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British and Irish Literatures

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Everyone’s Theater

Literature and Daily Life in England, 1860–1914

By Michael Meeuwis
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature, 20th Century Literature

Connects the practices of the professional Victorian stage to the world of the amateur theatricals across England and its empire

Victorian Bestseller

The Life of Dinah Craik

By Karen Bourrier
Subjects: Biography, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Disability Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, British and Irish Literatures

An engaging, rigorously researched biography of popular 19th century novelist Dinah Craik
 

A Tale of Two Capitalisms

Sacred Economics in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By Supritha Rajan
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature, Economics, History of Economic Thought, History, European History

An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century British capitalism, its architects, and its critics

The Real and the Sacred

Picturing Jesus in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

By Jefferson J. A. Gatrall
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, History, European History, Religion, Art, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature, American Literature

A cultural history of representations of Jesus in nineteenth-century European and American fiction and visual art

The Novel as Event

By Mario Ortiz Robles
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Literary Criticism and Theory

Exploring the importance of language in the Victorian novel

The Adventures of Philip

On His Way through the World Shewing Who Robbed Him, Who Helped Him, and Who Passed Him by

By William Thackeray
Edited by Judith Law Fisher & Peter L. Shillingsburg
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature
Series: The Thackeray Edition

Thackeray's last completed novel, edited and with commentary by a leading textual scholar

Fictions of Affliction

Physical Disability in Victorian Culture

By Martha Stoddard Holmes
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, British and Irish Literatures
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Reveals the cultural meanings and literary representations of disability in Victorian Britain

The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century and Charity and Humour

By William Thackeray
Edited by Edgar F. Harden & Peter L. Shillingsburg
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature
Series: The Thackeray Edition

Engaging lectures on Swift, Pope, Fielding and others by this classic British author

Dearly Beloved Friends

Henry James's Letters to Younger Men

Edited by Susan E. Gunter & Steven H. Jobe
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Sexuality Studies, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature

The romantic side of Henry James, revealed through his letters to young male friends

Yeats

An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, Volume XVII, 1999

Edited by Richard J. Finneran
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

The most recent volume of this distinguished annual

Networking

Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century

By Laura Christine Otis
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literature and Science, 19th Century Literature, Media Studies, New Media, British and Irish Literatures
Series: Studies in Literature and Science

An interdisciplinary study that traces contemporary notions of "the web" to their origins long before the Internet came into being

Yeats

An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, Volume XVI, 1998

Edited by Richard J. Finneran
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

Another volume in the distinguished annual

Oscar Wilde's Decorated Books

By Nicholas Raymond Frankel
Subjects: Literary Studies, Editorial Theory, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature, Art, Architecture
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

Investigates Wilde's valorization of literature as one of the decorative arts

Yeats

An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, Volume XV, 1997

Edited by Richard J. Finneran
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, 19th Century Literature

A new volume in the distinguished annual that presents the latest and best Yeats criticism

Dear Munificent Friends

Henry James's Letters to Four Women

Edited by Susan E. Gunter
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Previously unpublished letters that shed light on the personal side of Henry James, and on the times in which he lived and wrote

"Defects"

Engendering the Modern Body

Edited by Helen Elizabeth Deutsch & Felicity Nussbaum
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, 18th Century Literature, 19th Century Literature
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

A groundbreaking contribution to the emerging field of disability studies in the eighteenth century

Nineteenth-Century English

By Richard W. Bailey
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, British and Irish Literatures, History, Applied Linguistics & Linguistics

Traces the transformation of the English language through the nineteenth-century economic and cultural landscape.

Animal Advocacy and Englishwomen, 1780-1900

Patriots, Nation, and Empire

By Moira Ferguson
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies

What Black Beauty and other books by women of this period reveal about their notions of nation, identity, and empire

Resisting Texts

Authority and Submission in Constructions of Meaning

By Peter L. Shillingsburg
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Editorial Theory, 19th Century Literature
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

Reveals how language and texts are used to control both the present and the past

Autobiography

Narrative of Transformation

By Carolyn A. Barros
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Literary Criticism and Theory

Provides a new perspective for thinking about and reading autobiographical writing

Communications with the Future

Matthew Arnold in Dialogue

By Donald D. Stone
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Philosophy

Matthew Arnold's continuing influence as demonstrated by his resonances with thinkers from Nietzsche to Foucault

The Newcomes

Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family

By William Thackeray
Edited by Peter L. Shillingsburg
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Fiction, 19th Century Literature
Series: The Thackeray Edition

Thackery's most popular novel during his lifetime.

George Eliot's Originals and Contemporaries

Essays in Victorian Literary History and Biography

By Gordon S. Haight
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, British and Irish Literatures

Eminent Victorian scholar Gordon Haight's newly collected essays on George Eliot and her literary tradition.

Matthew Arnold and the Classical Tradition

By Warren D. Anderson
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, British and Irish Literatures, History
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

Shows how Arnold first experimented with his classical heritage.

The Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold

Volume XI. The Last Word

By Matthew Arnold
Edited by R. H. Super
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, British and Irish Literatures
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