This volume presents fresh approaches to classic Victorian fiction from 1830-1900.

• Opens up for the reader the cultural world in which the Victorian novel was written and read.
  
• Crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries.
  
• Provides fresh perspectives on how Victorian fiction relates to different contexts, such as class, sexuality, empire, psychology, law and biology.

This Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country's intellectual life more broadly.

• Helps readers to fully appreciate the poetry of the period by tracing its historical and cultural contexts.
  
• Written by prominent specialists in the field.
  
• Places the poetry of the period within contexts such as: war; feminism and the female poet; poetries of immigration and migration; communism and anti-communism; philosophy and theory.
  
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This Concise Companion presents fresh perspectives on eighteenth-century literature.

• Contributes to current debates in the field on subjects such as the public sphere, travel and exploration, scientific rhetoric, gender and the book trade, and historical versus literary perceptions of life on London streets.
  
• Searches out connections between the remarkable number of new genres that appeared in the eighteenth century.
  
• Crosses conventional disciplinary lines.
  
• Demonstrates that philosophy, history, politics and social...