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Gender, Technology and the New Woman
This book examines late nineteenth-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality.
Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Ben Moore presents a new approach to reading urban modernity in nineteenth-century literature, by bringing together hidden, mobile and transparent features of city space as part of …
The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth Century British Literature, 1843-1907
Uncovers the link between Ruskin and the tradition of the aesthetics of spaceDiscusses a hitherto under-researched tradition of city-writing, linking Ruskin to modernismReads …
In Lady Audley's Shadow
This book is devoted to Mary Elizabeth Braddon's complex relationship with the three main Victorian literary genres: the Gothic, the Detective and the Realist novel. Using …
Victorian Auto/Biography
Plotting the News in the Victorian Novel
Explores how nineteenth-century novels analysed the formal and social workings of newsArgues that the concept of fake news was central to the development of the novel …
The Decadent Image
This book explores culturally significant encounters between sensuality and artifice in the poetry of Wilde, Symons, and Dowson. This book enquires into the problem of venerating …
Walter Pater
This title explores how Walter Pater and his contemporary aesthetes were influenced by modern philosophies. Repositioning Walter Pater at the philosophical nexus of Aestheticism, …
British India and Victorian Literary Culture
The book traces the development of British Indian literature from the early days of the nineteenth century through the Victorian period. Previously unstudied poems and essays drawn …
Victorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical
Victorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical offers an alternative history of Victorian poetry that asserts the fundamental importance of popular periodical poetry …
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 …
Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status
Victorian Fictions of Middle-Class Status recovers the novelistic pervasiveness of a Reform-Era rhetorical form, the negative assertion of value, which grounds middle-class claims …