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| Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940
Laura Doyle - 2008 Duke University Press
In this pathbreaking work of scholarship, Laura Doyle reveals the central, formative role of race in the development of a transnational, English-language literature over three centuries. Identifying ... More |
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| Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Jamie L Bronstein - 2008 Stanford University Press
Caught in the Machinery draws on social, cultural, and legal history to bring to life the dangers facing working people in Great Britain between 1800 and the first British Employer's Liability Act of ... More |
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| Sexuality and the Culture of Sensibility in the British Romantic Era
Christopher C. Nagle - 2007 Palgrave Macmillan
Drawing together theoretically informed literary history and the cultural history of sexuality, friendship, and affective relations, this is the first study to trace fully the influence of this notori... More |
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| A Political History of the House of Lords, 1811-1846: From the Regency to Corn Law Repeal
Richard Davis - 2007 Stanford University Press
The history of England's House of Lords in the nineteenth century has been largely misunderstood or ignored by historians. Richard W. Davis argues that the Lords were not primarily reactionary or obst... More |
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| Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection
Margaret D. Stetz - 2007 University of Delaware Press
his is a lavishly illustrated volume that offers a new interpretation of the significance of the portrait image during the final decades of the nineteenth century in Britain, using materials drawn fro... More |
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| From Sensation to Society: Representations of Marriage in the Fiction of Mary Elizabeth Bradden, 1862-1866
Natalie Schroeder, Ronald A. Schroeder - 2006 University of Delaware Press
From Sensation to Society tracks the evolution of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's critique of Victorian marriage in the early phase of her long and prolific novel-writing career. The study begins with... More |
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| The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative
Deborah Lutz - 2006 Ohio State University Press
The dangerous lover has haunted our culture for over two hundred years; English, American, and European literature is permeated with his erotic presence. The Dangerous Lover takes seriously the... More |
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| The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror
Simon Joyce - 2007 Ohio University Press
When Margaret Thatcher called in 1979 for a return to Victorian values such as hard work, self-reliance, thrift, and national pride, Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock responded that “Victorian values” ... More |
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| The Marriage of Minds: Reading Sympathy in the Victorian Marriage Plot
Rachel Ablow - 2007 Stanford University Press
The Marriage of Minds examines the implications of the common Victorian claim that novel reading can achieve the psychic, ethical, and affective benefits also commonly associated with sympathy ... More |
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| Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture
Robert D. Aguirre - 2007 University of Minnesota Press
Behind the ancient artifacts displayed in our museums lies a secret history of travel, desire, the quest for knowledge, and even theft. Such is the case with the objects of Mesoamerican culture so avi... More |
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| Medical Lives in the Age of Surgical Revolution
M Anne Crowther, Marguerite W Dupree - 2007 Cambridge University Press
An original and unusual history of doctors trained in Britain in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and their careers in Britain and the empire. Anne Crowther and Marguerite Dupree describe t... More |
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| Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life
Mark Francis - 2007 Cornell University Press
The ideas of the English philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) profoundly shaped Victorian thought regarding evolutionary theory, the philosophy of science, sociology, and politics. In his day, Spen... More |
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| Altered States: Sex, Nation, Drugs, and Self-Transformation in Victorian Spiritualism
Marlene Tromp - 2007 SUNY Press
Altered States examines the rise of Spiritualism—the religion of séances, mediums, and ghostly encounters—in the Victorian period and the role it played in undermining both traditional female r... More |
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| Ireland, India and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Julie M. Wright - 2007 Cambridge University Press
In this innovative study Julia M. Wright addresses rarely asked questions: how and why does one colonized nation write about another? Wright focuses on the way nineteenth-century Irish writers wrote a... More |
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| Ethics and the English Novel from Austen to Forster
Valerie Wainwright - 2007 Ashgate Publishing
Complicating a pervasive view of the ethical thought of the Victorians and their close relations, which emphasizes the domineering influence of a righteous and repressive morality, Wainwright discerns... More |
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| The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Nadia Valman - 2007 Cambridge University Press
Stories about Jewesses proliferated in nineteenth-century Britain as debates about the place of the Jews in the modern nation raged. While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemit... More |
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| Original Copy: Plagiarism and Originality in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Robert Macfarlane - 2007 Oxford University Press
'"Originality" is only plagiarizing from a great many', remarked Rupert Brooke, stealing the line from Voltaire. Questions of originality, and accusations of plagiarism, are as old as literature, but ... More |
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| Certain Other Countries: Homicide, Gender, and National Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales
Carolyn A. Conley - 2007 Ohio State University Press
Even though England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales were under a common Parliament in the nineteenth century, cultural, economic, and historical differences led to very different values and assumptions ... More |
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| Moral Taste: Aesthetics, Subjectivity, and Social Power in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Marjorie Garson - 2007 University of Toronto Press
One of the particular concerns of the Victorians was the notion of ‘taste’ and the idea that good taste in any field – clothing, décor, landscape, music, art, even food – meant good taste in all, and ... More |
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| The Making of Addiction: The 'Use and Abuse' of Opium in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Louise Foxcroft - 2007 Ashgate Publishing
What does drug addiction mean to us? What did it mean to others in the past? And how are these meanings connected? In modern society the idea of drug addiction is a given and commonly understood conce... More |
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| In Science's Shadow: Literary Constructions of Late Victorian Women
Patricia Murphy - 2006 University of Missouri Press
The Victorian era was characterized by great scientific curiosity—as exemplified by the publication of Darwin’s Descent of Man—as well as by new questions regarding the place of women in societ... More |
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| Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930
Deborah Epstein Nord - 2006 Columbia University Press
Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930 is the first book to explore fully the British obsession with Gypsies throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. Deborah Epstein No... More |
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| Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism
Nancy Armstrong - 2002 Harvard University Press
Victorians were fascinated with how accurately photography could copy people, the places they inhabited, and the objects surrounding them. Much more important, however, is the way in which Victorian p... More |
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| The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel
Elaine Freedgood - 2006 University of Chicago Press
While the Victorian novel famously describes, catalogs, and inundates the reader with things, the protocols for reading it have long enjoined readers not to interpret most of what crowds its pages. More |
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| Romanticism and the Rise of the Mass Public
Andrew Franta - 2007 Cambridge University Press
Dramatic changes in the reading public and literary market in early nineteenth-century England not only altered the relationship between poet and reader but prompted new conceptions of the poetic text... More |
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| Early Romanticism and Religious Dissent
Daniel E. White - 2007 Cambridge University Press
Religious diversity and ferment characterize the period that gave rise to Romanticism in England. It is generally known that many individuals who contributed to the new literatures of the late eightee... More |
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| Wordsworth's Philosophic Song
Simon Jarvis - 2007 Cambridge University Press
Wordsworth wrote that he longed to compose 'some philosophic Song/Of Truth that cherishes our daily life’. Yet he never finished The Recluse, his long philosophical poem. Simon Jarvis argues that Word... More |
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| Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture
Jonathan Smith - 2006 Cambridge University Press
Although The Origin of Species contained just a single visual illustration, Charles Darwin's other books, from his monograph on barnacles in the early 1850s to his volume on earthworms in 1881,... More |
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| Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature
Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Graeme Gooday, Richard Noakes, Sally Shuttleworth - 2006 Cambridge University Press
For the Victorian reading public, periodicals played a far greater role than books in shaping their understanding of new discoveries and theories in science, technology and medicine. Such understandin... More |
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| The Victorian Clown
Jacky Bratton, Ann Featherstone - 2006 Cambridge University Press
The Victorian Clown is a micro-history of mid-Victorian comedy, spun out of the life and work of two professional clowns. Their previously unpublished manuscripts - James Frowde’s account of hi... More |
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| Victorian Fiction and the Cult of the Horse
Gina M. Dorré - 2006 Ashgate Publishing
The horse was essential to the workings of Victorian society, and its representations, which are vast, ranging, and often contradictory, comprise a vibrant cult of the horse. Examining the representat... More |
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| Representing Female Artistic Labour, 1848–1890: Refining Work for the Middle-Class Woman
Patricia Zakreski - 2006 Ashgate Publishing
Patricia Zakreski's interdisciplinary study draws on fiction, prose, painting, and the periodical press to expand and redefine our understanding of women's relationship to paid work during the Victori... More |
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| Possessed Victorians: Extra Spheres in Nineteenth-Century Mystical Writings
Sarah A. Wilburn - 2006 Ashgate Publishing
In her absorbing study of nineteenth-century mystical writings, Sarah Willburn formulates a new conception of individualism that offers a fresh look at Victorian subjectivity. Drawing upon extensive a... More |
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| The Literary Protégées of the Lake Poets
Dennis Low - 2006 Ashgate Publishing
Dennis Low's re-evaluation of the Lake Poets as mentors begins with the controversial premise that Robert Southey was one of the nineteenth-century's greatest champions of women's writing. Together wi... More |
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| George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country
Michael Davis - 2006 Ashgate Publishing
In his study of Eliot as a psychological novelist, Michael Davis examines Eliot's writings in the context of a large volume of nineteenth-century scientific writing about the mind. Eliot, Davis argues... More |
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| Dante Gabriel Rossetti And the Late Victorian Sonnet Sequence: Sexuality, Belief And the Self
John Holmes - 2005 Ashgate Publishing
In 1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti published the first version of his sonnet sequence The House of Life. The next thirty years saw the greatest flourishing of the sonnet sequence since the 1590s. John Ho... More |
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| Coleridge, Form and Symbol; Or the Ascertaining Symbol
Nicholas Reid - 2006 Ashgate Publishing
In his convincingly argued book, Nicholas Reid shows just how central Coleridge's theories of imagination, form, and symbol were to Coleridge's metaphysics. What distinguishes Reid's book is the admir... More |
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| Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918
Philip Waller - 2006 Oxford University Press
Charles Dickens died in 1870, the same year in which universal elementary education was introduced. During the following generation a mass reading public emerged, and the term 'best-seller' was coined... More |
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| The Ruins of Experience: Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness
Matthew Wickman - 2006 University of Pennsylvania Press
There emerged, during the latter half of the eighteenth century, a reflexive relationship between shifting codes of legal evidence in British courtrooms and the growing fascination throughout Europe w... More |
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| The Narcissism of Empire: Loss, Rage and Revenge in Thomas De Quincey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Isak Dinesen
Diane Simmons - 2007 Sussex Academic Press
Widely read in the age of British imperialism and still popular today, the five writers studied here have allowed millions to participate vicariously in the imperial project. Yet all of these writers,... More |
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| Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1917
Linda M. Austin - 2007 University of Virginia Press
Referred to long ago as a "disease" of Swiss soldiers and Highland regiments far from home, nostalgia became known in the 1920s as more of a fleeting rather than debilitating condition. Yet what cause... More |
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| The English Cult of Literature: Devoted Readers, 1774-1880
William R. McKelvy - 2007 University of Virginia Press
What constitutes reading? This is the question William McKelvy asks in The English Cult of Literature. Is it a theory of interpretation or a physical activity, a process determined by hermene... More |
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| Space and the 'March of Mind': Literature and the Physical Sciences in Britain 1815-1850
Alice Jenkins - 2007 Oxford University Press
This book is about the idea of space in the first half of the nineteenth century. It uses contemporary poetry, essays, and fiction as well as scientific papers, textbooks, and journalism to give a new... More |
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| Fictions and Fakes: Forging Romantic Authenticity, 1760-1845
Margaret Russett - 2006 Cambridge University Press
British Romantic literature descends from a line of impostors, forgers and frauds. Beginning with the golden age of forgery in the late eighteenth century and continuing through canonical Romanticism ... More |
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| Last Things: Emily Brontë's Poems
Janet Gezari - 2007 Oxford University Press
At present, Emily Brontë's poetry is more frequently celebrated than read. Ironically, the very uniqueness of her poems has made them less interesting to current feminist critics than other poems writ... More |
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| Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England
Timothy Larson - 2006 Oxford University Press
The Victorian crisis of faith has dominated discussions of religion and the Victorians. Stories are frequently told of prominent Victorians such as George Eliot losing their faith. This crisis is pres... More |
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| Victorian Fiction and the Insights of Sympathy: An Alternative to the Hermeneutics of Suspicion
Brigid Lowe - 2007 Anthem Press
This book explores the importance of sympathy as a central idea behind Victorian fiction, and an animating principle of novel reading generally. Sympathy, Brigid Lowe argues, deserves a much more impo... More |
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| Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings
Malcolm Andrews - 2006 Clarendon Press
Charles Dickens had three professional careers: novelist, journalist, and public reader. That third career has seldom been given the serious attention it deserved. For the last 12 years of his life he... More |
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| A Dictionary of Victorian London: An A-Z of the Great Metropolis
Lee Jackson - 2006 Anthem Press
From slums to suburbs, freak-shows to fast food, prisons to pornography, The Dictionary of Victorian London is a fascinating expose of everyday life in the Great Metropolis of Victorian London.... More |
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| "Lesser Breeds:" Racial Attitudes in Popular British Culture, 1890-1940
Michael Diamond - 2006 Anthem Press
This book focuses on racism as manifested in the popular culture of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, exemplified by attitudes to Chinese, Arabs, Blacks, and Jews. There are two chapter... More |
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| The Blackest Streets: The Life And Death of a Victorian Slum
Sarah Wise - 2006 Metropolitan Books
Condemned as a “fruitful hotbed of disease and death,” the Old Nichol, a fifteen-acre East London slum, was a shameful blot on the age of progress. A maze of rotting hundred-year-old houses, the Old N... More |
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| Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England
Sharon Marcus - 2007 Princeton University Press
Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal puni... More |
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| The Most Dreadful Visitation: Male Madness in Victorian Fiction
Valerie Pedlar - 2006 Liverpool University Press
Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning as everything from a simple plot device to a commentary on the foundations of Victorian society. But while madness... More |
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| Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal
Helena Michie - 2006 Cambridge University Press
While Victorian tourism and Victorian sexuality have been the subject of much recent critical interest, there has been little research on a characteristically nineteenth-century phenomenon relating to... More |
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| The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain, 1860-1914
Brent Shannon - 2006 Ohio University Press
The English middle class in the late nineteenth century enjoyed an increase in the availability and variety of material goods. With that, the visual markers of class membership and manly behavior unde... More |
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| Victorian Interpretation
Suzy Anger - 2006 Cornell University Press
Suzy Anger investigates the relationship of Victorian interpretation to the ways in which literary criticism is practiced today. Her primary focus is literary interpretation, but she also considers fi... More |
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| Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian Feminism
Susan Hamilton - 2006 Palgrave Macmillan
Drawing on the history of English feminism and the study of Victorian periodical and newspaper presses, this important and timely new book asks a key question that neither history nor literary studies... More |
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| Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture
Patrick R. O'Malley - 2006 Cambridge University Press
It has long been recognised that the Gothic genre sensationalised beliefs and practices associated with Catholicism. Often, the rhetorical tropes and narrative structures of the Gothic, with its lurid... More |
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| Imagining London, 1770-1900
Alan Robinson - 2004 Palgrave Macmillan
Combining a unique overview of metropolitan visual culture with detailed textual analysis, this interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between the two cities which Londoners inhabited: the ... More |
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| The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910: Class, Culture and Nation
Phyllis Weliver - 2006 Palgrave Macmillan
Examining innovations in audience behaviour, musical ensembles and mass-music movements, this book provides insight into how musical performances contributed to emerging ideas about class and national... More |
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| Reforming Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on Science and Society
Laura Snyder - 2006 University of Chicago Press
The Victorian period in Britain was an “age of reform.” It is therefore not surprising that two of the era’s most eminent intellects described themselves as reformers. Both William Whewell and John S... More |
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| The Invention of Evening: Perception and Time in Romantic Poetry
Christopher Miller - 2006 Cambridge University Press
Lyric poetry has long been considered an art form of timelessness, but Romantic poets became fascinated by one time above all others: evening, the threshold between day and night. Christopher R. Mille... More |
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| Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class
John Kucich - 2006 Princeton University Press
British imperialism's favorite literary narrative might seem to be conquest. But its real-life conquests also generated a surprising cultural obsession with suffering, sacrifice, defeat, and melanchol... More |
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| Rural Urbanism: London Landscapes in the Early Nineteenth Century
Dana Arnold - 2006 Manchester University Press
This original and innovative book examines a period in which the development of London was perhaps at its most intense, for in the opening decades of the nineteenth century a concerted attempt was mad... More |
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| Disraeli: The Victorian Dandy Who Became Prime Minister
Christopher Hibbert - 2006 Palgrave Macmillan
To Thomas Carlyle he was "not worth his weight in cold bacon," but, to Queen Victoria, Benjamin Disraeli was "the kindest Minister" she had ever had and a "dear and devoted friend." In this masterly b... More |
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| Coleridge, Form and Symbol: Or The Ascertaining Vision
Nicolas Reid - 2006 Ashgate Publishing
In his convincingly argued book, Nicholas Reid shows just how central Coleridge's theories of imagination, form, and symbol were to Coleridge's metaphysics. What distinguishes Reid's book is the admir... More |
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| Perversity of Poetry, The
Romantic Ideology and the Popular Male Poet of Genius
Dino Franco Felluga - 2006 SUNY Press
No study has explored the reason why such contending claims were made for poetry in the nineteenth century: that it is a panacea for the ills of the age and that it is a pandemic at the heart of the s... More |
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| Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions
Deborah Cohen - 2006 Yale University Press
At what point did the British develop their mania for interiors, wallpaper, furniture, and decoration? Why have the middle classes developed so passionate an attachment to the contents of their homes?... More |
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| Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World
George Levine - 2006 Princeton University Press
Jesus and Darwin do battle on car bumpers across America. Medallions of fish symbolizing Jesus are answered by ones of amphibians stamped "Darwin," and stickers proclaiming "Jesus Loves You" are count... More |
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| Charles Knight: Educator, Publisher, Writer
Valerie Knight - 2006 Ashgate Publishing
Charles Knight: Educator, Publisher, Writer is the first modern book-length study of this important nineteenth-century educational reformer, author, and publisher. Though he made significant co... More |
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| The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917: Palestine and the Question of Orientalism
Eitan Bar-Yosef - 2005 Oxford University Press
The dream of building Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land has long been a quintessential part of English identity and culture: but how did this vision shape the Victorian encounter with the... More |
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| Jane Austen: Introductions and Interventions
John Wiltshire - 2006 Palgrave Macmillan
This volume brings together lively and refreshing articles by a prominent Jane Austen scholar which have been reworked especially for the present collection. John Wiltshire explores the key themes and... More |
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| Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Revolutionary Era
Leon Chai - 2006 Johns Hopkins University Press
This original study explores the new idea of theory that emerged in the wake of the French Revolution. Leon Chai sees in the Romantic age a significant movement across several broad fields of intellec... More |
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| Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period
Tilar J. Mazzeo - 2006 University of Pennsylvania Press
In a series of articles published in Tait's Magazine in 1834, Thomas DeQuincey catalogued four potential instances of plagiarism in the work of his friend and literary competitor Samuel Taylor ... More |
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| Robert Southey: Man Of Letters
W.A. Speck - 2006 Yale University Press
In his lifetime Robert Southey was very much the equal of his fellow “Lake poets,” Coleridge and Wordsworth, but since his death his reputation has been overshadowed by their success. In this new biog... More |
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| Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Simon Dentith - 2006 Cambridge University Press
In the nineteenth century, epic poetry in the Homeric style was widely seen as an ancient and anachronistic genre, yet Victorian authors worked to recreate it for the modern world. Simon Dentith explo... More |
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| The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800-1953
Billie Melman - 2006 Oxford University Press
In this original and widely researched book, Billie Melman explores the culture of history during the age of modernity. Her book is about the production of English pasts, the multiplicity of their rep... More |
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| Operations Without Pain: The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain
Stephanie Snow - 2006 Palgrave Macmillan
Inhalational anaesthesia was the first medical and scientific technique to become a legitimate means of pain relief. Its introduction to medicine in 1846 sparked one of the most intense public debates... More |
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| Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart
Kirstie Blair - 2006 Oxford University Press
Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart is a significant and timely study of nineteenth-century poetry and poetics. It considers why and how the heart became a vital image in Victorian p... More |
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| Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain
Katherine Newey - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan
This is a comprehensive study of women playwrights in the British theater from 1820 to 1918. It looks at how they negotiated their personal and professional identities as writers, and examines the fem... More |
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| The Monsters : Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein
Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler - 2006 Little, Brown
In this absorbing biography, the Hooblers, historians and children's authors (The American Family Albums), chronicle the turbulent life of Mary Shelley (1797–1851), author of the classic gothic... More |
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| Fictions of British Decadence : High Art, Popular Writing and the Fin De Siecle
Kirsten MacLeod - 2006 Palgrave Macmillan
Fictions of British Decadence is a fresh account of the emergence, development, and legacy of fiction written in the era of Oscar Wilde. It examines a broad range of texts by a diverse array of... More |
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| Novel Professions: Interested Disinterest And the Making of the Professional in the Victorian Novel
Jennifer Ruth - 2006 Ohio State University Press
Between 1840 and 1860, the emergent professional developed a sturdy and compelling identity and saw explosive growth in its ranks over the next two decades. Novel Professions showcases the Vict... More |
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| Deciphering Race: White Anxiety, Racial Conflict, And the Turn to Fiction in Mid-Victorian English Prose
Laura Callanan - 2006 Ohio State University Press
Deciphering Race engages with the complex and contested world of Victorian racial discourse. In the five central texts under consideration in this study—Harriet Martineau’s The Hour and the ... More |
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| Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History
Ian Baucom - 2005 Duke University Press
In September 1781, the captain of the British slave ship Zong ordered 133 slaves thrown overboard, enabling the ship’s owners to file an insurance claim for their lost “cargo.” Accounts of this horrif... More |
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| Romantic Indians: Native Americans, British Literature, And Transatlantic Culture 1756-1830
Tim Fulford - 2006 Oxford University Press
Romantic Indians considers the views that Britons, colonists, and North American Indians took of each other during a period in which these people were in a closer and more fateful relationship ... More |
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| The Sad Story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile; Or, Was John Hanning Speke a Cad?
W.B. Carnochan - 2006 Stanford University Press
This is a study of the famous controversy between Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke, fellow explorers who quarreled over Speke's claim to have discovered the source of the Nile during their Africa... More |
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| New Woman and Colonial Adventure Fiction in Victorian Britain: Gender, Genre and Empire
LeeAnne M. Richardson - 2006 University Press of Florida
Cultural concerns about gender and empire converge in striking and unexpected ways in two popular novel forms of late-Victorian Great Britain. In the 1880s and 1890s, feminist New Woman fiction and c... More |
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| Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Creation of a Dynasty: The Critical Years, 1806-1816
Herbert H. Kaplan - 2005 Stanford University Press
This groundbreaking history explains how Nathan Mayer Rothschild rose from comparatively humble circumstances to become the founder of an extraordinary banking and financial empire—an empire that rema... More |
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| Oxbridge Men: British Masculinity and the Undergraduate Experience, 1850-1920
Paul R. Deslandes - 2005 Indiana University Press
The mythic status of the Oxbridge man at the height of the British Empire continues to persist in depictions of this small, elite world as an ideal of athleticism, intellectualism, tradition, and ritu... More |
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| Subterranean Cities: The World Beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945
David L. Pike - 2005 Cornell University Press
Illustrated with photographs, movie stills, engravings, paintings, cartoons, maps and drawings of actual and imagined urban spaces, Subterranean Cities documents the emergence of a novel space in the ... More |
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| Liberty and Poetic Licence: New Essays on Byron
Bernard Beatty, Charles Robinson - 2006 Liverpool University Press
Moving chronologically from Byron's earliest writings to those at the end of his life, Liberty and Poetic Licence brings together a distinguished group of Byron scholars to consider every aspec... More |
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| The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835: Exhuming the Trade
Franz J. Potter - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan
To better understand and contextualise the twilight of the Gothic genre during the 1920s and 1830s, The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835: Exhuming the Trade examines the disreputable asp... More |
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| How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900
Nancy Armstrong - 2005 Columbia University Press
Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, one ... More |
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| The Old Enemies: Catholic and Protestant in Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture
Michael Wheeler - 2006 Cambridge University Press
Even in the industrial nineteenth century, age-old theological disagreements were the cause of religious and cultural conflicts between Catholics and Protestants. This book asks why these ancient divi... More |
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| Jane Austen in the Context of Abolition: A Fling at the Slave Trade
Gabrielle White - 2006 Palgrave Macmillan
This wide-ranging and convincingly argued study looks at the issues of and attitudes towards slavery in Jane Austen's later novels and culture, and argues against Edward Said's critique of Jane Austen... More |
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| The Nineteenth Century Sonnet
Joseph Phelan - 2006 Palgrave Macmillan
What was the appeal of "the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground" to Romantic and Victorian poets? How did a form which had fallen into disuse in the early eighteenth century become a central and enduring p... More |
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| The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel
Catherine Gallagher - 2005 Princeton University Press
The Body Economic revises the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain by demonstrating that political economists and the writers who often presented themselves as their literary anta... More |
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| Republican Politics & English Poetry, 1789-1874
Stephanie Kuduk Weiner - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan
Through the examination of a range of canonical and non-canonical authors--including Blake, Shelley, Cooper, Linton, Landor, Meredith, Thomson and Swinburne--Kuduk Weiner connects the formal strategie... More |
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| Sex in Mind: The Gendered Brain in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Mental Sciences
Rachel Malane - 2005 Peter Lang Publishing
Sex in Mind: The Gendered Brain in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Mental Sciences explores the role of the sexed brain in Victorian science and literature, showing the increasing nineteenth-... More |
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| The Faiths of Oscar Wilde: Catholicism, Folklore and Ireland
Jarlath Killeen - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan
An original and energetic examination of the relationship between theology, faith, religious history and national politics in the works of Oscar Wilde, which focuses in particular on his life-long att... More |
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| Material Interests of the Victorian Novel
Daniel Hack - 2005 University of Virginia Press
Taking as his point of departure the competing uses of the critical term the materiality of writing, Daniel Hack turns to the past in this provocative new book to recover the ways in which the ... More |
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| Utopia, Ltd.: Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England, 1870-1900
Matthew Beaumont - 2005 Brill Academic Publishers
This book uncovers the historical preconditions for the explosive revival of utopian literature at the nineteenth-century fin de siècle, and excavates its ideological content. It marks a contri... More |
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| Jane Austen's Textual Lives: From Aeschylus to Bollywood
Kathryn Sutherland - 2005 Oxford University Press
Through three intertwined histories Jane Austen's Textual Lives offers a new way of approaching and reading a very familiar author. One is a history of the transmission and transformation of Ja... More |
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| Paperwork: Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age
Kevin McLaughlin - 2005 University of Pennsylvania Press
"The Paper Age" is the phrase coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1837 to describe the monetary and literary inflation of the French Revolution—an age of mass-produced "Bank-paper" and "Book-paper." Carlyle's... More |
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| The Poetry Of Indifference: From The Romantics To The Rubaiyat
Erik Gray - 2005 University of Massachusetts Press
Indifference is a common, even indispensable element of human experience. But it is rare in poetry, which is traditionally defined by its direct opposition to indifference—by its heightened emotion, c... More |
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| Erotic Coleridge: Women, Love, and the Law Against Divorce
Anya Taylor - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan
Erotic Coleridge charts Coleridge's prolific creation of love poems from early flirtatious verse to poems about marital incompatibility, the blank faces of young women fearing for their reputat... More |
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| Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism
Andrew M. Stauffer - 2005 Cambridge University Press
Andrew Stauffer explores the changing role of anger in the literature and culture of the Romantic period, an era dominated by revolution and reaction, terror and war. Including Blake, Coleridge, Godwi... More |
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| Captivating Subjects: Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century
Jason Haslam, Julia M. Wright - 2005 University of Toronto Press
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| British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, 1870-1900: Beauty for the People
Diana Maltz - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan
This cultural study reveals the interdependence between British Aestheticism and late-Victorian social reform movements. Following John Ruskin, who believed in art's power to civilize the poor, cultur... More |
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| Leigh Hunt and the London Literary Scene: A Reception History of His Major Works, 1805-1828
Michael Eberle-Sinatra - 2005 Routledge
Leigh Hunt and the London Literary Scene reassesses Hunt's substantial contributions to several different genres and to offer an account of their significant impact on audiences during the Romantic pe... More |
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| Ben Jonson in the Romantic Age
Tom Lockwood - 2005 Oxford University Press
Tom Lockwood's study is the first examination of Jonson's place in the texts and culture of the Romantic age. Part one of the book explores theatrical, critical, and editorial responses to Jonson, inc... More |
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| Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction
Lisa Surridge - 2005 Ohio University Press
The Offenses Against the Person Act of 1828 opened magistrates’ courts to abused working-class wives. Newspapers in turn reported on these proceedings, and in this way the Victorian scrutiny of domest... More |
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| Figures of Heresy: Radical Theology in English And American Literature, 1830-2000
Andrew Dix, Jonathan Taylor - 2005 Sussex Academic Press
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| Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott And The Story Of Tomorrow
Caroline McCracken-Flesher - 2005 Oxford University Press
No thanks to Walter Scott, Scotland has at last regained its parliament. This is a common assumption among countless commentators who read Scott as not having allowed his country any future. So well, ... More |
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| Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790—1840
Thomas Pfau - 2005 Johns Hopkins University Press
Drawing on a multifaceted philosophical tradition ranging from Kant to Hegel to Heidegger -- incorporating as well the psychosocial analyses of Freud, Benjamin, and Adorno -- Pfau develops a new under... More |
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| Dickens and the Politics of the Family
Catherine Waters - 1997 Cambridge University Press
Drawing on feminist and new historicist methodologies, Catherine Waters argues that Dickens' novels record a shift in notions of the family away from stress on the importance of lineage and blood towa... More |
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| Jane Austen in Hollywood
Linda Troost, Sayre Greenfield - 2001 University Press of Kentucky
Jane Austen in Hollywood examines the recent spate of films based on Austen's novels, highlighting how these productions have enhanced their appeal to a wide audience and how the films have emb... More |
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| Victorian Travelers and the Opening of China, 1842-1907
Susan Schoenbauer Thurin - 1999 Ohio University Press
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| Bacchus in Romantic England: Drink and Writers
Anya Taylor - 1998 Palgrave Macmillan
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| Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel
Hugh Small - 1999 Palgrave Macmillan
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) achieved fame for her leadership of a group of British nurses during the Crimean War. After the war, she dedicated herself to promoting public health. She became one... More |
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| Keats's Odes and Contemporary Criticism
James O'Rourke - 1998 University Press of Florida
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| Women of the Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Barbara Onslow - 2001 Palgrave Macmillan
To 19th-century writers the dynamic periodical press seemed both an influential medium and a means to pay the bills. A suprising number of women, despite limited education, parental opposition and the... More |
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| John Ruskin (Sutton Pocket Biography)
Francis O'Gorman - 1999 Sutton Publishing
John Ruskin was one of the greatest Victorian critics of art and society, but he was also preoccupied with politics, economics and education. This pocket-sized biography explores his influence on his ... More |
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| Jane Austen: A Life
David Nokes - 1998 University of California Press
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| The Poetry of Relationship: The Wordsworths and Coleridge, 1797-1800
Richard Matlak - 1997 Palgrave Macmillan
Richard Matlak uses psychobiography to look at the writings of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth. He examines the intimate relationship between the three writers for c... More |
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| Medical Women And Victorian Fiction
Kristine Swenson - 2005 University of Missouri Press
In Medical Women and Victorian Fiction, Kristine Swenson explores the cultural intersections of fiction, feminism, and medicine during the second half of the nineteenth century in Britain and h... More |
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| Consensual Fictions: Women, Liberalism, And The English Novel
Wendy S. Jones - 2005 University of Toronto Press
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| Teaching British Women Writers 1750-1900
Jeanne Moskal, Shannon R. Wooden - 2005 Peter Lang Publishing
The exuberant recovery from obscurity of scores of British women writers has prompted professors and publishers to revisit publication of women's writings. New curricular inclusion of these sometimes ... More |
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| Dickinson's Misery : A Theory of Lyric Reading
Virginia Jackson - 2005 Princeton University Press
How do we know that Emily Dickinson wrote poems? How do we recognize a poem when we see one? In Dickinson's Misery, Virginia Jackson poses fundamental questions about reading habits we have com... More |
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| The Fin-de-Siecle Poem : English Literary Culture and the 1890s
Joseph Bristow - 2005 Ohio University Press
Featuring innovative research by emergent and established scholars, The Fin-de-Siecle Poem throws new light on the remarkable diversity of poetry produced at the close of the nineteenth century... More |
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| Jane Austen's Philosophy of the Virtues
Sarah Emsley - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan
This book examines Austen's novels within their philosophical and religious contexts, and demonstrates that both classical and theological virtues are central to her work. In fresh readings of the six... More |
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| Jane Austen in Context
Janet Todd ed. Janet Todd - 2005 Cambridge University Press
Covering many aspects of Jane Austen's life, works and historical context, this collection of essays provides the most complete one volume introduction to her life and times. The generously illustrate... More |
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| Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism : Passengers of Modernity
Ana Parejo Vadillo - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan
This book re-examines cultural, social, geographical and philosophical representations of Victorian London by looking at the transformations in urban life produced by the rise and development of urban... More |
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| The Rise of the Detective in Early Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction
Heather Worthington - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan
Detective fiction's real origins lurk in the popular press of the early nineteenth century, where the detective and the case were steadily developed. The well-known masters of early crime fiction, inc... More |
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| The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot and Serialization
David Payne - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan
This book shows how Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot sacralized Victorian modernity in two contradictory ways: by incarnating their moment as one of transcendent development, and by reenacting blo... More |
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| Romanticism, Enthusiasm, and Regulation: Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period
Jon Mee - 2003 Oxford University Press
What is enthusiasm? Enthusiasm for most of the eighteenth century was identified with excess of religious feeling, although it came increasingly to be used to describe the unregulated and infectious u... More |
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| An Imaginary England: Nation, Landscape and Literature, 1840-1920
Roger Ebbatson, Ann Donahue - 2005 Ashgate Publishing
In his highly theorised and original book, Roger Ebbatson traces the emergence of conceptions of England and Englishness from 1840 to 1920. His study concentrates on poetry and fiction by authors such... More |
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| Reading the Brontë Body : Disease, Desire, and the Constraints of Culture
Beth Torgerson - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan
Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë's literary representations of illness and disease reflect the major role illness played in the lives of the Victorians and its frequent reoccurrence within the Brontë... More |
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| Nineteenth-Century Anti-Catholic Discourses: The Case of Charlotte Bronte
Diana Peschier - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan
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| Thomas Hardy, Metaphysics and Music
Mark Asquith - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan
This new study offers an original approach to Hardy's art as a novelist and entirely new readings of certain musical scenes in Hardy's works. Asquith utilizes original archival research (both scientif... More |
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| The Insatiability of Human Wants: Economics and Aesthetics in Market Society
Regenia Gagnier - 2000 University of Chicago Press
Combining cultural history, economics, and literary criticism, Regenia Gagnier's new work traces the parallel development of economic theory and aesthetic theory, offering a shrewd reading of humans a... More |
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| The Victorians and the Visual Imagination
Kate Flint - 2000 Cambridge University Press
This innovative, interdisciplinary study explores the Victorians' attitudes toward sight. It draws on writers as diverse as George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Rudyard Kipling as well as pre-... More |
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| Realist Vision
Peter Brooks - 2005 Yale University Press
Realist Vision explores the claim to represent the world “as it is.” Peter Brooks takes a new look at the realist tradition and its intense interest in the visual. Discussing major English and ... More |
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| The One vs. The Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel
Alex Woloch - 2003 Princeton University Press
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| Inaugural Wounds: Shaping of Desire in Five Nineteenth-Century English Narratives
Robert E. Lougy - 2004 Ohio University Press
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| Victorian Urban Settings: Essays on the Nineteenth-Century City and its Contexts
Debra N. Mancoff (Ed.), D. J. Trela (Ed.) - 1996 Garland Publishing
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| Angels and Absences: Child Deaths in the Nineteenth Century
Laurence Lerner - 1997 Vanderbilt University Press
Angels and Absences offers numerous instances of individual responses to the death of children in fiction and poetry throughout the nineteenth century. More |
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| Hopkins Re-Constructed: Life, Poetry, and the Tradition
Justus George Lawler - 1998 Continuum
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| Keats's Paradise Lost
Beth Lau - 1998 University Press of Florida
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| Victorian Painting
Lionel Lambourne - 1999 Phaidon Press
Victorian Painting is a comprehensive survey of one of the most fertile and varied eras in the history of painting. It embraces not just the United Kingdom but also the English-speaking countries lin... More |
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| The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siecle
Kelly Hurley - 1996 Cambridge University Press
This book accounts for the resurgence of Gothic, and its immense popularity, during the British fin de siècle. In particular, Kelly Hurley explores a key scenario that haunts the genre: the loss of a ... More |
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| Revealing the Holy Land: The Photographic Exploration of Palestine
Kathleen Stewart Howe - 1997 Santa Barbara Museum of Art
This is the catalog for an exhibition of ninety nineteenth-century photographs drawn primarily from the world-class collection of Michael G. Wilson. Included are the starkly beautiful photographs of S... More |
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| Dickens and Imagination
Robert Higbie - 1998 University Press of Florida
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| The Victorian Pulpit: Spoken and Written Sermons in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Robert H. Ellison - 1998 Susquehanna University Press
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| The Challenge of Coleridge: Ethics and Interpretation in Romanticism and Modern Philosophy
David P. Haney - 2001 Pennsylvania State University Press
Interweaving past and present texts, The Challenge of Coleridge engages the British Romantic poet, critic, and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge in a "conversation" (in Hans-Georg Gadamer’s s... More |
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| Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role
Andrew Elfenbein - 1999 Columbia University Press
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| Secret Selves: Confession and Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography
Oliver S. Buckton - 1998 University of North Carolina Press
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| The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth- Century British Fiction
Patrick Brantlinger - 1998 Indiana University Press
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| The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel
Laura C. Berry - 2000 University of Virginia Press
The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel traces the the story of victimized childhood to its origins in nineteenth-century Britain. Almost as soon as "childhood" became a distinct category... More |
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| Our Lady of Victorian Feminism: The Madonna in the Work of Anna Jameson, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot
Kimberly VanEsveld Adams - 2001 Ohio University Press
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| Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900
Annemarie Adams - 1996 McGill-Queen's University Press
A revealing look at the forces influencing domestic life, health, and architecture in Victorian England. More |
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| The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination
Paul Saint-Amour - 2003 Cornell University Press
They borrow from published works without attribution. They remake literary creation in the image of consumption. They celebrate the art of scissors and paste. Who are these outlaws? Postmodern culture... More |
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| Lot's Daughters: Sex, Redemption, And Women’s Quest For Authority
Robert Polhemus - 2005 Stanford University Press
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| Creative Negativity: Four Victorian Exemplars of the Female Quest
Carol MacKay - 2001 Stanford University Press
Focusing on the early Modern and Victorian periods, the author finds covert revolutionaries in four familiar practitioners of a strategy she calls creative negativity: poet-photographer Julia Margaret... More |
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| Common Scents: Comparative Encounters in High-Victorian Fiction
Janice Carlisle - 2004 Oxford University Press
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| Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland
Gordon Bigelow - 2003 Cambridge University Press
During the Irish Famine of 1845-52, novels by Dickens and Gaskell, as well as a range of commentaries on the Irish disaster, argued for a new theory of individual expression in opposition to the syste... More |
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| Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit
John Bowen - 2003 Oxford University Press
In the first half of his career, Dickens wrote some of the most important novels of the nineteenth century, including The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and Martin Chuzzlewit. The... More |
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| Poetical Remains: Poets' Graves, Bodies, and Books in the Nineteenth Century
Samantha Matthews - 2004 Oxford University Press
What happens to poets' genius when they die? The peculiar affinity which was felt to exist between their physical and literary 'remains' - their bodies and books - is the subject of this original cult... More |
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| The Awkward Age in Women's Popular Fiction, 1850-1900: Girls and the Transition to Womanhood
Sarah Bilston - 2004 Oxford University Press
This book demonstrates that 'the awkward age' formed a fault-line in Victorian female experience, an unusual phase in which restlessness, self-interest, and rebellion were possible. Tracing evolving t... More |
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| Imagining Inclusive Society in Nineteenth Century Novels: The Code of Sincerity in the Public Sphere
Pam Morris - 2004 Johns Hopkins University Press
In Imagining Inclusive Society in Nineteenth-Century Novels, Pam Morris traces a dramatic transformation of British public consciousness that occurred between the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1867. ... More |
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| Jane Austen and the Enlightenment
Peter Knox-Shaw - 2004 Cambridge University Press
It is now widely understood that Jane Austen's writing and thought were derived directly from her late eighteenth-century childhood, but astonishingly, this is the first study of the influence of the ... More |
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| Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence : The Scientific Investigations of Poe, Dickens and Doyle
Lawrence Frank - 2003 Palgrave Macmillan
Frank investigates an intertextual exchange between nineteenth-century historical disciplines (philology, cosmology, geology, archaeology and evolutionary biology) and the detective fictions of Poe, D... More |
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| Dickens the Journalist
John Drew - 2004 Palgrave Macmillan
Dickens's career as a journalist spanned four decades, during which he wrote over 350 articles: reports, sketches, reviews, leaders, exposbliogés, satires and reminiscences. This project offers the fi... More |
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| "Colour'd Shadows" : Contexts in Publishing, Printing, and Reading Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers
Terence Hoagwood, Kathryn Ledbetter - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan
A large body of nineteenth-century British women's literature highlights the use of verbal illusions, even while its advertisement remains the premise of inward and personal experience. In the age of... More |
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| Disorienting Fiction : The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels
James Buzard - 2005 Princeton University Press
This book gives an ambitious revisionist account of the nineteenth-century British novel and its role in the complex historical process that ultimately gave rise to modern anthropology's concept of cu... More |
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| Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud: Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins
Carolyn Dever - 1998 Cambridge University Press
Victorian culture is famous for its idealization of mothers and families, yet the popular novels of this period frequently feature mothers who are dead or otherwise absent. Thr |
