Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
Victorian Contagion: Risk and Social Control in the Victorian Literary Imagination
1st Edition
By Chung-jen Chen
June 30, 2021
Victorian Contagion: Risk and Social Control in the Victorian Literary Imagination examines the literary and cultural production of contagion in the Victorian era and the way that production participated in a moral economy of surveillance and control. In this book, I attempt to make sense of how ...
W.S. Gilbert and the Context of Comedy: The Progress of Fun
1st Edition
By Richard Moore
June 30, 2021
To what extent is a great comic writer the product of his time? How far is he (or she) influenced by factors of personal psychology upbringing and environment? To what is the writing actually part of a long continuum in which there is continuity within change and change within continuity? The ...
A Critical Reappraisal of the Writings of Francis Sylvester Mahony
1st Edition
By Fergus Dunne
September 30, 2020
This book resituates Francis Sylvester Mahony in an early nineteenth-century literary-historical context, counteracting the efforts of twentieth-century literary historians to obscure his contribution to the emergence of a distinctive Irish Catholic fiction in English. This volume re-explores his ...
Arthur Morrison and the East End: The Legacy of Slum Fictions
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By Eliza Cubitt
September 30, 2020
This, the first critical biography of Arthur Morrison (1863-1945), presents his East End writing as the counter-myth to the cultural production of the East End in late-Victorian realism. Morrison’s works, particularly Tales of Mean Streets (1894) and A Child of the Jago (1896), are often discussed ...
Constructions of Agency in American Literature on the War of Independence: War as Action, 1775-1860
1st Edition
By Martin Holtz
September 30, 2020
This book argues that the negotiation of agency is central not only to the experience of war but also to its representation in cultural expressions, ranging from a notion of disablement, expressed in victimization, immobilization, traumatization, and death, to enablement, expressed in the ...
Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, and the Dance of Death
1st Edition
By Jeremy Tambling
September 30, 2020
This study of Nicholas Nickleby takes the Dickens novel which is perhaps the least critically discussed, though it is very popular, and examines its appeal and its significance, and finds it one of the most rewarding and powerful of Dickens’s texts.Nicholas Nickleby deals with the abduction and ...
G. W. M. Reynolds and His Fiction: The Man Who Outsold Dickens
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By Stephen Knight
September 30, 2020
George Reynolds is arguably the most prolific of all nineteenth-century English novelists, reaching an enormous audience through his thirty-six novels. Often selling in very large numbers in weekly one-penny installments, his works were known as by the most popular English novelist ever. Yet today,...
George Eliot’s Moral Aesthetic: Compelling Contradictions
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By Constance Fulmer
September 30, 2020
George Eliot’s serious readers have been intrigued by the fact that she declared that she had lost her faith in God and had renounced her hope for a traditional Christian heaven and yet she continued to preach her own version of morality in everything she wrote, to hope for an immortality which ...
Gothic Peregrinations: The Unexplored and Re-explored Territories
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By Agnieszka Lowczanin, Katarzyna Malecka
September 30, 2020
For over two hundred years, the Gothic has remained fixed in the European and American imaginations, steadily securing its position as a global cultural mode in recent decades. The globalization of Gothic studies has resulted in the proliferation of new critical concepts and a growing academic ...
Sensational Deviance: Disability in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Fiction
1st Edition
By Heidi Logan
September 30, 2020
Sensational Deviance: Disability in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Fiction investigates the representation of disability in fictional works by the leading Victorian sensation novelists Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, exploring how disability acts as a major element in the shaping of the ...
Wilde’s Other Worlds
1st Edition
By Michael F. Davis, Petra Dierkes-Thrun
September 30, 2020
Taking its cue from Baudelaire’s important essay "The Painter of Modern Life," in which Baudelaire imagines the modern artist as a "man of the world," this collection of essays presents Oscar Wilde as a "man of the world" who eschewed provincial concerns, cultural conventions, and narrow national ...
Women's Emancipation Writing at the Fin de Siecle
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Edited
By Elena V. Shabliy, Dmitry Kurochkin, O’Donnell Karen
September 30, 2020
This work investigates women’s emancipation writing in the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. Many novelists in various national literatures touched upon the theme of an emancipated woman in the long nineteenth century and at the fin de siècle. Philosophers, poets, ...