Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
Dickens from Shakespeare, Fuseli and Blake: Imagination and Jealousy in Art and Literature
1st Edition
By Jeremy Tambling
July 06, 2026
Dickens says he concentrates on 'the romantic side of familiar things', and so highlights the visionary, non-realist, uncanny nature of his writing. This book delves into the sources of that through Shakespeare, and Fuseli, the great artist who imagined scenes from Shakespeare and who created the '...
Capital as Literature: Marx Against Himself
1st Edition
By Perry Meisel
April 24, 2026
Studies of Marx, particularly of his masterwork Capital (1867), are as a rule tutelary—they attempt to explain him. Even literary readers of Marx from Raymond Williams to Fredric Jameson seek to secure Marxist tenets by means of Marxian style. ‘Capital’ as Literature: Marx Against Himself departs ...
The Rossetti Legacy: Victorian Poetry, Pre-Raphaelite Art, and the Exploration of Self-Identity
1st Edition
By Charlotte Xiaoqian Cai
April 01, 2026
This groundbreaking study reveals how the Rossetti siblings revolutionized Victorian conceptions of selfhood through a sophisticated dialectic that transcends conventional binaries—matter and spirit, sacred and secular love, strength and vulnerability, divinity and depravity. While their ...
Victorian Humor: A History, A Narrative Theory, and the Experience of Reading
1st Edition
By Glynnis Cox
February 27, 2026
Humor and the novel both belong, in important ways, to the nineteenth century. It is in the nineteenth century that we saw an unprecedented outpouring of novels and short stories, and it was also in the nineteenth century when humor emerged as the dominant term through which the comic was described...
Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Life Writing, and the Victorian Nomad
1st Edition
By Jean Fernandez
February 25, 2026
Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Life Writing, and the Victorian Nomad employs canonical literary texts, and introduces new noncanonical works of fiction and autobiography, to uncover how nineteenth-century fiction and life writing engaged with the figure of the nomad as a problematic phenomenon during ...
Victorian Women’s Travel Writing and the Female-Capitalist Gaze: Narrating Commerce, Craftsmanship, and Nationhood in the Middle East and Asia
1st Edition
By Margaret K. Gray
January 30, 2026
Victorian Women’s Travel Writing and the Female-Capitalist Gaze argues that female travellers both informed and expanded upon Victorian debates surrounding the role of art, and art production, as a nexus of political-economic progress and cultural identity. The book focuses on reading Victorian ...
Fyodor Dostoevsky: When Beauty Saves the World
1st Edition
By Alberto Castelli
January 21, 2026
This volume offers a philosophical and literary exploration of Dostoevsky’s humanism, with a particular focus on his ethical and aesthetic reflections on human nature. Rather than approaching Dostoevsky through the lens of national character or the so-called Russian spirit, this book engages in a ...
Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century: Great Britain and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Laura Monrós-Gaspar, Victoria Puchal Terol
December 28, 2025
Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century is the first book to explore overlooked histories of women who filled the theatrical stages of the nineteenth century, dialoguing with contemporary adaptations, reworkings, and retellings of these histories in Great Britain and beyond. Female ...
John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer
1st Edition
By Anne Longmuir
December 26, 2025
John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer addresses the little-considered personal and literary relationships of John Ruskin and four major Victorian women writers: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Christina Rossetti. Drawing on new archival, primary research, the ...
Ibsen and Degeneration: Familial Decay and the Fall of Civilization
1st Edition
By Henrik Johnsson
December 25, 2025
Henrik Ibsen’s plays were written at a critical juncture in late-19th-century European culture. Appearing at a time when notions of evolution and heredity were commonplace themes in literature and the arts, Ibsenian drama highlights the creative potential offered by contemporary evolutionary ...
James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family
1st Edition
By Rebecca Nesvet
December 25, 2025
James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family is the first monograph focusing on Sweeney Todd and Varney the Vampyre’s creator James Malcolm Rymer (1814–1884). It argues that Rymer wrote his so-called ‘penny bloods’ and ‘dreadfuls’ for and about British urban working families. In the 1840s, ...
Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, 1885-1914: Vampiric Enterprise
1st Edition
By Jane Ford
December 25, 2025
Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, 1885–1914 explores the complex network of metaphors that emerged around late nineteenth-century conceptions of economic self-interest – metaphors that dramatised the predatory, conflictual, and exploitative basis of relations between nations, ...