19th Century Literature Books

New and Published Books

1. Editing Emily Dickinson

   The Production of an Author

   By Lena Christensen

   Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

   Editing Emily Dickinson considers the processes through which Dickinson's work has been edited in the twentieth century and how such editorial processes contribute specifically to the production of Emily Dickinson as author. The posthumous editing of her handwritten manuscripts into the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Language, Gender, and Citizenship in American Literature, 1789–1919

   By Amy Dunham Strand

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   Examining language debates and literary texts from Noah Webster to H.L. Mencken and from Washington Irving to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this book demonstrates how gender arose in passionate discussions about language to address concerns about national identity and national citizenship elicited by...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Masculinity and the English Working Class

   Studies in Victorian Autobiography and Fiction

   By Ying Lee

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   This book examines representations of working-class masculine subjectivity in Victorian autobiography and fiction. In it, Ying focuses on ideas of domesticity and the male body and demonstrates that working-class masculinities differ substantially from those of the widely studied upper classes...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism

   The Haunting Interval

   By Luke Thurston

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This book resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint neo-gothic ornament, but as a powerful literary response to the technological and psychological disturbances that marked the end of the Victorian era....

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
5. Reading Victorian Schoolrooms

   Childhood and Education in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

   By Elizabeth Gargano

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   Reading Victorian Schoolrooms examines the numerous schoolroom scenes in nineteenth-century novels during the fraught era of the Victorian education debates. As Gargano argues, the fiction of mainstream and children’s writers such as Dickens, Brontë, and Carroll reflected widespread Victorian...

   Published April 9th 2012 by Routledge
6. Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton

   Power Play of Empire

   By Ben Grant

   Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

   By engaging closely with the work of Richard Francis Burton (1821-90), the iconic nineteenth-century imperial spy, explorer, anthropologist and translator, Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton explores the White Man’s ‘imperial fantasies’, and the ways in which the many metropolitan...

   Published April 9th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Victorian World

   Edited by Martin Hewitt

   Series: Routledge Worlds

   With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses political history, the history of ideas, cultural history and art history, The Victorian World offers a sweeping survey of the world in the nineteenth century. This volume offers a fresh evaluation of Britain and its global presence in the years...

   Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
8. Sir Walter Scott on Novelists and Fiction (Routledge Revivals)

   Edited by Ioan Williams

   First published in 1968, this collection of essays and reviews represents all that Sir Walter Scott wrote on the subject of novels and novelists, and will be invaluable for the study of Scott, both as novelist and critic. The work provides a survey of the novel at an important...

   Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
9. Victorian Narrative Technologies in the Middle East

   By Cara Murray

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   Victorian Narrative Technologies tells the story of how the British, who wanted nothing to do with the Suez Canal during the decades in which it was being internationally planned and invested, came to own it. It stands to reason that the nation that prided itself on its engineering prowess and had...

   Published March 12th 2012 by Routledge
10. Poetic Language and Political Engagement in the Poetry of Keats

    By Jack L. Siler

    Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

    In this incisive volume Siler traces the uneasy relationship between the content of Keats' poems and social history. In the process, he discovers that the early poems are linked with the mission statement of the radical journal Annals of the Fine Arts, whilst the poems after Endymion reveal a...

    Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge