Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
Victorian Humor: A History, A Narrative Theory, and the Experience of Reading
1st Edition
By Glynnis Cox
January 21, 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 ...
Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century: Great Britain and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Laura Monrós-Gaspar, Victoria Puchal-Terol
January 14, 2026
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 ...
Fyodor Dostoevsky: When Beauty Saves the World
1st Edition
By Alberto Castelli
December 08, 2025
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...
Feminist Gothic: Ghost Stories by Victorian Women Writers
1st Edition
By Anne DeLong
December 05, 2025
This examination of thirty-two ghost stories by twenty-one Victorian women writers defines a new genre, feminist Gothic, that utilizes the Gothic structure and its uncanny atmosphere of ambiguity to deploy competing narratives that seek to undermine patriarchy by simultaneously upholding and ...
Robert Browning and the Gothic Imagination
1st Edition
By Justin Gilbert
December 02, 2025
Robert Browning and the Gothic Imagination explores the centrality of familiar motifs associated with Gothic literature in Browning's literary development. The book builds on a series of critical observations about Gothic and Browning, largely from scholarly literature of the last decade, to ...
Margaret Oliphant’s Curative Gothic Literature
1st Edition
By Katerina García-Walsh
November 14, 2025
Prolific Scottish novelist Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897), remembered chiefly for her realist fiction and biting literary criticism of contemporary authors, also wrote nineteen supernatural tales. This monograph offers a comprehensive exploration of Oliphant’s Gothic literature, in the light of her ...
Beyond the Shelley Circle: The Clairmont Family and Its Descendants
1st Edition
By Sharon L. Joffe
July 25, 2025
Beyond the Shelley Circle: The Clairmont Family and Its Descendants will interest Shelley-circle researchers, life-writing scholars, and nineteenth-century historians alike. The Clairmont family’s connection to Mary Shelley began in 1801, when her father William Godwin married Mary Jane Vial. The ...
Doctrine and Difference: The Thematic Scale of Classic American Literature
1st Edition
By Michael J. Colacurcio
May 05, 2025
Doctrine and Difference: The Thematic Scale of Classic American Literature aims to expand and deepen our knowledge into the inquiry of “contextual historicism,” observing writers of the American nineteenth century, and their vastly differing approaches to perceptions such as race, gender, and ...
Oscar Wilde and Nihilism
1st Edition
By Colin Cavendish-Jones
March 13, 2025
Oscar Wilde and Nihilism examines Wilde’s major works in the context of nineteenth-century philosophical nihilism and the Victorian religious unsettlement. The book covers Wilde’s plays, the fairy tales, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the critical writings, and De Profundis to show how Wilde’s ...
Strangers and the Enchantment of Space in Victorian Fiction, 1830–1865
1st Edition
By Kristen Pond
January 30, 2025
Tracing the origins of how we think about strangers to the Victorian period, Strangers and the Enchantment of Space in Victorian Fiction, 1830– 1865 explores the vital role strangers had in shaping social relations during the cultural transformations of the Industrial Revolution, transportation ...
Liberalism, Theology, and the Performative in Antebellum American Literature
1st Edition
By Patrick McDonald
December 18, 2024
The 1850s United States witnessed a far-reaching political, social, and economic crisis. Symptomatic of this, a wide range of narrative fiction from sentimental novels to sensational drama identifies a foundational link between liberal institutions and performative utterances. Auctions, trials, ...
Keats and Scepticism
1st Edition
By Li Ou
November 28, 2024
Keats and Scepticism explores Keats’s affinity with the philosophical tradition of scepticism and reads Keats’s poetry anew in the light of this affinity. It suggests Keats’s links with the origin of scepticism in ancient Greece as recorded in Sextus Empiricus’s Outlines of Scepticism. It also ...