Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

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Sensibility: An Introduction

Sensibility: An Introduction

Author: Janet Todd
ISBN: 9781032745138
Format: Hardback
$179.00

In Sensibility, originally published in 1986, Janet Todd charts the growth and decline of sentimental writing as...  Read More >>

Graveyard Gothic

Graveyard Gothic

Author: Eric Parisot ,  David McAllister
ISBN: 9781526166319
Format: Hardback
$194.99

This collection of essays considers the significance of graveyards in Gothic literature, film, television and video...  Read More >>

Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine

Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French...

Author: Manon Mathias
ISBN: 9781032427812
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Emily Dickinson: A User's Guide

Emily Dickinson: A User's Guide

Author: Martha Nell Smith (University of Maryland)
ISBN: 9781405147200
Format: Hardback
$197.87

* * A richly appreciative biographical and critical introduction to America s best-known woman poet *...  Read More >>

Authors and Adaptation: Writing Across Media in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Authors and Adaptation: Writing Across Media in the...

Author: Annie Nissen
ISBN: 9783031468216
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book studies British literary writers’ engagement with adaptations of their work across literary, theatrical,...  Read More >>

Energy Culture: Work, Power, and Waste in Russia and the Soviet Union

Energy Culture: Work, Power, and Waste in Russia and...

Author: Jillian Porter ,  Maya Vinokour
ISBN: 9783031143229
Format: Paperback
$369.57

This volume investigates energy as a shaping force in Russian and Soviet literature, visual culture, and social...  Read More >>

Sensation Fiction and Modernity: The Meanings of Ambivalence in Mid-Victorian Britain

Sensation Fiction and Modernity: The Meanings of Ambivalence...

Author: James Aaron Green
ISBN: 9783031498336
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book re-reads the relationship between the Victorian sensation novel and modernity. More fundamentally, it...  Read More >>

William Godwin: A Biographical Study

William Godwin: A Biographical Study

Author: George Woodcock
ISBN: 9780921689485
Format: Paperback
$52.77

"""Godwin ... was the inspiring intelligence behind the humanist attitudes of the English Romantic poets and Utopian...  Read More >>

Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural Production

Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural...

Author: Azariah Alfante
ISBN: 9781684484959
Format: Paperback
$82.99

In this elegantly-written study, Alfante explores the work of select nineteenth-century writers, intellectuals,...  Read More >>

Myth and (Mis)Information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture

Myth and (Mis)Information: Constructing the Medical...

Author: Allan Ingram ,  Helen Williams
ISBN: 9781526166821
Format: Hardback
$194.99

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Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural Production

Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural...

Author: Azariah Alfante
ISBN: 9781684484966
Format: Hardback
$266.99

In this elegantly-written study, Alfante explores the work of select nineteenth-century writers, intellectuals,...  Read More >>

William Blake's Manuscripts: Praxis, Puzzles, and Palimpsests

William Blake's Manuscripts: Praxis, Puzzles, and Palimpsests...

Author: Mark Crosby ,  Josephine A. McQuail
ISBN: 9783031474354
Format: Hardback
$369.57

With the introduction of facsimile editions and more particularly, the William Blake Archive, the largest digital...  Read More >>

American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures

American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies...

Author: D. Berton Emerson
ISBN: 9781469678405
Format: Paperback
$68.20

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Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia via Japan (1880–1930)

Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with...

Author: Xiaolu Ma
ISBN: 9780674295834
Format: Hardback
$103.95

Transpatial Modernity offers the first in-depth account of the relationship among Chinese, Japanese, and Russian...  Read More >>

American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures

American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies...

Author: D. Berton Emerson
ISBN: 9781469678399
Format: Hardback
$168.30

Examines an eclectic group of literary texts that have rarely, if ever, been considered representative of ‘the nation’...  Read More >>

Modernism and Finance Capital: British Literature, 1870–1940

Modernism and Finance Capital: British Literature, 1870–1940...

Author: Regina Martin (Denison University, Ohio)
ISBN: 9781009474368
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Interpreting modernism as a historical moment of financial crisis, this book expands the definition of finance capital...  Read More >>

Uncanny Fairy Tales: Hybrid Wonders in the Mirror

Uncanny Fairy Tales: Hybrid Wonders in the Mirror

Author: Francesca Arnavas
ISBN: 9781032516790
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This research individuates uncanny-related narrative techniques and cognitive responses as means to decodify and...  Read More >>

Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture

Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print...

Author: Michaël Roy ,  Susan Pickford
ISBN: 9780299338442
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Offers the first book-length study of the slave narrative as a material artifact. Drawing on a wide range of sources,...  Read More >>

The Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture: Development and Selfhood from Darwin to Freud

The Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture:...

Author: Roisín Laing
ISBN: 9783031413810
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book examines representations of precocity in Victorian textual culture – canonical literature, children’s...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals

The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals

Author: Kristine Moruzi ,  Beth Rodgers
ISBN: 9781399506656
Format: Hardback
$452.81

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The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland

The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland

Author: Angela Youngman
ISBN: 9781526797155
Format: Paperback
$44.99

After reading The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland, you'll never see the original in quite the same light as before....  Read More >>

Ecogothic Gardens in the Long Nineteenth Century: Phantoms, Fantasy and Uncanny Flowers

Ecogothic Gardens in the Long Nineteenth Century: Phantoms,...

Author: Sue Edney
ISBN: 9781526178992
Format: Paperback
$45.99

Diverse ecoGothic interpretations of Victorian gardens and their reflections of human disturbance, using material...  Read More >>

Haphazard Families: Romanticism, Nation, and the Prehistory of Modern Adoption

Haphazard Families: Romanticism, Nation, and the Prehistory...

Author: Eric C Walker
ISBN: 9780814215661
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Examines literary and historical adoptions and constructions of childhood in Romantic-era England to reveal their...  Read More >>

Islam as Imagined in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century English Literature

Islam as Imagined in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century...

Author: Clinton Bennett
ISBN: 9781032383217
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Aimed at a non-specialist readership, this survey of early modern English literature examines how writers represented...  Read More >>

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