Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books
Edinburgh University Press Artful Experiments
Book SynopsisWhat is the connection between Victorian writing and experiment? 'Artful Experiments' seeks to approach the field of literature and science in a way that is not so much centred on discourses of established knowledge as it is on practices of investigating what is no longer or not yet knowledge.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Nature Translated
Book SynopsisThis book shows how Alexander vonHumboldt's British translators, now largely forgotten figures, were pivotal in moulding his prose and his public persona as they reconfigured his works for readers in Britain and beyond.
£76.00
Edinburgh University Press Nature Translated
Book SynopsisThis book shows how Alexander von Humboldt's British translators, now largely forgotten figures, were pivotal in moulding his prose and his public persona as they reconfigured his works for readers in Britain and beyond.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press The Victorian Actress in the Novel and on the
Book SynopsisThis book analyses how Victorian novels and plays used the actress, a significant figure for the relationship between women and the public sphere, to define their own place within and among genres and in relation to audiences.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Victorian Actress in the Novel and on the
Book SynopsisThis book analyses how Victorian novels and plays used the actress, a significant figure for the relationship between women and the public sphere, to define their own place within and among genres and in relation to audiences.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Migration and Modernities
Book SynopsisThis collection recovers a comparative history of migration that, arguably, no scholar could achieve alone. Migrants are by definition liminal, and many have existed historically in the murky spaces between nations, regions, or ethnicities
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Agriculture and the Land
Book SynopsisThis book brings together previously uncollected essays on the changing conditions of agriculture and rural life in the 1870s and 1880s.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Virginia Woolf and BeingintheWorld
Book SynopsisBreaking fresh ground in Woolfian scholarship, this study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf's textual treatment of the relationship between self and world from the perspective of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Marie Corelli a Romance of Two Worlds
Book SynopsisMarie Corelli's 'A Romance of Two Worlds' is regarded as one of the most culturally important Victorian bestsellers. This critical edition offers instructive access to this multifaceted but still largely underappreciated novel.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Cultural Encounters with the Arabian Nights in
Book SynopsisDickson identifies the nineteenth century as the beginning of the large-scale absorption of the Arabian Nights into British literature and culture.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Cultural Encounters with the Arabian Nights in
Book SynopsisDickson identifies the nineteenth century as the beginning of the large-scale absorption of the Arabian Nights into British literature and culture.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth Century
Book SynopsisCharting an 'aesthetic', post-realist tradition of writing, this book considers the significant role played by John Ruskin's art criticism in later writing which dealt with the new kinds of spaces encountered in the nineteenth-century
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press The Aesthetics of Space in NineteenthCentury
Book SynopsisCharting an 'aesthetic', post-realist tradition of writing, this book considers the significant role played by John Ruskin's art criticism in later writing which dealt with the new kinds of spaces encountered in the nineteenth-century
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Italian Politics and NineteenthCentury British
Book SynopsisThisbook examines the intersections among literary works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Shelley and Wilkie Collins, journalism, parliamentary records and pamphlets, to establish Britain's imaginative investment in the seismic geopolitical realignment of Italian unification.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Italian Politics and NineteenthCentury British
Book SynopsisThis book examines the intersections among literary works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Shelley and Wilkie Collins, journalism, parliamentary records and pamphlets, to establish Britain's imaginative investment in the seismic geopolitical realignment of Italian unification.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Reading Victorian Literature
Book SynopsisReading Victorian Literature provides a critical commentary on major authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from Dickens to Conrad.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Reading Victorian Literature
Book SynopsisReading Victorian Literature provides a critical commentary on major authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from Dickens to Conrad.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry
Book SynopsisThe Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry surveys the variety of ways in which Persia, and the multitude of ideological, historical, cultural and political notions that it embodied, were received, circulated and appropriated.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry
Book SynopsisThe Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry surveys the variety of ways in which Persia, and the multitude of ideological, historical, cultural and political notions that it embodied, were received, circulated and appropriated.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Michael Fields Revisionary Poetics
Book SynopsisExamines history, modernity, gender, and sexuality through the literary innovations of two late-Victorian female co-authorsTrade Review"Jill R. Ehnenn's brilliant study links two major features of Michael Field's creative practice: their formal experimentation and their repurposing of deep history. Ehnenn's ambitious book represents an invaluable scholarly contribution, not least in its modeling of new insights emerging from serious study of Michael Field. ?" -Carolyn Dever, Dartmouth College
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Bogle Corbet
Book SynopsisThe first scholarly edition of Bogle CorbetTrade Review"In Bogle Corbet, Galt brought his pioneering brand of social fiction to a broader canvas, encompassing a transatlantic world unsettled by colonialism, revolution, slavery and industrialization. The first unabridged reissue of the novel since 1831, this edition includes a superb introduction and supplemental material that provide multiple points of context, illuminating Galt's engrossing portrait of the British Atlantic." -Kenneth McNeil, Eastern Connecticut State University
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Hardy Conrad and the Senses
Book SynopsisThis book readsthe highly descriptive impressionist writings of Hardy and Conrad together in the light of a shared attention to sight and sound.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Robert Louis Stevenson and the Art of
Book SynopsisThis book investigates Stevenson's literary collaborations with family and friends as he travelled Scotland, America and the South Pacific.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press SelfHarm in New Woman Writing
Book SynopsisSelf-Harm in New Woman Writing' offers a trans-disciplinary study of Victorian literature, culture and medicine through engagement with the recurrent trope of self-harm in writing by and about the British New Woman.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Suffragist Artists in Partnership
Book SynopsisThis is the first book dedicated to examining the marital relationships of Mary and George Watts and Evelyn and William De Morgan as creative partnerships. The study demonstrates how they worked, individually and together, to support greater gender equality and female liberation in the nineteenth century.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press Discovering the Footsteps of Time
Book SynopsisDiscovering the Footsteps of Time probes the development of a distinctively Scottish tradition of geological travel writing from the seventeenth to early nineteenth century.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Contested Liberalisms
Book SynopsisFocusing on the importance of Martineau's contribution to the development of the early Victorian press, this book highlights the degree to which the public quarrel between her and Dickens in the mid-1850s represented larger fissures within nineteenth-century liberalism.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Novel Institutions
Book SynopsisThis book examines anachronisms in realist writing from the colonial periphery to redefine British realism and rethink the politics of institutions.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Novel Institutions
Book SynopsisThis book examines anachronisms in realist writing from the colonial periphery to redefine British realism and rethink the politics of institutions.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Some Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair
Book SynopsisThis edition provides the first modern publication of Lockhart's final text, the revised second edition (1824), as well as the first scholarly edition of the novel, including extensive annotations and a detailed textual history.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Home and Identity in NineteenthCentury Literary
Book SynopsisThis book brings together a range of new models for modern living that emerged in response to social and economic changes in nineteenth-century London, and the literature that gave expression to their novelty.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press William Morris on Socialism
Book SynopsisPresents the first extended collection of new William Morris essays in several decades.Trade Review"William Morris, the best known British socialist of the nineteenth century, is also the most widely appealing. Marxist revolutionaries, Fabians, anarchists, Labour Party stalwarts all have claimed him as one of their own. Florence Boos's collection of Morris's political essays confirms that Morris contained multitudes. Yet powerful, unchanging beliefs link the Gladstonian liberal of the 1870s with the visionary author of News from Nowhere. Boos's deeply informed introductions to every essay draw out their underlying themes and illuminate Morris's enduring relevance." -Michael Robertson, The College of New Jersey
£112.50
Edinburgh University Press Deafening Applause
Book SynopsisThis critical edition documents Frederick Douglass's relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print culture.
£95.00
Edinburgh University Press Reading Ideas in Victorian Literature
Book SynopsisArgues against the repeated emphasis on literary form and for the artistic importance of literary content
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Dickens and Demolition
Book SynopsisDickens and Demolition examines how tropes, characters, or extracts from Dickens' fiction were repurposed as a portable terminology in arguments for large-scale demolition and redevelopment projects in London during his lifetime.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Domestic Architecture Literature and the Sexual
Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on the contributions of architecture and its literary representations to a series of changes taking place in sexual culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in France, England, Germany and Austria.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Modern Arabic Bible
Book SynopsisThis innovative study compares nineteenth-century Arabic translations of the Bible to determine how it emerged as a foundational text of Arab modernity. Bible translation gained global traction through the work of Anglophone Christian missionaries, who made an attempt at synchronising translated Bibles in world languages by laying down strict guidelines and supervising the processes of translation and dissemination. By engaging with the intellectual beginnings of two local translators, Butrus al-Bustani (1819 1883) and Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq (1804 1887), as well as their subsequent contributions to Arabic language and literature, this book questions to what extent they complied with the missionaries' strategy in practice. Based on documents from the archives of Bible societies that tell the story of two key nahda versions of the text, we come to understand how colonial pressure was secondary to the process of incorporating the Bible into the nahda project of rethinking Arabic.
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press The Modern Arabic Bible
Book SynopsisExplores how nahda translations of the Bible transformed Arabic language and literature
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Consuming Female Beauty
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive account of female beauty in nineteenth-century British print culture.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Victorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary
Book SynopsisVictorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical offers an alternative history of Victorian poetry that asserts the fundamental importance of popular periodical poetry to our understanding of Victorian poetics.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Plotting the News in the Victorian Novel
Book SynopsisThis book shows that novelists often responded to newspapers by reworking well-known events covered by Victorian newspapers in their fictions.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Plotting the News in the Victorian Novel
Book SynopsisThis book shows that novelists often responded to newspapers by reworking well-known events covered by Victorian newspapers in their fictions.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Book SynopsisAn edited collection of interdisciplinary essays on the work of Elizabeth Robins Pennell, American-born, London-based journalist, author, and aesthete who published (or co-published) over twenty books and a thousand periodical articles between the early 1880s and 1930.Trade Review"This is an outstanding collection, which stands out for its thoughtful range of topics, theoretically informed investigations and uniformly high quality of analysis. Well-chosen and excellently developed, the articles create an arc exploring Pennell's life and work, making this collection soar above what one might expect." -Talia Schaffer, Queens College, CUNY
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Godwin and the Book
Book SynopsisGodwin and the Book explores a network of controversies concerning the relationship of media form to social futurity in Romantic-period Britain through the writing of the notorious philosopher-novelist William Godwin (1756 1836).Trade Review"Louise McCray's new study offers a fresh and compelling perspective on one of the central figures of British Romanticism. Godwin and the Book achieves a remarkably successful synthesis of the philosophical, political, literary, and religious concerns that animated Godwin's long and eclectic career. Students and scholars in wide range of disciplines will be stimulated and challenged by its arguments." -Philip Connell, University of Cambridge
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press New Media and the Rise of the Popular Woman
Book SynopsisThis book highlights the integral relationship between the rise of the popular woman writer and the expansion and diversification of newspaper, book and periodical print media during a period of revolutionary change, 1832 1860.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press New Media and the Rise of the Popular Woman
Book SynopsisThis book highlights the integral relationship between the rise of the popular woman writer and the expansion and diversification of newspaper, book and periodical print media during a period of revolutionary change, 1832 1860.Trade Review"In this well-illustrated, well-documented study of nineteenth-century print culture, Alexis Easley demonstrates how popular publications created celebrity for women editors and authors, and shows how scrapbooking fads worked as an extension of new media opportunities for the expression of women's values and sentiments." -Kathryn Ledbetter, Texas State University
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Yankee Yarns
Book SynopsisA systematic study of the most iconic national character in the US in nineteenth-century literature and culture
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Yankee Yarns
Book SynopsisA systematic study of the most iconic national character in the US in nineteenth-century literature and cultureTrade Review"Bridging literary and cultural studies, Stefanie Sch fer considers the Yankee in various guises: as national representative, stage performer, wily businessman, and regional personality. With lively visual examples and rich archival materials,?Yankee Yarns?interrogates gendered and racialized notions of U.S. identity and offers fresh, valuable insights on the transatlantic creation of American character." -Leslie E. Eckel, Suffolk University
£24.69
