Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
Nineteenth-Century Visions of Race: British Travel Writing about America
1st Edition
By Justyna Fruzińska
May 31, 2023
Nineteenth-Century Visions of Race: British Travel Writing about America concerns the depiction of racial Others in travel writing produced by British travelers coming to America between 1815 and 1861.The travelers’ discussions of slavery and of the situation of Native Americans constituted an ...
Touch, Sexuality, and Hands in British Literature, 1740–1901
1st Edition
By Kimberly Cox
May 31, 2023
From Robert Lovelace’s uninvited hand-grasps in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa to to Basil Hallward’s first encounter with Dorian Gray, literary depictions of touching hands in British literature from the 1740s to the 1890s communicate emotional dimensions of sexual experience that reflect shifting ...
Doctrine and Difference: Readings in Classic American Literature
1st Edition
By Michael J. Colacurcio
January 09, 2023
Doctrine and Difference: Readings in Classic American Literature aims to expand and deepen the inquiry begun in the volume from 2007. Beginning with an essay on the avowedly Puritan poetry of Anne Bradstreet and ending with two not-quite-secular novels from late in the 19th century, this volume ...
Robert Seymour and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture: Sketches by Seymour and Comic Illustration
1st Edition
By Brian Maidment
January 09, 2023
Robert Seymour and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture is the first book-length study of the original illustrator of Dickens’s Pickwick Papers. Discussion of the range and importance of Seymour’s work as a jobbing illustrator in the 1820s and 1830s is at the centre of the book. A bibliographical study...
The Matrilineal Heritage of Louisa May Alcott and Christina Rossetti
1st Edition
By Azelina Flint
January 09, 2023
In an unprecedented comparison of two of the most important female authors of the nineteenth century, Azelina Flint foregrounds the influence of the religious communities that shaped Louisa May Alcott’s and Christina Rossetti’s visions of female creativity. In the early stages of the authors’ ...
The Nineteenth Century Periodical Press and the Development of Detective Fiction
1st Edition
By Samuel Saunders
January 09, 2023
This book re-imagines nineteenth-century detective fiction as a literary genre that was connected to, and nurtured by, contemporary periodical journalism. Whilst ‘detective fiction’ is almost universally-accepted to have originated in the nineteenth century, a variety of widely-accepted scholarly ...
Victorian Pets and Poetry
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevin A. Morrison
January 09, 2023
Some of the most celebrated poets of the Victorian era wrote—at times movingly or humorously—about their pets. They did so in a wider literary context, for poetry about pets was ubiquitous in the period. Animal welfare organizations utilized poems about canine and feline suffering in institutional ...
Cultures and Literatures in Dialogue: The Narrative Construction of Russian Cultural Memory
1st Edition
By Elena Bollinger
December 30, 2022
This book addresses the narrative construction of Russian cultural memory in the work of Julian Barnes. It investigates how Barnes's texts tend to display a memory process as a transcultural mode of the creation of English and Russian national identities. Examining a need to revisit Russian ...
Jane Austen and Literary Theory
1st Edition
By Shawn Normandin
September 26, 2022
Jane Austen was one of the most adventurous thinkers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, but one would probably never guess that by reading her critics. Perhaps no canonical author in English literature has proven, until now, more resistant to theory. Tracing the political ...
The Nineteenth Century Revis(it)ed: The New Historical Fiction
1st Edition
By Ina Bergmann
August 01, 2022
The Nineteenth Century Revis(it)ed: The New Historical Fiction explores the renaissance of the American historical novel at the turn of the twenty-first century. The study examines the revision of nineteenth-century historical events in cultural products against the background of recent theoretical...
The Bohemian Republic: Transnational Literary Networks in the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
By James Gatheral
May 30, 2022
In the mid-nineteenth century successive cultural Bohemias were proclaimed in Paris, London, New York, and Melbourne. Focusing on networks and borders as the central modes of analysis, this book charts for the first time Bohemia’s cross-Channel, transatlantic, and trans-Pacific migrations, locating...
“Music Makers” and World Creators: The Forms And Functions Of Embedded Poems In British Fantasy Narratives
1st Edition
By Michaela Hausmann
May 06, 2022
Many works of fantasy literature feature a considerable number of embedded poems, some written by the authors themselves, some borrowed and transformed from other authors. Exploring the mechanisms of this mix and the interaction between individual poems and the overall narrative, this monograph ...