Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

This reference work covers both Herman Melville's life and writings. It includes a biography and detailed information on his works, on the impor...

Many of the best-known British authors of the 1800s were fascinated by the science and technology of their era. Dickens included spontaneous hum...

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

Lyrical Ballads (1798) is a work of huge cultural and literary significance. The volume of poetry, in which Coleridge's Rime of the Ancyent Mariner...