Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

This volume is a collection of papers presented at the third international conference of The Society of Historical English Language and Linguistics...

Representing and Interrogating Dueling, Caning, and Fencing during the British Romantic Period examines Romantic-era representations of physical in...

This scholarly but accessible volume traces the impact of the enduring themes and key women characters from Arthurian tradition in Dante Gabriel Ro...

Three quarters of what is now considered the corpus of Middle English romances were recovered and edited between the 1760s and the 1860s by a handf...

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838) was one of the leading women poets of the second generation of English Romantic writers. Following her predece...

This volume attempts to critically re-think the ways in which facts and myths, histories and fictions that shape current and past understandings of...

The volume discusses utopian representations of American society, and reflections of American political thought and vision in literature, film, and...

This interdisciplinary collection of twenty-five essays examines the construction of national, social and individual identities in response to mone...

Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus was first published in 1818. A year before Hoffmann’s novella Der Sandmann was published...

Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s The Factory Girl (1863) was a cheap serial intended for working-class readers. The sprawling plot centres on Laura Leslie ...

This volume offers new research and thoughtful reflection on the subject of canonicity in Scottish literature, from the Romantic grand narratives o...

This book approaches parody as a literary form that has assumed diverse forms and functions throughout history. The author handles this diversity b...

In this posthumous volume Jill Anne Kowalik analyzes pathological grief in 17th and 18th-century Germany. Early chapters outline the methodological...

A writer’s literary fame is fragile and popularity enjoyed in life is seldom sustained after death. From time to time their work re-emerges, is rev...

The European Thematic Network Acume 2 «Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities: an Interdisciplinary Approach» discussed translation theory...

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznań (Poland), in November 2009. The paper...