Books in the Among the Victorians and Modernists series

Critical Essays on Arthur Morrison and the East End throws fresh new light on this innovative novelist of poverty and urban life.

Through its examinations of a wide range of texts and writers, Re-reading the Age of Innovation re-reads these texts as part of an age of innovation characterized not by division and divide, but by collaboration and community.

A study of this nineteenth-century painter who was among the first women admitted to the Royal Society of British Artists (in 1902). This title discusses the Louise Jopling's artistic endeavours in relation to the cultural framework for fin de siecle working women, as are her progressive views on education and women's suffrage.

Why were the Victorians more fascinated with secrecy than people of other periods? What is the function of secrets in Victorian fiction and in the society depicted, how does it differ from that of other periods, and how did readers of Victorian fiction respond to the secrecy they encountered?

Nordic Literature of Decadence discusses literature from five Nordic countries: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Estonia and offers alternative perspectives to the cosmopolitan traffic and cultural exchanges of literary decadence that have been explored so far in English language scholarship.

At once an invitation and a provocation, The Socio-Literary Imaginary represents the first collection of essays to illuminate the historically and intellectually complex relationship between literary studies and sociology in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain.

The essays contained in this volume explore Malet¿s authorial experience¿from both within the mainstream of the British literary tradition and, curiously, from outside it¿supplementing and nuancing current debates about fin-de-siècle women¿s writing.

This volume contains essays from international scholars covering a wide range of topics, including werewolves, mummies, fairies, devils, time travel, ghosts, haunted spaces and objects, race, gender, queerness, monstrosity, madness, incest, empire, medicine, and science.

Reflecting the signal array of responses by authors, artists, actors, impresarios and popular entertainers to questions of esoteric spirituality and belief, this interdisciplinary collection demonstrates the enormous interest in the occult during a time typically associated with the rise of secularization and scientific innovation.

Reflecting Pater¿s diverse engagements with literature, the visual arts, history and philosophy, this collection of essays explores new interdisciplinary perspectives engaging readers and scholars alike to re-visit methodologies, intertextualities, metaphysical positions and stylistic features in the works of the Victorian essayist.

From a growing awareness of the depletion of energy resources and the perils of environmental degradation to the founding of self-sufficient communities and the establishment of the National Trust, the concept of sustainability began to take on a new importance in the Victorian period. Victorian Sustainability offers new perspectives on debates about sustainability in the present by showing how our current concerns derive from an earlier historical context.

Applying ecocritical theory to the work of Victorian writers, this collection explores what a diversity of ecocritical approaches can offer students and scholars of Victorian literature, at the same time that it critiques the general effectiveness of ecocritical theory. The contributors engage with multiple genres and a wide range of canonical and noncanonical writers, including Charles Dickens, the Brontës, John Ruskin, Christina Rossetti, Jane Webb Loudon, Anna Sewell, and Richard Jefferies.