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An examination of the narrative strategies used by such authors as Pushkin, Zhukova, Tolstoy, Herzen and Dostoevsky to represent young, dependent female characters. Drawing on the theories of Bakhtin, the work analyzes the degree to which women are presented as subjects who think and perceive.

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This book examines how Hawthornes notebooks provide a key for understanding the environmental elements of his fiction writing. Hawthornes four major romances are the main focus of study, but his short fiction and nonfiction also show a man convinced that human and nonhuman nature are inextricably intertwined.

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This text studies the role of marriage in the slave narratives of Henry Bibb and William and Ellen Craft. It establishes the influence of those narratives on the fiction of Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown and Martin Delany, and re-examines assumptions about slave narratives.

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This study of feminist biblical revision argues that women writers' contentious dialogues with the Bible ultimately reconstruct the writers' own basis of authority.

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This volume explores the novels and short stories of the popular author Richard Marsh through a range of critical lenses. An exemplary figure of the New Grub Street, Marsh was an important presence within fin-de-sicle literary culture, whose middlebrow genre fiction simultaneously reinforces and challenges the dominant discourses of the period.

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This book examines the influence of the science of the age upon a host of English and American authors. The collection develops transhistorical and transnational perspectives to examine the invaluable place of Romantic literary studies as inspiration behind the rise of early environmentalism in the nineteenth century and its subsequent legacies.

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Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies examines the influence of the science of the age upon a host of English and American authors. The collection of essays develops transhistorical and transnational perspectives to examine the invaluable place of Romantic literary studies as inspiration behind the rise of early environmentalism in the nineteenth century and its subsequent legacies.

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This book is an international collection of ecocritical essays that examine sustainability in relation to Romantic-era Britain. It examines Romantic works while interrogating issues of race, gender, religion, and identity, beginning with inspiration and creativity and ending with considerations about extinction and apocalypse.

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Explores how the publication of women's life writing influenced the reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth century -- .

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Explores how the publication of women's life writing influenced the reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth century -- .

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Claudia Moscovici asserts in Romanticism and Postromanticism that the Romantic heritage, far from being important only in a historical sense, has philosophical relevance and value for contemporary art and culture. With an emphasis on artistic tradition as a continuing source of inspiration and innovation, she touches upon each main branch of philosophy: aesthetics, epistemology, and ethics.

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"Cutting-edge essays on theory, aesthetics, and human and nonhuman ontology"--

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Timothy Powell reimagines the canonical origins of "American" identity by juxtaposing authors such as Hawthorne, Melville, and Thoreau with Native American, African American, and women authors.

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Tragedy in the eighteenth century is often said to have expired or been deflected into nondramatic forms like history and satire, and to have survived mainly as a "tragic sense" in writers like Samuel Johnson. Leopold Damrosch shows that many readers were still capable of an imaginative response to tragedy. In Johnson, however, moral and aesthetic

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An innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature and its relation to visionary Romanticism through its examination of six late Victorian writers - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, Eugene Lee-Hamilton, Theodore Watts-Dunton and Thomas Hardy. -- .