Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

A revealing and concealing intelligence lurks somewherebut where, exactly?in Dickens's writing. To capture something of that knowing Dickens who el...

Regarded by Bernard Shaw as a master of the theatre, Dion Boucicault was arguably the most important figure in drama in North America and in Britai...

Meticulously edited and contextualized, Dean''s edition of Woolson''s complete letters opens the door to an extraordinarily gifted writer''s world....

A feminist before such a term was created and most famous for The Awakening, the controversial Kate Chopin was also the author of a second novel...

Two distinctly different meanings of piracy are ingeniously intertwined in Monica Cohen''s lively new book, which shows how popular depictions of t...

Volume 1 of 2. Coleridge's Shorter Works and Fragments brings together a number of substantial essays that were not long enough to require volumes ...

Volume 2 of 2. Coleridge's Shorter Works and Fragments brings together a number of substantial essays that were not long enough to require volumes ...

Sinister histories is the first book to offer a detailed exploration of the Gothic's response to Enlightenment historiography. It uncovers hitherto...

A visual treat as well as a literary onefor gardeners and garden lovers, connoisseurs of botanical illustration, and those who seek a deeper unders...

Innovatively extending counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory, Co...

Margaret Harkness is the first book to bring together research on the life and work of a writer, activist and traveller at the forefront of literar...

Richard Marsh was one of the most popular and prolific authors of the late-Victorian and Edwardian periods. His bestselling The Beetle: A Mystery (...

This book is the first comparative study of its kind to explore at length the French and English Catholic literary revivals of the late nineteenth ...

In 1872, a young archaeologist at the British Museum made a tremendous discovery. While he was working his way through a Mesopotamian slush pile, G...

This is the first book-length history of the classic French childrens author, the comtesse de Ségur. Virtually unknown in the English-speaking worl...

This novel is a designedly political document. Written at the time of the Hastings impeachment and set in the period of Hastingss Orientalist gover...

This book aims to intervene in current critical contexts for the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. Topics discu...

In Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, Satoru Saito sheds light on the deep structural and conceptual similarities between detect...

The consumer revolution of the eighteenth century brought new and exotic commodities to Europe from abroadcoffee, tea, spices, and new textiles to ...