Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 books

19859 books were found.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Creatures of Attention: Aesthetics and the Subject before Kant

Creatures of Attention: Aesthetics and the Subject before...

Author: Johannes Wankhammer
ISBN: 9781501775802
Format: Paperback
$86.99

"""The book examines the discourse on attention emerging in the European Enlightenment (1650-1780) with a focus...  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

This book discusses the various cultural forms and literary works by which information, myth and misinformation...  Read More >>

Creatures of Attention: Aesthetics and the Subject before Kant

Creatures of Attention: Aesthetics and the Subject before...

Author: Johannes Wankhammer
ISBN: 9781501775796
Format: Hardback
$343.20

"""The book examines the discourse on attention emerging in the European Enlightenment (1650-1780) with a focus...  Read More >>

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 >>

Jane Austen's Men

Jane Austen's Men

Author: Helen Amy
ISBN: 9781398110434
Format: Hardback
$59.49

The lives of the men in Austen’s life, her relationships, how typical they were of men of their time and their impact...  Read More >>

Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of Water

Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of Water

Author: Ursula Kluwick
ISBN: 9780813950983
Format: Paperback
$92.40

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Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of Water

Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of Water

Author: Ursula Kluwick
ISBN: 9780813950976
Format: Hardback
$303.60

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Persuasion after Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century and Romanticism

Persuasion after Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century...

Author: Yasmin Solomonescu (Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Notre Dame) ,  Stefan H. Uhlig (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis)
ISBN: 9780192863737
Format: Hardback
$170.95

This edited volume studies how in European literary culture the codified verbal system of rhetoric shifted towards...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s...

Author: John Gardner (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge) ,  David Stewart (Northumbria University, Newcastle)
ISBN: 9781009268516
Format: Hardback
$232.88

A detailed and engaging exploration of a crucial transitional period between the Romantic and Victorian ages, this...  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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The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American...

Author: John D. Kerkering (Loyola University, Chicago)
ISBN: 9781108815260
Format: Paperback
$59.49

This volume addresses the political contexts in which nineteenth-century American literature was conceived, consumed,...  Read More >>

James Fenimore Cooper: A Companion

James Fenimore Cooper: A Companion

Author: Signe O. Wegener
ISBN: 9781476682570
Format: Paperback
$84.70

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Retelling Jane Austen: Essays on Recent Adaptations and Derivative Works

Retelling Jane Austen: Essays on Recent Adaptations...

Author: Tammy Powley ,  April Van Camp
ISBN: 9781476691930
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Fills the gap in Austen scholarship from 2000 to today, demonstrating Austen’s enduring talent and relevancy. The...  Read More >>

Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness

Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness

Author: Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
ISBN: 9781421448206
Format: Hardback
$60.99

"""This work explores how, through shifts in narrative tone and pacing at the conclusions of her novels, Jane Austen...  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 >>

Fashion Nation: Picturing the United States in the Long Nineteenth Century

Fashion Nation: Picturing the United States in the Long...

Author: Sandra Tomc
ISBN: 9780472074891
Format: Hardback
$211.20

In the late nineteenth century, the United States was known internationally as a place full of gaudiness and glitter....  Read More >>

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