Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

As a writer and prophet Dostoevsky was no academic theologian, yet his writings are deeply theological: his life, beliefs, even his epilepsy, all h...

The late nineteenth century saw a re-examination of artistic creativity in response to questions surrounding the relation between human beings and ...

Charlotte Brontë: legacies and afterlives is a timely reflection on the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Brontës life ...

Where does the violence at the heart of modern masculinity come from? From action movies to video games to sports culture, why is so much about bei...

The Irish heritage of the Brontë family has long been overlooked, partly because both Charlotte and her father Patrick did their very best to ensur...

Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular novelists during England's Victorian era. While Collins scholarship has often focused on social issues, ...

This two volume biographical study, published in anticipation of the bicentenary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, details not o...

This is a domestic biography of the Thackeray family, placing the writer in the context of his home life. The story continues long after his death,...

Byrons dubious status as a sex object, and his even more dubious status as a political icon, serves to disguise the fact that he is one of the grea...

When Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1863, he reportedly greeted her as the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great W...

The Gothic has always been fascinated with objects carrying with them a sense of horror - the decomposing body, the rigid corpse, the bleeding stat...

Edward Wasiolek, after much valuable work on Dostoevsky, has now written one of the best books on Tolstoy in recent decades. This may be in part be...

Sensationalistic literature is reading material that is intended to shock, startle, excite, or arouse intense interest in a reader through the use ...

The Victorian age is often portrayed as an era of repressive social mores. Yet this simplified view ignores the context of Great Britain's profo...

Biography of a Book traces the life of an iconic Australian literary work in the lead-up to, and for a century after, its initial publication: Henr...

No American author of the early 19th century enjoys a larger international audience than Edgar Allan Poe. Widely translated, read, and studied, he ...

The essays in this revised and expanded volume explore a variety of structuring taxonomies, the relationships between the aesthetic forms, styles a...

Literary Illumination examines the relationship between literature and artificial illumination, demonstrating that developments of lighting technol...

Christina Rossetti''s poetry and prose, written in 19th-century England, deals with the human fixation on appearance. Her belief in the Tractarian ...

This is a critical bibliography of the Nodier studies and editions of his works that appeared between 1923 and 1967. Part I presents a chronologica...

This volume contains fifteen essays, primarily in the areas of Romance philology and medieval literature, by former students, colleagues, and disti...