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.
Master Narratives: Tellers and Telling in the English Novel
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Gravil
December 12, 2019
Authors whose works are discussed in this collaborative book, covering a 'long' nineteenth century, include Sterne, Fielding, Scott, Austen, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Gaskell, Dickens, George Eliot, Conrad, Woolf, and Lawrence. Most of the chapters focus on a single work, among them Tristram ...
New Approaches to the Literary Art of Anne Bronte
1st Edition
Edited
By Julie Nash, Barbara A. Suess
December 12, 2019
This new essay collection brings together some of the top Brontë scholars working today, as well as new critical voices, to examine the many layers of Anne Brontë's fiction and other writings and to restore Brontë to her rightful place in literary history. Until very recently, Brontë's ...
Orientalist Poetics: The Islamic Middle East in Nineteenth-Century English and French Poetry
1st Edition
By Emily A. Haddad
December 12, 2019
Orientalist Poetics is the only book on literary orientalism that spans the nineteenth century in both England and France with particular attention to poetry and poetics. It convincingly demonstrates orientalism's centrality to the evolution of poetry and poetics in both nations, and provides a ...
Poetics of Self and Form in Keats and Shelley: Nietzschean Subjectivity and Genre
1st Edition
By Mark Sandy
December 12, 2019
Beginning with a reassessment of contemporary romantic studies, this book provides a modern critical comparison of Keats and Shelley. The study offers detailed close readings of a variety of literary genres (including the romance, lyric, elegy and literary fragment) adopted by Keats and Shelley to ...
Possessed Victorians: Extra Spheres in Nineteenth-Century Mystical Writings
1st Edition
By Sarah A. Willburn
December 12, 2019
In her absorbing study of nineteenth-century mystical writings, Sarah Willburn formulates a new conception of individualism that offers a fresh look at Victorian subjectivity. Drawing upon extensive archival work in the British Library, Willburn analyzes séance accounts, novels about mediumship, ...
Reading, Publishing and the Formation of Literary Taste in England, 1880-1914
1st Edition
By Mary Hammond
December 12, 2019
Between 1880 and 1914, England saw the emergence of an unprecedented range of new literary forms from Modernism to the popular thriller. Not coincidentally, this period also marked the first overt references to an art/market divide through which books took on new significance as markers of taste ...
Romantic 'Anglo-Italians': Configurations of Identity in Byron, the Shelleys, and the Pisan Circle
1st Edition
By Maria Schoina
December 12, 2019
Focusing on key members of the Pisan Circle, Byron, the Shelleys, and Leigh Hunt, Maria Schoina explores configurations of identity and the acculturating practices of British expatriates in post-Napoleonic Italy. The problems involved in British Romanticism's relations to its European 'others' are ...
Romantic Wars: Studies in Culture and Conflict, 1793�1822
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip Shaw
December 12, 2019
Romantic Wars is a collection of eight specially commissioned essays focusing on the relations between British Romantic culture (poetry, fiction, painting, and non-fictional prose) and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Whilst in recent years much attention has been paid to the influence of the...
Science, Time and Space in the Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: Movable Types
1st Edition
By James Mussell
December 12, 2019
James Mussell reads nineteenth-century scientific debates in light of recent theoretical discussions of scientific writing to propose a new methodology for understanding the periodical press in terms of its movements in time and space. That there is no disjunction between text and object is already...
Serialization and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines
1st Edition
By Catherine Delafield
December 12, 2019
Examining the Victorian serial as a text in its own right, Catherine Delafield re-reads five novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Dinah Craik and Wilkie Collins by situating them in the context of periodical publication. She traces the roles of the author and editor in the creation and ...
Sherlock's Sisters: The British Female Detective, 1864-1913
1st Edition
By Joseph A. Kestner
December 12, 2019
Sherlock's Sisters: The British Female Detective, 1864-1913 examines the fictional female detective in Victorian and Edwardian literature. This character, originating in the 1860s, configures a new representation of women in narratives of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This analysis ...
Supreme Attachments: Studies in Victorian Love Poetry
1st Edition
By Kerry McSweeney
December 12, 2019
The Victorian poetry of sexual love between men and women has not been as fully studied as other components of the imaginative literature of the period, and some of the attention it has received has been more concerned with the society and ideology of the age than with the poetry or the love. This...