Books in the The Nineteenth Century Series series

Reading the diaries of well-known writers and public figures such as Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, Henry Crabb Robinson, George Eliot, George Gissing, John Ruskin, Edith Simcox and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anne-Marie Millim locates the diary at the intersection of the public and private spheres. Diaristic writing, Millim argues.

Presents a study of Tennyson's record of publication in Victorian periodicals. Despite Tennyson's supposed hostility to periodicals, this book shows that he made a career-long habit of contributing to them and in the process revealed not only his willingness to promote his career but also his status as a highly valued commodity.

Presenting a study of astronomy in Hardy's writing, this work brings the analytical tools of both disciplines, and offers readings of seven novels that enrich Darwinian and feminist perspectives on his work, extends formalist evaluations of his achievement as a writer, and provides fresh interpretations of enigmatic passages and scenes.

Offering an introduction to issues surrounding the definition and division of labor in British society and culture, this book argues that 'work' was a term rife with ideological contradictions for Victorian males during a period when it was considered synonymous with masculinity.

Traces how 19th-century debates about the human and animal intersected with the venerable genre of the animal story written for children. This work raises questions about the construction of the child reader, the qualifications of the implied author, and the possibilities of children's literature compared with literature written for adults.

Assembles some 150 annotated interviews and recollections of Thomas Hardy. The author has selected items having literary or biographical significance, and annotated them with meticulous accuracy and a keen eye for the telling detail. This book reveals Hardy's contemporaneous opinions about his own writings.

In a career that spanned over forty years, Elia Hepworth Dixon was alternately journalist, critic, essayist, short story writer, novelist, editor of a women's magazine, dramatist, and autobiographer. The author sheds light on Dixon's life and work, and provides insight not only into Dixon herself, but also into her multifaceted character.

Beginning with the premise that men and women of the Romantic period were lively interlocutors who participated in many of the same literary traditions and experiments, this title offers a counterpoint to studies of Romantic-era women writers that stress their differences from their male contemporaries.

An exploration of women in literature and art, focusing on the life and work of 19th-century writer Anna Jameson.

Offers original readings of Trollope that recognize and repay his importance as source material for scholars working in diverse fields of literary and cultural studies. This title also includes essays that examine Trollope and sexuality in the context of queer studies, the law, archetypal constructions, and classical feminism.

Offers a critical insight into the relationship between Milton and the Romantic poets. Discussing the role that 17th and 18th-century writers like Dryden, Johnson and Burke played in formulating the political and spiritual mythology that grew up around Milton, this work contextualizes various major Romantic poets' 'misreadings' of Milton.

Through a survey of a diverse range of crimes, criminals, detectives, modes of detection and reportage, the essays in this volume chart the development of crime writing as a genre and the growing dialogue between fact and fiction through Victoria's reign.

Starting with a review of the historical evidence available to Victorian writers and an examination of how historians of the time represented Arthur, the author connects Victorian accounts of Arthur's quest to contemporary scientific and historical searches for origins and knowledge, and appropriation by competing religions.

Tracing those deliberate and accidental Romantic echoes that reverberate through the Victorian age into the beginning of the twentieth century, this collection acknowledges that the Victorians decided for themselves how to define what is 'Romantic'.

A collection of autobiographical accounts of childhood by a range of prominent 19th-century literary women. These are strongly individualized descriptions offering accounts of their schooling, Victorian family life, the games they invented, and their sense of being misunderstood.

The author's aim in this study is to examine the poetic and amorous aspects of Victorian love poetry.

Using the metaphor of the published journey, whether it involves actual travel or translation, Johnston focuses on the relationships of various British women travellers, translators and journalists, mainly with continental Europe. Devoted in part to case studies of women such as Anna Jameson and Mary Howitt.

Presents an account of the evolution of Dickens, an author from whose psychological honesty and imaginative generosity emerged precocious fictional portents of Freudian and post-Freudian theory. It traces the evolution of Dickens' creative imagination.

During the Victorian period there developed a new anxiety about male-female relations and roles in modern society. This book of essays examines Victorian painting in the light of this "woman question". The art and artists are considered in a socio-political context.

Despite their desire to rise above the so-called "age of personality" and personal attacks, Romantic-era figures such as Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Sydney Owenson, and the explorer John Ross became enmeshed in public feuds with the Edinburgh Review and the Quarterly Review.

Covers the intellectual formation of English plebeian radicalism and Scottish philosophic Whiggism over the long eighteenth century, and examines their associated strategies of critical engagement with the cultural, social and political crises of the early nineteenth century.

Taking up the phenomenon of bric-a-brac in Victorian culture, this collection advances our understanding of materiality by examining the miscellaneous, moveable and rejected objects often overlooked in the discourses of thing theory. Essays examine writers as different as Lear, Browning.

Examining a wide range of representations of physical, metaphorical, and dream landscapes in Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, the author explores the way in which gender attitudes are expressed, both in descriptions of landscape as the human body and in ideas of nature.

In this sequel to her 2000 anthology, Sanders again brings together autobiographical accounts of childhood that show women making sense of the children they were and the women they have become. The collection includes children's authors (Frances Hodgson Burnett and E. Nesbit).

Reading forms a genuine meeting place for historians, literary scholars, theorists, librarians, and historians of the book. This collection examines nineteenth-century reading in all its personal, historical, literary and material contexts, while also asking fundamental questions about how we read the Victorians' reading in the present day.

Controversy, especially religious controversy, was the great spectator sport of Victorian England. This work offers a study of the biggest of these by describing the way in which "Essays and Reviews", between 1860 and 1864, brought England its first serious exposure to biblical criticism.

A biographical and critical account of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1844-1889) and his involvement with religion and literature, specifically Christian poetry. Included are accounts of his contemporaries, such as Christina Rossetti and John Henry Newman.

This work is a textual study of Hardy's four volumes of short stories. It examines the history of the stories' composition and revision from manuscripts through serial publications, galleys, revisions and collected publications, all stages of which show significant alterations.