19th Century Literature

Beginning with the premise that the portrait was undergoing a shift in meaning during the Romantic age, Joe Bray investigates how the language of portraiture pervades the fiction of writers such as Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott. Demonstrating the interpenetration of the novel and..

This provocative book posits a new theory by which women's writing forefronts and hides the author's implied body within and behind the written work, ironizing the commonplace of the feminine body as a dead body. Raymond traces the use of the disembodied posthumous voice in works by Mary Shelley, Em..

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Focusing on the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Pionke’s book historicizes the relationship of ritual, class and public status in Victorian England. Through analysis of magazines, court cases, law books, manuals and works by authors that include William Makepeace Thackeray, Thomas Hughes, ..

Brian Yothers puts American travel writing about the Holy Land by major writers like Twain and Melville in dialogue with missionary accounts, captivity narratives, chronicles of religious pilgrimages, and travel writing in the genteel tradition. The profound intertextuality American travel writing s..

Using Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy's groundbreaking study of the persistence of German Idealist philosophy as his starting point, Justin Clemens presents a valuable study of the links between Romanticism and contemporary theory. The central contention of this book is that contemporary..

This important contribution to both Romantic and cultural studies situates literature by Wordsworth, Southey, Hunt, Clare, and Blake within the context of folklore and popular customs associated with May Day. Essaka Joshua shows how Romantic writers have positioned themselves in relation to what has..

Providing a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of scholarship on nineteenth-century British periodicals, this volume surveys the current state of research and offers researchers an in-depth examination of contemporary methodologies, including the impact of digital media and archives. In ad..

Bringing together leading researchers in law and humanities scholarship, this volume focuses on nineteenth-century America, a period when people began to realize that the law was not confined to courts and lawyers, but also found expression in areas such as painting, poetry, fiction, and sculpture. ..

First published in 1975, this study is concerned with the representation of non-European people in English popular fiction in the period from 1858-1920. It examines the developments in thinking about people across the world and shows how they affected writers’ views of evolution, race, heredity and ..

This book is a study of Dickens's treatment of the relations between self and society principally in Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend, with particular reference to processes of culture formation and the ways in which Dickens's writings bot..

This collection of essays by scholars in transatlantic British and American literatures interrogates the diverse meanings the ocean assumed for writers, readers, and thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic during this period of global exploration and colonial consolidation. The introduction offers th..