Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

**Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year**The Penguin Classics Book is a reader's companion to the largest library of classic literature in t...

Emer OSullivan has made an indispensable contribution to Wildean literature Compelling, informative and fascinating - Stephen Fry The Fall of th...

For at least a century, scholarship on realist narrative, and occasional polemics against realist narrative, have assumed that realism promotes the...

In the spring of 1861, Ambrose Bierce, just shy of nineteen, became Private Bierce of the Ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. For the next four years...

From her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time at Harvard, where she studied the Victorian ancestors of the form, and later as a wr...

The femme fatale appears with unceasing regularity in the texts of major poets of the nineteenth century. She symbolises an intractable mystery, a ...

Aspects of Byrons Don Juan is, in part, a proceedings volume from the 2012 conference held by the Newstead Byron Society at Nottingham Trent Univer...

This book offers an original approach to a number of nineteenth-century authors in terms of what are seen as the constitutive affective dynamics of...

According to Oscar Wilde, the primary aim of the critic is to see the object as in itself it really is not'. Through a series of close and often un...