Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

Victorian legs is about the science (sometimes spurious) and sexuality (often frivolous) of legs during the Victorian period. The book argues that ...

Yeats XIII features a special section, "Approaches to Teaching Yeats." Nine top scholars (Jonathan Allison, George Bornstein, Ronald Bush, Elizabet...

This latest volume of Yeats continues the tradition of excellence with nine new critical essays and a host of book reviews. Highlights include "Yea...

Beyond the Shelley Circle: The Clairmont Family and Its Descendants will interest Shelley–circle researchers, life-writing scholars, and nineteenth...

Oscar Wilde's Decorated Books addresses Wilde's obsession with the visual appearance or "look" of his published writings. It examines the role play...

Oscar Wilde's 1891 symbolist tragedy Salomé has had a rich afterlife in literature, opera, dance, film, and popular culture. Salome's Modernity: Os...

John Sutherlanda s new critical biography is an undertaking of major importance in which he penetrates into the darker areas of Scotta s life in a ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. My Antonia is Willa Cather’s masterpiece about ...

Mediating Modernity examines this probing question: “What happens to the writing of a printed text when the phonograph and cinematograph—and both n...

Emily Dickinson's Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing is a fine facsimile edition and aesthetic exploration of a group of forty lat...

Since its publication in 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper" has always been recognized as a powerful statement about the vict...

The text is that of the 1813 first edition, accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory annotations. This edition also includes: biographical p...

The rise of both the empire of cotton and the empire of fashion in the nineteenth century brought new opportunities for sartorial self-expression t...

'This solitude, the romance and wild loveliness of everything here . . . all make beloved Scotland the proudest, finest country in the world.' Que...

New translations of Persian literature into French, the invention of the Aryan myth, increased travel between France and Iran, and the unveiling of...

Although the significance of Walt Whitman's thinking about African Americans and slavery to his poetry has been largely ignored by Whitman scholars...

“For we rather forget that the Christian God was a Jew,” Patrick Braybrooke facetiously claimed, “though no doubt this was a Divine mistake and the...

Why is Walt Whitman’s face as familiar as his poetry? In answering this question, Ruth Bohan tells a story of self-invention and portraiture. Whitm...

The Nineteenth-Century Present explores the multiple ways in which history was understood, structured, and reassessed in literary, theological, and...

Assessing the full range of Borrow's published texts, as well as his remarkable impact on a diverse range of Edwardian and modernist cultural produ...

This book examines the early work of Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), writer, journalist and woman of letters. She became famous in the 1830s with he...