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.
G.W.M. Reynolds: Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Politics, and the Press
1st Edition
Edited
By Louis James, Anne Humpherys
December 13, 2019
G.W.M. Reynolds (1814-1879) had a major impact on the mid-Victorian era that until now has been largely unacknowledged. A prolific novelist whose work had a massive circulation, and an influential journalist and editor, he was a man of contradictions in both his life and writing: a middle-class ...
Robert Bloomfield, Romanticism and the Poetry of Community
1st Edition
By Simon J. White
December 13, 2019
Robert Bloomfield, whom John Clare described as 'the most original poet of the age,' was a widely read and critically acclaimed poet throughout the first decade of the nineteenth century, and remained popular until the beginning of the twentieth century. Yet until now, no modern critic has ...
The Scriptures of Charles Dickens: Novels of Ideology, Novels of the Self
1st Edition
By Vincent Newey
December 13, 2019
This study focuses on Dickens's response to questions of identity, conduct, and social organization that emerged in an era of major cultural unsettlement and change, not least with the decline of religious certainty and the rise of materialism. An analysis of A Christmas Carol as a paradigm of his ...
A.C. Swinburne: A Poet's Life
1st Edition
By Ricky Rooksby
December 12, 2019
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was one of the literary sensations of the Victorian period. His iconoclastic poetry and prose challenged attitudes to sex, politics, religion and censorship. Not only writing some of the most original lyric poetry of the time and pioneering criticism, ...
Byron�s Poetic Experimentation: Childe Harold, the Tales and the Quest for Comedy
1st Edition
By Alan Rawes
December 12, 2019
In this study, the author examines the evolution of Byron's poetry from Childe Harold I and II through to the composition of Beppo. Beginning with a close reading of the sustained poetic experimentation that constitutes Childe Harold I and II, he charts the progress of that ...
Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words: The Social Life of Goods
1st Edition
By Catherine Waters
December 12, 2019
In 1850, Charles Dickens founded Household Words, a weekly miscellany intended to instruct and entertain an ever-widening middle-class readership. Published in the decade following the Great Exhibition of 1851, the journal appeared at a key moment in the emergence of commodity culture in Victorian ...
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Late Victorian Sonnet Sequence: Sexuality, Belief and the Self
1st Edition
By John Holmes
December 12, 2019
In 1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti published the first version of his sonnet sequence The House of Life. The next thirty years saw the greatest flourishing of the sonnet sequence since the 1590s. John Holmes's carefully researched and eloquent study illuminates how leading sonneteers, including the ...
Dickens, Reynolds, and Mayhew on Wellington Street: The Print Culture of a Victorian Street
1st Edition
By Mary L. Shannon
December 12, 2019
A glance over the back pages of mid-nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals published in London reveals that Wellington Street stands out among imprint addresses. Between 1843 and 1853, Household Words, Reynolds’s Weekly Newspaper, the Examiner, Punch, the Athenaeum, the Spectator, the ...
Dickens�s �Young Men�: George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates and the World of Victorian Journalism
1st Edition
By P.D. Edwards
December 12, 2019
In Dickens's lifetime, and for a generation or so after, Edmund Hodgson Yates and George Augustus Sala were the best known and most successful of his "young men" - the budding writers who acknowledged him as their guide and mentor and whose literary careers the publicity and privately fostered. ...
Divining Desire: Tennyson and the Poetics of Transcendence
1st Edition
By James W. Hood
December 12, 2019
This study examines Tennyson's portrayals of the erotic and creative impulses, reading the poet's ubiquitous lover-artists as tropes that figure the desire for transcending the state of being human, a condition of personal fragmentation and limited knowledge. Ostensibly seeking to fulfill erotic ...
Ecstatic Sound': Music and Individuality in the Work of Thomas Hardy
1st Edition
By John Hughes
December 12, 2019
This book studies the ways Hardy writes about music, and argues that this focus allows for a close and varied investigation of the affective dimensions of his poetry and fiction, and his recurrent preoccupations with time, community and love. Throughout his work Hardy associates music with moments...
Eleanor Marx (1855�1898): Life, Work, Contacts
1st Edition
Edited
By John Stokes
December 12, 2019
Karl Marx's youngest daughter Eleanor (1855-98) is one of the most significant figures in the cultural politics of the late nineteenth century. As a feminist and radical socialist she never flinched from confrontation; as an aspiring actress, working journalist and literary translator she advanced ...