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Ibsen and Degeneration Familial Decay and the Fall of Civilization

Ibsen and Degeneration: Familial Decay and the Fall of Civilization

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By Henrik Johnsson
August 19, 2024

Henrik Ibsen’s plays were written at a critical juncture in late nineteenth-century European culture. Appearing at a time when notions of evolution and heredity were commonplace themes in literature and the arts, Ibsenian drama highlights the creative potential offered by contemporary evolutionary ...

John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer

John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer

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By Anne Longmuir
August 15, 2024

John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer addresses the little-considered personal and literary relationships of John Ruskin and four major Victorian women writers: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Christina Rossetti. Drawing on new archival, primary research, the ...

Reading the Romantic Ridiculous

Reading the Romantic Ridiculous

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By Andrew McInnes, Rita J. Dashwood
August 09, 2024

Reading The Romantic Ridiculous aims to take Romantic Studies from the sublime to the ridiculous. Building on recent work which decentres the myth of the solitary genius, this duograph theorizes the ridiculous as an alternative affect to the sublime, privileging collective laughter above solitude ...

Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, 1885-1914 Vampiric Enterprise

Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, 1885-1914: Vampiric Enterprise

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By Jane Ford
August 01, 2024

Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, 1885–1914 explores the complex network of metaphors that emerged around late nineteenth-century conceptions of economic self-interest — metaphors that dramatised the predatory, conflictual and exploitative basis of relations between nations, ...

James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family

James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family

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By Rebecca Nesvet
July 30, 2024

James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family is the first monograph focusing on Sweeney Todd and Varney the Vampyre’s creator James Malcolm Rymer (1814-84) and an essential contribution to Victorian, Gothic, and working-class literary studies. It argues that Rymer wrote his so-called ‘penny ...

English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century The Voice of the People

English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Voice of the People

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By Stephen Knight
May 07, 2024

English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century discusses the valuable fiction written in mid-nineteenth-century Britain which represents the situations of the new breed of industrial workers, both the mostly male factory workers who operated in the oppressive mills of the midlands and ...

The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels Dickens, Braddon, and Collins

The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels: Dickens, Braddon, and Collins

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By Sarah Yoon
April 02, 2024

The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels studies how the detective as a literary character evolved through the mid-nineteenth century in England, as seen in sensation novels. In contrast to most assumptions about the English detective, Yoon argues that the detective was more often ...

The Vampire in Nineteenth-Century Literature A Feast of Blood

The Vampire in Nineteenth-Century Literature: A Feast of Blood

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Edited By Brooke Cameron, Lara Karpenko
January 29, 2024

Against the social and economic upheavals that characterized the nineteenth century, the border-bending nosferatu embodied the period’s fears as well as its forbidden desires. This volume looks at both the range among and legacy of vampires in the nineteenth century, including race, culture, social...

Doctrine and Difference The Thematic Scale of Classic American Literature

Doctrine and Difference: The Thematic Scale of Classic American Literature

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By Michael J. Colacurcio
December 22, 2023

Doctrine and Difference: The Thematic Scale of Classic American Literature aims to expand and deepen our knowledge into the inquiry of “contextual historicism,” observing writers of the American nineteenth century, and their vastly differing approaches to perceptions such as race, gender, and ...

Strangers and the Enchantment of Space in Victorian Fiction, 1830–1865

Strangers and the Enchantment of Space in Victorian Fiction, 1830–1865

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By Kristen Pond
October 20, 2023

Tracing the origins of how we think about strangers to the Victorian period, Strangers and the Enchantment of Space in Victorian Fiction, 1830– 1865 explores the vital role strangers had in shaping social relations during the cultural transformations of the Industrial Revolution, transportation ...

The Forgotten Alcott Essays on the Artistic Legacy and Literary Life of May Alcott Nieriker

The Forgotten Alcott: Essays on the Artistic Legacy and Literary Life of May Alcott Nieriker

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Edited By Azelina Flint, Lauren Hehmeyer
September 25, 2023

This collection is the first academic study of the captivating life and career of expatriate artist, writer, and activist, May Alcott Nieriker. Nieriker is known as the sister of Louisa May Alcott and model for "Amy March" in Alcott’s Little Women. As this book reveals, she was much more than "Amy"...

Liberalism, Theology, and the Performative in Antebellum American Literature

Liberalism, Theology, and the Performative in Antebellum American Literature

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By Patrick McDonald
September 19, 2023

The 1850s United States witnessed a far-reaching political, social, and economic crisis. Symptomatic of this, a wide range of narrative fiction from sentimental novels to sensational drama identifies a foundational link between liberal institutions and performative utterances. Auctions, trials, ...

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