19th Century Literature

Examining the complex world of print culture in the nineteenth century, Connors and MacDonald show how periodicals in the United Kingdom and British North America shaped and promoted ideals about national identity. The authors' striking history of an understudied period in the history of print cultu..

In this critically acclaimed work, for which she was awarded the Prix de L'Assemblee Nationale in 1994, sociologist Dominique Schnapper offers a learned and concise antidote to contemporary assaults on the nation. Schnapper's arguments on behalf of the modern nation represent at once a learned histo..

New Men in Trollope's Novels..

Focusing primarily on non-canonical texts, this collection takes up the diversity of religious discourse in nineteenth-century women’s literature and articulates how American women writers adopted the language of religious sentiment for their own cultural, political or spiritual ends. The contributo..

Focusing primarily on non-canonical texts, this collection takes up the diversity of religious discourse in nineteenth-century women’s literature and articulates how American women writers adopted the language of religious sentiment for their own cultural, political or spiritual ends. The contributo..

Exploring nineteenth-century perceptions of ‘energy’, this book speaks to the roots of many current global concerns about how ‘energy’ is used, renewed, and dispersed. With contributors exploring topics including the rise of insomnia as a recognized ailment, the role of guns and gun culture in the p..

This engaging volume provides readers with the essential criticism on nineteenth-century poetry, organised around key areas of debate in the field...

Orientalist Poetics is the only book on literary orientalism that spans the nineteenth century in both England and France with particular attention to poetry and poetics. It convincingly demonstrates orientalism's centrality to the evolution of poetry and poetics in both nations, and provides a sin..

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). British dramatist whose works and wit often attracted scandalized protest. Writings include: The Happy Prince, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest...

First published in 1987, this book engages directly with a selection of major texts from the traditional English literature syllabus and applies some of the techniques from the work of theorists such as Macherey, Balibar, Derrida, Foucault, Lacan and Deleuze. Focusing on questions of class and gende..

This book examines how the domestic pet delineates relations for members of the "natural" family home in Victorian literature, exploring the pet in relation to heads of the house, children, and common "outcasts:" orphan, spinster, bachelor, and same-sex couple. Drawing on animal studies and queer th..

First published in 1979. Most of the great nineteenth century novelists strove to render in words the people and places that they invented and most readers of fiction picture in their imagination these characters and scenes. This book investigates both types of ‘picturing’, exploring the principles ..