Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

Drawing extensively upon archival resources and manuscript evidence, Wordsworth Before Coleridge rewrites the early history of Wordsworth's intellectual development and thereby overturns a century-old consensus that derives his most important philosophical ideas from Coleridge.

Drawing extensively upon archival resources and manuscript evidence, Wordsworth Before Coleridge rewrites the early history of Wordsworth's intellectual development and thereby overturns a century-old consensus that derives his most important philosophical ideas from Coleridge.

First published in 1940.

First published in 1940.

First published in 1940.

First published in 1940.

First published in 1981.

First published in 1981.

Originally published in 1999, Victorian Culture and the Idea of the Grotesque is the first fully interdisciplinary study of the subject and examines a wide range of sources and materials to provide new readings between 'style' and 'concept'.

Originally published in 1999, Victorian Culture and the Idea of the Grotesque is the first fully interdisciplinary study of the subject and examines a wide range of sources and materials to provide new readings between 'style' and 'concept'.

First published in 1980.

First published in 1980.

Beneficial microbes called probiotics exist naturally in our bodies and play a vital role in our health.

Beneficial microbes called probiotics exist naturally in our bodies and play a vital role in our health.

The Routledge Anthology of British Women Playwrights, 1777-1843 brings together ten eclectic plays by female dramatists and writers, to stimulate a rich discussion of women, writing, and theatre history.

The Routledge Anthology of British Women Playwrights, 1777-1843 brings together ten eclectic plays by female dramatists and writers, to stimulate a rich discussion of women, writing, and theatre history.

This book offers an essential, comprehensive, yet accessible reference of contemporary food security discourse and guides readers through the steps required for food security analysis.

This book offers an essential, comprehensive, yet accessible reference of contemporary food security discourse and guides readers through the steps required for food security analysis.

This book explores the relationship between ekphrasis and memory in the novel.

This book explores the relationship between ekphrasis and memory in the novel.

Our relationship with trees is a lengthy, complex one.

Our relationship with trees is a lengthy, complex one.

From the earliest reviews of his poetry, readers were deeply divided on the merits of William Wordsworth's work.

This book is designed to serve as a practical guide for students and others wishing to improve their skills in the detailed analysis and discussion of Hardy's prose texts.

This New Casebook explores the enduring significance of George Eliot's novels The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Silas Marner (1861).

This volume guides students through Eliot's most widely studied novels: The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner and Middlemarch.

Chapters on the narrative frame, characters, imagery and symbols, structure and themes use practical analysis to build and refine our insight into Wuthering Heights.

Was the late nineteenth century 'Victorian' or 'modern'?

Victorian Hauntings asks its reader to consider the following questions:What does it mean to read or write with ghosts, or to suggest that acts of reading or writing are haunted?

To many of his contemporaries, Charles Dickens was the greatest writer of his age; a one-man fiction industry who produced fourteen massive novels, and numerous sketches, essays and stories, many of which appeared in the two magazines which he founded and edited.

This book offers a one-volume study of Jane Austen that is both a sophisticated critical introduction and a valuable contribution to the study of one of the most popular and enduring British novelists.

Key Concepts in Victorian Literature is a lively, clear and accessible resource for anyone interested in Victorian literature.

Key Concepts in Romantic Literature is an accessible and easy-to-use scholarly guide to the literature, criticism and history of the culturally rich and politically turbulent Romantic era (1789-1832).

Key Concepts in Postcolonial Literature provides an overview of the main themes, issues and critical perspectives that have had the greatest effect on postcolonial literatures.

An insight into a popular yet complex genre that has developed over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Robert Browning's pre-eminent status amongst Victorian poets has endured despite the recent broadening of the literary canon.

The first novel of the author's maturity, Mansfield Park is complex, highly wrought, and experimental.

What is the Gothic?

George Eliot was one of the great thinkers of her time, a figure central to the main currents of thought and belief in the nineteenth century.

Sara Lodge offers a lively introduction to the critical history of one of the most widely-studied nineteenth-century novels, from the first reviews through to present day responses.

David Copperfield and Great Expectations are among Charles Dickens's most famous novels.

This stimulating study takes a fresh look at two of Dickens' most widely-studied texts.

Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers' imaginations around the world.

Since the establishment of sensation fiction in the 1860s, key trends have emerged in critical readings of these texts.

An anthology of both familiar and previously unavailable primary texts that illuminate the world of nineteenth-century ideas.

The Prelude is now seen as a central text in the Wordsworth corpus.

Gillian Steinberg offers an approachable introduction to the poems of one of the most prolific and influential English writers, through an examination of wide-ranging selections from his work.

This Reader's Guide analyses the critical history of two of Hardy's major tragic novels, from the time of their publication to the present.

No other major author of the nineteenth century has arguably produced as much critical activity as Thomas Hardy.

This stimulating study takes a fresh look at Browning's poetry and at some of the key themes that run through his work.