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.
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 ...
Critical Essays on Arthur Morrison and the East End
1st Edition
Edited
By Diana Maltz
January 29, 2024
In 1896, author Arthur Morrison gained notoriety for his bleak and violent A Child of the Jago, a slum novel that captured the desperate struggle to survive among London’s poorest. When a reviewer accused Morrison of exaggerating the depravity of the neighborhood on which the Jago was based, he ...
Re-Reading the Age of Innovation: Victorians, Moderns, and Literary Newness, 1830-1950
1st Edition
Edited
By Louise Kane
January 29, 2024
The period of 1830–1950 was an age of unprecedented innovation. From new inventions and scientific discoveries to reconsiderations of religion, gender, and the human mind, the innovations of this era are recorded in a wide range of literary texts. Rather than separating these texts into Victorian ...
Byronism, Napoleonism, and Nineteenth-Century Realism: Heroes of Their Own Lives?
1st Edition
By Tristan Donal Burke
May 31, 2023
Byronism, Napoleonism and Nineteenth-Century Realism offers a fresh analysis of the nineteenth-century European novel, exploring the cultural images of Byron and Napoleon as they appear in the construction of ‘bourgeois heroism.’ Utilising a unique pan-European perspective, this volume draws ...
Illegitimate Freedom: Informality in Modernist Literature, 1900–1940
1st Edition
By Gaurav Majumdar
May 31, 2023
Illegitimate Freedom: Informality in Modernist Literature, 1900 - 1940 is the first study of informality in modernist literature. Differentiating informality from intimacy in its introduction, the book discusses the informal in relation with sensory experience, aesthetic presentation, ethical ...
Strange Gods: Love and Idolatry in the Victorian Novel
1st Edition
By Timothy L. Carens
May 31, 2023
Despite frequent declarations of the sanctity of love and marriage, British Protestant culture nurtured the fear that human affection might easily slip into idolatry. Throughout the nineteenth-century, theological essays, sermons, hymns, and didactic fiction and poetry urged the faithful to ...
Virginia Woolf’s Unwritten Histories: Conversations with the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
By Anne Besnault
May 31, 2023
Virginia Woolf’s Unwritten Histories explores the interrelatedness of Woolf’s modernism, feminism and her understanding of history as a site of knowledge and a writing practice that enabled her to negotiate her heritage, to find her place among the moderns as a female artist and intellectual, and ...
Writers at War: Exploring the Prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden
1st Edition
By Isabelle Brasme
January 31, 2023
Writers at War addresses the most immediate representations of the First World War in the prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden; it interrogates the various ways in which these writers contended with conveying their war experience from the temporal and spatial ...
Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction: Lived Things
1st Edition
By Laura Oulanne
January 09, 2023
Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction provides a fresh approach to reading material things in modern fiction, accounting for the interplay of the material and the cultural. This volume investigates how Djuna Barnes, Katherine Mansfield, and Jean Rhys use the short story form to evoke the material ...