19th Century Literature

In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ’street literature’. Not only are some traditional singers known to have learned songs from printed sources, but most of the songs were composed by professional writ..

In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ’street literature’. Not only are some traditional singers known to have learned songs from printed sources, but most of the songs were composed by professional writ..

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Nineteenth-century scholars, children's literature specialists, and historians of science and childhood will engage with Tess Cosslett's examination of nineteenth-century debates about the human and animal in children's stories such as Black Beauty, Beautiful Joe, Wind in the Willows, and Peter Rabb..

Nineteenth-century scholars, children's literature specialists, and historians of science and childhood will engage with Tess Cosslett's examination of nineteenth-century debates about the human and animal in children's stories such as Black Beauty, Beautiful Joe, Wind in the Willows, and Peter Rabb..

Seeking to understand Tennyson's poetry as the work of a man concerned with making and then living up one of the most famous names in literature, Anna Barton offers close readings of major works from his early lyrics to his Arthurian Idylls. The laureate's keen sense of professional identity, Barton..

Reflecting 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 re-visit methodologies, intertextualities, metaphysical positions and stylistic features in th..

Drawing on the rhetorical work of James Phelan, Wayne Booth's ethical criticism, recent work on William Makepeace Thackeray, as well as an understanding of the role of skepticism in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English thought, Thackeray's Skeptical Narrative and the "Perilous Trade" of Author..

Arguing that American colonists who declared their independence in 1776 remained tied to England by both habit and inclination, Clark traces the new Americans' struggle to come to terms with their loss of identity as British, and particularly English, citizens. Clark's study shows that any attempt t..

Bringing together eminent scholars and emerging critics, this collection sets a new standard in Beddoes criticism. The contributors assess Beddoes's German context, read his plays in light of recent work on theatre history and gender, and revisit key areas in Beddoes's scholarship such as nineteent..

Pioneering and interdisciplinary in nature, this bibliography constitutes a comprehensive list of regional fiction for every county of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England over the past two centuries. In addition, other regions of a usually topographical or urban nature have been used, such as Birm..

First published in 1968, this reissue of Dr. Craik’s critical appreciation of the completed novels of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë is seminal for the way in which it shifts emphasis away from the Brontë family biography towards a detailed critical analysis of the novels themselves...