Litteraturvetenskap: ca 1800 – ca 1900

'No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.' Northanger Abbey is a comedy about reading and misreading-of books and …

'It was at the time when I was wandering around hungry in Kristiania, that strange city no one leaves before it has set its mark on them...' Hunger is the first-person story of a …

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'you are to understand, Mr. Pip, that the name of the person who is your liberal benefactor remains a profound secret...' Young Pip lives with his sister and her husband the …

Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that …

Herman Melville (1819-91) brought as much genius to the smaller-scale literary forms as he did to the full-blown novel: his poems and the short stories and novellas collected in …

Idag ser vi kanske individens frihet som en självklarhet, men så har det inte alltid varit. Vid 1700-talets slut var individens rätt fortfarande brännstoff i länder styrda av …

Victoria Benedictsson skrev dagboksanteckningari annotationsalmanackor. Av dessafinns böckerna från åren 1876–1888 bevarade.De föreligger här i oavkortad utgåva. Dagböckernaär …

'Pray, pray be composed,' cried Elinor, 'and do not betray what you feel to every body present. Perhaps he has not observed you yet.' For Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, …