Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

Hans Christian Andersen is an cultural icon. But what is an icon exactly? And how did Hans Christian Andersen become one? In Denmark and abroad. Th...

Cho Dong-Il's History of Korean literature, translated by Charles La Shure, traces the development of Korean literature from its beginnings in pale...

Originally published in 1927, this anthology covers the five major poets at the forefront of an artistic movement, which is widely known and regard...

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...

Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is a cultural phenomenon. First published in 1865, it has never been out of print and has been translated into ...

This book recovers a major nineteenth-century literary figure, the American Claimant. For over a century, claimants offered a compelling way to und...

This book represents the longest single-volume work on modern Welsh literature ever published, and proceeds from two broad perspectives. First, avo...

War and Peace and Anna Karenina are widely recognised as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author, Leo Tolstoy, has been honoured as t...

History and the Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Writing examines the meaning and possibilities of the present and its relationship to histo...

The literature of the Romantic era is steeped in the politics of revolution and reaction. This volume looks at first and second generation poets su...

The first major study in English of Vasily Zhukovsky (17831852)poet, translator of German romantic verse, and mentor of Pushkinthis book brings ove...

Victor Hugo, Jean-Paul Sartre, and the Liability of Liberty

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...

As in many literatures of the New World grappling with issues of slavery and freedom, stories of racial insurrection frequently coincided with stor...

As in many literatures of the New World grappling with issues of slavery and freedom, stories of racial insurrection frequently coincided with stor...

Carmen Sylva, when she discovered that I was writing, instead of laughing at me and being ironical about my modest attempts at literature, encourag...

What is the connection between Victorian writing and experiment? Artful Experiments seeks to answer this question by approaching the field of liter...

In her reading of detective fiction and passing narratives from the end of the nineteenth century forward, Jinny Huh investigates anxieties about r...