Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

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

This book takes four stories by the Russian Romantic author Vladimir Odoevsky to illustrate pathways, developed further by subsequent writers, into...

On the snowy morning of February 8, 1897, the Petersburg secret police were following Tolstoy''s every move. At sixty-nine, Russia''s most celebrat...

Kleanthes and Habrokome by Konstantinos Manos, a Phanariot Greek high officer in late-eighteenth/early-nineteenth-century Romania, is an important...

The short fiction that flourished in nineteenth-century France has attracted relatively little critical attention compared with the novel. This stu...

An accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the era, this companion explores influential dramatic works by Ibsen, Shaw and Wilde; the poetry of ...

This is the first book-length biography of Olivia Langdon Clemens, Mark Twain's wife. Livy was an intelligent, well-educated woman of Victorian ...

Edmund Spenser's vast epic poem The Faerie Queene is the most challenging masterpiece in early modern literature and is praised as the work most...

William Wordsworth is the most influential of the Romantic poets, and remains widely popular, even though his work is more complex and more engaged...

During his adult life until his death in 1834, Coleridge made entries in more than sixty notebooks. Neither commonplace books nor diaries, but some...

Inventing Edward Lear is an exceptional, valuable, original study, presenting new materials on aspects of Lears life and work.Jenny Uglow, author o...

From the teeming streets of Dickens's London to the households of domestic fiction, nineteenth-century British writers constructed worlds crammed b...

A Sunday Times Book of the YearShortlisted for The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 'This magnificent, highly readable double biography...brings these t...

The demise of the monarchy and the bodily absence of a King caused a representational crisis in the early republic, forcing the American people to ...

Dickens loved the stage--he enjoyed thousands of evenings in the theatre, and longed to write for it and to perform himself, an ambition that he ev...

If it is true that great art comes from great suffering, then the art of Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 81) must be truly great indeed. The second of se...

The political novel, which enjoyed a steep yet short rise to international renown between the 1830s and the 1910s, is primarily concerned with the ...

This companion to America's greatest woman poet showcases the diversity and excellence that characterize the thriving field of Dickinson studies. ...

Traces and measures the material impact of Dickens' fiction in London's built environmentDickens and Demolition examines how tropes, characters, or...

During his adult life until his death in 1834, Coleridge made entries in more than sixty notebooks. Neither commonplace books nor diaries, but some...

theological, philosophical, scientific, social, and psychological matters, plans for and fragments of works, and many other items of great interest...