The Nineteenth Century Series: The Nineteenth Century Series
About the Book Series
The Nineteenth Century Series aims to develop and promote new approaches and fresh directions in scholarship and criticism on nineteenth-century literature and culture. The series encourages work which erodes the traditional boundary between Romantic and Victorian studies and welcomes interdisciplinary approaches to the literary, religious, scientific and visual cultures of the period. While British literature and culture are the core subject matter of monographs and collections in the series, the editors encourage proposals which explore the wider, international contexts of nineteenth-century literature – transatlantic, European and global. Print culture, including studies in the newspaper and periodical press, book history, life writing and gender studies are particular strengths of this established series as are high quality single author studies. The series also embraces research in the field of digital humanities. The editors invite proposals from both younger and established scholars in all areas of nineteenth-century literary studies.
Model Women of the Press: Gender, Politics and Women’s Professional Journalism, 1850–1880
1st Edition
By Teja Varma Pusapati
June 27, 2025
This book offers the first extended account of the mid-century rise of ‘model women of the press’: women who not only stormed the male bastions of social and political journalism but also presented themselves as upholders of the highest standards of professional journalistic practice. They broke ...
Lecturing Women in British Fiction, Periodicals and Public Orality, 1870–1910: The First Speech
1st Edition
By Anne-Julia Zwierlein
March 31, 2025
This book examines the emergence of women as audiences and speakers on the British metropolitan lecture circuit and in mass print representations from 1870 to 1910. Bringing together research on Victorian lecturing, periodicals, voice studies and the cultural history of feminism, it sheds new light...
Women’s Writing and Mission in the Nineteenth Century: Jane Eyre’s Missionary Sisters
1st Edition
By Angharad Eyre
May 27, 2024
Until now, the missionary plot in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre has been seen as marginal and anomalous. Despite women missionaries being ubiquitous in the nineteenth century, they appeared to be absent from nineteenth-century literature. As this book demonstrates, though, the female missionary ...
Writing for Social Change in Temperance Periodicals: Conviction and Career
1st Edition
By Annemarie McAllister
May 27, 2024
This book suggests alternative ways of looking at what made a writer, what people gained from writing, and explores the alternative world of temperance periodicals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It introduces some of the now-forgotten writers who, in their thousands, kept the ...
Dickens and the Bible: 'What Providence Meant'
1st Edition
By Jennifer Gribble
May 31, 2023
At a time when biblical authority was under challenge from the Higher Criticism and evolutionary science, ‘what providence meant’ was the most keenly contested of questions. This book takes up the controversial subject of Dickens and religion, and offers a significant contribution to the ...
Gender, Writing, Spectatorships: Evenings at the Theatre, Opera, and Silent Screen in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy and Beyond
1st Edition
By Katharine Mitchell
May 31, 2023
This original study makes a valuable contribution to Italian feminist/women’s history, spectatorship studies, and cultural history by examining women as protagonists, producers and consumers of literature, theatre, opera and film. Drawing on archival material – female correspondence, life-writings ...
Reading Transatlantic Girlhood in the Long Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Robin L. Cadwallader, LuElla D’Amico
May 31, 2023
This collection is the first of its kind to interrogate both literal and metaphorical transatlantic exchanges of culture and ideas in nineteenth-century girls’ fiction. As such, it initiates conversations about how the motif of travel in literature taught nineteenth-century girl audiences to ...
G.W.M. Reynolds Reimagined: Studies in Authorship, Radicalism, and Genre, 1830-1870
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By Jennifer Conary, Mary L. Shannon
April 21, 2023
This essay collection proposes that G.W.M. Reynolds’s contribution to Victorian print culture reveals the interrelations between authorship, genre, and radicalism in popular print culture of the nineteenth century. As a best-selling author of popular fiction marketed to the lower classes, and a ...
Antipodean George Eliot
1st Edition
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By Margaret Harris, Matthew Sussman
December 21, 2022
In Middlemarch, George Eliot famously warns readers not to see themselves as the centre of their own world, which produces a ‘flattering illusion of concentric arrangement’. The scholarly contributors to Antipodean George Eliot resist this form of centrism. Hailing from four continents and six ...
Edward Lloyd and His World: Popular Fiction, Politics and the Press in Victorian Britain
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah Louise Lill, Rohan McWilliam
December 13, 2021
The publisher Edward Lloyd (1815-1890) helped shape Victorian popular culture in ways that have left a legacy that lasts right up to today. He was a major pioneer of both popular fiction and journalism but has never received extended scholarly investigation until now. Lloyd shaped the modern ...
Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines
1st Edition
By Bernard Lightman, Bennett Zon
December 13, 2021
Current studies in disciplinarity range widely across philosophical and literary contexts, producing heated debate and entrenched divergences. Yet, despite their manifest significance for us today seldom have those studies engaged with the Victorian origins of modern disciplinarity. Victorian ...
Women’s Letters as Life Writing 1840–1885
1st Edition
By Catherine Delafield
December 13, 2021
Examining letter collections published in the second half of the nineteenth century, Catherine Delafield rereads the life-writing of Frances Burney, Charlotte Brontë, Mary Delany, Catherine Winkworth, Jane Austen and George Eliot, situating these women in their epistolary culture and in relation to...