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.
Joseph Severn: Letters and Memoirs
1st Edition
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By Grant F. Scott
June 07, 2019
This is the first modern scholarly edition of the letters and memoirs of Joseph Severn, English painter and deathbed companion of John Keats. It includes letters from a remarkable collection of never-before-published correspondence held by descendants of the Severn family. Scott's unprecedented ...
Charlotte Brontë from the Beginnings: New Essays from the Juvenilia to the Major Works
1st Edition
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By Judith E. Pike, Lucy Morrison
January 17, 2019
Composed of serialized works, poems, short tales, and novellas, Charlotte Brontë's juvenilia merit serious scholarly attention as revelatory works in and of themselves as well as for what they tell us about the development of Brontë as a writer. This timely collection attends to both critical ...
Harriet Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines: Nineteenth-century intellectual powerhouse
1st Edition
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By Valerie Sanders, Gaby Weiner
January 17, 2019
One of the foremost writers of her time, Harriet Martineau established her reputation by writing a hugely successful series of fictional tales on political economy whose wide readership included the young Queen Victoria. She went on to write fiction and nonfiction; books, articles and pamphlets; ...
Daniel O'Connell, The British Press and The Irish Famine: Killing Remarks
1st Edition
By Leslie A. Williams
January 10, 2019
Through an investigation of the reportage in nineteenth-century English metropolitan newspapers and illustrated journals, this book begins with the question 'Did anti-O'Connell sentiment in the British press lead to "killing remarks," rhetoric that helped the press, government and public opinion ...
The Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope's Novels: New Readings for the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
By Deborah Denenholz Morse, Margaret Markwick
January 03, 2019
Bringing together established critics and exciting new voices, The Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope's Novels offers original readings of Trollope that recognize and repay his importance as source material for scholars working in diverse fields of literary and cultural studies. As the editors ...
Romantic Echoes in the Victorian Era
1st Edition
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By Mark Sandy, Andrew Radford
December 19, 2018
In tracing those deliberate and accidental Romantic echoes that reverberate through the Victorian age into the beginning of the twentieth century, this collection acknowledges that the Victorians decided for themselves how to define what is 'Romantic'. The essays explore the extent to which ...
Reinventing King Arthur: The Arthurian Legends in Victorian Culture
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By Inga Bryden
September 18, 2018
In her systematic reassessment of the remaking of the Arthurian past in nineteenth-century British fiction and non-fiction, Inga Bryden examines the Victorian Arthurian revival as a cultural phenomenon, offering insights into the relationship between social, cultural, religious, and ethnographic ...
Reading and the Victorians
1st Edition
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By Matthew Bradley, Juliet John
September 10, 2018
What did reading mean to the Victorians? This question is the key point of departure for Reading and the Victorians, an examination of the era when reading underwent a swifter and more radical transformation than at any other moment in history. With book production handed over to the machines and ...
Re-Reading The Excursion: Narrative, Response and the Wordsworthian Dramatic Voice
1st Edition
By Sally Bushell
August 23, 2018
Re-Reading The Excursion: Narrative, Response and the Wordsworthian Dramatic Voice is a groundbreaking study, which transforms contemporary critical understanding of The Excursion and of the place of this long poem in the Wordsworthian canon. Sally Bushell argues that the poem, which has suffered...
Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities: Constructions of Masculinity in Art and Literature
1st Edition
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By Amelia Yeates, Serena Trowbridge
October 12, 2017
Drawing on recent theoretical developments in gender and men’s studies, Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities shows how the ideas and models of masculinity were constructed in the work of artists and writers associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Paying particular attention to the representation of ...
Life Writing and Victorian Culture
1st Edition
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By David Amigoni
September 25, 2017
In this collection of interdisciplinary essays, experts from Britain and the United States in the fields of nineteenth-century literature, and social and cultural history explore new directions in the field of Victorian life writing. Chapters examine a varied yet interrelated range of genres, from ...
Anatomy of a Controversy: The Debate over 'Essays and Reviews' 1860–64
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By Josef L. Altholz
August 09, 2017
Controversy, especially religious controversy, was the great spectator sport of Victorian England. This work is a study of the biggest and best of Victorian religious controversies. Essays and Reviews (1860) was a composite volume of seven authors (six of them Anglican clergymen) which brought ...