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.
The Politics of Intermedial Modernisms
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah Jensen, Elicia Clements
July 27, 2026
The Politics of Intermedial Modernism challenges current conceptions of both modernist and intermedial studies by investigating the media practices of marginalized artists and networks in and beyond the time period (c. 1890 to 1950). This edited collection of essays asks three key questions: How ...
Edward Lear as Victorian Modernist: The Illustrated Limericks
1st Edition
By Thomas Dilworth
March 24, 2026
Edward Lear as Victorian Modernist offers a bold new reading of Lear’s limericks as foundational works of literary modernism. Far from being mere nonsense for children, Lear’s picture-limericks—each a fusion of image and verse—operate as bi-modal metaphors that generate meaning through ...
Love, Despair, and Modernism in Literature
1st Edition
By Alberto Castelli
March 04, 2026
This groundbreaking volume challenges conventional scholarship by illuminating a critical blind spot in modernist studies: the persistent yet transformed presence of love. While academia has exhaustively examined modernism through lenses of nihilism, disillusionment, and existential silence, the ...
Woolf, Bergson and the Sciences: Modernist Animals
1st Edition
By Candice Kent
February 25, 2026
Woolf, Bergson, and the Sciences explores the use of animals in Woolf’s novels, alongside the writing of philosopher, Henri Bergson, and relevant science and nature writers. Since Woolf and Bergson are both deeply engaged with the science of their time, they are read in the context of writings by a...
Victorians and Videogames
1st Edition
Edited
By Lin Young, Brooke Cameron
October 29, 2025
Victorians and Videogames will examine how games interact with nineteenth-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 ...
Uncanny Fairy Tales: Hybrid Wonders in the Mirror
1st Edition
By Francesca Arnavas
October 26, 2025
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 ...
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 ...