The Body Emblazoned

Lewis Carroll's Alice novels have a publishing history almost as magical and mysterious as the stories themselves. Zoe Jaques and Eugene Giddens offer..

This volume of essays traces the shifting importance given to childhood in Dickens criticism. The essays consider a range of subjects such as the Roma..

This selection of previously published research articles by internationally renowned scholars places Dickens at the centre of a dynamic and expanding ..

This volume of essays examines Dickens's complex representations of sexuality and gender, as well as his use of gender ideologies and sexual and gende..

This volume of essays provides a selection of leading contemporary scholarship that situates Dickens in a global perspective. The articles address fou..

In analyzing the evolution of patriarchal authority in nineteenth-century culture, Melissa Shields Jenkins argues that Victorian novelists found new m..

Expanding our understanding of what it meant to be a nineteenth-century author, Amanda Adams takes up the concept of performative, embodied authorship..

Examining works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, William Morris and John Ruskin, Dentith uses the notion of hindsight to approach i..

The English Novel in History 1700-1780 provides students with specific contexts for the early novel in response to a new understanding of eighteenth c..

This collection of essays analyzes the literary response to the coups, insurgencies and invasions that took place around the globe during the Cold War..

In their lucid and accessible manner, Josephine M. Guy and Ian Small provide readers with an understanding of the complexity and variety of nineteenth..

This study examines the genesis of Chicago's two identified literary renaissance periods (1890-1920 and 1930-1950) through the writings of Dreiser, Hu..