Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire: The Poetics of Imperial Space
1st Edition
By Jean Fernandez
September 30, 2021
In this pioneering study, Dr. Fernandez explores how the rise of institutional geography in Victorian England impacted imperial fiction’s emergence as a genre characterized by a preoccupation with space and place. This volume argues that the alliance between institutional geography and the British ...
Jane Austen and Altruism
1st Edition
By Magdalen Ki
September 30, 2021
Jane Austen and Altruism identifies a compelling theme, namely, the view that Jane Austen propounds a rigorous, boundary-sensitive model of altruism that counters the human propensity to selfishness and promotes the culture of cooperation. In her days, altruism was commonly known as "benevolence", ...
Decadent Aesthetics and the Acrobat in French Fin de siècle
1st Edition
By Jennifer Forrest
June 30, 2021
In his discussion of clowns in nineteenth-century French painting from Jean-Léon Gérôme’s 1857 La Sortie du bal masqué to Georges Rouault, art historian Francis Haskell wondered why they are so sad. The myth of the sad clown as an allegory for the unappreciated artist found echoes in the work of ...
Dickensian Affects: Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity
1st Edition
By Joshua Gooch
June 30, 2021
In Dickensian Affects: Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity, Joshua Gooch argues that Dickens’s novels offer models of feeling that illuminate the dissensions that accompany life’s precariousness under capitalism. By examining the role of violence, anxiety, surprise, and suspense in Dickens’s ...
Genres and Provenance in the Comedy of W.S. Gilbert: Pipes and Tabors
1st Edition
By Richard Moore
June 30, 2021
In The Progress of Fun W.S. Gilbert was considered, not as a ‘classic Victorian’, but as part of an on-going comedic continuum stretching from Aristophanes to Joe Orton and beyond. Pipes and Tabors continues the story, covering the comedic experience differently by reference to genres. Here – ...
Incorporation, Authorship, and Anglo-American Literature (1815–1918)
1st Edition
By Jasper Schelstraete
June 30, 2021
Incorporation, Authorship, and Anglo-American Literature (1815–1918) is concerned with the new ways in which nineteenth-century authors came to imagine nationhood in response to the emergent global market. It investigates how authors negotiated a largely unregulated global economic space, both ...
Neglected American Women Writers of the Long Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Verena Laschinger, Sirpa Salenius
June 30, 2021
Neglected American Women Writers of the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Verena Laschinger and Sirpa Salenius, is a collection of essays that offer a fresh perspective and original analyses of texts by American women writers of the long nineteenth century. The essays, which are written both by ...
Nineteenth-Century Southern Women Writers: Grace King and Modernism
1st Edition
Edited
By Melissa Heidari, Brigitte Zaugg
June 30, 2021
The essays in this book explore the role of Grace King’s fiction in the movement of American literature from local color and realism to modernism and show that her work exposes a postbellum New Orleans that is fragmented socially, politically, and linguistically. In her introduction, Melissa Walker...
The Nineteenth-Century French Short Story: Masterpieces in Miniature
1st Edition
By Allan Pasco
June 30, 2021
The 19th-Century French Short Story, by eminent scholar, Allan H. Pasco, seeks to offer a more comprehensive view of the definition, capabilities, and aims of short stories. The book examines general instances of the genre specifically in 19th-century France by recognizing their cultural context, ...
Victorian Contagion: Risk and Social Control in the Victorian Literary Imagination
1st Edition
By Chung-jen Chen
June 30, 2021
Victorian Contagion: Risk and Social Control in the Victorian Literary Imagination examines the literary and cultural production of contagion in the Victorian era and the way that production participated in a moral economy of surveillance and control. In this book, I attempt to make sense of how ...
W.S. Gilbert and the Context of Comedy: The Progress of Fun
1st Edition
By Richard Moore
June 30, 2021
To what extent is a great comic writer the product of his time? How far is he (or she) influenced by factors of personal psychology upbringing and environment? To what is the writing actually part of a long continuum in which there is continuity within change and change within continuity? The ...
A Critical Reappraisal of the Writings of Francis Sylvester Mahony
1st Edition
By Fergus Dunne
September 30, 2020
This book resituates Francis Sylvester Mahony in an early nineteenth-century literary-historical context, counteracting the efforts of twentieth-century literary historians to obscure his contribution to the emergence of a distinctive Irish Catholic fiction in English. This volume re-explores his ...