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.
Literary Experiments in Magazine Publishing: Beyond Serialization
1st Edition
By Thomas Lloyd Vranken
June 30, 2021
As the nineteenth century came to an end, a number of voices within the British and American magazine industries pushed back against serialisation as the dominant publication mode, experimenting instead with less conventional magazine formats. This book explores these formats, focusing (in ...
Science, Language, and Reform in Victorian Poetry: Political Dialects
1st Edition
By Barbara Barrow
June 30, 2021
Barrow’s timely book is the first to examine the link between Victorian poetry, the study of language, and political reform. Focusing on a range of literary, scientific, and political texts, Barrow demonstrates that nineteenth-century debates about language played a key role in shaping emergent ...
George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country
1st Edition
By Michael Davis
March 31, 2021
In his study of Eliot as a psychological novelist, Michael Davis examines Eliot's writings in the context of a large volume of nineteenth-century scientific writing about the mind. Eliot, Davis argues, manipulated scientific language in often subversive ways to propose a vision of mind as both ...
Male Adolescence in Mid-Victorian Fiction: George Meredith, W. M. Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope
1st Edition
By Alice Crossley
September 30, 2020
Focusing on works by George Meredith, W. M. Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope, Alice Crossley examines the emergence of adolescence in the mid-Victorian period as a distinct form of experience. Adolescence, Crossley shows, appears as a discrete category of identity that draws on but is nonetheless ...
Paraphernalia! Victorian Objects
1st Edition
Edited
By Helen Kingstone, Kate Lister
September 30, 2020
The Victorian era is famous for the collecting, hording, and displaying of things; for the mass production and consumption of things; for the invention, distribution and sale of things; for those who had things, and those who did not. For many people, the Victorian period is intrinsically ...
Records of Girlhood: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Childhoods
1st Edition
Edited
By Valerie Sanders
September 30, 2020
This anthology brings together for the first time a collection of autobiographical accounts of their childhood by a range of prominent nineteenth-century literary women. These are strongly individualised descriptions by women who breached the cultural prohibitions against self writing, especially ...
South Seas Encounters: Nineteenth-Century Oceania, Britain, and America
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Fulton, Peter Hoffenberg, Stephen Hancock, Allison Paynter
September 30, 2020
South Seas Encounters examines several key types of encounters between the many-faceted worlds of Oceania, Britain and the United States in the formative nineteenth century. The eleven essays collected in this volume focus not only on the effect of the two powerful, industrialized colonial powers ...
The Philosophical Mysticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins
1st Edition
By Aakanksha Virkar Yates
September 30, 2020
Through the lens of Hopkins's 'masterwork', The Philosophical Mysticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins readdresses Hopkins's frequently overlooked mysticism as an interior narrative within his corpus. Drawing on a range of religious, literary and visual traditions from Augustine's Confessions to the ...
Wordsworth and Evolution in Victorian Literature: Entangled Influence
1st Edition
By Trenton B. Olsen
September 30, 2020
The influences of William Wordsworth’s writing and evolutionary theory—the nineteenth century’s two defining visions of nature—conflicted in the Victorian period. For Victorians, Wordsworthian nature was a caring source of inspiration and moral guidance, signaling humanity's divine origins and ...
Arthur Conan Doyle and the Meaning of Masculinity
1st Edition
By Diana Barsham
December 16, 2019
A valued icon of British manhood, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has been the subject of numerous biographies since his death in 1930. All his biographers have drawn heavily on his own autobiography, Memories & Adventures, a collection of stories and anecdotes themed on the subject of masculinity and its ...
Gerard Manley Hopkins and Tractarian Poetry
1st Edition
By Margaret Johnson
December 16, 2019
Gerard Manley Hopkins and Tractarian Poetry for the first time locates Hopkins and his work within the vital aesthetic and religious cultures of his youth. It introduces some of the most powerful cultural influences on his poetry as well as some of the most influential poets, from the well-known ...
Thomas Hardy's Novel Universe: Astronomy, Cosmology, and Gender in the Post-Darwinian World
1st Edition
By Pamela Gossin
December 16, 2019
In this, the first book-length study of astronomy in Hardy's writing, historian of science and literary scholar Pamela Gossin brings the analytical tools of both disciplines to bear as she offers unexpected and sophisticated readings of seven novels that enrich Darwinian and feminist perspectives ...