Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
Melville and the Question of Meaning
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By David Faflik
August 14, 2020
This rich volume of essays restores meaning itself as the focal point of one of our most thoughtful modern writers, Herman Melville. Melville and the Question of Meaning thinks about thinking in Melville. For if Melville’s concerns with interpretation (the contributors to one recent collection ...
Writing Place: Mimesis, Subjectivity and Imagination in the Works of George Gissing
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By Rebecca Hutcheon
August 14, 2020
Exploring a hitherto neglected field, Writing Place: Mimesis, Subjectivity and Imagination in the Works of George Gissing is the first monograph to consider the works of George Gissing (1857-1903) in light of the ‘spatial turn’. By exploring how objectivity and subjectivity interact in his work, ...
Inventing the Popular: Printing, Politics, and Poetics
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By Bettina R. Lerner
June 30, 2020
Inventing the Popular: Working-Class Literature and Culture in Nineteenth-Century France explores texts written, published and disseminated by a politically and socially active group of working-class writers during the first half of the nineteenth century. Through a network of exchanges featuring ...
Hardy Deconstructing Hardy: A Derridean Reading of Thomas Hardy�s Poetry
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By Nilüfer Özgür
December 17, 2019
Hardy Deconstructing Hardy aims to add a new dimension of research which has been partly overlooked—a Derridean, Deconstructive reading of Hardy‘s poetry. Analyzing thirty-four popular and less popular poems by Hardy, this volume challenges current references to Derridean Deconstructionism. While ...
Anglo-American Travelers and the Hotel Experience in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Nation, Hospitality, Travel Writing
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By Monika Elbert, Susanne Schmid
December 10, 2019
This volume examines the hotel experience of Anglo-American travelers in the nineteenth century from the viewpoint of literary and cultural studies as well as spatiality theory. Focusing on the social and imaginary space of the hotel in fiction, periodicals, diaries, and travel accounts, the essays...
Branding Oscar Wilde
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By Michael Patrick Gillespie
December 10, 2019
Branding Oscar Wilde traces the development and perception of Wilde’s public persona and examines the impact of interpretations of his writing. Through calculated behavior, provocative language, and arresting dress, Wilde self-consciously created a brand initially recognized by family and friends, ...
Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Si�e: Libidinal Lives
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By Jane Ford, Kim Edwards Keates, Patricia Pulham
December 10, 2019
This volume marks the first sustained study to interrogate how and why issues of sexuality, desire, and economic processes intersect in the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siècle. At the end of the nineteenth-century, the move towards new models of economic thought marked the ...
Fashion and Narrative in Victorian Popular Literature: Double Threads
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By Madeleine C. Seys
December 10, 2019
We know that way we dress says a lot about us. It’s drilled into us by our parents as children, as adults throughout our working lives, and eternally from the culture surrounding us. Our dress tells the outside world of the culture and era we come from to our social status within that culture. Our ...
For Better, For Worse: Marriage in Victorian Novels by Women
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By Carolyn Lambert, Marion Shaw
December 10, 2019
This interdisciplinary volume explores the fictional portrayal of marriage by women novelists between 1800 and 1900. It investigates the ways in which these novelists used the cultural form of the novel to engage with and contribute to the wider debates of the period around the fundamental cultural...
Jane Austen’s Geographies
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By Robert Clark
December 10, 2019
When Jane Austen represented the ideal subject for a novel as "three or four families in a country village", rather than encouraging a narrow range of reference she may have meant that a tight focus was the best way of understanding the wider world. The essays in this collection research the ...
Pets and Domesticity in Victorian Literature and Culture: Animality, Queer Relations, and the Victorian Family
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By Monica Flegel
December 10, 2019
Addressing the significance of the pet in the Victorian period, this book examines the role played by the domestic pet in delineating relations for each member of the "natural" family home. Flegel explores the pet in relation to the couple at the head of the house, to the children who make up the ...
Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in Literature
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By Duc Dau, Shale Preston
December 10, 2019
The Victorians elevated the home and heteronormative family life to an almost secular religion. Yet alongside the middle-class domestic ideal were other families, many of which existed in the literature of the time. Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in Literature is chiefly concerned with...