Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

This collection of essays by leading and new British scholars demonstrates the different ways in which Romanticism is currently being revalued and reconceived.

The last two decades have seen the business of researching and writing about Percy Bysshe Shelley change in positive and significant ways.

English lit scholar Glenda Hudson examines Jane Austen's presentation of sibling love and rivalry in the context of the dramatic social and historical changes in the late 18th century--and also analyzes the incest motif in numerous works of the period.

This book evaluates the importance of Dostoyevsky's life and imaginative fiction as a stimulus to Kafka's own writing.

This is a collection of original essays by international scholars which focuses on Irish writing in English from the eighteenth century to the present.

This study explores the relationship between Wilde's treatment of sexual subject matter and the development of his literary aesthetics from the earliest volume of poetry through the social comedies which highlighted his career.

Previous biographies have set Jane Austen within her social context.

Focusing on Shelley's 'Italian experience', the present study both addresses itself to the living context which nurtured Shelley's creativity, and explores a neglected but essential component of his work.

This book is the first to make extensive use of unpublished manuscripts to show how a period of English literature affected W.

This collection of essays by English and American writers focuses on New York life from the perspectives of several disciplines and life experiences.

A study that examines the relationship between tragic drama of the late 19th and 20th centuries and present-day society.

Lewis Carroll is one of the world's best-loved writers.

A study of Shelley's poetry, approaching it from the viewpoint of contemporary Jungian analytical psychology that incorporates the theories of Melanie Klein and D.

This is a biographical account of Yeats' life detailing his early family life, his schooldays, his London years, his rise to literary fame, his relationships and marriage, his Oxford period and his career in public life.

In 'Percy Bysshe Shelly: A Literary Life' , Michael O'Neill gives a knowledgeable and balanced account of Shelley's literary career from his earliest published work to his last unfinished masterpiece, The Triumph of Life .

Hardy insisted that his poetry steadily grew in skill and maturity.

A biographical and critical study of Tennyson aiming to show what went into the making of the man, exploring the power, subtlety and variety of his poems, along with the artistic principles and preoccupations which shaped his life's work.

The nineteenth century volume demonstrates the variety of English literature in an age of social, intellectual, religious and scientific ferment.

One of the subjects of deepest and most enduring interest to Henry James was the creative experience of writers and critics.

A study of Wharton's work which discusses her novels and travel books according to their specific geography or landscape rather than the date of composition.

A critical study which discusses passion and community as the central structures of feeling in tragic realism, tracing their origins in Stendhal, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and explaining their contemporary eclipse in Western society.

This new book on the Brontes concentrates on the way in which the literary interests and expressions of Charlotte and Emily were built up.

A study of the interrelationship of the Victorian novel with other forms of writings, arguing that the whole literary culture was concerned with the production of Victorian values, including novels, an active part in the compromise between aristocratic and middle class cultures in this period.

It is widely assumed today that heroism is obsolete as an ideal, that heroic virtue is a contradiction in terms, and that war literature must be anti-war by definition.