Bücher der Reihe Studies In Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literature Series

This broad-raning survey aims to redefine the variety of Wordsworth's writing by showing how it incorporates contemporary concepts of language difference and the ways in which popular and serious literature were compared and distinguished during this period.

Beginning with a survey of the recurrent topics in utopian writing - power structures in the state, money, food, sex, the role of women, birth, education and death - the text aims to bring together canonical 18th-century texts containing powerful utopian elements.

This volume provides students with an introduction to the poetry and life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, one of the most popular poets of her day in Britain and America who has become one of the great icons of Victorianism for the modern age.

This text examines the forms of speech in Victorian fiction. Topics covered include standard and non-standard speech; dialect; class and occupational speech; and conventions of fiction.