Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

This study focuses on Dickens's response to questions of identity, conduct, and social organization that emerged in an era of major cultural unsett...

This book works across established categories of modernism and postcolonialism in order to radically revise the periods, places, and topics traditi...

Dana Van Kooy draws critical attention to Percy Bysshe Shelley as a dramatist and argues that his dramas represent a critical paradigm of romantici...

Questions of Authority investigates ItalianAustralian literary travel exchanges throughout the long nineteenth century. The 1800s witnessed major t...

This book presents an alternative framework for reading nineteenth century womens travel narratives by challenging the traditional paradigms which ...

Examining the place of nature in Victorian women's poetry, Fabienne Moine explores the work of canonical and long-neglected women poets to show the...

As a study of color in the Victorian novel, this volume notices and analyzes a peculiar literary phenomenon in which Victorian authors who were als...

This study of Nicholas Nickleby takes the Dickens novel which is perhaps the least critically discussed, though it is very popular, and examines it...

From a growing awareness of the depletion of energy resources and the perils of environmental degradation to the founding of self-sufficient commun...

The memsahibs of the British Raj in India are well-known figures today, frequently depicted in fiction, TV and film. In recent years, they have als...

Philanthropy and Early Twentieth-Century British Literature explores the relationship between British literature and philanthropy at the end of the...

George Eliots serious readers have been intrigued by the fact that she declared that she had lost her faith in God and had renounced her hope for a...

The Victorian era is famous for the collecting, hording, and displaying of things; for the mass production and consumption of things; for the inven...

Taking its cue from Baudelaires important essay The Painter of Modern Life, in which Baudelaire imagines the modern artist as a man of the world, t...

Goethe's ideas on colour and imagery crossed many borderlines: those of artistic processes and philosophical aesthetics, art history and colour the...

This is the first book-length study of Tennyson's record of publication in Victorian periodicals. Despite Tennyson's supposed hostility to periodic...

This rich volume of essays restores meaning itself as the focal point of one of our most thoughtful modern writers, Herman Melville. Melville and t...

For over two hundred years, the Gothic has remained fixed in the European and American imaginations, steadily securing its position as a global cul...

For women-identified writers of both eras, the fantastic offered double vision. Not only did the genre offer strategic cover for challenging the st...

This book resituates Francis Sylvester Mahony in an early nineteenth-century literary-historical context, counteracting the efforts of twentieth-ce...

Reflecting Walter Paters diverse engagements with literature, the visual arts, history, and philosophy, this collection of essays explores new inte...

How did romanticism define its relationship with its sources? How has romanticism since been understood and misunderstood across a range of cultura...

Great Expectations has had a long, active and sometimes surprising life since its first serialized appearance in All the Year Round between 1 Decem...

In this new research monograph, Tudor Balinsteanu draws on concepts of dance to demonstrate how the nonhuman is dealt with in terms of practical po...