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.
Ella Hepworth Dixon: The Story of a Modern Woman
1st Edition
By Valerie Fehlbaum
December 12, 2019
In a career that spanned over forty years, Ella Hepworth Dixon (1857-1932) was alternately journalist, critic, essayist, short story writer, novelist, editor of a women's magazine, dramatist, and autobiographer. After an initial popularity, however, Ella Hepworth Dixon's work, like that of the ...
Fellow Romantics: Male and Female British Writers, 1790�1835
1st Edition
Edited
By Beth Lau
December 12, 2019
Beginning with the premise that men and women of the Romantic period were lively interlocutors who participated in many of the same literary traditions and experiments, Fellow Romantics offers an inspired counterpoint to studies of Romantic-era women writers that stress their differences from their...
First-Person Anonymous: Women Writers and Victorian Print Media, 1830�1870
1st Edition
By Alexis Easley
December 12, 2019
First-Person Anonymous revises previous histories of Victorian women's writing by examining the importance of both anonymous periodical journalism and signed book authorship in women’s literary careers. Alexis Easley demonstrates how women writers capitalized on the publishing conventions ...
Gendering Walter Scott: Sex, Violence and Romantic Period Writing
1st Edition
By C.M. Jackson-Houlston
December 12, 2019
Employing gender as a unifying critical focus, Caroline Jackson-Houlston draws on the full range of Walter Scott’s novels to propose new links between Scott and Romantic-era authors such as Sophia Lee, Jane Porter, Jane Austen, Sydney Owenson, Elizabeth Hands, Thomas Love Peacock, and Robert Bage. ...
George Eliot in Germany, 1854�55: Cherished Memories'
1st Edition
By Gerlinde Roder-Bolton
December 12, 2019
From 1854 to 1855, George Eliot spent eight months in Germany, a period that marked the start of her life with George Lewes. Though Eliot documented this journey more extensively than any other, it has remained an under-researched part of Eliot's biography. In her meticulously documented and ...
George Gissing and the Woman Question: Convention and Dissent
1st Edition
By Christine Huguet, Simon J. James
December 12, 2019
Approaching its subject both contextually and comparatively, George Gissing and the Woman Question reads Gissing's novels, short stories and personal writings as a crux in European fiction's formulations of gender and sexuality. The collection places Gissing alongside nineteenth- and ...
George Newnes and the New Journalism in Britain, 1880�1910: Culture and Profit
1st Edition
By Kate Jackson
December 12, 2019
This is a study of the noted newspaper proprietor, publisher and editor, George Newnes and his involvement in the so-called New Journalism in Britain from 1880 to 1910. The author examines seven of Newnes’s most successful periodicals - Tit-Bits (1881), The Strand Magazine (1891), The Million (1892...
Gilbert and Sullivan: Class and the Savoy Tradition, 1875-1896
1st Edition
By Regina B. Oost
December 12, 2019
Making use of archival resources in the United Kingdom and the United States, Regina B. Oost examines advertisements, promotional materials, and programs, as well as letters, diaries, and account books, to reconstruct the ways in which Richard D'Oyly Carte, W.S. Gilbert, and Arthur Sullivan ...
Jane Carlyle: Newly Selected Letters
1st Edition
By Kenneth J. Fielding, David R. Sorensen
December 12, 2019
This new selection of the letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle presents a complete view of a remarkable Victorian woman, with a wide circle of friends, who enjoyed the company of distinguished thinkers, writers, politicians, feminists, eccentrics and radicals. This edition draws on many remarkable letters...
Jane Eyre on Stage, 1848�1898: An Illustrated Edition of Eight Plays with Contextual Notes
1st Edition
By Patsy Stoneman
December 12, 2019
Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre was published in October, 1847, and within three months a version was on stage in London. By 1900, at least eight different stage versions had appeared in England, America and continental Europe. For the first time, all eight plays are available in Patsy Stoneman's ...
Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage: Theatricals in a Quiet Life
1st Edition
By Richard Foulkes
December 12, 2019
Author of the enduringly popular Alice books, mathematician, Anglican cleric, and pioneer photographer, Lewis Carroll maintained a lifelong enthusiasm for the theatre. Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage is the first book to focus on Carroll's irresistible fascination with all things theatrical, ...
Macmillan�s Magazine, 1859�1907: No Flippancy or Abuse Allowed
1st Edition
By George J. Worth
December 12, 2019
Macmillan's Magazine has long been recognized as one of the most significant of the many British literary/intellectual periodicals that flourished in the second half of the nineteenth century. Yet the first volume of the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals (1966) pointed out that 'There is no ...