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Oscar Wilde and the Radical Politics of the Fin De Siecle
This book reads Oscar Wilde's literary texts in relation to his open support for revolutionaries, along with his expressions of solidarity with Irish republicans, anarchists, …
The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry
A lonely damsel imprisoned within a castle or convent cell. The eavesdropping of a prisoner next door. The framed image of a woman with a sinister past. These familiar tropes from …
Writing the Sphinx
This book explores literary and Egyptological cultures from the closing decades of the nineteenth century to the opening decades of the twentieth, culminating in the aftermath of …
Rereading Orphanhood
Rereading Orphanhood: Texts, Inheritance, Kin explores the ways in which the figure of the literary orphan can be used to illuminate our understanding of the culture and mores of …
Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status
Reconstructs the surprising, self-interested, at times paradoxical attempts of Victorian novelists to define the limits of middle-class status Adopts an interdisciplinary approach …
The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry
The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry surveys the variety of ways in which Persia, and the multitude of ideological, historical, cultural and political notions that it embodied, …
Home and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Literary London
This book brings together a range of new models for modern living that emerged in response to social and economic changes in nineteenth-century London, and the literature that gave …
The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 1843-1907
Charting an 'aesthetic', post-realist tradition of writing, this book considers the significant role played by John Ruskin's art criticism in later writing which dealt with the new …
The Alternative Modernity of the Bicycle in British and French Literature, 1880 1920
Examines the bicycle as a literary device and a cultural phenomenon at the turn of the century in Britain and France.
New Media and the Rise of the Popular Woman Writer, 1832 1860
Explores the link between revolutionary change in the Victorian world of print and women's entry into the field of mass-market publishing Explores the relationship between the rise …
The Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature
This book argues that, in Victorian literature, desires which cannot be openly acknowledged are often buried and encrypted in the marble bodies of statues. Examining sculpture's …
Reading Bodies in Victorian Fiction
Explores how Victorian novelists used the science of feeling to understand reading as an embodied process that cultivates empathy.