Products In Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 (Total Products 270, Showing: 1 -> 20)
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The gothic novel in Ireland, c. 1760-1829 offers a compelling account of the development of gothic literature in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth ...
This text traces the evolution of the Romantic approach to literary criticism and compares it to the other methods which prevailed in the early 19th century.
A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he ...
Hedda is an intelligent and ambitious woman, trapped in the stifling environment of a bourgeois 19th-century marriage. When writer Eilert Loevborg, an...
'he looked up wistfully in my face, and gravely asked - Mamma, why are you so wicked? '
The mysterious new tenant of Wildfell Hall has a dark secret...
`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation'
In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alon...
'I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind ...'
Discovered on the streets of Liverpool, Heathcliff is rescued by Mr Earnshaw and taken to the ...
Johannes Brahms's much-loved solo songs continue to be enjoyed in recordings and on recital stages all over the world. This book provides a wealth of ...
This special edition of The Oxford Companion to the Brontës commemorates the bicentenary of Emily Brontë's birth in July 1818 and provides comprehen...
'I think I must be an improper woman without knowing it, I do so manage to shock people.'
Elizabeth Gaskell's second novel challenged contemporary so...
'I shall do one thing in this life - one thing for certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.'
Gabriel Oak is on...
A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house. ...
'The only English utopia since More's that deserves to be remembered as literature.'
News from Nowhere (1890) is the best-known prose work of William...
In their celebration of 'little matters' - the regular round of visiting, dining out, drinking tea, of reading and walking to the shops and sending to...
'I see her now - cousin Phillis. The westering sun shone full upon her, and made a slanting stream of light into the room within.'
Elizabeth Gaskell...
As the the bicentennary of the French Revolution draws near, Dickens' historical novel serves as a timely reminder of nineteenth-century reactions to ...
'She looked absolutely pure. Nature, in her fantastic trickery, had set such a seal of maidenhood upon Tess's countenance that he gazed at her with a...
Rufus Hallmark's book explores Robert Schumann's beloved yet controversial song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben and the poems of Adelbert von Chamisso on ...
'She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.'
Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century amer...
Following his father's death John Harmon returns to London to claim his inheritance, but he finds he is eligible only if he marries Bella Wilfur. To ...