Amy Kahrmann Huseby – författare

Victorian women's writing was a global project, offering platforms of expression to authors of wildly different perspectives, cultures, and life experiences. While conventional accounts of Victorian women's writing emphasize modest domestic ideals, this volume places that familiar narrative in conversation with voices that tell very different stories, including those that challenge, reject, reform, subvert, and sometimes reinforce received assumptions about what Victorian women thought, did, and wrote. Engaging sources from the 1830s to the dawn of the Great War in 1914 and beyond, this multi-authored history emphasizes the differences and the connections - both formal and thematic -linking those international, interdisciplinary, and transgeneric voices. Gathering cutting-edge contributions by scholars from across a rich variety of disciplinary perspectives, this History redefines what Victorian women's writing made possible in the modern world.

This first-ever sustained study of Michael Field's verse dramas restores their central place in the history of Decadent and Modernist theater. Organized into four sections - genre, queer time and space, dramatic affect, and modernist interventions - it traces the development and historical and literary significance of Field's plays. Essays combine literary criticism, theater history, and queer theory to examine formal innovation, performance, and authorship. Contributions also engage underexamined and unpublished works, expanding the archive and opening new directions for research. Plays are situated within broader literary and theatrical contexts, including connections to contemporaries such as Oscar Wilde and W. B. Yeats and the development of the genre by T. S. Eliot and Gordon Bottomley. This is an essential collection for scholars and researchers of late-Victorian and Modernist literatures, theater studies, and queer studies alike.

This first-ever sustained study of Michael Field's verse dramas restores their central place in the history of Decadent and Modernist theater. Organized into four sections - genre, queer time and space, dramatic affect, and modernist interventions - it traces the development and historical and literary significance of Field's plays. Essays combine literary criticism, theater history, and queer theory to examine formal innovation, performance, and authorship. Contributions also engage underexamined and unpublished works, expanding the archive and opening new directions for research. Plays are situated within broader literary and theatrical contexts, including connections to contemporaries such as Oscar Wilde and W. B. Yeats and the development of the genre by T. S. Eliot and Gordon Bottomley. This is an essential collection for scholars and researchers of late-Victorian and Modernist literatures, theater studies, and queer studies alike.

Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetics offers a range of Pre-Raphaelite literary scholarship, provoking innovative discussions into the poetic form, gender dynamics, political engagement, and networked communities of Pre-Raphaelitism. The authors in this collection position Pre-Raphaelite poetics broadly in the sense of poiesis, or acts of making, aiming to identify and explore the Pre-Raphaelites’ diverse forms of making: social, aesthetic, gendered, and sacred. Each chapter examines how Pre-Raphaelitism takes up and explores modes of making and re-making identity, relationality, moral transformations, and even, time and space. Essays explore themes of formalist or prosodic approaches, expanded networks of literary and artistic influence within Pre-Raphaelitism, and critical legacies and responses to Pre-Raphaelite poetry and arts, codifying the methods, forms, and commonalties that constitute literary Pre-Raphaelitism.