Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books

This book examines the phenomenon of the reappearance of characters in nineteenth-century French fiction. It approaches this from a hitherto unexplored perspective: that of the twin history of the aesthetic notion of originality and the legal notion of...

This work addresses the erasure of popular women writers in the formation of Victorian studies. Mid-century critical work on the Victorian novel, which established a long-standing canon, was mainly concerned with the form of the novel rather than the...

This is the long-wanted essential modern edition of William Beckford's Vathek with the Episodes of Vathek. The text of this edition is a new translation by the leading Beckford specialist. It corrects many earlier errors and presentations of Beckford's...

This brilliant, classic and scholarly study provides the fullest treatment of a key subject. It is one of the essential works on Dickens's work and life. A substantial new introduction deals with more recent commentary.

This internationally acclaimed book offers a provocative challenge to Hardy's reputation as a writer primarily of rural realism. This new edition includes a previously unpublished chapter - '"Bright Faces of the New: " Bodies, Children and Futures in...

This landmark book - entirely unobtainable for several years - is the single essential study of how the best-known Bront� novels - Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights - achieved their world-wide fame. It offers a fascinating account of how the novels have...

Dickens on England and the English explores Dickens's attitudes towards and relationships to his country, drawing on a very wide range of his fiction. It offers an account of his often complex and contradictory views of the people and the country that...

This book examines the transnational phenomenon of Japonisme in the exoticist and 'auto-exoticist' literature of the late nineteenth century.

Jens Korbus weist mit Hilfe der Kommunikationswissenschaften, der Semiotik, der Textphilosophie und der Psychoanalyse nach, dass die großartigen Axiome Paul Watzlawicks Grundlage für wissenschaftliche Interpretationen bilden können. Er stellt besonders...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,0, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover (Deutsches Seminar), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit folgt der These, dass in Formen der...

Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, , Veranstaltung: Leistungskurs Deutsch (Oberstufe), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die erzählte Wirklichkeit von Kafkas "Das Urteil" sieht vordergründig so...

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,7, University of Wuppertal, language: English, abstract: Postcolonial literature is often used to describe the problems and consequences of the...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 1,7, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (Neuere Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: „Kafkas mediale Verwandlungen",...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 2,0, Universität Paderborn, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Was macht ein Buch aus, damit es Klassiker genannt wird? Die Frage ist Grundlage für diese Arbeit, die...

ପ୍ରାକ୍‌-ସ୍ୱାଧୀନତା କାଳରେ ରଚିତ ସାମାଜିକ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ନାଟକ ଯେଭଳି ସମାଜର ଚିତ୍ର ବହନ କରିଛି ତାହା ଗ୍ରନ୍ଥଟିରେ ସୂଚିତ ହୋଇଛି । ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସାହିତ୍ୟରେ ପ୍ରଥମ ନାଟକ ରଚନା ହେବା ବେଳକୁ ସମାଜରେ ପୂରି ରହିଥିଲା ଅନ୍ଧବିଶ୍ୱାସ ଓ କୁସଂସ୍କାର । ତତ୍କାଳୀନ ନବ୍ୟ ଶିକ୍ଷିତ ସଂପ୍ରଦାୟ ଉକ୍ତ ପ୍ରଥାର...

Reflecting Walter Pater's diverse engagements with literature, the visual arts, history, and philosophy, this collection of essays explores new interdisciplinary perspectives engaging readers and scholars alike to revisit methodologies,...

This essay collection proposes that G.W.M. Reynolds's contribution to Victorian print culture reveals the interrelations between authorship, genre, and radicalism in popular print culture of the nineteenth century. As a best-selling author of popular...

This book explores fantastic Victorian and early Edwardian fictions--utopias, dystopias, nonsense literature, gothic horror, and children's fables-as responses to Darwinian anthropology after 1860.

Write My Name: Authorship in the Poetry of Thomas Moore is the first monograph devoted to Moore's poetry, and argues for the value of attending to neglected aspects of Moore's poetic work through analysis of his shifting modes of authorship and...

In the midst of the climate crisis and the threat of the sixth extinction, we can no longer claim to be the masters of nature. Rather, we need to unlearn our species' arrogance for the sake of all animals, human and non-human. Rethinking our...

In this multi-volume edition, the poetry of W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) is presented in full, with newly-established texts and detailed, wide-ranging commentary. Yeats began to write verse in the nineteenth century, and over time his own arrangements of poems...

This book challenges the idealised narrative of Canada as an antislavery haven for self-liberated people to explore Canada's complicated relationship with slavery. Examining advertisements, abolitionist texts and narratives about slavery in Canadian...

Penny bloods (sometimes called penny dreadfuls), serialised fiction stories sold for a penny or less in England in the period between 1837 and 1850, are currently studied as part of the history of the Gothic, focusing on the Gothic inheritance that can...

Mary Shelley in Europe studies the European background of Mary Shelley’s works and their reception. This two-fold approach is inspired by Mary Shelley dans son œuvre, Jean de Palacio’s seminal work that has remained untranslated in...

Keats and Scepticism explores Keats's affinity with the philosophical tradition of scepticism and reads Keats's poetry anew in the light of this affinity.

Who was Mark Twain? Was he the genial author of two beloved boys books, the white-haired and white-suited avuncular humorist, the realistic novelist, the exposer of shams, the author repressed by bourgeois values, or the social satirist whose later...

This study reads the Poet's reactions to the Terror in passages from The Prelude as explicitly about his twenty-three-year-old-self witnessing the gory deaths of Gorsas and others, which caused post-traumatic stress disorder and its symptoms, exacerbated...

Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Literature - Africa, , language: English, abstract: This study aims at carrying out a stylistic analysis of selected short stories from Achebe's Girls at War and other stories. Stylistics, a combination of...

Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,7, Universität Trier, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit untersucht dadaistische Manifeste. Ziel ist es, dadaistische Manifeste daraufhin zu...

Brings together and makes available in English for the first time some of Ángel Rama's most important essays.

George Eliot was passionate about music and her writing is steeped in musical allusion. This book explores musical reference in her work and investigates contexts such as Eliot's friendship with Wagner, the legacy of Romanticism, music's role in...

Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture examines the role of Christian history in nineteenth-century definitions of homosexual identity. Roden charts the emergence of the modern homosexual in relation to religious, not exclusively sociological...

Today's hunting debate began in the eighteenth century, when the idea of the countryside was being invented through the imaginative displacement of agricultural production in favour of country sports and landscape tourism. Between the Game Act of 1671...

Henrik Ibsen's plays were written at a critical juncture in late nineteenth-century European culture. By reading these three plays from a fresh perspective, Ibsen and Degeneration sheds new light on some of Ibsen's most enduring contributions to world...

Political Prayer in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how white American women writers translated petitioning -- a political form for redress of grievances with religious resonance, or what Strand calls "political prayer" -- in their...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Biographien, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Inwiefern lässt sich Stachs Kafka-Biographie als Literatur begreifen? Um dieser Frage nachzugehen, wird zunächst untersucht, was die gattungsspezifischen Merkmale...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Moderne Literatur, Note: 1,0, Universität zu Köln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit soll sich mit der Identität und vor allem der Identitätsproblematik des Protagonisten...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Universität Augsburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der Arbeit werden die Rolle der Frau im Zweiten Weltkrieg und ihre...

Be as smart as Sherlock Holmes! Arthur Conan Doyle's original tales include many references to everyday Victorian life that are no longer part of current readers' world. What Holmes would have eaten from a can while searching for the hound of the...

Dostoevsky attached introductions to his most challenging narratives, including Notes from the House of the Dead, Notes from Underground, The Devils, The Brothers Karamazov, and "A Gentle Creature." Despite his clever attempts to call his readers'...

The first detailed study on the subject of Victorian unfinished novels, this book sheds further light on novels by major authors that have been neglected by critical studies and focuses in a new way on critically acclaimed masterpieces, offering a...

Victorian Time examines how literature of the era registers the psychological impact of the onset of a modern, industrialized experience of time as time-saving technologies, such as steam-powered machinery, aimed at making economic life more efficient,...