19th Century Literature

_x000D_ This volume links fictional, non-fictional and pictorial representations of a colonial otherness with the late nineteenth-century artistic concerns about representational conventions and possibilities. The author explores these texts and images through the postcolonial framework of ‘exoticis..

Juxtaposing the albums of Lady Brassey, an overlooked figure among Victorian women travelers, with Brassey's travel books, Nancy Micklewright takes advantage of a unique opportunity to examine the role of photography in the 1870s and 1880s in constructing ideas about place and empire. The book incl..

Juxtaposing the albums of Lady Brassey, an overlooked figure among Victorian women travelers, with Brassey's travel books, Nancy Micklewright takes advantage of a unique opportunity to examine the role of photography in the 1870s and 1880s in constructing ideas about place and empire. The book incl..

The gulf between "literature" and "popular literature" is exacerbated by reluctance to consider national literatures with respect to downmarket and transnational dissemination. Buchanan's analysis is situated within discussion of changes in the novelistic use of historicity to describe and direct th..

Based on close readings of five Victorian novels, Hallum presents an original study of the interaction between popular fiction, the marriage market and the aesthetic movement. She uses the texts to trace the development of aestheticism, examining the differences between the authors, including their ..

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary repsonses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves...

Situating the origins of American environmental fiction in early Republic natural histories, Indian captivity narratives, juvenile literature, and the subsequent development of a uniquely American brand of environmental fiction that began with James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers, Matthew Wynn Sivil..

American Memory in Henry James is about the cultural, historical and moral dislocations at the heart of Henry James’ explorations of American identity - between power and love; modernity and history; indeterminate social forms and enduring personal values. It is about the power, and the limits, of t..

This book traces the trajectory of André Breton's thought and poetic output of 1941-1948. This ground-breaking study establishes his profound intellectual debt to 19th century Romanticism and how Breton held firmly to political thought, moving in his quest for a better world..

This book examines the hotel experience of Anglo-American travelers in the 19th century from the viewpoint of literary and cultural studies as well as spatiality theory...

Anthony Trollope is perhaps best known for the group of Barsetshire novels, a rich and enduring picture of society in a small cathedral town. He also wrote a number of Irish novels and a series about political society known as the ‘Palliser novels’._x005F_x000D_ First published in 1978, this introdu..

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves...