Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books

Though popular opinion would have us see Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There as whimsical, nonsensical, and thoroughly enjoyable stories told mostly for children; contemporary research has shown us...

Between 1875 and 1947, a period bookended, respectively, by the founding of the Theosophical Society and the death of notorious occultist celebrity Aleister Crowley, Britain experienced an unparalleled efflorescence of engagement with unusual occult...

Scott's Books is an approachable introduction to the Waverley Novels. Drawing on substantial research in Scott's intertextual sources, it offers a fresh approach to the existing readings where the thematic and theoretical are the norm. Avoiding jargon,...

The nineteenth century witnessed a proliferation in the literary uses of dialect, with dialect becoming a key feature in the development of the realist novel, dialect songs being printed by the hundreds in urban centres and dialect poetry becoming a...

This volume explores the intersection between culinary history and literature across a period of profound social and cultural change. Split into four parts, essays focus on the relationships between eating and childhood reading in the Victorian era, the...

Write My Name: Authorship in the Poetry of Thomas Moore is the first monograph devoted to Moore's poetry, and argues for the value of attending to neglected aspects of Moore's poetic work through analysis of his shifting modes of authorship and...

In the midst of the climate crisis and the threat of the sixth extinction, we can no longer claim to be the masters of nature. Rather, we need to unlearn our species' arrogance for the sake of all animals, human and non-human. Rethinking our...

In this multi-volume edition, the poetry of W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) is presented in full, with newly-established texts and detailed, wide-ranging commentary. Yeats began to write verse in the nineteenth century, and over time his own arrangements of poems...

This study reads the Poet's reactions to the Terror in passages from The Prelude as explicitly about his twenty-three-year-old-self witnessing the gory deaths of Gorsas and others, which caused post-traumatic stress disorder and its symptoms, exacerbated...

With the rise of mass tourism, Italy became increasingly accessible to Victorian women travellers not only as a locus of artistic culture but also as a site of political enquiry. Despite being outwardly denied a political voice in Britain, many female...

Addressing the Victorian obsession with the sordid materiality of modern life, this book studies dirt in nineteenth-century English literature and the Victorian cultural imagination. Dirt litters Victorian writing - industrial novels, literature about...

This study explores the ways in which Dickens's published work and his thousands of letters intersect, to shape and promote particular myths of the reading experience, as well as redefining the status of the writer. It shows that the boundaries between...

Though well-known as the author of Trilby and the creator of Svengali, the writer-artist George Du Maurier had many other accomplishments that are less familiar to modern audiences. This collection traces Du Maurier's role as a participant in the wider...

The Moral Economies of American Authorship argues that the moral character of authors became a kind of literary property within mid-nineteenth-century America's expanding print marketplace, shaping the construction, promotion, and reception of texts...

This collection analyzes the theme of the "afterlife" as it animated nineteenth-century American women's theology-making and appeals for social justice. Authors like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Martha Finley, Jarena Lee, Maria...

This book is the first major study that explores the intrinsic connection between music and myth, as Nietzsche conceived of it in The Birth of Tragedy (1872), in three great works of modern literature: Romain Rolland's Nobel Prize winning novel...

This is the first full-length study of the popular Victorian writer Catherine Crowe (1790-1872). Crowe is increasingly being recognised as an important and influential figure in the literary and Spiritualist circles of the nineteenth century. This...

Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing and Screen Adaptation charts a new chapter in the changing fortunes of a unique cultural phenomenon. This book examines the afterlives of the Byronic hero through the work of nineteenth-century women...

Acknowledgements Introduction Reconfiguring Domestic Space for Female Privacy: The Garden, the Study, and the Room Public Privacy: Women, the City, and the Car Privileging Privacy: The Pre-modern Role Models of the Witch and the Primitive 'We Have Gone...

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; A.Stiles PART I: CATALYSTS Howled Out of the Country: Wilkie Collins and H.G. Wells Retry David Ferrier; L.Otis Our Lady of Darkness: Decadent Arts and the Magnetic Sleep of...

This study sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating writing for the stage during an era of censorship, the monopolistic royal theatres, and an emerging plebeian public sphere of drama located in London's new playhouses and "spouting...

This book makes an important contribution to transatlantic literary studies and an emerging body of work on identity formation and print culture in the Atlantic world. The collection identifies the ways in which historically-situated but malleable...

Drawing evidence from transatlantic literary texts of childhood as well as from nineteenth and early twentieth century children's and family card, board, and parlor games and games manuals, Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Childhood and the Politics of...

Providing a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of scholarship on nineteenth-century British periodicals, this volume surveys the current state of research and offers researchers an in-depth examination of contemporary methodologies, including...

General Editor's Preface - Preface - List of Abbreviations - A HARDY CHRONOLOGY - Principal Sources - Index

Note on Editions, Abbreviations, References and Italics List of Abbreviations Introduction: Memory, History, and George Eliot Narrative and 'Immovable Roots': Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede Sources of the Self and Moral Agency in The Lifted Veil,...

Acknowledgements (as the Crisis of Credit) - Introduction: 'The Outside as Inside': Echo's(') Narrative Domain - 'The Persistence of the Vocalic': Scott and the Early Strategies of Accommodation - 'A-Filiative Families and Subversive Reproduction':...

Acknowledgements - Preface - Notes on Contributors - Introduction; P.W.Martin & R.Jarvis - A Modern Electra: Matricide in the Writings of Mary and Charles Lamb; J.Aaron - Editing the Waverley Novels; J.H.Alexander & P.Garside - Reviewing Romanticism: The...

Acknowledgements - Introduction: Hardy and the Conjurors - Desperate Remedies (1871): Making the Trojan Horse - Far from the Madding Crowd (1874): Priapus in Arcadia - The Hand of Ethelberta (1875): The Writer's Contract - The Return of the Native...

General Editor's Preface Introduction List of Abbreviations The Poe Family Map of Atlantic Seaboard, United States AN EDGAR ALLAN POE CHRONOLOGY The Poe Circle Chronology of Poe's Works Sources Index

General Editor's Preface - Introduction - A Dickens Chronology - Sources - Genealogical Table - Index

List of Plates Preface to Volume 2 Letters The Moonstone to the Death of his Mother (1866-1868) Martha and the American Triumph (1869-February 1874) Domesticity (March 1874-1879) Illness, Work, and Family (1880-1885) Letters to 'Nannie' (1885-1888)...

At a time when biblical authority was under challenge from the Higher Criticism and evolutionary science, 'what providence meant' was the most keenly contested of questions. This book takes up the controversial subject of Dickens and religion, and offers...

For over a century British authors have been writing about the Antarctic for child readers, yet this body of literature has never been explored in detail. Antarctica in British Children's Literature examines this field for the first time, identifying the...

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Keats's 'Posthumous Life': Corpus and Body Keats, Sexuality, and Tennyson's Reticence 'Curled Minion': Keats and Arnold's Dandyism 'The Sordidness of Things': Keats, Hopkins, and the Landscapes of...

General Editor's Preface - Introduction - List of Abbreviations - A SHELLEY CHRONOLOGY - The Shelley Circle - Select Bibliography - Index

Preface - Acknowledgements - Author's Note - Introduction - Early Influences: 'A History of the Jews' - Frankenstein and the 'Good Cause' - 'Connected in a Thousand Ways': Mary Shelley and Lord Byron - That Masterpiece of His Malice: Valperge - 'This...

Notes on the Contributors - Preface - Introduction: Coming and Going in Victorian Literature; R.Barreca - 'You did not come': Absence, Death and Eroticism in Tess; J.Kincaid - Loving You All Ways: Vamps, Vampires, Necrophiles and Necrofilles in...

Acknowledgements - Introduction to the Second Edition - Introduction to the First Edition - Jane Eyre - The Professor - Shirley - Villette - The Structure of Charlotte Bronte's Fiction - Wuthering Heights - Anne Bronte - Notes - Index