Litteraturvetenskap: ca 1800 – ca 1900

A love letter to Jane Austen and to the power of reading by an icon of British literature'Wise and wonderfully funny' The Times'Splendid'Guardian'It should be required reading'New …

This is a readable introduction to the poetry and fiction published in Greek since national independence in 1821. It is the first full-length study to be devoted to the literature …

In the year 1900, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was at the height of his success as a qualified doctor, keen sportsman, writer of historical novels, champion of the oppressed and, most …

The first multi-disciplinary scholarly consideration of the Victorian Gothic These 14 chapters, each written by an acknowledged expert in the field, provide an invaluable insight …

Gravity and grace are spiritual terms, but they can also offer us a way to think about literature. Grace may mean not only the felicity and ease - what Schiller refers to as the …

This book about an 1880s radical feminist utopia includes a new, extensive introduction that provides critical apparatus to appropriately place Mizora and author Mary Bradley Lane …

'How many things dismissed out of hand yesterday turn out to be true tomorrow?' Written in the first half of the career of Jules Verne, the twin volumes of From the Earth to the …

The Worlds of Jane Austen invites readers to see one of Britain’s most beloved authors in a completely new light. Far from the quiet world of country houses and tea parties, Austen …

What grounds the fictional world of a novel? Or is such a world peculiarly groundless? In a powerful engagement with the latest debates in novel theory, Daniel Wright investigates …

'I wonder what will become of her!' So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful,and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published …