths on racetracks to protests demanding the removal of mounted Confederate soldier statues to the success and ap...

An accessible and highly readable guide to the story of Melville criticism as it has developed over the past century and a half. Herman Melville...

Mark Twain's complete, uncensored Autobiography was an instant bestseller when the first volume was published in 2010, on the centennial of the aut...

Written by some of the world's most distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative collection of essays provides the most up-to-date scholarsh...

Julian Wolfreys starts with loss. All memory is the memory of loss... All that we are, all we experience, all we remember, all that we forget but w...

The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry surveys the variety of ways in which Persia, and the multitude of ideological, historical, cultural and po...

'Jane Austen practising' Virginia Woolf Three notebooks of Jane Austen's teenage writings survive. The earliest pieces probably date from 1786 or...

The Irish writer, Mary Blachford Tighe (17721810), is best known as author of the Spenserian epic Psyche; or, the Legend of Love, first printed pri...

The traditional relationship between painting and literature underwent a profound change in nineteenth-century France. Painting progressively asser...

There was a power of endurance about her, and a courage that was almost awful. Did Lady Mason forge a codicil to her husband's will, allowing Orle...

The most dazzling biography of a female writer to have come my way for a decade'  Financial TimesTo be savoured for its vivid and sympathetic recre...

This special edition of The Oxford Companion to the Brontës commemorates the bicentenary of Emily Brontë's birth in July 1818 and provides comprehe...