Books in the The Nineteenth Century Series series

A study of the work of 19th-century English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Charles Dickens' views on class and race have, in the past, been misread. This book does not exonerate him from charges of racism, but examines his changing imaginative engagement with the empire and his complex attitude toward the racial other at key stages of personal, national and global significance.

In 1850, Charles Dickens founded "Household Words", a weekly intended to instruct and entertain a middle-class readership. This book demonstrates the role that "Household Words" in particular, and the Victorian press more generally, played in responding to the developing world of commodities and their consumption at mid-century.

This study concentrates on the implications of the emergence of the female detective during the Victorian and early Edwardian periods. The author draws attention to the many social conventions that would label women detectives as having too transgressive a quality for the period.

Throughout the 19th century, British and foreign poets wrote widely and often on oriental topics. Poets found in orientalism an imaginative landscape that they deployed as a venue for experimentation with alternatives to poetic conventions. This text explores this literary history.

An examination of allusion to folksong and popular culture in British 19th-century realist prose. It focuses in particular on the work of Scott, Kingsley, Gaskell, Dickens, Thackeray and Hardy, demonstrating how they mediated the culture of the working classes for their middle-class audiences.

This volume comprises 150 letters (out of a corpus of 2500) written by the late 19th-century poet, critic, lexicographer, editor and journalist W.E. Henley, to various figures of the period, including R.L. Stevenson, H.G. Wells, J.M. Barrie, as well as those in his more immediate circle.

This work examines the writings of Dickens, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Hamilton, Mill, Arnold, Pater and Newman, and makes reference to Hawthorne, Dickinson, Spencer, Carlyle, and Hardy, all in the context of the dominant intellectual movements of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Whilst the 'God is dead' message was ringing throughout Europe, Dickens, ever the Protestant, centred his quest for order and value in individuals rather than in institutions like the Catholic Church. This study explores his writings with regard to man's place in what was becoming a mechanistic universe.

A collection of essays representing a diversity of approaches to Anne Bronte's work. While many of the essays place Bronte's writings in the context of her life and make comparisons to the more famous works of her sisters, they also recognize that her novels can and should stand alone.

As Pierre Bourdieu points out, economic success and artistic status rarely overlap in cultural industries. This volume focuses on the period in which commercial book publishing became a mass market business that was able to appeal to a wide range of interests and incomes.

This study examines the construction of masculinity in culture based on an analysis of pictorial representations of the male in many contexts: social; historical; legal; literary; institutional; anthropological; educational; marital; imperial; and aesthetic. Artists featured include Burne-Jones.

A study of George Eliot as a psychological novelist, this work examines his writings in the context of a large volume of nineteenth-century scientific writing about the mind. It reveals how Eliot responds both creatively and critically to contemporary theories of mind.

This essay collection proposes that G.W.M. Reynolds's contribution to Victorian print culture reveals the interrelations between authorship, genre, and radicalism in popular print culture of the nineteenth century. As a best-selling author of popular fiction marketed to the lower classes, and a passionate champion of radical politics and "the industrious classes," Reynolds and his work demonstrate the relevance of Victorian Studies to topics of pressing contemporary concern including populism, working-class fiction, the concept of 'originality', and the collective scholarly endeavour to 'widen' and 'undiscipline' Victorian Studies. Bringing together well-known and newly-emerging scholars from across different disciplinary perspectives, the volume explores the importance of Reynolds Studies to scholarship on the nineteenth-century. This book will appeal to students and scholars of the nineteenth-century press, popular culture, and of authorship, as well as to Victorian Studies scholars interested in the translation of Victorian texts into new and indigenous markets.

Karl Marx's youngest daughter Eleanor (1855-98) is one of the most significant figures in the cultural politics of the late nineteenth century. As a feminist and radical socialist she never flinched from confrontation; as an aspiring actress, working journalist and literary translator she advanced contemporary understanding of Flaubert, Ibsen and S

Their Fair Share identifies and contextualises many previously unknown critical writings by a selection of well-known turn-of-the-century women. It reveals the networks behind an influential journal like the Athenaeum and presents a more shaded assessment of its position in the field of cultural production, in the period 1870-1920.

Using close reading, this text studies the ways in which Thomas Hardy writes about music, and argues that this focus allows for a close and varied investigation of the affective dimensions of his poetry and fiction - and his recurrent preoccupations with time, community and love.

Romantic Wars is a collection of eight specially commissioned essays focusing on the relations between British Romantic culture (poetry, fiction, painting, and non-fictional prose) and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Whilst in recent years much attention has been paid to the influence of the French Revolution on British Romanticism, comparat