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• Literature -- 19th century
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• Exploring the Interior: Essays on Literary and Cultural History (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), by Karl Siegfried Guthke (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Aspects of Modern Drama (New York et al.: Macmillan, 1914), by Frank Wadleigh Chandler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Modern Drama in Europe (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920), by Storm Jameson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Adultery in the Novel: Contract and Transgression (originally published 1979; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Tony Tanner (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Revising the Clinic: Vision and Representation in Victorian Medical Narrative and the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Meegan Kennedy (PDF at Ohio State)
• Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Brian Richardson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Drei Meister: Balzac, Dickens, Dostojewski (in German; 1922), by Stefan Zweig (Gutenberg text)

• After Innocence: Visions of the Fall in Modern Literature (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1982), by Terry Otten (page images at Pitt)
• Architecture and Modern Literature (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2012), by David Spurr (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Kristin Kalsem (PDF at Ohio State)
• Inquiries and Opinions (1907), by Brander Matthews (Gutenberg text)
• Studies in Foreign Literature (London: Duckworth and Co., c1908), by Virginia M. Crawford
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Decadent Genealogies: The Rhetoric of Sickness From Baudelaire to D'Annunzio (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Barbara Spackman (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Americanisms and Briticisms, With Other Essays on Other Isms (New York: Harper and Bros., 1892), by Brander Matthews (Gutenberg text)
• Friends on the Shelf, by Bradford Torrey (Gutenberg ebook)
• Portraits and Speculations, by Arthur Ransome (Gutenberg ebook)
• Vezető elmék: Irodalmi karcolatok (in Hungarian), by Zoltán Ambrus (Gutenberg ebook)
• Partial Portraits, by Henry James (Gutenberg ebook)
• Los Raros: Obras Completas Vol. VI (in Spanish), by Rubén Darío, illust. by Enrique Ochoa (Gutenberg ebook)
• Eminent Authors of the Nineteenth Century: Literary Portraits, by Georg Brandes, trans. by Rasmus Björn Anderson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Moderne Geister: Literarische Bildnisse aus dem neunzehnten Jahrhundert (in German), by Georg Brandes (Gutenberg ebook)
• Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 6. Young Germany, by Georg Brandes, trans. by Mary Morison and Diana White (Gutenberg ebook)
• Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 5. The Romantic School in France, by Georg Brandes, trans. by Mary Morison and Diana White (Gutenberg ebook)
• Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 4. Naturalism in England, by Georg Brandes, trans. by Mary Morison and Diana White (Gutenberg ebook)
• Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 3. The Reaction in France, by Georg Brandes, trans. by Mary Morison and Diana White (Gutenberg ebook)
• Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 2. The Romantic School in Germany, by Georg Brandes, trans. by Mary Morison and Diana White (Gutenberg ebook)
• Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 1. The Emigrant Literature, by Georg Brandes, trans. by Mary Morison and Diana White (Gutenberg ebook)
• Egoists, A Book of Supermen: Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Anatole France, Huysmans, Barrès, Nietzsche, Blake, Ibsen, Stirner, and Ernest Hello, by James Huneker (Gutenberg ebook)
• Il libro di Don Chisciotte (in Italian), by Edoardo Scarfoglio (Gutenberg ebook)
• Modernities, by Horace Barnett Samuel (Gutenberg ebook)

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• The Sanitary Arts: Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Eileen Cleere (PDF with commentary at Ohio State)
• Religion and the aesthetic movement in recent literature / (1915), by Amelia Louise Gay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Saggio di estetica / ([s.l. : s.n.], 1857), by Girolamo Venanzio (page images at HathiTrust)

• Decadent Genealogies: The Rhetoric of Sickness From Baudelaire to D'Annunzio (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Barbara Spackman (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• E tiudy o dekadenstvi e : novoe vi e i a nie v sovremennoi literaturi e / (Khar kov : Pechatnoe di e lo, 1899), by Mikhail Stoli a rov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Literaturny raspad: Kriticheskiĭ sbornik. (S. Peterburg, T-vo Izdatelʹskoe Biuro, 1908) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le Décadent. ([Paris : L'Arche du livre, 1970]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Décadent littéraire & artistique. ([Paris : L'Arche du livre, 1973]) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Parody and Decadence: Laforgue's Moralités Légendaires (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Michele Hannoosh (PDF at Ohio State)
• Symbolistes et Décadents (in French), by Gustave Kahn (Gutenberg ebook)

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• The Deaf Shoemaker: To Which Are Added Other Stories for the Young, by Philip Barrett (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Two shipmates (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, c1870), by William Henry Giles Kingston and Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) -- Committee of General Literature and Education, illust. by William Dickes (page images at Florida)

• Little workers (London, Edinburgh, New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1884) (page images at Florida)

• Little workers (London, Edinburgh, New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1884) (page images at Florida)

• Tales and verses of long ago (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1894), by Elizabeth S. Tucker, illust. by Percy Moran (page images at Florida)
• Rhymes and stories of olden times (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1894), by Elizabeth S. Tucker, illust. by Percy Moran (page images at Florida)
• Children of colonial days (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, publishers, 1894), by Elizabeth S. Tucker, illust. by Percy Moran (page images at Florida)

• Romantic Frictions (2011), ed. by Theresa M. Kelley (HTML at Romantic Circles)

• I marginalen (in Swedish), by Olaf Homén (Gutenberg ebook)

• Revising the Clinic: Vision and Representation in Victorian Medical Narrative and the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Meegan Kennedy (PDF at Ohio State)

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