Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

Coal occupies a large share in the global energy basket.

The author states here that Tolstoy was a great educator and his views on education were ingenious and profound.

The author states here that Tolstoy was a great educator and his views on education were ingenious and profound.

The bare events of Dostoevsky's life - his father murdered by peasants, his own ordeal before a firing squad, then exile in Siberia, his epilepsy, gambling, poverty and debts - go far to account for his strange intensity of vision.

The bare events of Dostoevsky's life - his father murdered by peasants, his own ordeal before a firing squad, then exile in Siberia, his epilepsy, gambling, poverty and debts - go far to account for his strange intensity of vision.

First published in 1977, this book was the first to map extensively the ideological typography of the Anglo-American tradition of literary theory.

First published in 1977, this book was the first to map extensively the ideological typography of the Anglo-American tradition of literary theory.

First published in 1983, this book explores a number of avenues of critical thinking about Joseph Conrad, showing him as an author deeply concerned with humankind's ethical motivation and its relationship with the ideas of evolution current in his day.

First published in 1983, this book explores a number of avenues of critical thinking about Joseph Conrad, showing him as an author deeply concerned with humankind's ethical motivation and its relationship with the ideas of evolution current in his day.

First published in 1982, Images of Crisis explores the premise that literature and art exploit various images to present culturally prevalent ideas, and thus create their own form of iconology.

First published in 1982, Images of Crisis explores the premise that literature and art exploit various images to present culturally prevalent ideas, and thus create their own form of iconology.

The importance of typology in the study of early modern literature has long been accepted, yet students of Victorian culture have paid little attention to it.

The importance of typology in the study of early modern literature has long been accepted, yet students of Victorian culture have paid little attention to it.

A surprisingly large number of English poets have either belonged to a secret society, or been strongly influenced by its tenets.

A surprisingly large number of English poets have either belonged to a secret society, or been strongly influenced by its tenets.

First published in 1992, Subject to Others considers the intersection between late seventeenth- to early nineteenth-century British female writers and the colonial debate surrounding slavery and abolition.

First published in 1992, Subject to Others considers the intersection between late seventeenth- to early nineteenth-century British female writers and the colonial debate surrounding slavery and abolition.

This is the first sustained examination of Walt Whitman's influence on British socialism.

This is the first sustained examination of Walt Whitman's influence on British socialism.

The 1890s, the Naughty Nineties, was an exciting and flamboyant time in British life and literature.

The 1890s, the Naughty Nineties, was an exciting and flamboyant time in British life and literature.

First published in 1986, this book sets Kipling firmly in the historical context not only of contemporary India but of prior Anglo-Indian writers about India.

First published in 1986, this book sets Kipling firmly in the historical context not only of contemporary India but of prior Anglo-Indian writers about India.

In this title, first published in 1984, Peter Morton argues that in late Victorian Britain a group of novelists and essayists quite consciously sought and found ideas in post-Darwinian biology that were susceptible to imaginative transformation.

In this title, first published in 1984, Peter Morton argues that in late Victorian Britain a group of novelists and essayists quite consciously sought and found ideas in post-Darwinian biology that were susceptible to imaginative transformation.

Business and the businessman have had a fundamental place in American society since the inception of the nation.

Business and the businessman have had a fundamental place in American society since the inception of the nation.

Madame Bovary ranks among the world's most famous and widely read novels, and has inspired numerous critical theories.

Madame Bovary ranks among the world's most famous and widely read novels, and has inspired numerous critical theories.

This heavily revised second edition comprehensively examines the causes and effects of obesity, both on the human body as well as society as a whole.

In 2007/8 world food prices spiked and global economic crisis set in, leaving hundreds of millions of people unable to access adequate food.

In 2007/8 world food prices spiked and global economic crisis set in, leaving hundreds of millions of people unable to access adequate food.

In the years since publication of the first edition of Food Wars much has happened in the world of food policy.

In the years since publication of the first edition of Food Wars much has happened in the world of food policy.

Traditionally, Wordsworth's greatness is founded on his identity as the poet of nature and solitude.

Traditionally, Wordsworth's greatness is founded on his identity as the poet of nature and solitude.

First published in 1984, this title examines the development of a special rhetoric in Dickens' work, which, by using grotesque effects, challenged the complacency of his middle-class Victorian readers.

First published in 1984, this title examines the development of a special rhetoric in Dickens' work, which, by using grotesque effects, challenged the complacency of his middle-class Victorian readers.

Nationalism has given the world a genre of poetry bright with ideals of justice, freedom and the brotherhood of man, but also, at times, burning with humiliation and grievance, hatred and lust for revenge, driving human kind, as the Austrian poet Grillparzer put it, 'From humanity via nationality to bestiality'.

Nationalism has given the world a genre of poetry bright with ideals of justice, freedom and the brotherhood of man, but also, at times, burning with humiliation and grievance, hatred and lust for revenge, driving human kind, as the Austrian poet Grillparzer put it, 'From humanity via nationality to bestiality'.

This volume brings together a wide range of scholars to offer new perspectives on the relationship between Romanticism and philosophy.

This volume brings together a wide range of scholars to offer new perspectives on the relationship between Romanticism and philosophy.

Examining the most frequently taught works by key writers of the American Renaissance, including Poe, Emerson, Fuller, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Jacobs, Stowe, Whitman, and Dickinson, this engaging and accessible book offers the crucial historical, social, and political contexts in which they must be studied.

Examining the most frequently taught works by key writers of the American Renaissance, including Poe, Emerson, Fuller, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Jacobs, Stowe, Whitman, and Dickinson, this engaging and accessible book offers the crucial historical, social, and political contexts in which they must be studied.

The concept of Green Exercise has now been widely adopted and implies a synergistic health benefit of being active in the presence of nature.

The concept of Green Exercise has now been widely adopted and implies a synergistic health benefit of being active in the presence of nature.

Focusing on the language, style, and poetry of Dickens' novels, this study breaks new ground in reading Dickens' novels as a unique form of poetry.

Focusing on the language, style, and poetry of Dickens' novels, this study breaks new ground in reading Dickens' novels as a unique form of poetry.

The Romantic period coincided with revolutionary transformations of traditional political and human rights discourses, as well as witnessing rapid advances in technology and a primitivist return to nature.

The Romantic period coincided with revolutionary transformations of traditional political and human rights discourses, as well as witnessing rapid advances in technology and a primitivist return to nature.