Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books

Tom Shippey's new edition of H. Rider Haggard's saga-inspired Eric Brighteyes includes:·      An introduction to the work's literary and historical context·      Extensive annotations...

Narrative Machine: The Naturalist, Modernist, and Postmodernist Novel advances a new history of the novel, identifying a crucial link between narrative innovation and the historical process of mechanization. In the late nineteenth century, the novel...

Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 2,7, University of Constance, course: British and American Studies, language: English, abstract: This work focuses on the question of...

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Rostock (Anglistik/ Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: Andrea Levy's novel "Fruit of the Lemon" confronts issues of...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die eigenen Erfahrungen unter einem totalitären System veranlassten Orwell zu seiner Lebzeit in den 50er-Jahren, einen Roman über eine solche Herrschaft...

Tesis del año 2012 en eltema Literatura - General, Nota: 9.5, Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), Materia: Licenciatura, Idioma: Español, Resumen: El objetivo de esta tesis es ubicar la novela El miedo a los...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Universität Wien, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit sollen 'Der Prozess' von Franz Kafka und 'Der Fremde' von Albert Camus...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Linguistik, Note: 1,3, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit analysiert nach politolinguistischen Verfahren das sprachliche Material der...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,0, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit basiert auf dem Forschungsfeld der Gender Studies und widmet sich im...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Department Germanistik & Komparatistik), Veranstaltung: HS: Antike Poetiken,...

 Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov and August Strindberg--innovators of modern drama--created characters whose reckless pursuits of irrational objectives blind them to better options. Ibsen's protagonists in A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler and The Master...

Analyzes how literary representations of suicide have reinforced antiblackness in the modern world.Death Rights presents an antiracist critique of British romanticism by deconstructing one of its organizing tropes-the suicidal creative "genius." Putting...

First comprehensive account of the figure of the Irish Celt in modern British and Irish literature.

Focusing on the works of Mexican writer Carmen Boullosa for the English reader, this volume provides access to a critical analysis of Boullosa's writings. Her daily writing has produced an enormous and varied literary corpus that includes narrative,...

James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales" presents a profound exploration of the American frontier experience, encapsulating the essence of the American spirit through the character of Natty Bumppo. Cooper's work is a pioneering effort in American...

This book shows that the publishers and editors of the radical press deployed Romantic-era texts for their own political ends-and for their largely working-class readership-long after those works' original publication. It examines how the literature of...

This book brings a renewed critical focus to the history of novel writing, publishing, selling and reading, expanding its viewing beyond national territories. Relying on primary sources (such as advertisements, censorship reviews, publisher and bookstore...

This is the first exploration of the performative and theatrical force of Austen's work and its afterlife, from the nineteenth century to the present. It unearths new and little-known Austen materials: from suffragette novels and pageants to school and...

Reading literary and cinematic events between and beyond American and Persian literatures, this book questions the dominant geography of the East-West divide, which charts the global circulation of texts as World Literature. Beyond the limits of national...

This book is about the historical moment when writers and critics first used the term "realism" to describe representation in literature and painting. While scholarship on realism tends to proceed from an assumption that the term has a long-established...

Sleep and the Novel is a study of representations of the sleeping body in fiction from 1800 to the present day which traces the ways in which novelists have engaged with this universal, indispensable -- but seemingly nondescript -- region of human...

This book explores how writers responded to the rise of the newspaper over the course of the nineteenth century. Taking as its subject the ceaseless intertwining of fiction and journalism at this time, it tracks the representation of newspapers and...

Until the nineteenth century, consumptives were depicted as sensitive, angelic beings whose purpose was to die beautifully and set an example of pious suffering - while, in reality, many people with tuberculosis faced unemployment, destitution, and an...

This book considers indigenous-language translations of Romantic texts in the British colonies. It argues that these translations uncover a latent discourse around colonisation in the original English texts. Focusing on poems by William Wordsworth, John...

The 1820s and 1830s, the gap between Romanticism and Victorianism, continues to prove a difficulty for scholars. This book explores and recovers a neglected culture of poetry in those years, and it demonstrates that culture was a crucial turning point in...

This book is a historically informed and textually grounded study of the connections between Montaigne, the inventor of the essay, and Nietzsche, who thought of himself as an "attempter." In conversation with the Essais, Nietzsche developed key themes...

This book views Romantic literature's discourses of childhood, education, and reproduction through the eyes of four early nineteenth-century British authors who were uniquely implicated in those discourses. Hartley and Sara Coleridge, children of Samuel...

This collection of thirteen specially commissioned essays by international scholars takes a fresh look at the profound impact of the Peninsular War on Romantic British literature and culture. The expertly authored chapters explore the valorization of...

This volume considers Joseph Conrad's use of multiple genres, including allusions to sensation fiction, pornography, anthropology, and Darwinian science, to respond to Victorian representations of gender in layered and contradictory representations of...

This book explores the relationship between Thomas Hardy's works and Victorian media and technologies of communication - especially the penny post and the telegraph. Through its close analysis of letters, telegrams, and hand-delivered notes in Hardy's...

This book examines the idea of the self in Anglophone literatures from British colonies in Africa and the subcontinent, and in the context of intercultural encounter, literary hybridity and globalization. The project examines texts by eight authors...

This book explores the sublime in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's later major prose in relation to more recent theories of the sublime. Building on the author's previous monograph Sublime Coleridge: The Opus Maximum, this study focuses on sublime theory...

The New Woman sought vast improvements in Victorian culture that would enlarge educational, professional, and domestic opportunities.  Although New Women resist ready classification or appraisal as a monolithic body, they tended to share many...

This book explores the significance of flight to Romantic literature. Although the Romantic movement and the age of ballooning coincided, there has been a curious and long-time tendency to forget that flight was not impossible during this period. This...

This book explores Darwinism in modern Italian literature. In the years between Italy's unification (1861) and the rise of fascism, many writers gave voice to anxieties connected with the ideas of evolution and progress. This study shows how Italian...

This book explores shifting representations and receptions of the arms-bearing woman on the British stage during a period in which she comes to stand in Britain as a striking symbol of revolutionary chaos. The book makes a case for viewing the British...

This book is a study of how transfictional and transmedia storytelling emerges in the nineteenth century and how the period's receptive practices anticipate the receptive practices of fandom and transmedia storytelling franchises in the twentieth and...

The Multiverse of Office Fiction liberates Herman Melville's 1853 classic, "Bartleby, the Scrivener," from a microcosm of Melville studies, namely the so-called Bartleby Industry. This book aims to illuminate office fiction-fiction featuring office...

This book proposes a comparative approach to the supernatural short stories of Machado de Assis, Henry James and Guy de Maupassant. It offers an alternative to predominantly novel-centric and Anglo-centric perspectives on literary pre-modernism by...

This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil examines forms of environmental...

Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Literaturgeschichte, Epochen, Universität Erfurt, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Interpretation in möglichst einfacher Sprache soll besonders SchülerInnen, StudentInnen und...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Lateinamerikanische Philologie, Note: 1,0, Universität zu Köln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der vorliegende cuento mit dem Titel ,,Luvina" handelt von einem Professor, der einem fremden Mann in...