Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Voice of the People
1st Edition
By Stephen Knight
May 07, 2024
English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century discusses the valuable fiction written in mid-nineteenth-century Britain which represents the situations of the new breed of industrial workers, both the mostly male factory workers who operated in the oppressive mills of the midlands and ...
The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels: Dickens, Braddon, and Collins
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By Sarah Yoon
April 02, 2024
The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels studies how the detective as a literary character evolved through the mid-nineteenth century in England, as seen in sensation novels. In contrast to most assumptions about the English detective, Yoon argues that the detective was more often ...
The Vampire in Nineteenth-Century Literature: A Feast of Blood
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...
Robert Seymour and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture: Sketches by Seymour and Comic Illustration
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By Brian Maidment
January 09, 2023
Robert Seymour and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture is the first book-length study of the original illustrator of Dickens’s Pickwick Papers. Discussion of the range and importance of Seymour’s work as a jobbing illustrator in the 1820s and 1830s is at the centre of the book. A bibliographical study...
The Matrilineal Heritage of Louisa May Alcott and Christina Rossetti
1st Edition
By Azelina Flint
January 09, 2023
In an unprecedented comparison of two of the most important female authors of the nineteenth century, Azelina Flint foregrounds the influence of the religious communities that shaped Louisa May Alcott’s and Christina Rossetti’s visions of female creativity. In the early stages of the authors’ ...
The Nineteenth Century Periodical Press and the Development of Detective Fiction
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By Samuel Saunders
January 09, 2023
This book re-imagines nineteenth-century detective fiction as a literary genre that was connected to, and nurtured by, contemporary periodical journalism. Whilst ‘detective fiction’ is almost universally-accepted to have originated in the nineteenth century, a variety of widely-accepted scholarly ...
Victorian Pets and Poetry
1st Edition
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By Kevin Morrison
January 09, 2023
Some of the most celebrated poets of the Victorian era wrote—at times movingly or humorously—about their pets. They did so in a wider literary context, for poetry about pets was ubiquitous in the period. Animal welfare organizations utilized poems about canine and feline suffering in institutional ...
Cultures and Literatures in Dialogue: The Narrative Construction of Russian Cultural Memory
1st Edition
By Elena Bollinger
December 30, 2022
This book addresses the narrative construction of Russian cultural memory in the work of Julian Barnes. It investigates how Barnes's texts tend to display a memory process as a transcultural mode of the creation of English and Russian national identities. Examining a need to revisit Russian ...