Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov and August Strindberg--innovators of modern drama--created characters whose reckless pursuits of irrational objectiv...

Examines the cultural importance of the coastline in the nineteenth-century British imaginationThe long nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic, va...

Charts the origins and development of the little magazine genre in the Victorian periodFed up with the commercial and moral restrictions of the mai...

Examining an eclectic group of western womens autobiographical textscanonical and otherwisePlaying House in the American West argues for a distinct...

Focusing on literary and popular poets, as well as work by women, African Americans, and soldiers, this book considers how writers used poetry to a...

'When I was at primary school, my teacher asked if any of us had heard of Charles Dickens. I was amazed she knew his name, because, until that mome...

This is an essential resource for teaching 19th century print culture in the expanding field of transatlantic studies. How are University instructo...

Examines the moving image in relation to nineteenth-century literature, theories of mind, and visual media This book examines how the productive i...

This is a comprehensive study of Darwin's Legacy for relegion, ecology and the arts. In Darwin's Bards John Holmes argues that poetry can have a pr...

This interdisciplinary study explores both the personal and political significance of climate in the Victorian imagination. It analyses foreboding ...

This title explores Thomas Hardy's engagement with Victorian legal debates in his prose fiction. Thomas Hardy's fiction is examined in this book in...

As Samantha C. Harvey demonstrates, Samuel Taylor Coleridge''s thought galvanized Emerson at a pivotal moment in his intellectual development in th...

Explores the fin de siècle mission to open up the `Dark Continent This study maps the effects of a cartographic blankness in literature and its imp...

This book examines cultural representations of women's experience of the railway in the nineteenth century. Examining the representation of women i...

In early nineteenth-century Russia, members of jocular literary societies gathered to recite works written in the lightest of genres: the friendly ...

This is an essential resource for teaching 19th century print culture in the expanding field of transatlantic studies. How are University instructo...

In his own lifetime and for nearly a hundred years James Hogg was was seen as the natural, if lesser, inheritor of the mantle of Robert Burns. Hogg...

The theme of suicide was of paramount importance in Italy in the long nineteenth century, from the French revolution to the outbreak of World War I...

In recent years, the interest in the house has grown irresistibly, to the point that in many ways houses seem to be situated at the very core of th...