Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

First published in 1972, this book examines the sonnet, one of the most complex yet accessible of verse forms. It traces its history, concentrating...

Finalist for the 2022 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy StudiesFrom the time of Charles Dickens, the imaginative power of the city ...

The closing decades of the nineteenth century saw the birth of psychology as a discipline. The question of the relationship between mind and body w...

This book takes seriously the late-Victorian periodical essay, treating it with the same formal care that another study might give to Thomas Hardy'...

Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States examines how pain is represented in a range of literary texts and genres from the nineteenth-c...

First published in 1983. This book charts the growth of Romanticism from the initial reactions to the authoritarian classicism of Louis XIV, throug...

This collection of eleven essays positions Moore within a developing and expanding international readership during the course of the nineteenth cen...

Beyond the Victorian/ Modernist Divide contributes to a new phase in the Victorian-modern debate of traditional periodization through the perspecti...

Women, Epic, and Transition in British Romanticism argues that early nineteenth-century women poets contributed some of the most daring work in mod...

Women, Epic, and Transition in British Romanticism argues that early nineteenth-century women poets contributed some of the most daring work in mod...

What role did music play in the creation of a new aesthetics of poetry in French from the 1860s to the 1930s? How did music serve as an unassimilab...

Secretaries are the hidden technicians of much literary (and non-literary) writing; they also figure startlingly often as characters in modern lite...

This title was first published in 2001. 'An age of faith or an age of doubt?'- the question has dominated study of Christianity in the Victorian er...

The Victorian aquarium explores the vogue for home tanks that spread through Great Britain around the middle of the nineteenth century. This book o...

During the U.S. Civil War, a combination of innovative technologies and catastrophic events stimulated the development of news media into a central...

This essay collection develops new perspectives on constructions of old age in literary, legal, scientific and periodical cultures of the nineteent...

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 authors of this useful handbook, originally published in 1985, not only summarise Mark Twain scholarship, but also evaluate, in much detail, t...

R. B. Cunninghame Graham was a well-known and hugely influential figure in late 19th- and early 20th-century Scottish politics and literature. This...

Keats and Shelley: Winds of Light combines unrivalled textual knowledge, biographical and contextual expertise, and profoundly insightful close rea...

Romantic Legacies: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts presents the most wide-ranging treatment of Romantic regenerations, covering the cr...

'Will you write in my album?' Many Romantic poets were asked this question by women who collected contributions in their manuscript books. Those wh...

A new scholarly edition of a bold yet overlooked Victorian text that blends the genres of memoir, travelogue, ethnography and the realist novel Pe...

Scott’s influence on Scottish tourism is widely discussed among scholars. However, only a few have provided a holistic analysis of the relationship...