Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books

Romantic Organicism attempts to reassess the much maligned and misunderstood notion of organic unity. Following organicism from its crucial radicalisation in German Idealism, it shows how both Coleridge and Wordsworth developed some of their most...

This lucid and tightly-argued study uses the motif of the mentor-lover - embodying diverse permutations of sexual love, power and judgement - to explore, evaluate and compare the works of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot as they contend...

This chronology will set Elizabeth Gaskell in her historical, social and literary contexts. It will focus on her career as a writer but will also underline her interactive roles as wife, mother, practical and tolerant Christian, radical sympathizer...

This study explores the cultural and political impact of Victorian travelers' descriptions of physical and verbal violence in Africa. Travel narratives provide a rich entry into the shifting meanings of colonialism, as formal imperialism replaced...

Jane Austen wrote when sociology was being established as the new discipline to understand social issues such as urbanization and industrialization. Drawing on landmark sociologists such as Durkheim and Bourdieu, this study argues that the novels of...

This book traces the literary friendship between Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells from their early correspondence through to the differences that caused their estrangement, including their respective responses to the First World War. It thus gives an...

Romanticism and the Museum argues that museums were integral to Britain's understanding of itself as a nation in the wake of the French Revolution. It features Wordsworth, Scott, Edgeworth, and literary periodicals featuring Byron and Horace Smith.

Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915 examines how British and American writers used early photography and film as illustrations and metaphors. It concentrates on five figures in particular: Henry Mayhew, Robert Louis Stevenson, Amy Levy,...

Exploring the work of William Blake within the context of Methodism - the largest 'dissenting' religious group during his lifetime - this book contributes to ongoing critical debates surrounding Blake's religious affinities by suggesting that, contrary...

This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and concerns-both practical and theoretical-related to the study of print culture. Procedural difficulties range from doubts about the reliability of digitized resources to concerns with the...

William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England offers a thorough re-appraisal of William Cobbett (1763-1835), situating his journalism and rural radicalism in relation to contemporary political debates.

Irish writing in the modernist era is often regarded as a largely rural affair, engaging with the city in fleeting, often disparaging ways, with Joyce cast as a defiant exception. This book shows how an urban modernist tradition, responsive to the...

In this engaging new study, Claire White reveals how representations of work and leisure became the vehicle for anxieties and fantasies about class and alienation, affecting, in turn, the ways in which writers and artists understood their own cultural...

This innovative collection explores the life stories of Chinese women and men between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. It draws on both biographical and autobiographical narratives and on perspectives taken from life writing theory to ask how...

This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing of books...

The Female Servant and Sensation Fiction: 'Kitchen Literature' explores why Victorian sensation fiction was derided as literature fit only for maids and cooks and how the depictions of fictional female domestics, from Jane Eyre to Neo-Victorian novels,...

Scholarly interest in 'the Irish Gothic' has grown at a rapid pace in recent years, but the debate over exactly what constitutes this body of literature remains far from settled. This collection of essays explores the rich complexities of the literary...

The lyric poems of Horace and Housman are two enigmatic bodies of work that have much in common, and a close reading of each poet's writings can illuminate the other's. This is the first book to provide a detailed, critical comparison between these two...

This book takes a fresh look at childhood in Dickens' works and in Victorian science and culture more generally. It offers a new way of understanding Dickens' interest in childhood by showing how his fascination with new scientific ideas about childhood...

Examining a range of Coleridge's writings, this book uses recent scientific research to understand how we have evolved to make mental representations of the counterfactual, how such transformative essays in Imagination have enabled humans to survive, to...

Explores Victorian writers' conception of the novel's potential to become serious knowledge and differentiate itself from other educational genres.Is the novel a category of knowledge that merits serious study? Even if the novel has shed the stigma of...

This book explores the literary representation of late Victorian and early Edwardian London from an auditory perspective, arguing that readers should 'listen' to impressions of the city, as described by writers such as Conrad, Doyle, Ford and...

This book explores the phenomenon of second sight in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Second sight is a form of prophetic vision associated with the folklore of the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Described in Gaelic as the An-da-shealladh or...

This book is about selected Victorian texts and authors that in many cases have never before been subject to sustained scholarly attention. Taking inspiration from the pioneeringly capacious approach to the hidden hinterland of Victorian fiction adopted...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Didaktik - Deutsch - Literatur, Werke, Note: 1,3, Universität Passau, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ronja Räubertochter ist ein 1881 veröffentlichter Text der schwedischen Kinderbuchautorin Astrid Lindgren...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,7, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Institut für Deutsche Philologie), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar Zeitstrukturen des Dramas, Sprache: Deutsch,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit hebt die Überzeitlichkeit von bestimmten literarischen Kunstwerken am Beispiel von dem Roman "Die...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Es fällt Heine-Forscher*innen heute schwer, ein...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,8, Universität Leipzig (Institut für Germanistik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: "Die Fahrt nach Stalingrad" von Franz Fühmann ist kein Text, der heutzutage...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,0, Universität Erfurt (Germanistische Literaturwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit sollen mehrere Fragen zur Kafka-Rezeption bei...

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,3, Universität Erfurt, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit untersucht den Film „Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle" anhand der These, dass er seine...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,3, Universität Regensburg (Universität Regensburg, Philosophische Fakultät III, Institut für Germanistik Lehrstuhl für Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft),...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,7, Universität des Saarlandes, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dem 1978 von Edward Said publizierten Werk Orientalismus thematisiert der Autor das Verhältnis...

This book investigates the transposition of short stories to drama in the works of two leading Sicilian authors, Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) and Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), focussing specifically on their representation of women. De Francisci argues...

Psychoanalytic theory has been the critical instrument of choice for colonial critics. This book examines why critics who are otherwise suspicious of Western forms of knowledge are drawn to psychoanalytic theories, and whether it is possible to use such...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Spanische Sprache, Literatur, Landeskunde, Note: 1,3, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel (Romanisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Literatura del exilio republicano español de 1939: Max Auben...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Französisch - Literatur, Note: 1,0, Universität des Saarlandes, Veranstaltung: Kulturelle GrenzgängerInnen: Konvertiten und Transvestiten als Mittler zwischen den Kulturen, Sprache: Deutsch,...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Universität Wien (Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit schlägt eine postmoderne Lesart...

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Freie Universität Berlin, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Sucht man nach dem Wort ,Tür' in der Erstausgabe des Process', erhält man das...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,7, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Kulturwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Methoden der Kulturwissenschaften: Literarische Kulturen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract:...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,7, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit wird sich Frauenbildern in ausgewählten Werken Uwe Johnsons und...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,0, FernUniversität Hagen (FAKULTÄT FÜR KULTUR- UND SOZIALWISSENSCHAFTEN), Veranstaltung: Literatur und kulturelle Differenz - Die Großstadt in der...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 13,0, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die verschärfte Überwachung einiger Drogen, die im 20. Jahrhundert...

The life and letters of Lewis Carroll by Stuart Dodgson CollingwoodThe Dodgsons appear to have been for a long time connected with the north of England, and until quite recently a branch of the family resided at Stubb Hall, near Barnard Castle. In the...