Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

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

How did slavery and race affect American literature in the nineteenth century? In this ambitious book, Michael T. Gilmore argues that they were the...

Something pushed out from the body there on the floor, and stretched forth a slimy, wavering tentacle... Perhaps no figure better embodies the tra...

Winner of the European Association for American Studies Prize 2016. In Writing for Justice, Elena Mortara presents a richly layered study of th...

This new Companion surveys the traditions and conventions of the dark side of American culture - its repressed memories, its anxieties and panics, ...

Isaiah Berlin''s classic essay on Tolstoy - an exciting new edition with new criticism and a foreword.''The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog...

The only available critical selection of the works of Andrew Lang in 2 volume set. This is the first critical edition of the works of Andrew Lang, ...

Few novelists have written so intimately about a city as Charles Dickens wrote about London. A near-photographic memory made his contact with the c...

Few novelists have written so intimately about a city in the way that Charles Dickens wrote about London. A near photographic memory made his conta...

How did slavery and race impact American literature in the nineteenth century? In this ambitious book, Michael T. Gilmore argues that they were the...

In this richly textured and wide-ranging survey of Victorian attitudes to the past, Andrew Sanders builds on Roy Strongs groundbreaking book And wh...

The World of the Brontes

Feminist literary critics have long recognized that the novel''s marriage plot can shape the lives of women readers; however, they have largely tra...

Jane Austen wrote six of the best-loved novels in the English language, as well as a smaller corpus of works unpublished in her day, including thre...

From the acclaimed author of The Most Dangerous Book, the incredible true story behind the creation of a masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Do...

Sally Castles beautifully hand-lettered and illustrated edition of Oscar Wildes The Happy Prince sets the story among Readings parks, squares, roof...

An enlightening, nuanced, and accessible introduction to the life and work of one of the greatest writers of short fiction in history. Anton Ch...

'I wonder what will become of her!' So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful,and fallible heroine of ...

Post-Unification Italy saw an unprecedented rise of the middle classes, an expansion in the production of print culture, and increased access to ed...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions ...

A selection of the writer's greatest nature poetry, selected by Tom Paulin, published in a beautiful new edition by Faber.At once a voice arose amo...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions ...