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Sickroom in Victorian Fiction
The cultural and narrative significance of illness, nursing and the sickroom in Victorian literature.
Gender, Race, and the Writing of Empire
All of London exploded on the night of May 18, 1900, in the biggest West End party ever seen. The mix of media manipulation, patriotism, and class, race, and gender politics that …
The Silver Fork Novel
In the early nineteenth century there was a sudden vogue for novels centering on the glamour of aristocratic social and political life. Such novels, attractive as they were to …
The Victorian Novel and the Space of Art
This interdisciplinary study argues for the vital importance of visual culture as a force shaping the Victorian novel's formal development and reading history. It shows how authors …
Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the Nineteenth Century
This book tells a story about the transformation of mid-Victorian urban writing in response both to London's growing size and diversity, and Britain's shifting global fortunes. …
Dickens and the Daughter of the House
Feminist criticism has not been kind to Charles Dickens. The characters George Orwell referred to as ‘legless angels’ - Little Nell, Agnes Wickfield, Esther Summerson and others - …
Women, Literature, and the Domesticated Landscape
Combining an analysis of literature and art, this book contends that the 'domesticated landscape' is key to understanding women's complex negotiation of private and public life in …
The Poetry of Victorian Scientists
A surprising number of Victorian scientists wrote poetry. Many came to science as children through such games as the spinning-top, soap-bubbles and mathematical puzzles, and this …
The Formation of the Victorian Literary Profession
Richard Salmon provides an original account of the formation of the literary profession during the late Romantic and early Victorian periods. Focusing on the representation of …
Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination
Tuberculosis was a widespread and deadly disease which devastated the British population in the nineteenth century: consequently it also had a huge impact upon public …