Bücher der Reihe The Nineteenth Century Series

Beginning with the premise that men and women of the Romantic period were lively interlocutors who participated in many of the same literary traditions and experiments, this title offers a counterpoint to studies of Romantic-era women writers that stress their differences from their male contemporaries.

Between 1880 and 1914, England saw the emergence of an unprecedented range of literary forms from Modernism to the popular thriller. This book asks the following key questions: How did publishing and distribution practices influence reader choice? Who decided whether or not a book was a 'classic'?

Drawing upon extensive archival work in the British Library, the author analyzes seance accounts, novels about mediumship, and metaphysical treatises, to make important connections between contemporary writings on mysticism and fictional works. She also presents the theories of compelling characters such as Newton Crosland and Lois Waisbrooker.

In 1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti published his sonnet sequence "The House of Life". Many poets wrote thousands of sonnets resulting in the flourishing of the sonnet sequence since the 1590s. This study explores the causes behind this outpouring, providing the contributions of the late Victorian sonneteers to the poetry and culture of their age.

A systematic exploration of Thomas Hardy's imaginative assimilation of particular Victorian sciences, this study draws on and swells the widening current of scholarly attention being paid to the cultural meanings compacted and released by the nascent "sciences of man" in the 19th century.

Reading and re-reading is what this book is about. In the widest sense it is concerned with the reading of poetry in general, and the long poem in particular, and it is moreover an attempt to recover "The Excursion" for critical study and to reinstate it with the Wordsworthian canon.

An examination of the importance of language in forming a nexus among popular fiction, biology, and philology at the Victorian fin-de-siecle. This book maps out the dialogue between the Victorian life and social sciences most involved in the study of language and the literary genre indicted for causing linguistic corruption - popular fiction.

In her study of Dickens's relationship to canines, Gray shows that dogs, real and invented, were intrinsic to Dickens's vision and experience of London and its representation. She makes use of personal reminiscences, periodicals, images of dogs by portrait artists and Dickens's illustrators.

Provides historical accounts of scientific controversy, documents references to time and space in the periodical press, and follows magazines and journals as they circulate through society to shed light on the dissemination and distribution of periodicals, authorship and textual authority, and the role of mediation in material culture.

Offering an introduction to issues surrounding the definition and division of labor in British society and culture, this book argues that 'work' was a term rife with ideological contradictions for Victorian males during a period when it was considered synonymous with masculinity.

In a career that spanned over forty years, Elia Hepworth Dixon was alternately journalist, critic, essayist, short story writer, novelist, editor of a women's magazine, dramatist, and autobiographer. The author sheds light on Dixon's life and work, and provides insight not only into Dixon herself, but also into her multifaceted character.

This work is a textual study of Hardy's four volumes of short stories. It examines the history of the stories' composition and revision from manuscripts through serial publications, galleys, revisions and collected publications, all stages of which show significant alterations.

An exploration of women in literature and art, focusing on the life and work of 19th-century writer Anna Jameson.

Offers original readings of Trollope that recognize and repay his importance as source material for scholars working in diverse fields of literary and cultural studies. This title also includes essays that examine Trollope and sexuality in the context of queer studies, the law, archetypal constructions, and classical feminism.

Offers a critical insight into the relationship between Milton and the Romantic poets. Discussing the role that 17th and 18th-century writers like Dryden, Johnson and Burke played in formulating the political and spiritual mythology that grew up around Milton, this work contextualizes various major Romantic poets' 'misreadings' of Milton.

Through a survey of a diverse range of crimes, criminals, detectives, modes of detection and reportage, the essays in this volume chart the development of crime writing as a genre and the growing dialogue between fact and fiction through Victoria's reign.

Tracing those deliberate and accidental Romantic echoes that reverberate through the Victorian age into the beginning of the twentieth century, this collection acknowledges that the Victorians decided for themselves how to define what is 'Romantic'.

Reading the diaries of well-known writers and public figures such as Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, Henry Crabb Robinson, George Eliot, George Gissing, John Ruskin, Edith Simcox and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anne-Marie Millim locates the diary at the intersection of the public and private spheres. Diaristic writing, Millim argues.

Using the metaphor of the published journey, whether it involves actual travel or translation, Johnston focuses on the relationships of various British women travellers, translators and journalists, mainly with continental Europe. Devoted in part to case studies of women such as Anna Jameson and Mary Howitt.

Presents an account of the evolution of Dickens, an author from whose psychological honesty and imaginative generosity emerged precocious fictional portents of Freudian and post-Freudian theory. It traces the evolution of Dickens' creative imagination.

During the Victorian period there developed a new anxiety about male-female relations and roles in modern society. This book of essays examines Victorian painting in the light of this "woman question". The art and artists are considered in a socio-political context.

Despite their desire to rise above the so-called "age of personality" and personal attacks, Romantic-era figures such as Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Sydney Owenson, and the explorer John Ross became enmeshed in public feuds with the Edinburgh Review and the Quarterly Review.

Covers the intellectual formation of English plebeian radicalism and Scottish philosophic Whiggism over the long eighteenth century, and examines their associated strategies of critical engagement with the cultural, social and political crises of the early nineteenth century.

Taking up the phenomenon of bric-a-brac in Victorian culture, this collection advances our understanding of materiality by examining the miscellaneous, moveable and rejected objects often overlooked in the discourses of thing theory. Essays examine writers as different as Lear, Browning.

Examining a wide range of representations of physical, metaphorical, and dream landscapes in Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, the author explores the way in which gender attitudes are expressed, both in descriptions of landscape as the human body and in ideas of nature.