Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books

Preface - Critical Introduction - Textual Introduction - Editorial Symbols - Literary Notes 1 - Notes - Index

List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Editorial Procedures - A Note on the Illustrations - THE LIFE AND WORK OF THOMAS HARDY - Early Life and Architecture - Novels to Illness - Illness, Novels and Italy - Between Town and Country -...

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; W.S.Jacobson Spirit and the Allegorical Child: Little Nell's Mortal Aesthetic; J.Bowen Dickens and the Construction of the Child; J.Kincaid Suppressing Narratives: Childhood ad Empire in The...

Acknowledgements Yeats: Influence, Tradition, and the Problematics of Reading 'The Terror of His Vision': Yeats and Irish Poetry Inevitable Abstractions: Yeats and British Poetry Possession and Dispossession: Yeats and American Poetry Select Bibliography...

Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction: Women and Progress Times and Seasons The Romance of Sexual Science and the Making of Modern Feminism Capturing the Ideal: New Men and Women in From Man to Man Love, Death and Money in Mashonaland War Stories...

Acknowledgements Key to Abbreviations List of Illustrations Introduction: Radical Blake Visionary Blake Metropolitan Blake Blake and Nationalism Blake, Emancipation and America Blake and Women Blake and Blasphemy Hacking Blake Conclusion Notes...

Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton assembles a collection of essays on the compelling topic of death in two monumental representatives of the early modern canon, Edmund Spenser and John Milton. The volume draws its impetus from the conviction that...

The Romantic period was characterized by a new historical self-consciousness in which history, and in particular the medieval, became an important screen for comprehending the present. Recent Scholarship has proposed contending theories for understanding...

Introduction: Jewish Myth, Mysticism and George Eliot's Fiction George Eliot and Kabbalism: Historical and Literary Context Kabbalistic Philosophy and the Novels From Formless Matter to Matter with Form The Relationship between Creator and Creature...

List of Tables List of Plates Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: P.Garside, E.J.Clery & C.Franklin PART I: AUTHORSHIP Anne Grant and the Professionalization of Privacy; P.Perkins Women Poets and Anonymity in the Romantic Era; P.R...

Introduction The Genealogy of the Imperial Boy The Jungle Books : Post-Mutiny Allegories of Empire Stalky & Co.: Resituating the Empire and the Imperial Boy Kim : Disciplinary Power and Cultural Hybridity Kim : Ethnography and the Hybrid Boy Conclusion...

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Reading Coleridge Through Schiller Schiller and the Young Coleridge Coleridge and Weimar Classicism British Germanophiles Schiller's Poetry in Coleridge's Notebooks Semblance and Aesthetic Autonomy in...

Introduction 'A Kind of a Sort of a Gentleman': The Gentleman's Progress from Sir Charles Grandison to John Halifax The Literary Evolution of the Lower Middle Class: The Natural History of the Gent to Little Dorrit Voices from the Margins: Dickens,...

Not In Sisterhood investigates an important transitional moment in the history of U.S. women's writing : the uneasy shift from the 19th-century model of the "lady author" to some new but undefined alternative. The careers of Edith Wharton and Willa...

The first book-length critical analysis of its kind, this work is an engaging study of Wharton's travel writing as the embodiment of her connoisseurship.

Illustrates how the discovery of electromagnetism in 1820 not only led to technological inventions, such as the dynamo and the telegraph, but also legitimized modes of reasoning that manifested a sharper ability to perceive how metonymic relations could...

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Tantalizing Portions: Serialized Sensation Novels and Family Magazines Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White in All The Year Round Ellen Wood's East Lynne in the New Monthly Magazine Charles Dickens's Great...

Preface - Chronology - Introduction - List of Letters - List of Repositories - The Letters - Further Reading - Index

Acknowledgements - Introduction: Female Trouble: Nineteenth-Century Feminism and a Literature of Threat - PART 1: THE 1840s - 'Betsy Prig...try the cowcumbers, God Bless You!': Hierarchy, Transgression, and Trouble in Martin Chuzzlewit - Reading Tennyson...