Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
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 ...
Prepossessing Henry James: The Strange Freedom
1st Edition
By Julián Jiménez Heffernan
November 28, 2024
The novels of Henry James are filled with ghosts, but most of them escape dramatic treatment. These elusive specters are the voices of precursors that haunt his narratives, compromising their constitutive freedom. The Strange Freedom is an examination of the ways James’s fiction is prepossessed by ...
Memory in German Romanticism: Imagination, Image, Reception
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher R. Clason, Joseph D. Rockelmann, Christina M. Weiler
October 07, 2024
Memory in German Romanticism treats memory as a core element in the production and reception of German art and literature of the Romantic era. The contributors explore the artistic expression of memory under the categories of imagination, image, and reception. Romantic literary aesthetics raises ...
Political Prayer in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Petitioning Women
1st Edition
By Amy Dunham Strand
September 30, 2024
Political Prayer in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how American women writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Emily Dickinson translated petitioning – a political form for redress of grievances with religious resonance, or ...
Reading the Romantic Ridiculous
1st Edition
By Andrew McInnes, Rita J. Dashwood
September 02, 2024
Reading The Romantic Ridiculous aims to take Romantic Studies from the sublime to the ridiculous. Building on recent work that decentres the myth of the solitary genius, this duograph theorises the ridiculous as an alternative affect to the sublime, privileging collective laughter above solitude ...
The Significance of Fabrics in the Writings of Elizabeth Gaskell: Material Evidence
1st Edition
By Amanda Ford
August 26, 2024
Elizabeth Gaskell’s writings abound in references to a cultural materiality encompassing different types of fabric, stuffs, calicoes, chintzes and fine-point lace. These are not merely the motifs of the Realist genre but reveal a complex polysemy. Utilizing a metonymic examination of these tropes, ...
Ibsen and Degeneration: Familial Decay and the Fall of Civilization
1st Edition
By Henrik Johnsson
August 21, 2024
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 ...
John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer
1st Edition
By Anne Longmuir
August 15, 2024
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 ...
Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, 1885-1914: Vampiric Enterprise
1st Edition
By Jane Ford
August 01, 2024
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, ...
James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family
1st Edition
By Rebecca Nesvet
July 30, 2024
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, ...
Jane Austen and the Ethics of Description
1st Edition
By Brett Bourbon
May 27, 2024
Jane Austen and the Ethics of Description demonstrates that Elizabeth Bennet and her creator are misunderstood, and often unrecognized, geniuses of moral philosophy, but not simply because of their virtue or wit or natural skills in game theory. The engine driving the moral judgement and growth of ...
Wilkie Collins: The Complete Fiction
1st Edition
By Stephen Knight
May 27, 2024
This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the complete works of Wilkie Collins’s. Examining his vast array of novels and short stories, this volume includes analysis of the social, historical, and political commentary Collins offered within his works, illuminating Collins as more than ...