In an unprecedented comparison of two of the most important female authors of the nineteenth-century, Azelina Flint foregrounds the influence of the religious communities that shaped Louisa May Alcott’s and Christina Rossetti’s visions of female creativity.

Doctrine and Difference: Readings in Classic American Literature aims to study the authors of what was previously called "The American Renaissance", reading them together in the light of their shared inheritance.

Robert Seymour and Nineteenth Century Print Culture is the first book length study of the original illustrator of Dickens’s Pickwick Papers.

Some of the most celebrated poets of the Victorian era wrote about their pets, yet poems about pets have not received the kind of critical analysis devoted to fictional works and short stories - this book aims to remedy this omission.

This book re-imagines nineteenth-century detective fiction as a literary genre that was connected to, and nurtured by, contemporary periodical journalism.

The Strange Freedom is an examination of the ways James’s fiction is prepossessed by some major voices of the English literary tradition, those of Shakespeare, Richardson, Fielding, Gibbon, Thackeray, and Dickens.

Keats and Scepticism explores Keats’s affinity with the philosophical tradition of scepticism and reads Keats’s poetry anew in the light of this affinity.

This volume explore the connection between the prevalence of violent, sexually charged touches in eighteenth-century novels such and growing public concern over handshake etiquette in the nineteenth century.　

Nineteenth-Century Visions of Race: British Travel Writing about America concerns the depiction of racial Others in travel writing produced by British travelers coming to America between 1815 and 1861.