This new book is about animals and the role they played in nineteenth-century social reform. More specifically, it is about how popular interests in zoology and changing attitudes toward animals at this time figured in the rhetoric surrounding sanitary debates. But it is also concerned with how literature actively participated in social change...
The Literary Identities of the 19th century poet and novelist
This is the first book-length study of the important poet and political writer Violet Fane (Lady Mary Montgomerie Currie, nee Lamb, 1843-1905). It recovers Fane's work to a central position in the literary canon. / Fane is shown as a relevant figure in the literary history of the nineteenth century.
A study of select nineteenth-century African American authors and reformers who mobilized the discourses of cosmopolitanism and restraint to expand the meaning of freedom.
This book explores the importance of the touch to social and cultural issues of embodiment in mid to late-Victorian literature. Through an exploration of canonical and lesser known texts, Ann Gagne demonstrates why touch, and the residue of touch, continues to be important to our lived experience today.
Herbert Rowland argues that the American reception of Hans Christian Andersen in the nineteenth century has a respectable place in the international reception of Andersen and his work. Rowland demonstrates that American critics used Andersen's works to support their views of key American issues in the nineteenth century.
Why might interdependence, the idea that we are made up of our relations, be horrifying? Philosophy, Film, and the Dark Side of Interdependence argues that philosophy can outline the contours of the dark spectre, and that film can shine a light on its shadowy details, together revealing a horror of relations.
Brokering Culture radically recontextualizes conventional views of the relationship between the British Empire and the emergence of the nineteenth-century historical novel. The author focuses on how literary translations of eighteenth-century experiences of empire established the genre as a site of critique for nationalism and historical progress.
Dickens & Women ReObserved is a rich collection of new essays by scholars and critics from various parts of the world who represent a new appreciation of Charles Dickens and things woman. This is an important work for comprehending one of the world's greatest novelists and facilitating greater study of contemporary views of Victorian women.
Geraldine Jewsbury's works focussed on the chief concerns of her day including social change, the education of women, marriage, and faith. Jewsbury (1812 - 80) was an English novelist, book reviewer and prominent figure - best known for her popular novels.
