Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

This is a study that traces the influence of drugs on French literature. The first three chapters acquaint the reader with various aspects of the u...

First published in 1897, Bram Stoker's Dracula has never been out of print. Yet most people are familiar with the title character from the movie...

'Wonderfully entertaining, hilarious. Contains the distilled wisdom of some of the greatest writers who ever lived' Allison Pearson, Sunday Telegra...

The 19th century has become especially relevant for the present--as one can see from, for example, large-scale adaptations of written works, as ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge is chiefly remembered as the Romantic poet who wrote The Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as Wordsworths collaborator on the...

Imagining women readers reassesses the cultural significance of womens reading in the period 17891820. From the turbulent years following the Frenc...

Starting with William Godwin's Caleb Williams and Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, this book covers in detail the great works of detective...

Ireland's experience in the nineteenth century was quite different from that of Victorian Britain. Its fictions were written in differing forms li...

The New Edith Wharton Studies uncovers new evidence and presents new ideas that invite us to reconsider our understanding of one of America's most ...

The influence of John Ruskin (1819-1900), both on his own time and on artistic and social developments in the twentieth century, cannot be over-sta...

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

Scholars of the Gothic have long recognised Blakes affinity with the genre. Yet, to date, no major scholarly study focused on Blakes intersection w...

What I feel most moved to write, that is banned, - it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. Herman Melville wrote these wo...

An exploration of Gothic literature from its origins in Horace Walpoles 1764 classic The Castle of Otranto, through Romantic and Victorian Gothic t...

Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-year-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had nothing to declare but my genius. But as Roy Morris, Jr., reveal...

The writers of these novels were involved in various types of activism, using approaches ranging from conservative amelioration to radical militanc...

William Godwin became a leading public intellectual during the crisis in British politics which followed the French Revolution. The impact of his s...

Examining nineteenth-century novels and philosophical essays on the conception of fictional form, Felicia Bonaparte sees the novel in this period n...

One of a series designed to provide a new, accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each text includes general notes on the...

TracesVictorian self-harm through an engagement with literary fictionSelf-Harm in New Woman Writing offers a trans-disciplinary study of Victorian ...

Published in 1803, Thaddeus of Warsaw is a beguiling romance that also exposes the hardships faced by migrants in Britain two hundred years ago. Ja...