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Recent Publications To search our database of books and reviews, click here.   Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940 Laura Doyle - 2008 Duke University Press In this pathbreaking work of scholarship, Laura Doyle reveals the central, formative role of race in the development of a transnational, English-language literature over three centuries. Identifying ... More     Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain Jamie L Bronstein - 2008 Stanford University Press Caught in the Machinery draws on social, cultural, and legal history to bring to life the dangers facing working people in Great Britain between 1800 and the first British Employer's Liability Act of ... More     Sexuality and the Culture of Sensibility in the British Romantic Era Christopher C. Nagle - 2007 Palgrave Macmillan Drawing together theoretically informed literary history and the cultural history of sexuality, friendship, and affective relations, this is the first study to trace fully the influence of this notori... More     A Political History of the House of Lords, 1811-1846: From the Regency to Corn Law Repeal Richard Davis - 2007 Stanford University Press The history of England's House of Lords in the nineteenth century has been largely misunderstood or ignored by historians. Richard W. Davis argues that the Lords were not primarily reactionary or obst... More     Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection Margaret D. Stetz - 2007 University of Delaware Press his is a lavishly illustrated volume that offers a new interpretation of the significance of the portrait image during the final decades of the nineteenth century in Britain, using materials drawn fro... More     From Sensation to Society: Representations of Marriage in the Fiction of Mary Elizabeth Bradden, 1862-1866 Natalie Schroeder, Ronald A. Schroeder - 2006 University of Delaware Press From Sensation to Society tracks the evolution of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's critique of Victorian marriage in the early phase of her long and prolific novel-writing career. The study begins with... More     The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative Deborah Lutz - 2006 Ohio State University Press The dangerous lover has haunted our culture for over two hundred years; English, American, and European literature is permeated with his erotic presence. The Dangerous Lover takes seriously the... More     The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror Simon Joyce - 2007 Ohio University Press When Margaret Thatcher called in 1979 for a return to Victorian values such as hard work, self-reliance, thrift, and national pride, Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock responded that “Victorian values” ... More     The Marriage of Minds: Reading Sympathy in the Victorian Marriage Plot Rachel Ablow - 2007 Stanford University Press The Marriage of Minds examines the implications of the common Victorian claim that novel reading can achieve the psychic, ethical, and affective benefits also commonly associated with sympathy ... More     Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture Robert D. Aguirre - 2007 University of Minnesota Press Behind the ancient artifacts displayed in our museums lies a secret history of travel, desire, the quest for knowledge, and even theft. Such is the case with the objects of Mesoamerican culture so avi... More     Medical Lives in the Age of Surgical Revolution M Anne Crowther, Marguerite W Dupree - 2007 Cambridge University Press An original and unusual history of doctors trained in Britain in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and their careers in Britain and the empire. Anne Crowther and Marguerite Dupree describe t... More     Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life Mark Francis - 2007 Cornell University Press The ideas of the English philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) profoundly shaped Victorian thought regarding evolutionary theory, the philosophy of science, sociology, and politics. In his day, Spen... More     Altered States: Sex, Nation, Drugs, and Self-Transformation in Victorian Spiritualism Marlene Tromp - 2007 SUNY Press Altered States examines the rise of Spiritualism—the religion of séances, mediums, and ghostly encounters—in the Victorian period and the role it played in undermining both traditional female r... More     Ireland, India and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature Julie M. Wright - 2007 Cambridge University Press In this innovative study Julia M. Wright addresses rarely asked questions: how and why does one colonized nation write about another? Wright focuses on the way nineteenth-century Irish writers wrote a... More     Ethics and the English Novel from Austen to Forster Valerie Wainwright - 2007 Ashgate Publishing Complicating a pervasive view of the ethical thought of the Victorians and their close relations, which emphasizes the domineering influence of a righteous and repressive morality, Wainwright discerns... More     The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture Nadia Valman - 2007 Cambridge University Press Stories about Jewesses proliferated in nineteenth-century Britain as debates about the place of the Jews in the modern nation raged. While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemit... More     Original Copy: Plagiarism and Originality in Nineteenth-Century Literature Robert Macfarlane - 2007 Oxford University Press '"Originality" is only plagiarizing from a great many', remarked Rupert Brooke, stealing the line from Voltaire. Questions of originality, and accusations of plagiarism, are as old as literature, but ... More     Certain Other Countries: Homicide, Gender, and National Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales Carolyn A. Conley - 2007 Ohio State University Press Even though England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales were under a common Parliament in the nineteenth century, cultural, economic, and historical differences led to very different values and assumptions ... More     Moral Taste: Aesthetics, Subjectivity, and Social Power in the Nineteenth-Century Novel Marjorie Garson - 2007 University of Toronto Press One of the particular concerns of the Victorians was the notion of ‘taste’ and the idea that good taste in any field – clothing, décor, landscape, music, art, even food – meant good taste in all, and ... More     The Making of Addiction: The 'Use and Abuse' of Opium in Nineteenth-Century Britain Louise Foxcroft - 2007 Ashgate Publishing What does drug addiction mean to us? What did it mean to others in the past? And how are these meanings connected? In modern society the idea of drug addiction is a given and commonly understood conce... More     In Science's Shadow: Literary Constructions of Late Victorian Women Patricia Murphy - 2006 University of Missouri Press The Victorian era was characterized by great scientific curiosity—as exemplified by the publication of Darwin’s Descent of Man—as well as by new questions regarding the place of women in societ... More     Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930 Deborah Epstein Nord - 2006 Columbia University Press Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930 is the first book to explore fully the British obsession with Gypsies throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. Deborah Epstein No... More     Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism Nancy Armstrong - 2002 Harvard University Press Victorians were fascinated with how accurately photography could copy people, the places they inhabited, and the objects surrounding them. Much more important, however, is the way in which Victorian p... More     The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel Elaine Freedgood - 2006 University of Chicago Press While the Victorian novel famously describes, catalogs, and inundates the reader with things, the protocols for reading it have long enjoined readers not to interpret most of what crowds its pages. More     Romanticism and the Rise of the Mass Public Andrew Franta - 2007 Cambridge University Press Dramatic changes in the reading public and literary market in early nineteenth-century England not only altered the relationship between poet and reader but prompted new conceptions of the poetic text... More     Early Romanticism and Religious Dissent Daniel E. White - 2007 Cambridge University Press Religious diversity and ferment characterize the period that gave rise to Romanticism in England. It is generally known that many individuals who contributed to the new literatures of the late eightee... More     Wordsworth's Philosophic Song Simon Jarvis - 2007 Cambridge University Press Wordsworth wrote that he longed to compose 'some philosophic Song/Of Truth that cherishes our daily life’. Yet he never finished The Recluse, his long philosophical poem. Simon Jarvis argues that Word... More     Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture Jonathan Smith - 2006 Cambridge University Press Although The Origin of Species contained just a single visual illustration, Charles Darwin's other books, from his monograph on barnacles in the early 1850s to his volume on earthworms in 1881,... More     Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Graeme Gooday, Richard Noakes, Sally Shuttleworth - 2006 Cambridge University Press For the Victorian reading public, periodicals played a far greater role than books in shaping their understanding of new discoveries and theories in science, technology and medicine. Such understandin... More     The Victorian Clown Jacky Bratton, Ann Featherstone - 2006 Cambridge University Press The Victorian Clown is a micro-history of mid-Victorian comedy, spun out of the life and work of two professional clowns. Their previously unpublished manuscripts - James Frowde’s account of hi... More     Victorian Fiction and the Cult of the Horse Gina M. Dorré - 2006 Ashgate Publishing The horse was essential to the workings of Victorian society, and its representations, which are vast, ranging, and often contradictory, comprise a vibrant cult of the horse. Examining the representat... More     Representing Female Artistic Labour, 1848–1890: Refining Work for the Middle-Class Woman Patricia Zakreski - 2006 Ashgate Publishing Patricia Zakreski's interdisciplinary study draws on fiction, prose, painting, and the periodical press to expand and redefine our understanding of women's relationship to paid work during the Victori... More     Possessed Victorians: Extra Spheres in Nineteenth-Century Mystical Writings Sarah A. Wilburn - 2006 Ashgate Publishing 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 a... More     The Literary Protégées of the Lake Poets Dennis Low - 2006 Ashgate Publishing 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 wi... More     George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country Michael Davis - 2006 Ashgate Publishing In his study of Eliot as a psychological novelist, Michael Davis examines Eliot's writings in the context of a large volume of nineteenth-century scientific writing about the mind. Eliot, Davis argues... More     Dante Gabriel Rossetti And the Late Victorian Sonnet Sequence: Sexuality, Belief And the Self John Holmes - 2005 Ashgate Publishing In 1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti published the first version of his sonnet sequence The House of Life. The next thirty years saw the greatest flourishing of the sonnet sequence since the 1590s. John Ho... More     Coleridge, Form and Symbol; Or the Ascertaining Symbol Nicholas Reid - 2006 Ashgate Publishing In his convincingly argued book, Nicholas Reid shows just how central Coleridge's theories of imagination, form, and symbol were to Coleridge's metaphysics. What distinguishes Reid's book is the admir... More     Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 Philip Waller - 2006 Oxford University Press Charles Dickens died in 1870, the same year in which universal elementary education was introduced. During the following generation a mass reading public emerged, and the term 'best-seller' was coined... More     The Ruins of Experience: Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness Matthew Wickman - 2006 University of Pennsylvania Press There emerged, during the latter half of the eighteenth century, a reflexive relationship between shifting codes of legal evidence in British courtrooms and the growing fascination throughout Europe w... More     The Narcissism of Empire: Loss, Rage and Revenge in Thomas De Quincey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Isak Dinesen Diane Simmons - 2007 Sussex Academic Press Widely read in the age of British imperialism and still popular today, the five writers studied here have allowed millions to participate vicariously in the imperial project. Yet all of these writers,... More     Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1917 Linda M. Austin - 2007 University of Virginia Press Referred to long ago as a "disease" of Swiss soldiers and Highland regiments far from home, nostalgia became known in the 1920s as more of a fleeting rather than debilitating condition. Yet what cause... More     The English Cult of Literature: Devoted Readers, 1774-1880 William R. McKelvy - 2007 University of Virginia Press What constitutes reading? This is the question William McKelvy asks in The English Cult of Literature. Is it a theory of interpretation or a physical activity, a process determined by hermene... More     Space and the 'March of Mind': Literature and the Physical Sciences in Britain 1815-1850 Alice Jenkins - 2007 Oxford University Press This book is about the idea of space in the first half of the nineteenth century. It uses contemporary poetry, essays, and fiction as well as scientific papers, textbooks, and journalism to give a new... More     Fictions and Fakes: Forging Romantic Authenticity, 1760-1845 Margaret Russett - 2006 Cambridge University Press British Romantic literature descends from a line of impostors, forgers and frauds. Beginning with the golden age of forgery in the late eighteenth century and continuing through canonical Romanticism ... More     Last Things: Emily Brontë's Poems Janet Gezari - 2007 Oxford University Press At present, Emily Brontë's poetry is more frequently celebrated than read. Ironically, the very uniqueness of her poems has made them less interesting to current feminist critics than other poems writ... More     Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England Timothy Larson - 2006 Oxford University Press The Victorian crisis of faith has dominated discussions of religion and the Victorians. Stories are frequently told of prominent Victorians such as George Eliot losing their faith. This crisis is pres... More     Victorian Fiction and the Insights of Sympathy: An Alternative to the Hermeneutics of Suspicion Brigid Lowe - 2007 Anthem Press This book explores the importance of sympathy as a central idea behind Victorian fiction, and an animating principle of novel reading generally. Sympathy, Brigid Lowe argues, deserves a much more impo... More     Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings Malcolm Andrews - 2006 Clarendon Press Charles Dickens had three professional careers: novelist, journalist, and public reader. That third career has seldom been given the serious attention it deserved. For the last 12 years of his life he... More     A Dictionary of Victorian London: An A-Z of the Great Metropolis Lee Jackson - 2006 Anthem Press From slums to suburbs, freak-shows to fast food, prisons to pornography, The Dictionary of Victorian London is a fascinating expose of everyday life in the Great Metropolis of Victorian London.... More     "Lesser Breeds:" Racial Attitudes in Popular British Culture, 1890-1940 Michael Diamond - 2006 Anthem Press This book focuses on racism as manifested in the popular culture of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, exemplified by attitudes to Chinese, Arabs, Blacks, and Jews. There are two chapter... More     The Blackest Streets: The Life And Death of a Victorian Slum Sarah Wise - 2006 Metropolitan Books Condemned as a “fruitful hotbed of disease and death,” the Old Nichol, a fifteen-acre East London slum, was a shameful blot on the age of progress. A maze of rotting hundred-year-old houses, the Old N... More     Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England Sharon Marcus - 2007 Princeton University Press Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal puni... More     The Most Dreadful Visitation: Male Madness in Victorian Fiction Valerie Pedlar - 2006 Liverpool University Press Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning as everything from a simple plot device to a commentary on the foundations of Victorian society. But while madness... More     Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal Helena Michie - 2006 Cambridge University Press While Victorian tourism and Victorian sexuality have been the subject of much recent critical interest, there has been little research on a characteristically nineteenth-century phenomenon relating to... More     The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain, 1860-1914 Brent Shannon - 2006 Ohio University Press The English middle class in the late nineteenth century enjoyed an increase in the availability and variety of material goods. With that, the visual markers of class membership and manly behavior unde... More     Victorian Interpretation Suzy Anger - 2006 Cornell University Press Suzy Anger investigates the relationship of Victorian interpretation to the ways in which literary criticism is practiced today. Her primary focus is literary interpretation, but she also considers fi... More     Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian Feminism Susan Hamilton - 2006 Palgrave Macmillan Drawing on the history of English feminism and the study of Victorian periodical and newspaper presses, this important and timely new book asks a key question that neither history nor literary studies... More     Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture Patrick R. O'Malley - 2006 Cambridge University Press It has long been recognised that the Gothic genre sensationalised beliefs and practices associated with Catholicism. Often, the rhetorical tropes and narrative structures of the Gothic, with its lurid... More     Imagining London, 1770-1900 Alan Robinson - 2004 Palgrave Macmillan Combining a unique overview of metropolitan visual culture with detailed textual analysis, this interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between the two cities which Londoners inhabited: the ... More     The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840-1910: Class, Culture and Nation Phyllis Weliver - 2006 Palgrave Macmillan Examining innovations in audience behaviour, musical ensembles and mass-music movements, this book provides insight into how musical performances contributed to emerging ideas about class and national... More     Reforming Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on Science and Society Laura Snyder - 2006 University of Chicago Press The Victorian period in Britain was an “age of reform.” It is therefore not surprising that two of the era’s most eminent intellects described themselves as reformers. Both William Whewell and John S... More     The Invention of Evening: Perception and Time in Romantic Poetry Christopher Miller - 2006 Cambridge University Press Lyric poetry has long been considered an art form of timelessness, but Romantic poets became fascinated by one time above all others: evening, the threshold between day and night. Christopher R. Mille... More     Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class John Kucich - 2006 Princeton University Press British imperialism's favorite literary narrative might seem to be conquest. But its real-life conquests also generated a surprising cultural obsession with suffering, sacrifice, defeat, and melanchol... More     Rural Urbanism: London Landscapes in the Early Nineteenth Century Dana Arnold - 2006 Manchester University Press This original and innovative book examines a period in which the development of London was perhaps at its most intense, for in the opening decades of the nineteenth century a concerted attempt was mad... More     Disraeli: The Victorian Dandy Who Became Prime Minister Christopher Hibbert - 2006 Palgrave Macmillan To Thomas Carlyle he was "not worth his weight in cold bacon," but, to Queen Victoria, Benjamin Disraeli was "the kindest Minister" she had ever had and a "dear and devoted friend." In this masterly b... More     Coleridge, Form and Symbol: Or The Ascertaining Vision Nicolas Reid - 2006 Ashgate Publishing In his convincingly argued book, Nicholas Reid shows just how central Coleridge's theories of imagination, form, and symbol were to Coleridge's metaphysics. What distinguishes Reid's book is the admir... More     Perversity of Poetry, The Romantic Ideology and the Popular Male Poet of Genius Dino Franco Felluga - 2006 SUNY Press No study has explored the reason why such contending claims were made for poetry in the nineteenth century: that it is a panacea for the ills of the age and that it is a pandemic at the heart of the s... More     Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions Deborah Cohen - 2006 Yale University Press At what point did the British develop their mania for interiors, wallpaper, furniture, and decoration? Why have the middle classes developed so passionate an attachment to the contents of their homes?... More     Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World George Levine - 2006 Princeton University Press Jesus and Darwin do battle on car bumpers across America. Medallions of fish symbolizing Jesus are answered by ones of amphibians stamped "Darwin," and stickers proclaiming "Jesus Loves You" are count... More     Charles Knight: Educator, Publisher, Writer Valerie Knight - 2006 Ashgate Publishing Charles Knight: Educator, Publisher, Writer is the first modern book-length study of this important nineteenth-century educational reformer, author, and publisher. Though he made significant co... More     The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917: Palestine and the Question of Orientalism Eitan Bar-Yosef - 2005 Oxford University Press The dream of building Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land has long been a quintessential part of English identity and culture: but how did this vision shape the Victorian encounter with the... More     Jane Austen: Introductions and Interventions John Wiltshire - 2006 Palgrave Macmillan This volume brings together lively and refreshing articles by a prominent Jane Austen scholar which have been reworked especially for the present collection. John Wiltshire explores the key themes and... More     Romantic Theory: Forms of Reflexivity in the Revolutionary Era Leon Chai - 2006 Johns Hopkins University Press This original study explores the new idea of theory that emerged in the wake of the French Revolution. Leon Chai sees in the Romantic age a significant movement across several broad fields of intellec... More     Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period Tilar J. Mazzeo - 2006 University of Pennsylvania Press In a series of articles published in Tait's Magazine in 1834, Thomas DeQuincey catalogued four potential instances of plagiarism in the work of his friend and literary competitor Samuel Taylor ... More     Robert Southey: Man Of Letters W.A. Speck - 2006 Yale University Press In his lifetime Robert Southey was very much the equal of his fellow “Lake poets,” Coleridge and Wordsworth, but since his death his reputation has been overshadowed by their success. In this new biog... More     Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain Simon Dentith - 2006 Cambridge University Press In the nineteenth century, epic poetry in the Homeric style was widely seen as an ancient and anachronistic genre, yet Victorian authors worked to recreate it for the modern world. Simon Dentith explo... More     The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800-1953 Billie Melman - 2006 Oxford University Press In this original and widely researched book, Billie Melman explores the culture of history during the age of modernity. Her book is about the production of English pasts, the multiplicity of their rep... More     Operations Without Pain: The Practice and Science of Anaesthesia in Victorian Britain Stephanie Snow - 2006 Palgrave Macmillan Inhalational anaesthesia was the first medical and scientific technique to become a legitimate means of pain relief. Its introduction to medicine in 1846 sparked one of the most intense public debates... More     Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart Kirstie Blair - 2006 Oxford University Press Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart is a significant and timely study of nineteenth-century poetry and poetics. It considers why and how the heart became a vital image in Victorian p... More     Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain Katherine Newey - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan This is a comprehensive study of women playwrights in the British theater from 1820 to 1918. It looks at how they negotiated their personal and professional identities as writers, and examines the fem... More     The Monsters : Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler - 2006 Little, Brown In this absorbing biography, the Hooblers, historians and children's authors (The American Family Albums), chronicle the turbulent life of Mary Shelley (1797–1851), author of the classic gothic... More     Fictions of British Decadence : High Art, Popular Writing and the Fin De Siecle Kirsten MacLeod - 2006 Palgrave Macmillan Fictions of British Decadence is a fresh account of the emergence, development, and legacy of fiction written in the era of Oscar Wilde. It examines a broad range of texts by a diverse array of... More     Novel Professions: Interested Disinterest And the Making of the Professional in the Victorian Novel Jennifer Ruth - 2006 Ohio State University Press Between 1840 and 1860, the emergent professional developed a sturdy and compelling identity and saw explosive growth in its ranks over the next two decades. Novel Professions showcases the Vict... More     Deciphering Race: White Anxiety, Racial Conflict, And the Turn to Fiction in Mid-Victorian English Prose Laura Callanan - 2006 Ohio State University Press Deciphering Race engages with the complex and contested world of Victorian racial discourse. In the five central texts under consideration in this study—Harriet Martineau’s The Hour and the ... More     Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History Ian Baucom - 2005 Duke University Press In September 1781, the captain of the British slave ship Zong ordered 133 slaves thrown overboard, enabling the ship’s owners to file an insurance claim for their lost “cargo.” Accounts of this horrif... More     Romantic Indians: Native Americans, British Literature, And Transatlantic Culture 1756-1830 Tim Fulford - 2006 Oxford University Press Romantic Indians considers the views that Britons, colonists, and North American Indians took of each other during a period in which these people were in a closer and more fateful relationship ... More     The Sad Story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile; Or, Was John Hanning Speke a Cad? W.B. Carnochan - 2006 Stanford University Press This is a study of the famous controversy between Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke, fellow explorers who quarreled over Speke's claim to have discovered the source of the Nile during their Africa... More     New Woman and Colonial Adventure Fiction in Victorian Britain: Gender, Genre and Empire LeeAnne M. Richardson - 2006 University Press of Florida Cultural concerns about gender and empire converge in striking and unexpected ways in two popular novel forms of late-Victorian Great Britain. In the 1880s and 1890s, feminist New Woman fiction and c... More     Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Creation of a Dynasty: The Critical Years, 1806-1816 Herbert H. Kaplan - 2005 Stanford University Press This groundbreaking history explains how Nathan Mayer Rothschild rose from comparatively humble circumstances to become the founder of an extraordinary banking and financial empire—an empire that rema... More     Oxbridge Men: British Masculinity and the Undergraduate Experience, 1850-1920 Paul R. Deslandes - 2005 Indiana University Press The mythic status of the Oxbridge man at the height of the British Empire continues to persist in depictions of this small, elite world as an ideal of athleticism, intellectualism, tradition, and ritu... More     Subterranean Cities: The World Beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945 David L. Pike - 2005 Cornell University Press Illustrated with photographs, movie stills, engravings, paintings, cartoons, maps and drawings of actual and imagined urban spaces, Subterranean Cities documents the emergence of a novel space in the ... More     Liberty and Poetic Licence: New Essays on Byron Bernard Beatty, Charles Robinson - 2006 Liverpool University Press Moving chronologically from Byron's earliest writings to those at the end of his life, Liberty and Poetic Licence brings together a distinguished group of Byron scholars to consider every aspec... More     The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835: Exhuming the Trade Franz J. Potter - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan To better understand and contextualise the twilight of the Gothic genre during the 1920s and 1830s, The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835: Exhuming the Trade examines the disreputable asp... More     How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900 Nancy Armstrong - 2005 Columbia University Press Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, one ... More     The Old Enemies: Catholic and Protestant in Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture Michael Wheeler - 2006 Cambridge University Press Even in the industrial nineteenth century, age-old theological disagreements were the cause of religious and cultural conflicts between Catholics and Protestants. This book asks why these ancient divi... More     Jane Austen in the Context of Abolition: A Fling at the Slave Trade Gabrielle White - 2006 Palgrave Macmillan This wide-ranging and convincingly argued study looks at the issues of and attitudes towards slavery in Jane Austen's later novels and culture, and argues against Edward Said's critique of Jane Austen... More     The Nineteenth Century Sonnet Joseph Phelan - 2006 Palgrave Macmillan What was the appeal of "the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground" to Romantic and Victorian poets? How did a form which had fallen into disuse in the early eighteenth century become a central and enduring p... More     The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel Catherine Gallagher - 2005 Princeton University Press The Body Economic revises the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain by demonstrating that political economists and the writers who often presented themselves as their literary anta... More     Republican Politics & English Poetry, 1789-1874 Stephanie Kuduk Weiner - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan Through the examination of a range of canonical and non-canonical authors--including Blake, Shelley, Cooper, Linton, Landor, Meredith, Thomson and Swinburne--Kuduk Weiner connects the formal strategie... More     Sex in Mind: The Gendered Brain in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Mental Sciences Rachel Malane - 2005 Peter Lang Publishing Sex in Mind: The Gendered Brain in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Mental Sciences explores the role of the sexed brain in Victorian science and literature, showing the increasing nineteenth-... More     The Faiths of Oscar Wilde: Catholicism, Folklore and Ireland Jarlath Killeen - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan An original and energetic examination of the relationship between theology, faith, religious history and national politics in the works of Oscar Wilde, which focuses in particular on his life-long att... More     Material Interests of the Victorian Novel Daniel Hack - 2005 University of Virginia Press Taking as his point of departure the competing uses of the critical term the materiality of writing, Daniel Hack turns to the past in this provocative new book to recover the ways in which the ... More     Utopia, Ltd.: Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England, 1870-1900 Matthew Beaumont - 2005 Brill Academic Publishers This book uncovers the historical preconditions for the explosive revival of utopian literature at the nineteenth-century fin de siècle, and excavates its ideological content. It marks a contri... More     Jane Austen's Textual Lives: From Aeschylus to Bollywood Kathryn Sutherland - 2005 Oxford University Press Through three intertwined histories Jane Austen's Textual Lives offers a new way of approaching and reading a very familiar author. One is a history of the transmission and transformation of Ja... More     Paperwork: Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age Kevin McLaughlin - 2005 University of Pennsylvania Press "The Paper Age" is the phrase coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1837 to describe the monetary and literary inflation of the French Revolution—an age of mass-produced "Bank-paper" and "Book-paper." Carlyle's... More     The Poetry Of Indifference: From The Romantics To The Rubaiyat Erik Gray - 2005 University of Massachusetts Press Indifference is a common, even indispensable element of human experience. But it is rare in poetry, which is traditionally defined by its direct opposition to indifference—by its heightened emotion, c... More     Erotic Coleridge: Women, Love, and the Law Against Divorce Anya Taylor - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan Erotic Coleridge charts Coleridge's prolific creation of love poems from early flirtatious verse to poems about marital incompatibility, the blank faces of young women fearing for their reputat... More     Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism Andrew M. Stauffer - 2005 Cambridge University Press Andrew Stauffer explores the changing role of anger in the literature and culture of the Romantic period, an era dominated by revolution and reaction, terror and war. Including Blake, Coleridge, Godwi... More     Captivating Subjects: Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century Jason Haslam, Julia M. Wright - 2005 University of Toronto Press More     British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, 1870-1900: Beauty for the People Diana Maltz - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan This cultural study reveals the interdependence between British Aestheticism and late-Victorian social reform movements. Following John Ruskin, who believed in art's power to civilize the poor, cultur... More     Leigh Hunt and the London Literary Scene: A Reception History of His Major Works, 1805-1828 Michael Eberle-Sinatra - 2005 Routledge Leigh Hunt and the London Literary Scene reassesses Hunt's substantial contributions to several different genres and to offer an account of their significant impact on audiences during the Romantic pe... More     Ben Jonson in the Romantic Age Tom Lockwood - 2005 Oxford University Press Tom Lockwood's study is the first examination of Jonson's place in the texts and culture of the Romantic age. Part one of the book explores theatrical, critical, and editorial responses to Jonson, inc... More     Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction Lisa Surridge - 2005 Ohio University Press The Offenses Against the Person Act of 1828 opened magistrates’ courts to abused working-class wives. Newspapers in turn reported on these proceedings, and in this way the Victorian scrutiny of domest... More     Figures of Heresy: Radical Theology in English And American Literature, 1830-2000 Andrew Dix, Jonathan Taylor - 2005 Sussex Academic Press More     Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott And The Story Of Tomorrow Caroline McCracken-Flesher - 2005 Oxford University Press No thanks to Walter Scott, Scotland has at last regained its parliament. This is a common assumption among countless commentators who read Scott as not having allowed his country any future. So well, ... More     Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790—1840 Thomas Pfau - 2005 Johns Hopkins University Press Drawing on a multifaceted philosophical tradition ranging from Kant to Hegel to Heidegger -- incorporating as well the psychosocial analyses of Freud, Benjamin, and Adorno -- Pfau develops a new under... More     Dickens and the Politics of the Family Catherine Waters - 1997 Cambridge University Press Drawing on feminist and new historicist methodologies, Catherine Waters argues that Dickens' novels record a shift in notions of the family away from stress on the importance of lineage and blood towa... More     Jane Austen in Hollywood Linda Troost, Sayre Greenfield - 2001 University Press of Kentucky Jane Austen in Hollywood examines the recent spate of films based on Austen's novels, highlighting how these productions have enhanced their appeal to a wide audience and how the films have emb... More     Victorian Travelers and the Opening of China, 1842-1907 Susan Schoenbauer Thurin - 1999 Ohio University Press More     Bacchus in Romantic England: Drink and Writers Anya Taylor - 1998 Palgrave Macmillan More     Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel Hugh Small - 1999 Palgrave Macmillan Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) achieved fame for her leadership of a group of British nurses during the Crimean War. After the war, she dedicated herself to promoting public health. She became one... More     Keats's Odes and Contemporary Criticism James O'Rourke - 1998 University Press of Florida More     Women of the Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain Barbara Onslow - 2001 Palgrave Macmillan To 19th-century writers the dynamic periodical press seemed both an influential medium and a means to pay the bills. A suprising number of women, despite limited education, parental opposition and the... More     John Ruskin (Sutton Pocket Biography) Francis O'Gorman - 1999 Sutton Publishing John Ruskin was one of the greatest Victorian critics of art and society, but he was also preoccupied with politics, economics and education. This pocket-sized biography explores his influence on his ... More     Jane Austen: A Life David Nokes - 1998 University of California Press More     The Poetry of Relationship: The Wordsworths and Coleridge, 1797-1800 Richard Matlak - 1997 Palgrave Macmillan Richard Matlak uses psychobiography to look at the writings of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth. He examines the intimate relationship between the three writers for c... More     Medical Women And Victorian Fiction Kristine Swenson - 2005 University of Missouri Press In Medical Women and Victorian Fiction, Kristine Swenson explores the cultural intersections of fiction, feminism, and medicine during the second half of the nineteenth century in Britain and h... More     Consensual Fictions: Women, Liberalism, And The English Novel Wendy S. Jones - 2005 University of Toronto Press More     Teaching British Women Writers 1750-1900 Jeanne Moskal, Shannon R. Wooden - 2005 Peter Lang Publishing The exuberant recovery from obscurity of scores of British women writers has prompted professors and publishers to revisit publication of women's writings. New curricular inclusion of these sometimes ... More     Dickinson's Misery : A Theory of Lyric Reading Virginia Jackson - 2005 Princeton University Press How do we know that Emily Dickinson wrote poems? How do we recognize a poem when we see one? In Dickinson's Misery, Virginia Jackson poses fundamental questions about reading habits we have com... More     The Fin-de-Siecle Poem : English Literary Culture and the 1890s Joseph Bristow - 2005 Ohio University Press Featuring innovative research by emergent and established scholars, The Fin-de-Siecle Poem throws new light on the remarkable diversity of poetry produced at the close of the nineteenth century... More     Jane Austen's Philosophy of the Virtues Sarah Emsley - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan This book examines Austen's novels within their philosophical and religious contexts, and demonstrates that both classical and theological virtues are central to her work. In fresh readings of the six... More     Jane Austen in Context Janet Todd ed. Janet Todd - 2005 Cambridge University Press Covering many aspects of Jane Austen's life, works and historical context, this collection of essays provides the most complete one volume introduction to her life and times. The generously illustrate... More     Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism : Passengers of Modernity Ana Parejo Vadillo - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan This book re-examines cultural, social, geographical and philosophical representations of Victorian London by looking at the transformations in urban life produced by the rise and development of urban... More     The Rise of the Detective in Early Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction Heather Worthington - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan Detective fiction's real origins lurk in the popular press of the early nineteenth century, where the detective and the case were steadily developed. The well-known masters of early crime fiction, inc... More     The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot and Serialization David Payne - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan This book shows how Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot sacralized Victorian modernity in two contradictory ways: by incarnating their moment as one of transcendent development, and by reenacting blo... More     Romanticism, Enthusiasm, and Regulation: Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period Jon Mee - 2003 Oxford University Press What is enthusiasm? Enthusiasm for most of the eighteenth century was identified with excess of religious feeling, although it came increasingly to be used to describe the unregulated and infectious u... More     An Imaginary England: Nation, Landscape and Literature, 1840-1920 Roger Ebbatson, Ann Donahue - 2005 Ashgate Publishing In his highly theorised and original book, Roger Ebbatson traces the emergence of conceptions of England and Englishness from 1840 to 1920. His study concentrates on poetry and fiction by authors such... More     Reading the Brontë Body : Disease, Desire, and the Constraints of Culture Beth Torgerson - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë's literary representations of illness and disease reflect the major role illness played in the lives of the Victorians and its frequent reoccurrence within the Brontë... More     Nineteenth-Century Anti-Catholic Discourses: The Case of Charlotte Bronte Diana Peschier - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan More     Thomas Hardy, Metaphysics and Music Mark Asquith - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan This new study offers an original approach to Hardy's art as a novelist and entirely new readings of certain musical scenes in Hardy's works. Asquith utilizes original archival research (both scientif... More     The Insatiability of Human Wants: Economics and Aesthetics in Market Society Regenia Gagnier - 2000 University of Chicago Press Combining cultural history, economics, and literary criticism, Regenia Gagnier's new work traces the parallel development of economic theory and aesthetic theory, offering a shrewd reading of humans a... More     The Victorians and the Visual Imagination Kate Flint - 2000 Cambridge University Press This innovative, interdisciplinary study explores the Victorians' attitudes toward sight. It draws on writers as diverse as George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Rudyard Kipling as well as pre-... More     Realist Vision Peter Brooks - 2005 Yale University Press Realist Vision explores the claim to represent the world “as it is.” Peter Brooks takes a new look at the realist tradition and its intense interest in the visual. Discussing major English and ... More     The One vs. The Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel Alex Woloch - 2003 Princeton University Press More     Inaugural Wounds: Shaping of Desire in Five Nineteenth-Century English Narratives Robert E. Lougy - 2004 Ohio University Press More     Victorian Urban Settings: Essays on the Nineteenth-Century City and its Contexts Debra N. Mancoff (Ed.), D. J. Trela (Ed.) - 1996 Garland Publishing More     Angels and Absences: Child Deaths in the Nineteenth Century Laurence Lerner - 1997 Vanderbilt University Press Angels and Absences offers numerous instances of individual responses to the death of children in fiction and poetry throughout the nineteenth century. More     Hopkins Re-Constructed: Life, Poetry, and the Tradition Justus George Lawler - 1998 Continuum More     Keats's Paradise Lost Beth Lau - 1998 University Press of Florida More     Victorian Painting Lionel Lambourne - 1999 Phaidon Press Victorian Painting is a comprehensive survey of one of the most fertile and varied eras in the history of painting. It embraces not just the United Kingdom but also the English-speaking countries lin... More     The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siecle Kelly Hurley - 1996 Cambridge University Press This book accounts for the resurgence of Gothic, and its immense popularity, during the British fin de siècle. In particular, Kelly Hurley explores a key scenario that haunts the genre: the loss of a ... More     Revealing the Holy Land: The Photographic Exploration of Palestine Kathleen Stewart Howe - 1997 Santa Barbara Museum of Art This is the catalog for an exhibition of ninety nineteenth-century photographs drawn primarily from the world-class collection of Michael G. Wilson. Included are the starkly beautiful photographs of S... More     Dickens and Imagination Robert Higbie - 1998 University Press of Florida More     The Victorian Pulpit: Spoken and Written Sermons in Nineteenth-Century Britain Robert H. Ellison - 1998 Susquehanna University Press More     The Challenge of Coleridge: Ethics and Interpretation in Romanticism and Modern Philosophy David P. Haney - 2001 Pennsylvania State University Press Interweaving past and present texts, The Challenge of Coleridge engages the British Romantic poet, critic, and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge in a "conversation" (in Hans-Georg Gadamer’s s... More     Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role Andrew Elfenbein - 1999 Columbia University Press More     Secret Selves: Confession and Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography Oliver S. Buckton - 1998 University of North Carolina Press More     The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth- Century British Fiction Patrick Brantlinger - 1998 Indiana University Press More     The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel Laura C. Berry - 2000 University of Virginia Press The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel traces the the story of victimized childhood to its origins in nineteenth-century Britain. Almost as soon as "childhood" became a distinct category... More     Our Lady of Victorian Feminism: The Madonna in the Work of Anna Jameson, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot Kimberly VanEsveld Adams - 2001 Ohio University Press More     Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900 Annemarie Adams - 1996 McGill-Queen's University Press A revealing look at the forces influencing domestic life, health, and architecture in Victorian England. More     The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination Paul Saint-Amour - 2003 Cornell University Press They borrow from published works without attribution. They remake literary creation in the image of consumption. They celebrate the art of scissors and paste. Who are these outlaws? Postmodern culture... More     Lot's Daughters: Sex, Redemption, And Women’s Quest For Authority Robert Polhemus - 2005 Stanford University Press More     Creative Negativity: Four Victorian Exemplars of the Female Quest Carol MacKay - 2001 Stanford University Press Focusing on the early Modern and Victorian periods, the author finds covert revolutionaries in four familiar practitioners of a strategy she calls creative negativity: poet-photographer Julia Margaret... More     Common Scents: Comparative Encounters in High-Victorian Fiction Janice Carlisle - 2004 Oxford University Press More     Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland Gordon Bigelow - 2003 Cambridge University Press During the Irish Famine of 1845-52, novels by Dickens and Gaskell, as well as a range of commentaries on the Irish disaster, argued for a new theory of individual expression in opposition to the syste... More     Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit John Bowen - 2003 Oxford University Press In the first half of his career, Dickens wrote some of the most important novels of the nineteenth century, including The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and Martin Chuzzlewit. The... More     Poetical Remains: Poets' Graves, Bodies, and Books in the Nineteenth Century Samantha Matthews - 2004 Oxford University Press What happens to poets' genius when they die? The peculiar affinity which was felt to exist between their physical and literary 'remains' - their bodies and books - is the subject of this original cult... More     The Awkward Age in Women's Popular Fiction, 1850-1900: Girls and the Transition to Womanhood Sarah Bilston - 2004 Oxford University Press This book demonstrates that 'the awkward age' formed a fault-line in Victorian female experience, an unusual phase in which restlessness, self-interest, and rebellion were possible. Tracing evolving t... More     Imagining Inclusive Society in Nineteenth Century Novels: The Code of Sincerity in the Public Sphere Pam Morris - 2004 Johns Hopkins University Press In Imagining Inclusive Society in Nineteenth-Century Novels, Pam Morris traces a dramatic transformation of British public consciousness that occurred between the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1867. ... More     Jane Austen and the Enlightenment Peter Knox-Shaw - 2004 Cambridge University Press It is now widely understood that Jane Austen's writing and thought were derived directly from her late eighteenth-century childhood, but astonishingly, this is the first study of the influence of the ... More     Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence : The Scientific Investigations of Poe, Dickens and Doyle Lawrence Frank - 2003 Palgrave Macmillan Frank investigates an intertextual exchange between nineteenth-century historical disciplines (philology, cosmology, geology, archaeology and evolutionary biology) and the detective fictions of Poe, D... More     Dickens the Journalist John Drew - 2004 Palgrave Macmillan Dickens's career as a journalist spanned four decades, during which he wrote over 350 articles: reports, sketches, reviews, leaders, exposbliogés, satires and reminiscences. This project offers the fi... More     "Colour'd Shadows" : Contexts in Publishing, Printing, and Reading Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Terence Hoagwood, Kathryn Ledbetter - 2005 Palgrave Macmillan A large body of nineteenth-century British women's literature highlights the use of verbal illusions, even while its advertisement remains the premise of inward and personal experience. In the age of... More     Disorienting Fiction : The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels James Buzard - 2005 Princeton University Press This book gives an ambitious revisionist account of the nineteenth-century British novel and its role in the complex historical process that ultimately gave rise to modern anthropology's concept of cu... More     Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud: Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins Carolyn Dever - 1998 Cambridge University Press Victorian culture is famous for its idealization of mothers and families, yet the popular novels of this period frequently feature mothers who are dead or otherwise absent. Through an analysis of the ... More     The World of Hannah More Patricia Demers - 1996 University of Kentucky Press More     Gothic Images of Race in Nineteenth-Century Britain H. L. Malchow - 1996 Stanford University Press More     Policing Gender, Class and Family: Britain, 1850-1940 Linda Mahood - 1996 University of Alberta Press More     Labrador Odyssey: The Journal and Photographs of Eliot Curwen on the second Voyage of Wilfred Grenfell, 1893 Ronald Rompkey (Ed.) ed. Ronald Rompkey - 1996 McGill-Queen's University Press More     Glorious Battle: The Cultural Politics of Victorian Anglo-Catholicism John Shelton Reed - 1996 Vanderbilt University Press More     A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society Mary Poovey - 1998 University of Chicago Press More     After the Lovedeath: Sexual Violence and the Making of Culture Lawrence Kramer - 1997 University of California Press More     State, Society and the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England Alan Kidd - 1999 St. Martin's Press More     The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy Kenneth Johnston - 1998 Norton More     Henry Goulburn 1784-1856: A Political Biography Brian Jenkins - 1996 Liverpool University Press More     Inventing Maternity: Politics, Science, and Literature 1650-1865 Susan Greenfield (Ed.) , Carol Barash - 1999 University of Kentucky Press More     Wordsworth and the Victorians Stephen Gill - 1998 Clarendon Press More     Promising Language: Betrothal in Victorian Law and Fiction Randall Craig - 2000 SUNY Press More     The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Study of Her Life and Works Jennifer Carnell - 2000 Sensation Press More     Inventing Wonderland: The Lives and Fantasies of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, J.M. Barrie, Kenneth Grahame and A.A. Milne Jackie Wullschlager - 1996 Methuen Publishing Ltd. More     Ruskin's Mythic Queen: Gender Subversion in Victorian Culture Sharon Aronofsky Weltman - 1998 Ohio University Press More     Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context Marlene Tromp (Ed.) ed. Pamela Gilbert , Aeron Haynie - 1999 SUNY Press More     Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology Jan-Melissa Schramm - 2000 Cambridge University Press This original and wide-ranging study shows how changing attitudes to evidence, trial and revelation in law and theology had a profound impact on literary narrative in the nineteenth century. Jan-Melis... More     Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets William Deresiewicz - 2004 Columbia University Press This elegant book traces the two major periods of Jane Austen's work in order to demonstrate the fundamental impact and influence of British Romanticism on the later novels. More     Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture Jay Clayton - 2003 Oxford University Press Charles Dickens in Cyberspace opens a window on a startling set of literary and scientific links between contemporary American culture and the nineteenth-century heritage it often repudiates. S... More     Crime and Empire: The Colony in Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Crime Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee - 2003 Oxford University Press More     Literature in the Marketplace : Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices John O. Jordan - 2003 Cambridge University Press This innovative collection of essays addresses important issues in the history of the book. The multidisciplinary essays consider different aspects of the production, circulation, and consumption of p... More     The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel Jonathan Grossman - 2002 Johns Hopkins University Press In The Art of Alibi, Jonathan Grossman reconstructs the relation of the novel to nineteenth-century law courts. During the Romantic era, courthouses and trial scenes frequently found their way ... More     Fictions of Affliction : Physical Disability in Victorian Culture Martha Stoddard Holmes - 2004 University of Michigan Press Why do so many of the most memorable fictional characters in nineteenth-century British literature have disabilities? What did physical disability really mean in Victorian Britain -- and what can that... More     Invalidism and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain Maria H Frawley - 2004 University of Chicago Press Nineteenth-century Britain did not invent chronic illness, but its social climate allowed hundreds of men and women, from intellectuals to factory workers, to assume the identity of "invalid." Whether... More

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