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.
Women's Literary Collaboration, Queerness, and Late-Victorian Culture
1st Edition
By Jill R. Ehnenn
April 06, 2017
The first full-length study to focus exclusively on nineteenth-century British women while examining queer authorship and culture, Jill R. Ehnenn's book is a timely interrogation into the different histories and functions of women's literary partnerships. For Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) and 'Kit' ...
Victorian Animal Dreams: Representations of Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture
1st Edition
By Martin A. Danahay, Deborah Denenholz Morse
March 08, 2017
The Victorian period witnessed the beginning of a debate on the status of animals that continues today. This volume explicitly acknowledges the way twenty-first-century deliberations about animal rights and the fact of past and prospective animal extinction haunt the discussion of the Victorians' ...
Dickens, Family, Authorship: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Kinship and Creativity
1st Edition
By Lynn Cain
March 06, 2017
Drawing on a wide range of Dickens's writings, including all of his novels and a selection of his letters, journalism, and shorter fiction, Dickens, Family, Authorship provides a provocative account of the evolution of an author from whose psychological honesty and imaginative generosity emerged ...
Gender at Work in Victorian Culture: Literature, Art and Masculinity
1st Edition
By Martin A. Danahay
December 07, 2016
Martin A. Danahay's lucidly argued and accessibly written volume offers a solid introduction to important issues surrounding the definition and division of labor in British society and culture. 'Work,' Danahay argues, was a term rife with ideological contradictions for Victorian males during a ...
Ballads, Songs and Snatches: The Appropriation of Folk Song and Popular Culture in British 19th-Century Realist Prose
1st Edition
By C.M. Jackson-Houlston
November 28, 2016
As a book on allusion, this has interest for both the traditional literary or cultural historian and for the modern student of textuality and readership positions. It focuses on allusion to folksong, and, more tangentially, to popular culture, areas which have so far been slighted by literary ...
City of Health, Fields of Disease: Revolutions in the Poetry, Medicine, and Philosophy of Romanticism
1st Edition
By Martin Wallen
November 28, 2016
The Romantic Era witnessed a series of conflicts concerning definitions of health and disease. In this book, Martin Wallen discusses those conflicts and the cultural values that drove them. The six chapters progress from the mainstream rejuvenation of the Socratic values by Wordsworth and Coleridge...
Powers of the Press: Newspapers, Power and the Public in Nineteenth-Century England
1st Edition
By Aled Jones
November 28, 2016
The power of the popular press presents all modern societies with difficulties. It is, however, a problem with a history: the hold of the press over public opinion was debated with urgency throughout the 19th century. This book looks at the ways in which individuals, pressure groups, political ...
Shelley's Eye: Travel Writing and Aesthetic Vision
1st Edition
By Benjamin Colbert
November 28, 2016
Percy Bysshe Shelley joined the deluge of sightseers that poured onto the Continent after Napoleon's defeat in 1814, and over the next eight years Shelley followed major travelling trends, visiting Switzerland in 1816 and Italy from 1818. Shelley's Eye is the first study to address Shelley's ...
The New Crusaders: Images of the Crusades in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Siberry
November 28, 2016
This is the first comprehensive study of the use, abuse and development of the crusade image in popular and high culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing upon a diverse range of sources, mainly from the British Isles, but with parallels from Western Europe and North America,...
Problem Pictures: Women and Men in Victorian Painting
1st Edition
By Pamela Gerrish Nunn
November 24, 2016
During the Victorian period there developed a new anxiety about male-female relations and roles in modern society, as described by a member of the Athenaeum in 1858, ’the distinction of man and woman, their separate as well as their joint rights, begins to occupy the attention of our whole ...
Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters
1st Edition
By Judith Johnston
November 17, 2016
Anna Brownwell Jameson (1794-1869) was a central figure in the London world of letters and art in the early Victorian period, and an important feminist writer. Her friends included such figures as Harriet Martineau, Lady Byron, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This study considers ...
Masculinities in Victorian Painting
1st Edition
By Joseph A. Kestner
November 17, 2016
This fully illustrated study examines the construction of masculinity in culture based on an analysis of pictorial representations of the male in a wide range of contexts: social, historical, legal, literary, institutional, anthropological, educational, marital, imperial and aesthetic. Powerful ...