This volume initiates an interdisciplinary approach in the literary and philosophical treatment of Carlyle, challenging the long-held notion that his work was solely influenced by German idealism.
This collection of essays examines Austen in relation to her business. Many of these essays, including those by Julia Prewitt Brown, Margaret Drabble, Jan Fergus, Isobel Grundy, Gary Kelly, and Elaine Showalter, were first delivered as papers at the Lake Louise conference on Persuasion .
Places Trollope's work in the wider context of nineteenth century culture - an area of growing interest in literary studies - and combines three aspects, the Victorian novel, media history and gender issues. By applying feminist criticism the book challenges the traditional view of Trollope as a conservative.
The theme and scope of this chronology focus on the life (in bare outline) and publications (in temporal order) of John Ruskin (1819-1900), who was an art-critic, social commentator, architectural scholar, geologist, botanist, water-colourist, lecturer, letter-writer and prose stylist.
Studies of Victorian governance have been profoundly influenced by Discipline and Punish , Foucault's genealogy of modern power. The author of this work shows, however, that Foucault's later essays provide better critical tools for understanding the 19th-century British state.
Colligan argues that Nineteenth-century obscenity was caught up in the global cultural traffic of print technology, international trade and exoticism. She reveals that obscenity intersected majority and minority culture, searched out new print and visual media, and built commercial and fantasmatic global networks for its continuation and survival.
Uncle Vanya has been described as the least pleasant and most bitter of Chekhov's plays - yet the difficulty in communication is one of its outstanding features.
An introduction to Modern Arabic Literature, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present.
In this book Cora Kaplan looks at the politics of 'Victoriana' from the 1970s to the present, a politics that emerges from the alternation between nostalgia and critique in fiction, film, biography and literary studies.
In this biography, travel book and memoir, Robert Dessaix looks at the life and work of the great Russian author Turgenev and sees the moment when our idea of love changed.
Facilitates an understanding of words or concepts that may be obscure in Dickinson's poetry.
Examines Shelley's unique utopian vision as a product of the tumultuous eighteenth century that uniquely blended the personal, poetic, and political realms.