Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

A Daily Telegraph, Times, Evening Standard, TLS and Spectator Book of the Year.Winner of the Hawthornden Prize.Edward Lear is well-loved for his 'n...

This groundbreaking book rescues Arthur Conan Doyle from the sub-literary category of popular fiction and from the myth of Sherlock Holmes. Instead...

One of literature's most witty personalities, Oscar Wilde captivated London society. In this perceptive appraisal of Wilde and those around him - i...

The historical novel is a genre which has enjoyed widespread popularity in Germany from its beginnings in the eighteenth century. At that time, inc...

This book presents a survey and evaluation of Cavafys poetical work with an emphasis on his historical and didactic poems. The poet prefers to desc...

The aesthetic movement dominated the closing decades of the nineteenth century. It was significant for the role women played in it at a time when t...

Inspired by the 1898 Wilmington Riot and the eyewitness accounts of Charles W. Chesnutts own family, Chesnutts The Marrow of Tradition captures the...

Dr Rza Öztürks new book, The Origin of Hardys Tragic Vision, is a lucid explanation of the most important aspect of novelist Thomas Hardys worldvie...

This wide-ranging collection is the first to set Robert Louis Stevenson in detailed social, political and literary contexts. The book takes account...

This study re-locates the work of Henry James by revealing parallels between the aestheticism of John Ruskin and that of James. It explores a mix o...

In Jane Austen's works, a name is never just a name. In fact, the names Austen gives her characters and places are as rich in subtle meaning as her...

Although Herman Melville''s Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work o...

A bold study on the very epicentre of Victorian ideology: the white, male bodyThe Victorian Male Body examines some of the main expressions and pra...

A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated examination of dress, clothing, fashion, and sewing in the Regency seen through the lens of Jane Austen...

A wide-ranging collection of essays written for the William Morris Society exploring the various intersections between the life, work and achieveme...

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each. Modernity rul...

Hebrew literature, from the second half of the nineteenth century to well into the twentieth, was unmistakably influenced in style and substance by...

'A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves.' Caroline C...

In The One, Other, and Only Dickens, Garrett Stewart casts new light on those delirious wrinkles of wording that are one of the chief pleasures of ...

In The One, Other, and Only Dickens, Garrett Stewart casts new light on those delirious wrinkles of wording that are one of the chief pleasures of ...

Novel Science is the first in-depth study of the shocking, groundbreaking, and sometimes beautiful writings of the gentlemen of the heroic age o...