19th century

In 1883, thirteen-year-old Katrien Courtlandt is more interested in science and exploring the Javanese jungle for beetles with her native friend than in becoming a young lady like her despised cousin Brigitta--but when Krakatoa erupts, the tsunami hits, and their families are swept away, the cousins must struggle to survive together.

Explores the photographs of Mathew Brady who chronicled the American Civil War in his photographs.

This volume, addressing labor, poverty, prison reform, slavery and abolition, temperance and Prohibition, women's rights, and women's suffrage, presents overviews of reform movements that alternately tore apart and mended the fabric of American society.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Theodor Fontane.

Examination of Spanish women's poetry from the early nineteenth century through 1975.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Franz Grillparzer.

Provides a critical introduction to the American diary literature of late nineteenth-century.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Presents the life and works of Walter Pater. Includes a chronology.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Matthew Arnold.