Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture: Animality, Queer Relations, and the Victorian Family
1st Edition
By Monica Flegel
December 10, 2019
Addressing the significance of the pet in the Victorian period, this book examines the role played by the domestic pet in delineating relations for each member of the "natural" family home. Flegel explores the pet in relation to the couple at the head of the house, to the children who make up the ...
Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in Literature
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By Duc Dau, Shale Preston
December 10, 2019
The Victorians elevated the home and heteronormative family life to an almost secular religion. Yet alongside the middle-class domestic ideal were other families, many of which existed in the literature of the time. Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in Literature is chiefly concerned with...
Questions of Authority: Italian and Australian Travel Narratives of the Long Nineteenth Century
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By Laura Olcelli
December 10, 2019
Questions of Authority investigates Italian–Australian literary travel exchanges throughout the long nineteenth century. The 1800s witnessed major transformations in Australian overseas travel: it gradually evolved from a replica of the Continental Grand Tour of the British, to a more idiosyncratic...
Saving the World: Girlhood and Evangelicalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature
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By Allison Giffen, Robin Cadwallader
December 10, 2019
This book makes a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of childhood studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture by drawing on the intersecting fields of girlhood, evangelicalism, and reform to investigate texts written in North America about girls, for girls, and by girls. ...
The Alice Books and the Contested Ground of the Natural World
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By Laura White
December 10, 2019
Though popular opinion would have us see Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There as whimsical, nonsensical, and thoroughly enjoyable stories told mostly for children; contemporary research has shown us there is a vastly greater depth to the stories ...
The Unknown Relatives: The Catholic as the Other in the Victorian Novel
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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�
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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
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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 ...