In 1845 Greeley published Fuller's landmark book, "Woman in the Nineteenth Century," which argued for women's equality in all aspects of life. Fuller traveled to Europe in 1846, becoming the first ...

Many writers devoted pages to describing the innovations of transport and were particularly enthused by the steam train, which in a way, set the name for the 19th century, known as the age of steam ...

Virginia Feito’s relentlessly gory novel “Victorian Psycho” announces its narrator’s grisly intentions from the start.

A pair of 19th-century novels by an obscure American author is sending the internet into a frenzy, with some claiming the books eerily foreshadow the rise of Donald Trump, his youngest son Barron, and ...

Experts think the early 19th-century artwork could be an early draft of the British painter's "View of Dedham Vale From East ...

I have since read enough to dispute that (Joyce’s Ulysses gets my vote); but literature is not a competition ... Her brother Fred – that staple of the 19th-century novel, the young man ...

Erin specializes in African American and U.S. literature of the long 19th century, with interests in the intersections between race and environment, aesthetics, late 18th-century yellow fever ...

Richard Millington teaches courses in American literature, with a focus on writers of the 19th century and on 20th-century multiethnic literature. He has written on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Willa Cather ...