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Pessimism in literature

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• Timon of Athens: Shakespeare's Pessimistic Tragedy (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1979), by Rolf Soellner, contrib. by Gary Jay Williams (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

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• Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry (New York: AMS Press, 1966), by Wilhelm Alfred Braun (Gutenberg text)
• Pesymizm, Romantyzm a Podstawy Chrześcijaństwa (2 volumes in Polish; Krakow: Drukarni "Czasu", 1915), by Marjan Zdziechowski
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Philosophy of Despair, by David Starr Jordan (Gutenberg text)
• Studies in Pessimism, by Arthur Schopenhauer, ed. by T. Bailey Saunders (Gutenberg text)
• Facing Life Fearlessly: The Pessimistic Versus the Optimistic View of Life, by Clarence Darrow (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry (Columbia University dissertation; 1905), by Wilhelm Alfred Braun (page images at HathiTrust)

• Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics, by C. S. Lewis (Gutenberg text)

• Thackeray: The Sentimental Cynic (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1950), by Lambert Ennis (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• Chic Ironic Bitterness (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by R. Jay Magill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chic Ironic Bitterness (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by R. Jay Magill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Irony and Clerisy (1999), ed. by Deborah Elise White (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• A World of Possibilities: Romantic Irony in Victorian Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Clyde de L. Ryals (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Jane Austen: Irony as Defense and Discovery (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952), by Marvin Mudrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tennyson's Major Poems: The Comic and Ironic Patterns (1975), by James R. Kincaid (HTML at Victorian Web)
• Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1985), by Helene P. Foley (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Fleetwood: or, The New Man of Feeling (Standard Novels #32; London: R. Bentley, 1832), by William Godwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), ed. by R. Howard Bloch and Frances Ferguson (HTML at UC Press)

• Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), ed. by R. Howard Bloch and Frances Ferguson (HTML at UC Press)

• Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), ed. by R. Howard Bloch and Frances Ferguson (HTML at UC Press)

• Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), ed. by R. Howard Bloch and Frances Ferguson (HTML at UC Press)

• It’s a Man’s World (Wide Web): A Critical Analysis of Online Misogyny and Hate Speech (Bologna: Boninia University Press, 2020), by Beatrice Spallaccia (PDF with commentary in Italy)
• The Misogynist Dinner of the American Chemical Society, Boston, August 27, 1880 (New York: Russell Bros., ca. 1880), ed. by Henry Morton (page images with commentary at scihistory.org)

• Household Politics: Conflict in Early Modern England (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2013), by Don Herzog (multiple formats at Michigan)

• Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), ed. by R. Howard Bloch and Frances Ferguson (HTML at UC Press)

• Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), ed. by R. Howard Bloch and Frances Ferguson (HTML at UC Press)

• A Short History of Trans Misogyny (London and Brooklyn: Verso, c2024), by Jules Gill-Peterson (Epub at OAPEN)

• Literature Matters (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by J. Hillis Miller, ed. by Monika Reif-Hülser (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)
• Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Essays in the History of Ideas (originally published 1948; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Humanistic Studies (partial serial archives)
• Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Frederick William Robertson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Relation of Literature to Life, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Saturday Papers: Essays on Literature From the Literary Review (first (and only known) volume of selections from The Literary Review of the New York Post; New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benét, and Amy Loveman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Leona Toker (PDF at Ohio State)

• Curiosities of Literature (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Co., 1858), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
• Curiosities of Literature (compilation of articles originally published in editions from 1798-1823), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Stuart Heath (HTML at spamula.net)

• Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Authors Digest: The World's Great Stories in Brief, Prepared by a Staff of Literary Experts, With the Assistance of Many Living Novelists (20 volumes; New York: Issued under the auspices of the Authors Press, c1908), ed. by Rossiter Johnson
  • Volume I (About - Austen): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Austin - Behn): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Bellamy - Bulwer-Lytton): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Bulwer-Lytton - Claretie): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Cobb - Cooper): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Coppée - Dickens): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII (Dickens - Dumas): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII (Dumas - Fothergill): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX (Fouque - Hardy): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X (Hardy - Hugo): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XI (Hugo - Lever): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XII (Lewald - Mulbach): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIII (Mulock - Reade): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIV (Reid - Scott): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XV (Scott - Sterne): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVI (Stevenson - Tourgee): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume XVII (Trollope - Zola): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVIII (Mythology and Folk-Lore): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIX (Dictionary of Biographies, revised 1927): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XX (Dictionary of Famous Names): multiple formats at Google
• The Bed-Book of Happiness (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914), ed. by Harold Begbie (Gutenberg text)
• Half-Hours With the Best Authors, Including Biographical and Critical Notices (revised edition, 4 volumes; London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1866), ed. by Charles Knight, illust. by William Harvey
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Harvard Classics (50 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1909-1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • without volume 50 ("Editor's Introduction..."): HTML at Bartleby
• The Library of Romance: A Collection of Traditions, Poetical Legends, and Short Standard Tales and Romances, of All Nations (London: O. Hodgson, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Classics (18 volumes), ed. by Rossiter Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pocket University (23 volumes; Garden City, NY: Pub. for N. Doubleday, Inc. by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), ed. by Bliss Perry, Thomas L. Masson, Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson, George Iles, Hamilton Wright Mabie, and Lyman Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Book for a Corner: or, Selections in Prose and Verse From Authors the Best Suited to That Mode of Enjoyment; With Comments on Each, and a General Introduction (New York: Derby and Jackson, 1857), ed. by Leigh Hunt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Oriental Literature (4 volumes in The Worlds Great Classics, revised editions; New York and London: Colonial Press, c1899-1900), ed. by Richard J. H. Gottheil and Epiphanius Wilson
  • Volume I (The Literature of Persia, Part I): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (The Literature of Persia, Part II): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (The Literature of India): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (The Literatature of China): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust

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