Literary Studies: c 1800 to c 1900

The perfect companion to Lewis Carroll's classic book and director Tim Burton's March 2010 remake of Alice in Wonderland Alice?s Adventures in Won...

When critics of poet Phillis Wheatley, the first African American to publish a collection of poetry, dismiss her work as derivative, they fail to s...

When critics of poet Phillis Wheatley, the first African American to publish a collection of poetry, dismiss her work as derivative, they fail to s...

The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas argues that the process of recovering Latina/o figures and writings in the nineteenth cen...

Co-winner, Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture  Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the American a...

What is a reference to an Italian Egyptologist doing in Louisa May Alcott's portrait of domesticity Little Women? Why does Elizabeth Stuart Phelps'...

Chinese Literature in English Sinology takes an exciting new approach to Sino-British literary and cultural encounters in the nineteenth century, f...

Literary Illusions explores the dialogue between Victorian literature and one of the nineteenth century's most popular modes of performance: conjur...

All authors try to do something new, or tell an old story in a new way; but for Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper, who wrote as Michael Field and ...

Mudie's Select Library was a major nineteenth-century literary institution. Substantially larger than its competitors, the library leveraged region...

Explores the many ways in which Anthony Trollope is being read in the twenty-first centurySince the turn of the century, the Victorian novelist Ant...

Physiological, political, and poetic studies of the relationship between the human body and voice saw increased attention and took on new significa...

Pushing beyond the anthologized writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson frequently taught in American literature courses, this book examines the corpus of ...

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The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel analyses the representation of the doctor-patient relationship in the ninet...

At the end of Ode to a Nightingale, Keatss speaker famously asks of the foregoing reverie: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? This book is concern...

This book makes available in English for the first time the work of the pioneering French interdisciplinary research group, Groupe de Recherche Int...

This witty novel can be seen as a reworking of Tobias Smollett's Roderick Random, albeit one in which the Scottish protagonist is able to navigate ...

This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in England and Wales ...

This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in Scotland and Wales...

This book explores how three Anglo-Irish writers, J.C. Mangan, J.S. Le Fanu and Bram Stoker, use settings in their short fictions to recreate, depi...

Beat Myths in Literature reassesses the work of women poets associated with the Beat Generation from the critical lens of revisionist discourses. U...

Eine tägliche [] Buchführung mit sich selbst war für Goethe von großer Bedeutung, wie er 1827 gegenüber Kanzler Friedrich von Müller formulierte. S...

This volume offers spatial theories of the emergent based on a careful close reading of the complete works of nineteenth-century writer and mathema...

Samuel Johnsons life was situated within a rich social and intellectual community of friendshipsand antagonisms. Community and Solitude is a collec...