Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
The Unknown Relatives: The Catholic as the Other in the Victorian Novel
1st Edition
By Monika Mazurek
December 10, 2019
The Unknown Relatives analyses a large body of Victorian literary texts dealing with the topic of Catholicism and Catholics, written from the non-Catholic perspective. The readings of these texts are inspired by psychoanalytic criticism, primarily by the work of Freud and Kristeva. Kristeva’s work ...
Three Traveling Women Writers: Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Brazil, Patagonia, and the U.S from the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
By Natália Fontes de Oliveira
December 10, 2019
This book presents an alternative framework for reading nineteenth century women’s travel narratives by challenging the traditional paradigms which often limit women’s space in print culture. For the first time, through a comparative lens, a Latin American woman’s travel narrative is analyzed ...
Transatlantic Literature and Transitivity, 1780-1850: Subjects, Texts, and Print Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Annika Bautz, Kathryn Gray
December 10, 2019
This book makes an important contribution to transatlantic literary studies and an emerging body of work on identity formation and print culture in the Atlantic world. The collection identifies the ways in which historically-situated but malleable subjectivities engage with popular and pressing ...
Traumatic Tales: British Nationhood and National Trauma in Nineteenth-Century Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Lisa Kasmer
December 10, 2019
Traumatic Tales: British Nationhood and National Trauma in Nineteenth-Century Literature explores intersections of nationalism and trauma in Romantic and Victorian literature from the emergence of British nationalism through the height of the British Empire. From the national tales of the early ...
Vision and Character: Physiognomics and the English Realist Novel
1st Edition
By Eike Kronshage
December 10, 2019
As readers, we develop an impression of characters and their settings in a novel based on the author’s description of their physical characteristics and surroundings. This process, known as physiognomy, can be seen throughout history including in the English Realist novels of the 19th and 20th ...
Walt Whitman and British Socialism: �The Love of Comrades�
1st Edition
By Kirsten Harris
December 10, 2019
This is the first sustained examination of Walt Whitman’s influence on British socialism. Harris combines a contextual historical study of Whitman’s reception with focused close readings of a variety of poems, books, articles, letters and speeches. She calls attention to Whitman’s own demand for ...
Walter Scott's Books: Reading the Waverley Novels
1st Edition
By J.H. Alexander
December 10, 2019
Scott's Books is an approachable introduction to the Waverley Novels. Drawing on substantial research in Scott's intertextual sources, it offers a fresh approach to the existing readings where the thematic and theoretical are the norm. Avoiding jargon, and moving briskly, it tackles the vexed ...
Mark X: Who Killed Huck Finn’s Father?
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By Yasuhiro Takeuchi
February 28, 2019
In the summer of 1876, Mark Twain started to write Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a detective novel surrounding the murder of Huck’s father, Pap Finn. The case is unresolved in the novel as it exists today, but Twain had already planted the clue to the identity of the killer. It is not the ...
Dirt in Victorian Literature and Culture: Writing Materiality
1st Edition
By Sabine Schülting
January 17, 2019
Addressing the Victorian obsession with the sordid materiality of modern life, this book studies dirt in nineteenth-century English literature and the Victorian cultural imagination. Dirt litters Victorian writing – industrial novels, literature about the city, slum fiction, bluebooks, and the ...
A Female Poetics of Empire: From Eliot to Woolf
1st Edition
By Julia Kuehn
August 23, 2018
Many well-known male writers produced fictions about colonial spaces and discussed the advantages of realism over romance, and vice versa, in the ‘art of fiction’ debate of the 1880s; but how did female writers contribute to colonial fiction? This volume links fictional, non-fictional and ...
Narrative Hospitality in Late Victorian Fiction: Novel Ethics
1st Edition
By Rachel Hollander
May 24, 2017
Bringing together poststructuralist ethical theory with late Victorian debates about the morality of literature, this book reconsiders the ways in which novels engender an ethical orientation or response in their readers, explaining how the intersections of nation, family, and form in the late ...
Dickens’ Novels as Poetry: Allegory and Literature of the City
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By Jeremy Tambling
April 27, 2017
Focusing on the language, style, and poetry of Dickens’ novels, this study breaks new ground in reading Dickens’ novels as a unique form of poetry. Dickens’ writing disallows the statement of single unambiguous truths and shows unconscious processes burrowing within language, disrupting received ...