Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
Robert Seymour and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture: Sketches by Seymour and Comic Illustration
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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
Edited
By Kevin A. 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 ...
Jane Austen and Literary Theory
1st Edition
By Shawn Normandin
September 26, 2022
Jane Austen was one of the most adventurous thinkers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, but one would probably never guess that by reading her critics. Perhaps no canonical author in English literature has proven, until now, more resistant to theory. Tracing the political ...
The Nineteenth Century Revis(it)ed: The New Historical Fiction
1st Edition
By Ina Bergmann
August 01, 2022
The Nineteenth Century Revis(it)ed: The New Historical Fiction explores the renaissance of the American historical novel at the turn of the twenty-first century. The study examines the revision of nineteenth-century historical events in cultural products against the background of recent theoretical...
The Bohemian Republic: Transnational Literary Networks in the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
By James Gatheral
May 30, 2022
In the mid-nineteenth century successive cultural Bohemias were proclaimed in Paris, London, New York, and Melbourne. Focusing on networks and borders as the central modes of analysis, this book charts for the first time Bohemia’s cross-Channel, transatlantic, and trans-Pacific migrations, locating...
“Music Makers” and World Creators: The Forms And Functions Of Embedded Poems In British Fantasy Narratives
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By Michaela Hausmann
May 09, 2022
Many works of fantasy literature feature a considerable number of embedded poems, some written by the authors themselves, some borrowed and transformed from other authors. Exploring the mechanisms of this mix and the interaction between individual poems and the overall narrative, this monograph ...
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Aging in Nineteenth-Century Culture
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By Anne-Julia Zwierlein, Katharina Boehm, Anna Farkas
December 13, 2021
This essay collection develops new perspectives on constructions of old age in literary, legal, scientific and periodical cultures of the nineteenth century. Rigorously interdisciplinary, the book places leading researchers of old age in nineteenth-century literature in dialogue with experts from ...
Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture: Immersions and Revisitations
1st Edition
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By Nadine Boehm-Schnitker, Susanne Gruss
December 13, 2021
This book provides a comprehensive reflection of the processes of canonization, (un)pleasurable consumption and the emerging predominance of topics and theoretical concerns in neo-Victorianism. The repetitions and reiterations of the Victorian in contemporary culture document an unbroken ...
Science and Religion in Neo-Victorian Novels: Eye of the Ichthyosaur
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By John Glendening
December 13, 2021
Criticism about the neo-Victorian novel — a genre of historical fiction that re-imagines aspects of the Victorian world from present-day perspectives — has expanded rapidly in the last fifteen years but given little attention to the engagement between science and religion. Of great interest to ...