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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. 

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Masculinities in Victorian Painting

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 ...

Romantic Feuds Transcending the 'Age of Personality'

Romantic Feuds: Transcending the 'Age of Personality'

1st Edition

By Kim Wheatley
November 17, 2016

Romantic writers such as Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge aspired to rise above the so-called 'age of personality,' a new culture of politicized print gossip and personal attacks. Nevertheless, Southey, Coleridge, and other Romantic-era figures such as Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Sydney...

Intellectual Politics and Cultural Conflict in the Romantic Period Scottish Whigs, English Radicals and the Making of the British Public Sphere

Intellectual Politics and Cultural Conflict in the Romantic Period: Scottish Whigs, English Radicals and the Making of the British Public Sphere

1st Edition

By Alex Benchimol
November 15, 2016

Intellectual Politics and Cultural Conflict in the Romantic Period maps the intellectual formation of English plebeian radicalism and Scottish philosophic Whiggism over the long eighteenth century and examines their associated strategies of critical engagement with the cultural, social and ...

Byron and the Discourses of History

Byron and the Discourses of History

1st Edition

By Carla Pomarè
October 31, 2016

In her study of the relationship between Byron’s lifelong interest in historical matters and the development of history as a discipline, Carla Pomarè focuses on drama (the Venetian plays, The Deformed Transformed), verse narrative (The Siege of Corinth, Mazeppa) and dramatic monologue (The Prophecy...

Landscape and Gender in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy The Body of Nature

Landscape and Gender in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy: The Body of Nature

1st Edition

By Eithne Henson
October 10, 2016

Examining a wide range of representations of physical, metaphorical, and dream landscapes in Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, Eithne Henson explores the way in which gender attitudes are expressed, both in descriptions of landscape as the human body and in ideas of nature. Henson ...

Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians From Commodities to Oddities

Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians: From Commodities to Oddities

1st Edition

Edited By Jonathon Shears, Jen Harrison
October 10, 2016

What are we to make of the Victorians’ fascination with collecting? What effect did their encounters with the curious, exotic and downright odd have on Victorian writers and their works? The essays in this collection take up these questions by examining the phenomenon of bric-à-brac in Victorian ...

Nineteenth-Century British Literature Then and Now Reading with Hindsight

Nineteenth-Century British Literature Then and Now: Reading with Hindsight

1st Edition

By Simon Dentith
August 26, 2016

Envisioning today’s readers as poised between an impossible attempt to read texts as their original readers experienced them and an awareness of our own temporal moment, Simon Dentith complicates traditional prejudices against hindsight to approach issues of interpretation and historicity in ...

Victorian Women and the Economies of Travel, Translation and Culture, 1830–1870

Victorian Women and the Economies of Travel, Translation and Culture, 1830–1870

1st Edition

By Judith Johnston
August 26, 2016

Both travel and translation involve a type of journey, one with literal and metaphorical dimensions. Judith Johnston brings together these two richly resonant modes of getting from here to there as she explores their impact on culture with respect to the work of Victorian women. Using the metaphor ...

Harriet Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines Nineteenth-century intellectual powerhouse

Harriet Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines: Nineteenth-century intellectual powerhouse

1st Edition

Edited By Valerie Sanders, Gaby Weiner
August 08, 2016

One of the foremost writers of her time, Harriet Martineau established her reputation by writing a hugely successful series of fictional tales on political economy whose wide readership included the young Queen Victoria. She went on to write fiction and nonfiction; books, articles and pamphlets; ...

Thackeray in Time History, Memory, and Modernity

Thackeray in Time: History, Memory, and Modernity

1st Edition

Edited By Richard Salmon, Alice Crossley
May 25, 2016

An intense fascination with the experience of time has long been recognised as a distinctive feature of the writing of William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863). This collection of essays, however, represents the first sustained critical examination of Thackeray's 'time consciousness' in all its ...

George Gissing and the Woman Question Convention and Dissent

George Gissing and the Woman Question: Convention and Dissent

1st Edition

Edited By Simon J. James, Christine Huguet
August 30, 2013

Approaching its subject both contextually and comparatively, George Gissing and the Woman Question reads Gissing's novels, short stories and personal writings as a crux in European fiction's formulations of gender and sexuality. The collection places Gissing alongside nineteenth- and ...

The Dog in the Dickensian Imagination

The Dog in the Dickensian Imagination

1st Edition

By Beryl Gray
November 13, 2014

Fascinated by them, unable to ignore them, and imaginatively stimulated by them, Charles Dickens was an acute and unsentimental reporter on the dogs he kept and encountered during a time when they were a burgeoning part of the nineteenth-century urban and domestic scene. As dogs inhabited Dickens’s...

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