Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
Christian and Lyric Tradition in Victorian Women’s Poetry
1st Edition
By F. Elizabeth Gray
April 23, 2015
Women in the Victorian period were acknowledged to be the "religious sex," but their relationship to the doctrines, practices, and hierarchies of Christianity was both highly circumscribed, which has been well documented, and complexly creative, which has not. Gray visits the importance of the ...
Victorian Servants, Class, and the Politics of Literacy
1st Edition
By Jean Fernandez
April 23, 2015
In this volume, Fernandez brings the under-examined figure of the Victorian servant out of obscurity in order to tell the story of his or her encounter with literacy, as imagined and represented in nineteenth-century fiction, autobiography, pamphlets and diaries. A vast body of writing is uncovered...
Antebellum American Women Writers and the Road: American Mobilities
1st Edition
By Susan L. Roberson
February 27, 2015
A study of American women’s narratives of mobility and travel, this book examines how geographic movement opened up other movements or mobilities for antebellum women at a time of great national expansion. Concerned with issues of personal and national identity, the study demonstrates how women not...
Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era
1st Edition
By Lara Baker Whelan
September 11, 2014
This book demonstrates how representations of the Victorian suburb in mid- to late-nineteenth century British writing occasioned a literary sub-genre unique to this period, one that attempted to reassure readers that the suburb was a place where outsiders could be controlled and where middle-class ...
Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion: 'Our Feverish Contact'
1st Edition
By Allan Conrad Christensen
December 12, 2013
This intriguing book examines the ways contagion - or disease - inform and shape a wide variety of nineteenth century texts and contexts. Christensen dissects the cultural assumptions concerning disease, health, impurity and so on before exploring different perspectives on key themes such as ...