Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

Mariano Azuela (Mexico, 18731952) was a medical doctor by profession, recipient of Mexicos Premio Nacional de Literatura (1949), a distinguished me...

This book opens the curtain on the crucial role played by Victorian and Edwardian novelists in changing views of domestic violence. Examining the m...

This is the first of two volumes of The Additional Letters and Journals of Frances Burney. Together the volumes will present material not included ...

An exuberant and entertaining biography of Charles Dickens that captures the essence of the great novelist. Simon Callows sparkling biogr...

There were no reviews of Mansfield Park when it first appeared in 1814. Austen's reputation grew in the Victorian period, but it was only in the tw...

Focusing on the importance of Martineau's contribution to the development of the early Victorian press, this book highlights the degree to which th...

The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday - but never jam to-day. Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There was fir...

Written for readers at all levels, this book situates Jane Austen in her time, and for all times. It provides a biography; locates her work in the ...

Over the course of the 19th century a remarkable array of character types appeared and disappeared in Australian literature: the swagman, the lar...

The great Victorian Christian author George MacDonald is the well-spring of the modern fantasy genre. In this book Colin Manlove offers exploration...

L''Intime epistolaire (1850-1900): genre et pratique culturelle is a study of private letters by eight Nineteenth-Century French authors-Flaubert, ...

This book examines writing which is concerned with the period of the poor white problem and the poor white solution (1870s1940s) in Southern Africa...

Who was Mary De Morgan and why should she be dragged out of the shadows cast by her illustrious parents, her male siblings and the members of the A...

This book reads Victorian fin de siècle literature through the medium of perceptions of childhood. It examines the connection between monstrous and...

Lacework or Mirror? Diary Poetics of Frances Burney, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley sets out to determine whether each of the diaries by three...

The truth is rarely pure and never simple, declares Algernon early in Act One of The Importance of Being Earnest, and were it either, modern litera...

Volume 1 of 2. Coleridge's Shorter Works and Fragments brings together a number of substantial essays that were not long enough to require volumes ...

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the poetry and prose of Matthew ...

Before he had turned 21, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) upended the house of French poetry and left it in shambles. What makes Rimbaud's poetry importa...

Acclaimed historian Jenny Uglow brings us a fascinating and beautifully illustrated biography of Edward Lear, full of the colour of the age.Edward ...