Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
The Textual Condition of Nineteenth-Century Literature
1st Edition
By Josephine Guy, Ian Small
October 14, 2024
In this important new book, Guy and Small develop a new account of literary creativity in the late nineteenth century, one that combines concepts generated by text-theorists concerning the embodied nature of textuality with the empirical insights of text-editors and book historians. Through these ...
Memory in German Romanticism: Imagination, Image, Reception
1st Edition
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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, ...
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 ...
The Vampire in Nineteenth-Century Literature: A Feast of Blood
1st Edition
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By Brooke Cameron, Lara Karpenko
January 29, 2024
Against the social and economic upheavals that characterized the nineteenth century, the border-bending nosferatu embodied the period’s fears as well as its forbidden desires. This volume looks at both the range among and legacy of vampires in the nineteenth century, including race, culture, social...
The Forgotten Alcott: Essays on the Artistic Legacy and Literary Life of May Alcott Nieriker
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By Azelina Flint, Lauren Hehmeyer
September 25, 2023
This collection is the first academic study of the captivating life and career of expatriate artist, writer, and activist, May Alcott Nieriker. Nieriker is known as the sister of Louisa May Alcott and model for "Amy March" in Alcott’s Little Women. As this book reveals, she was much more than "Amy"...
Nineteenth-Century Visions of Race: British Travel Writing about America
1st Edition
By Justyna Fruzińska
May 31, 2023
Nineteenth-Century Visions of Race: British Travel Writing about America concerns the depiction of racial Others in travel writing produced by British travelers coming to America between 1815 and 1861.The travelers’ discussions of slavery and of the situation of Native Americans constituted an ...
Touch, Sexuality, and Hands in British Literature, 1740–1901
1st Edition
By Kimberly Cox
May 31, 2023
From Robert Lovelace’s uninvited hand-grasps in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa to to Basil Hallward’s first encounter with Dorian Gray, literary depictions of touching hands in British literature from the 1740s to the 1890s communicate emotional dimensions of sexual experience that reflect shifting ...
Doctrine and Difference: Readings in Classic American Literature
1st Edition
By Michael J. Colacurcio
January 09, 2023
Doctrine and Difference: Readings in Classic American Literature aims to expand and deepen the inquiry begun in the volume from 2007. Beginning with an essay on the avowedly Puritan poetry of Anne Bradstreet and ending with two not-quite-secular novels from late in the 19th century, this volume ...