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1. Narrative Hospitality in Late Victorian Fiction

   Novel Ethics

   By Rachel Hollander

   Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

   Bringing together poststructuralist ethical theory with late Victorian debates about the morality of literature, this book reconsiders the ways in which novels engender an ethical orientation or response in their readers, explaining how the intersections of nation, family, and form in the late...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Textual Condition of Nineteenth-Century Literature

   By Josephine Guy, Ian Small

   Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

   In this important new book, Guy and Small develop a new account of literary creativity in the late nineteenth century, one that combines concepts generated by text-theorists concerning the embodied nature of textuality with the empirical insights of text-editors and book historians. Through these...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
3. Domesticity and Design in American Women’s Lives and Literature

   Stowe, Alcott, Cather, and Wharton Writing Home

   By Caroline Hellman

   Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

   Domesticity and Design in American Women’s Lives and Literature explores the ways in which four American women writers from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century inhabited domestic space and portrayed it in their work. Hellman explores independent female authors who had intriguing and...

   Published June 6th 2011 by Routledge
4. Antebellum American Women Writers and the Road

   American Mobilities

   By Susan L. Roberson

   Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

   A study of American women’s narratives of mobility and travel, this book examines how geographic movement opened up other movements or mobilities for antebellum women at a time of great national expansion. Concerned with issues of personal and national identity, the study demonstrates how women not...

   Published October 26th 2010 by Routledge
5. Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era

   By Lara Baker Whelan

   Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

   This book demonstrates how representations of the Victorian suburb in mid- to late-nineteenth century British writing occasioned a literary sub-genre unique to this period, one that attempted to reassure readers that the suburb was a place where outsiders could be controlled and where middle-class...

   Published November 3rd 2009 by Routledge
6. Victorian Servants, Class, and the Politics of Literacy

   By Jean Fernandez

   Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

   In this volume, Fernandez brings the under-examined figure of the Victorian servant out of obscurity in order to tell the story of his or her encounter with literacy, as imagined and represented in nineteenth-century fiction, autobiography, pamphlets and diaries. A vast body of writing is uncovered...

   Published September 2nd 2009 by Routledge
7. Christian and Lyric Tradition in Victorian Women’s Poetry

   By F. Elizabeth Gray

   Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

   Women in the Victorian period were acknowledged to be the "religious sex," but their relationship to the doctrines, practices, and hierarchies of Christianity was both highly circumscribed, which has been well documented, and complexly creative, which has not. Gray visits the importance of the...

   Published August 18th 2009 by Routledge
8. Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion

   'Our Feverish Contact'

   By Allan Conrad Christensen

   Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

   This intriguing book examines the ways contagion - or disease - inform and shape a wide variety of nineteenth century texts and contexts. Christiensen dissects the cultural assumptions concerning disease, health, impurity and so on before exploring different perspectives on key themes such as...

   Published April 6th 2005 by Routledge