Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century: Great Britain and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Laura Monrós-Gaspar, Victoria Puchal Terol
December 28, 2025
Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century is the first book to explore overlooked histories of women who filled the theatrical stages of the nineteenth century, dialoguing with contemporary adaptations, reworkings, and retellings of these histories in Great Britain and beyond. Female ...
John Ruskin and the Victorian Woman Writer
1st Edition
By Anne Longmuir
December 26, 2025
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 ...
Ibsen and Degeneration: Familial Decay and the Fall of Civilization
1st Edition
By Henrik Johnsson
December 25, 2025
Henrik Ibsen’s plays were written at a critical juncture in late-19th-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 ...
James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family
1st Edition
By Rebecca Nesvet
December 25, 2025
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 (1814–1884). It argues that Rymer wrote his so-called ‘penny bloods’ and ‘dreadfuls’ for and about British urban working families. In the 1840s, ...
Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, 1885-1914: Vampiric Enterprise
1st Edition
By Jane Ford
December 25, 2025
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, ...
Feminist Gothic: Ghost Stories by Victorian Women Writers
1st Edition
By Anne DeLong
December 17, 2025
This examination of 32 ghost stories by 21 Victorian women writers defines a new genre, Feminist Gothic, that utilizes the Gothic structure and its uncanny atmosphere of ambiguity to deploy competing narratives that seek to undermine patriarchy by simultaneously upholding and subverting its ...
Robert Browning and the Gothic Imagination
1st Edition
By Justin Gilbert
December 02, 2025
The poetry of Robert Browning (1812–89) makes unmistakable use of the tropes of the eighteenth-century Gothic novel, but only in the last few years has there been any interest in the poet’s wider relationship with the genre. Building on recent critical literature, Robert Browning and the Gothic ...
Margaret Oliphant’s Curative Gothic Literature
1st Edition
By Katerina García-Walsh
November 05, 2025
Prolific Scottish novelist Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897), remembered chiefly for her realist fiction and biting literary criticism of contemporary authors, also wrote nineteen supernatural tales. This monograph offers a comprehensive exploration of Oliphant’s Gothic literature, in the light of her ...
The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels: Dickens, Braddon, and Collins
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By Sarah Yoon
October 26, 2025
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 ...
Beyond the Shelley Circle: The Clairmont Family and Its Descendants
1st Edition
By Sharon L. Joffe
July 24, 2025
Beyond the Shelley Circle: The Clairmont Family and Its Descendants will interest Shelley-circle researchers, life-writing scholars, and nineteenth-century historians alike. The Clairmont family’s connection to Mary Shelley began in 1801, when her father William Godwin married Mary Jane Vial. The ...
Doctrine and Difference: The Thematic Scale of Classic American Literature
1st Edition
By Michael J. Colacurcio
May 05, 2025
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 ...
Oscar Wilde and Nihilism
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By Colin Cavendish-Jones
March 13, 2025
Oscar Wilde and Nihilism examines Wilde’s major works in the context of nineteenth-century philosophical nihilism and the Victorian religious unsettlement. The book covers Wilde’s plays, the fairy tales, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the critical writings, and De Profundis to show how Wilde’s ...