Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

The Brontes, living in an isolated village in Yorkshire, wrote some of the most vivid, imaginative, and widely-read novels of the Victorian Age; they also became the subject-matter of romanticized anecdotes and regrettably distorted biographies.

The novel of adultery is a nineteenth-century form about the experience of women, produced almost exclusively by men.

Peter Widdowson's major new selection of Hardy's poetry offers the student a challenging assessment of his poetic achievement by juxtaposing Hardy's best known poems with some of his least known.

Yeats's Poetry and Poetics brings together some of the finest Yeats criticism ever published, together with some new pieces specially written for this volume.

Thomas Hardy made a reputation in more than one genre and in more than one period, and he has constantly given rise to widely differing critical responses.

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First published in 1972, the second edition of this highly respected classic of Trollope criticism will be welcomed by Trollope scholars everywhere.

Jane Austen's Business is a collection of essays that demonstrates Austen knew her business.

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Modernist Writers and the Marketplace is a new research-level collection devoted to an exciting area in the history of the book.

In William Wordsworth, John Williams provides a detailed account of Wordsworth's evolution as a poet.

This study of Dickens's career as a professional writer uses a range of material to describe and analyze the ways in which his work can be seen as a form of literary production.

From The Man Within (1929) to The Captain and the Enemy (1988), Graham Greene engaged in a lifelong dialogue with Joseph Conrad's political, psychological and melodramatic fictions.

Amongst the classics of children's literature, Treasure Island and Kidnapped remain as popular today as ever.

The Victorian period was one of enormous cultural diversity with places for figures as different as Alfred Tennyson and Oscar Wilde.

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This is the first book to provide an account of the representation of emotional and sexual relationships between men across English literature from the Renaissance to the modern period.

This book describes various accounts of the Victorian social-problem novel, examining their strengths and limitations in the light of the historiographical assumptions which underlie them.

This study focuses on the work of four Victorian anti-feminist women writers - Eliza Lynn Linton, Charlotte M.

This book examines attitudes towards empire and the creation and perpetuation of a British world-view during the years 1834-1924.

The proportion of Victorian novels in print today represents only a tiny fraction of what was published by this vast writing industry.

What Katy Read focuses on a much neglected area of literary criticism: literature for girls.

This comprehensive account of the writing life of Henry James aims at providing a critical overview of all his important writings, firmly set in two contexts: that of James's practical career as a novelist in America, England, and Europe; and that of the literary and intellectual climate of his time.

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This is not a straightforward biography but rather an attempt to describe and examine Yeats as a phenomenon, partly shaped by forces and movements around him and partly shaping the public events of his time.

'One of the best social commentators on Dickens.

Historicizing Blake puts Blake back into the cultural context of his times.

'This is an important and illuminating collection, however, which could only have been assembled by a formidably learned scholar.

William Blake is acknowledged as a poet of opposition and contradiction: a writer who, from Songs of Innocence and Experience to his last epic Jerusalem, ceaselessly explored the conflicts between limitation and possibility, reason and energy, torment and joy.

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To what extent is the distinction between 'Romantic' and 'Victorian' valuable or just?

Throughout his long working life, Tennyson was experimenting with new forms and subjects.

Examining the relation of print and culture in the 19th century, this book scrutinizes the cultural politics and production of Victorian magazines.

A concise study of the life and poetry of the Victorian priest-poet.

New Perspectives on Thomas Hardy is a lively and varied collection of new essays on Thomas Hardy, contributed by some of the world's leading Hardy scholars.

The internationally distinguished scholars who have contributed to this timely book were asked to take part in a collaborative act of demystification: a reconsideration of the eschatological ideas of the last fin de sicle, the 1890s, in the light of the critical thought of the 1990s.

These essays are lectures, mostly revised or expanded, given to the Tennyson Society by leading Victorianists, including one of the doyens of Tennyson studies, Jerome H.

The volume contains ten new essays on Russian literature and thought of the classical age (roughly 1820-1880).

This volume consists of ten essays by scholars from the Soviet Union, the United States and New Zealand on aspects of Russian literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Through attention to incidents of betrayal and self-betrayal in his fiction, this book traces the development of Conrad's conception of identity through the three phases of his career: the self in isolation, the self in society and the sexualised self.

An investigation of the novel, with particular reference to the works of Balzac, Beckett and Cortazar.

This book is essential reading for an understanding of Conrad's fiction both as a product of the political, social and intellectual forces dominating the period 1870-1920, and of the pressures and influences in Conrad's own life.

Focusing on narrative structure, irony, satire and allusion, The Hidden Hardy offers a radical new perspective on Thomas Hardy's novels.

Children's literature is increasingly exposed to critical debate in England and America.