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A.C. Swinburne
A Poet's Life
Häftad, 2019
816 kr
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Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was one of the literary sensations of the Victorian period. His iconoclastic poetry and prose challenged attitudes to sex, politics, religion and censorship. Not only writing some of the most original lyric poetry of the time and pioneering criticism, …
Literary Experiments in Magazine Publishing
Beyond Serialization
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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As the nineteenth century came to an end, a number of voices within the British and American magazine industries pushed back against serialisation as the dominant publication mode, experimenting instead with less conventional magazine formats. This book explores these formats, focusing (in …
Wordsworth and Evolution in Victorian Literature
Entangled Influence
Inbunden, 2018
2904 kr
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The influences of William Wordsworth’s writing and evolutionary theory—the nineteenth century’s two defining visions of nature—conflicted in the Victorian period. For Victorians, Wordsworthian nature was a caring source of inspiration and moral guidance, signaling humanity's divine origins and …
Charlotte Brontë from the Beginnings
New Essays from the Juvenilia to the Major Works
Av Judith E. Pike, Lucy Morrison
Häftad, 2019
883 kr
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Composed of serialized works, poems, short tales, and novellas, Charlotte Brontë's juvenilia merit serious scholarly attention as revelatory works in and of themselves as well as for what they tell us about the development of Brontë as a writer. This timely collection attends to both critical …
Harriet Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines
Nineteenth-century intellectual powerhouse
Av Valerie Sanders, Gaby Weiner
Häftad, 2019
883 kr
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One of the foremost writers of her time, Harriet Martineau established her reputation by writing a hugely successful series of fictional tales on political economy whose wide readership included the young Queen Victoria. She went on to write fiction and nonfiction; books, articles and pamphlets; …
Science, Language, and Reform in Victorian Poetry
Political Dialects
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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Barrow’s timely book is the first to examine the link between Victorian poetry, the study of language, and political reform. Focusing on a range of literary, scientific, and political texts, Barrow demonstrates that nineteenth-century debates about language played a key role in shaping emergent …
Edward Lloyd and His World
Popular Fiction, Politics and the Press in Victorian Britain
Av Sarah Louise Lill, Rohan McWilliam
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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The publisher Edward Lloyd (1815-1890) helped shape Victorian popular culture in ways that have left a legacy that lasts right up to today. He was a major pioneer of both popular fiction and journalism but has never received extended scholarly investigation until now. Lloyd shaped the modern …
Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines
Av Bernard Lightman, Bennett Zon
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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Current studies in disciplinarity range widely across philosophical and literary contexts, producing heated debate and entrenched divergences. Yet, despite their manifest significance for us today seldom have those studies engaged with the Victorian origins of modern disciplinarity. Victorian …
Gender, Writing, Spectatorships
Evenings at the Theatre, Opera, and Silent Screen in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy and Beyond
Inbunden, 2021
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This original study makes a valuable contribution to Italian feminist/women’s history, spectatorship studies, and cultural history by examining women as protagonists, producers and consumers of literature, theatre, opera and film. Drawing on archival material – female correspondence, life-writings …
Reading Transatlantic Girlhood in the Long Nineteenth Century
Av Robin L. Cadwallader, LuElla D’Amico
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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This collection is the first of its kind to interrogate both literal and metaphorical transatlantic exchanges of culture and ideas in nineteenth-century girls’ fiction. As such, it initiates conversations about how the motif of travel in literature taught nineteenth-century girl audiences to …
Reading Transatlantic Girlhood in the Long Nineteenth Century
Av Robin L. Cadwallader, LuElla D’Amico
Häftad, 2023
749 kr
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This collection is the first of its kind to interrogate both literal and metaphorical transatlantic exchanges of culture and ideas in nineteenth-century girls’ fiction. As such, it initiates conversations about how the motif of travel in literature taught nineteenth-century girl audiences to …
Dickens and the Bible
'What Providence Meant'
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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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 a significant contribution to the …
Dickens and the Bible
'What Providence Meant'
Häftad, 2023
749 kr
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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 a significant contribution to the …
Wordsworth and Evolution in Victorian Literature
Entangled Influence
Häftad, 2020
816 kr
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The influences of William Wordsworth’s writing and evolutionary theory—the nineteenth century’s two defining visions of nature—conflicted in the Victorian period. For Victorians, Wordsworthian nature was a caring source of inspiration and moral guidance, signaling humanity's divine origins and …
Male Adolescence in Mid-Victorian Fiction
George Meredith, W. M. Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope
Häftad, 2020
655 kr
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Focusing on works by George Meredith, W. M. Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope, Alice Crossley examines the emergence of adolescence in the mid-Victorian period as a distinct form of experience. Adolescence, Crossley shows, appears as a discrete category of identity that draws on but is nonetheless …
South Seas Encounters
Nineteenth-Century Oceania, Britain, and America
Av Richard Fulton, Peter Hoffenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
850 kr
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South Seas Encounters examines several key types of encounters between the many-faceted worlds of Oceania, Britain and the United States in the formative nineteenth century. The eleven essays collected in this volume focus not only on the effect of the two powerful, industrialized colonial powers …
Philosophical Mysticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Häftad, 2020
850 kr
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Through the lens of Hopkins's 'masterwork', The Philosophical Mysticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins readdresses Hopkins's frequently overlooked mysticism as an interior narrative within his corpus. Drawing on a range of religious, literary and visual traditions from Augustine's Confessions to the …
Paraphernalia! Victorian Objects
Av Helen Kingstone, Kate Lister
Häftad, 2020
850 kr
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The Victorian era is famous for the collecting, hording, and displaying of things; for the mass production and consumption of things; for the invention, distribution and sale of things; for those who had things, and those who did not. For many people, the Victorian period is intrinsically …
Records of Girlhood
An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Childhoods
Häftad, 2020
816 kr
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This anthology brings together for the first time a collection of autobiographical accounts of their childhood by a range of prominent nineteenth-century literary women. These are strongly individualised descriptions by women who breached the cultural prohibitions against self writing, especially …
G.W.M. Reynolds Reimagined
Studies in Authorship, Radicalism, and Genre, 1830-1870
Av Jennifer Conary, Mary L. Shannon
Inbunden, 2023
2904 kr
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This essay collection proposes that G.W.M. Reynolds’s contribution to Victorian print culture reveals the interrelations between authorship, genre, and radicalism in popular print culture of the nineteenth century. As a best-selling author of popular fiction marketed to the lower classes, and a …
Model Women of the Press
Gender, Politics and Women’s Professional Journalism, 1850–1880
Inbunden, 2024
2904 kr
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This book offers the first extended account of the mid-century rise of ‘model women of the press’: women who not only stormed the male bastions of social and political journalism but also presented themselves as upholders of the highest standards of professional journalistic practice. They broke …
Women’s Letters as Life Writing 1840–1885
Inbunden, 2019
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Examining letter collections published in the second half of the nineteenth century, Catherine Delafield rereads the life-writing of Frances Burney, Charlotte Brontë, Mary Delany, Catherine Winkworth, Jane Austen and George Eliot, situating these women in their epistolary culture and in relation to …
Victorian Diary
Authorship and Emotional Labour
Häftad, 2019
816 kr
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In her examination of neglected diaristic texts, Anne-Marie Millim expands the field of Victorian diary criticism by complicating the conventional notion of diaries as mainly private sources of biographical information. She argues that for Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, Henry Crabb Robinson, George …
Thackeray in Time
History, Memory, and Modernity
Av Richard Salmon, Alice Crossley
Häftad, 2019
816 kr
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An intense fascination with the experience of time has long been recognised as a distinctive feature of the writing of William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863). This collection of essays, however, represents the first sustained critical examination of Thackeray's 'time consciousness' in all its …
Dog in the Dickensian Imagination
Av Beryl Gray
Häftad, 2019
816 kr
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Fascinated by them, unable to ignore them, and imaginatively stimulated by them, Charles Dickens was an acute and unsentimental reporter on the dogs he kept and encountered during a time when they were a burgeoning part of the nineteenth-century urban and domestic scene. As dogs inhabited Dickens’s …
Dickens, Reynolds, and Mayhew on Wellington Street
The Print Culture of a Victorian Street
Häftad, 2019
816 kr
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A glance over the back pages of mid-nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals published in London reveals that Wellington Street stands out among imprint addresses. Between 1843 and 1853, Household Words, Reynolds’s Weekly Newspaper, the Examiner, Punch, the Athenaeum, the Spectator, the …
Serialization and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines
Häftad, 2019
816 kr
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Examining the Victorian serial as a text in its own right, Catherine Delafield re-reads five novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Dinah Craik and Wilkie Collins by situating them in the context of periodical publication. She traces the roles of the author and editor in the creation and …
Gendering Walter Scott
Sex, Violence and Romantic Period Writing
Häftad, 2019
816 kr
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Employing gender as a unifying critical focus, Caroline Jackson-Houlston draws on the full range of Walter Scott’s novels to propose new links between Scott and Romantic-era authors such as Sophia Lee, Jane Porter, Jane Austen, Sydney Owenson, Elizabeth Hands, Thomas Love Peacock, and Robert Bage. …
Neglected Shelley
Av Alan M. Weinberg, Timothy Webb
Häftad, 2019
816 kr
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New editions and facsimiles of Percy Bysshe Shelley's works are changing the landscape of Shelley studies by making complete compositions and fragments that have received only limited critical attention readily available to scholars. Building on the work begun in Weinberg and Webb's 2009 volume, …
Thomas Hardy's Short Stories
New Perspectives
Av Juliette Berning Schaefer, Siobhan Craft Brownson
Häftad, 2019
816 kr
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Thomas Hardy penned nearly fifty short stories, but in spite of this impressive number, his contributions to the genre have been relatively understudied. Bringing together an international group of scholars, this is the first edited collection devoted solely to Hardy's works of short fiction. The …
