Among the Victorians and Modernists: Among the Victorians and Modernists
About the Book Series
This series publishes monographs and essay collections on literature, art, and culture in the context of the diverse aesthetic, political, social, technological, and scientific innovations that arose among the Victorians and Modernists. Viable topics include, but are not limited to, artistic and cultural debates and movements; influential figures and communities; and agitations and developments regarding subjects such as animals, commodification, decadence, degeneracy, democracy, desire, ecology, gender, nationalism, the paranormal, performance, public art, sex, socialism, spiritualities, transnationalism, and the urban. Studies that address continuities between the Victorians and Modernists are welcome. Work on recent responses to the periods such as NeoVictorian novels, graphic novels, and film will also be considered.
Victorians and Videogames
1st Edition
Edited
By Brooke Cameron, Lin Young
October 30, 2025
Victorians and Videogames will examine how games interact with 19th Century genres, aesthetics, and literary themes as a means of engaging, critiquing, or challenging their original contexts. In essence, this collection will consider the ways in which embodied, user-driven storytelling can impact ...
Form and Modernity in Women’s Poetry, 1895–1922: A Line of Her Own
1st Edition
By Sarah Parker
June 26, 2025
While W. B. Yeats’s influential account of the ‘Tragic Generation’ claims that most fin-de-siècle poets died, or at least stopped writing, shortly after 1900, this book explodes this narrative by attending to the twentieth-century poetry produced by women poets Alice Meynell, Michael Field (...
Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience: Late Victorian Speculative Fiction
1st Edition
By Michael Kramp
June 26, 2025
Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience explores the disturbing sustainability of White male supremacy. Kramp traces an imaginative failure and an imaginative success; his focus on British speculative fiction published between 1870 and 1900 demonstrates how even this elastic and wildly inventive literary ...
The Novelist in the Novel: Gender and Genius in Fictional Representations of Authorship, 1850–1949
1st Edition
By Elizabeth King
May 05, 2025
Why do writers so often write about writers? This book offers the first comprehensive account of the phenomenon of the fictional novelist as a character in literature, arguing that our notions of literary genius – and what it means to be an author – are implicitly shaped by and explicitly ...
Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel: Senses and Sensations
1st Edition
By Nadine Böhm-Schnitker
April 13, 2025
Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel: Senses and Sensations establishes a new analytical method in the broader context of sensory studies in order to explain how the genre of the novel can impact on our perception of ourselves and our social contexts. Taking cultural literary studies ahead,...
Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England: The ‘Black Ghost’ of Bermondsey
1st Edition
By Anna Kay
December 19, 2024
Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England seeks to provide a comprehensive examination of the notorious Mannings' ‘Bermondsey murder’, and its wider implications in Victorian criminal narrative and popular culture. Exploring the ongoing textual afterlife of Maria Manning, including significant...
The Maternal Image of God in Victorian Literature
1st Edition
By Rebecca Styler
November 28, 2024
This book is the study of a religious metaphor: the idea of God as a mother, in British and US literature 1850–1915. It uncovers a tradition of writers for whom divine motherhood embodied ideals felt to be missing from the orthodox masculine deity. Elizabeth Gaskell, Josephine Butler, George ...
George Egerton: Terra Incognitas
1st Edition
Edited
By Isobel Sigley, Whitney Standlee
November 26, 2024
George Egerton: Terra Incognitas is the first published work to focus solely on Egerton and her literary legacy. It covers the range and extent of Egerton's life and literary career from her emergence into the milieu of London publishing in 1893 to her dramatic works (both original and in ...
Hotel Modernisms
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Despotopoulou, Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Efterpi Mitsi
October 08, 2024
This collection of essays explores the hotel as a site of modernity, a space of mobility and transience that shaped the transnational and transcultural modernist activity of the first half of the twentieth century. As a trope for social and cultural mobility, transitory and precarious modes of ...
Legal Narratives in Victorian Fiction
1st Edition
By Joanne Bridget Simpson
October 08, 2024
The law holds up a mirror to society and reflects that society and its ongoing preoccupations. This book establishes legal interpretation as a mode of literary interpretation, contextualising the opinions and sociological background of literature within the context of the law of its period and ...
A Space of Their Own: Women, Writing and Place 1850-1950
1st Edition
Edited
By Katie Baker, Naomi Walker
October 07, 2024
This collection explores how nineteenth and twentieth-century women writers incorporated the idea of ‘place’ into their writing. Whether writing from a specific location or focusing upon a particular geographical or imaginary place, women writers working between 1850 and 1950 valued ‘a space of ...
Uncanny Fairy Tales: Hybrid Wonders in the Mirror
1st Edition
By Francesca Arnavas
May 31, 2024
There are fairy tales that surprise, destabilise, or even shock us: these are uncanny fairy tales that manipulate familiar stories in creative and bewildering ways in order to express new meanings. This work analyses these tales, basing its approach on a reformulation of Freud’s concept of the ...