This book makes a timely intervention in current critical contexts for the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. It both reflects on and contributes to emergent critical trends, employing case studies of individual texts, authors, transactions and performances to rethink particular aspects of nineteenth-century literature and culture and to address key questions raised by the study of the period.
Individual chapters explore how best to locate and demarcate the period, the dissemination of texts and ideas around the globe, the appropriation of...
This book makes a timely intervention in current critical contexts for the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. It...
Charlotte BrontE Legacies and afterlives offers a timely reflection on the author's life and work in the context of the bicentenary of her birth. BrontE's legacy continues to evolve and the new essays in this volume, covering the period from her first publication to the present day, explain why she has remained at the forefront of western, indeed global, literary cultures.
The contributors to this volume engage innovatively with the rich variety of afterlives enjoyed by characters such as Jane Eyre and Rochester in neo-Victorian fiction, cinema and television, on the...
Charlotte BrontE Legacies and afterlives offers a timely reflection on the author's life and work in the context of the bicentenary of her...
Through innovative readings of seven novels, Creating character demonstrates how the Victorian sensation authors Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins employed, challenged and explored diverse, and sometimes contradictory, theories of character formation in their fiction -- .
Through innovative readings of seven novels, Creating character demonstrates how the Victorian sensation authors Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Col...
This volume explores the novels and short stories of the popular author Richard Marsh through a range of critical lenses. An exemplary figure of the New Grub Street, Marsh was an important presence within fin-de-siecle literary culture, whose middlebrow genre fiction simultaneously reinforces and challenges the dominant discourses of the period. -- .
This volume explores the novels and short stories of the popular author Richard Marsh through a range of critical lenses. An exemplary figure of the N...
Confronted by a complex new society, nineteenth-century Spaniards wrestled with how to envisage their lives. From trying to be universal through to acting as a cultural entrepreneur, this volume explores the possibilities and uncertainties that unfolded in their reconfigured world -- .
Confronted by a complex new society, nineteenth-century Spaniards wrestled with how to envisage their lives. From trying to be universal through to ac...
This book aims to intervene in current critical contexts for the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. Topics discussed include science and technology, poetry and philosophy, the Gothic, anatomical exhibitions, Punjabi popular culture and the neo-Victorian in literature, film and performance. -- .
This book aims to intervene in current critical contexts for the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. Topics discusse...
