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This book analyzes the interaction of crimes, punishments, and Bernard Shaw in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores crimes committed by professional criminals, nonprofessional crimina……続きを見る

This book maps the development of the boy detective in British children’s literature from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century. It explores how this liminal figure – a boy operating wit……続きを見る

This volume considers Joseph Conrad’s use of multiple genres, including allusions to sensation fiction, pornography, anthropology, and Darwinian science, to respond to Victorian representations of g……続きを見る

This book combines the insights of thirteen Shavian scholars as they examine the themes of marriage, relationships and partnerships throughout all of Bernard Shaw’s major works. It also connects Sha……続きを見る

For half a century, J. Hillis Miller has been a premier figure in English and comparative literature, influencing and leading the direction of literary studies. What is less well-known is that he ha……続きを見る

Ever since the word romantic and its many cognates in European languages began to be used as technical terms towards the end of the eighteenth century, the quest for a satisfactory definition of the……続きを見る

This book argues for the importance of disability to authors of the Wordsworth-Coleridge circle. By examining texts in a variety of genres ー ranging from self-experimental medical texts to lyric po……続きを見る

The essays in this volume broaden previous approaches to Atlantic literature and culture by comparatively studying the politics and textualities of Southern Europe, North America, and Latin America ……続きを見る

Der mittlerweile in 3. Auflage vorliegende Band Spanische Literaturwissenschaft aus der Reihe bachelor-wissen richtet sich als leserfreundliche Einführung speziell an die Studierenden und Lehrenden ……続きを見る

Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo (Santander, 1856 – 1912) fue un escritor, filólogo, crítico literario e historiador de las ideas español. Consagrado fundamentalmente y con extraordinaria erudición reconst……続きを見る

Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo (Santander, 1856 – 1912) fue un escritor, filólogo, crítico literario e historiador de las ideas español. Consagrado fundamentalmente y con extraordinaria erudición reconst……続きを見る

Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo (Santander, 1856 – 1912) fue un escritor, filólogo, crítico literario e historiador de las ideas español. Consagrado fundamentalmente y con extraordinaria erudición reconst……続きを見る

A finales del siglo XIV, surge un movimiento intelectual en Italia que sitúa al hombre en el centro de todas las cosas. En los siglos XV y XVI, este movimiento llegará al resto de Europa y tendrá un……続きを見る

Mobility in the Victorian Novel explores mobility in Victorian novels by authors including Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. With focus o……続きを見る

Cities have always been defined by their centrality. But literature demonstrates that their diverse peripheries define them, too: from suburbs to slums, rubbish dumps to nightclubs and entire failed……続きを見る

Virginia Woolf's Influential Forebears reveals under-acknowledged nineteenth-century legacies which shaped Woolf as a writing woman. Marion Dell identifies significant lines of descent from the live……続きを見る

Faced with the chaos and banality of modern, everyday life, a number of Victorian poets sought innovative ways of writing about the unpoetic present in their verse. Their varied efforts are recognis……続きを見る

This book covers the life and work of a wide range of writers from Coleridge to Wollstonecraft, Hemans, Beckford and their contemporaries. Also encompassing a wealth of material on contexts from the……続きを見る

This book demonstrates how authors performing the role of a public intellectual discuss ideas and opinions regarding society while using literary strategies and devices in and beyond the text. Their……続きを見る

Karl Philipp Moritz' Werk 'Reisen eines Deutschen in England im Jahre 1782' ist ein faszinierendes literarisches Werk, das die Reiseerlebnisse des Autors in England detailliert beschreibt. Moritz' p……続きを見る

James Joyce's 'The Dead' is a poignant short story that delves into themes of love, loss, and the nuances of human relationships. Set during a festive gathering in Dublin, the narrative follows Gabr……続きを見る

In seinem Werk 'Die Blumen des Bösen' zeigt Charles Baudelaire auf fesselnde Weise die dunklen Seiten des menschlichen Daseins. Die Gedichtsammlung besteht aus verschiedenen Gedichten, die von Theme……続きを見る

Henrik Ibsen's drama is the most prominent and lasting contribution of the cultural surge seen in Scandinavian literature in the later nineteenth century. When he made his debut in Norway in 1850, t……続きを見る

This book explores the collaborative practices – both literary and material – that women undertook in the production of early modern texts. It confronts two ongoing methodological dilemmas. How does……続きを見る

This book is the first major ecocritical study of the relationship between British Romanticism and climate change. It analyses a wide range of texts – by authors including Lord Byron, William Cobbet……続きを見る

This essay collection addresses the paradox that something may at once “be” and “not be” Shakespeare. This phenomenon can be a matter of perception rather than authorial intention: audiences may det……続きを見る

This book is about haunting in modernist literature. Offering an extended and textually-sensitive reading of modernist spectrality that has yet to be undertaken by scholars of either haunting or mod……続きを見る

This volume explores the potential of the concept of the creaturely for thinking and writing beyond the idea of a clear-cut human-animal divide, presenting innovative perspectives and narratives for……続きを見る

This book is a study of nineteenth-century poems that remember, yearn for, fixate on, and forget the past. Reflecting the current critical drive to reconcile formalist and historicist approaches to ……続きを見る

This book is an investigation of the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities, gaps, and historical contexts in biographies of controversial British women who published during the long nineteenth……続きを見る