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.
Tennyson and Victorian Periodicals: Commodities in Context
1st Edition
By Kathryn Ledbetter
December 12, 2019
This is the first book-length study of Tennyson's record of publication in Victorian periodicals. Despite Tennyson's supposed hostility to periodicals, Ledbetter shows that he made a career-long habit of contributing to them and in the process revealed not only his willingness to promote his career...
Tennyson's Name: Identity and Responsibility in the Poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson
1st Edition
By Anna Barton
December 12, 2019
Seeking to understand Tennyson's poetry as the work of a man concerned with making and then living up to one of the most famous names in Victorian literature, Anna Barton offers close readings of Tennyson's major works. From his obscure beginning as 'A.T.', one of two anonymous brothers, to the ...
Thackeray in Time: History, Memory, and Modernity
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Salmon, Alice Crossley
December 12, 2019
An intense fascination with the experience of time has long been recognised as a distinctive feature of the writing of William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863). This collection of essays, however, represents the first sustained critical examination of Thackeray's 'time consciousness' in all its ...
Thackeray�s Skeptical Narrative and the �Perilous Trade� of Authorship
1st Edition
By Judith L. Fisher
December 12, 2019
Drawing on the rhetorical work of James Phelan, Wayne Booth's ethical criticism, recent work on William Makepeace Thackeray, as well as an understanding of the role of skepticism in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English thought, Thackeray's Skeptical Narrative and the "Perilous Trade" of ...
The Bront�in the World of the Arts
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandra Hagan, Juliette Wells
December 12, 2019
Although previous scholarship has acknowledged the importance of the visual arts to the Brontës, relatively little attention has been paid to the influence of music, theatre, and material culture on the siblings' lives and literature. This interdisciplinary collection presents new research on the ...
The Dog in the Dickensian Imagination
1st Edition
By Beryl Gray
December 12, 2019
Fascinated by them, unable to ignore them, and imaginatively stimulated by them, Charles Dickens was an acute and unsentimental reporter on the dogs he kept and encountered during a time when they were a burgeoning part of the nineteenth-century urban and domestic scene. As dogs inhabited Dickens’s...
The Literary Protégées of the Lake Poets
1st Edition
By Dennis Low
December 12, 2019
Dennis Low's re-evaluation of the Lake Poets as mentors begins with the controversial premise that Robert Southey was one of the nineteenth-century's greatest champions of women's writing. Together with Wordsworth and Coleridge, Low argues, Southey tried to end what he perceived to be the cultural ...
The London Journal, 1845-83: Periodicals, Production and Gender
1st Edition
By Andrew King
December 12, 2019
This book is the first full-length study of one of the most widely read publications of nineteenth-century Britain, the London Journal, over a period when mass-market reading in a modern sense was born. Treating the magazine as a case study, the book maps the Victorian mass-market periodical in ...
The Loudons and the Gardening Press: A Victorian Cultural Industry
1st Edition
By Sarah Dewis
December 12, 2019
Through close readings of individual serials and books and archival work on the publication history of the Gardener’s Magazine (1826-44) Sarah Dewis examines the significant contributions John and Jane Webb Loudon made to the gardening press and democratic discourse. Vilified during their lifetimes...
The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780�1835
1st Edition
By Neil Ramsey
December 12, 2019
Examining the memoirs and autobiographies of British soldiers during the Romantic period, Neil Ramsey explores the effect of these as cultural forms mediating warfare to the reading public during and immediately after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Forming a distinct and commercially...
The Neglected Shelley
1st Edition
By Alan M. Weinberg, Timothy Webb
December 12, 2019
New editions and facsimiles of Percy Bysshe Shelley's works are changing the landscape of Shelley studies by making complete compositions and fragments that have received only limited critical attention readily available to scholars. Building on the work begun in Weinberg and Webb's 2009 volume, ...
The Nineteenth-Century History of English Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Alan Bacon
December 12, 2019
This study collects together many of the original texts from the long-running debate which surrounded the rise of English as an academic subject. Most of the texts were ephemeral and have been long out of print, but they are essential to an understanding of how English studies developed. They ...