Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination

Katherine Byrne

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 74
• Tuberculosis was a widespread and deadly disease which devastated the British population in the nineteenth-century: consequently it also had a huge im... Lees meer

Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children's Literature

Jessica Straley

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 103
• Evolutionary theory sparked numerous speculations about human development, and one of the most ardently embraced was the idea that children are animal... Lees meer

The Poetry of Chartism

Mike Sanders

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 62
• Between 1838 and 1852, the leading Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, published over 1000 poems written by more than 350 poets - as the readership... Lees meer

Victorian Women and Wayward Reading

Marisa Palacios Knox

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu
• In the nineteenth century, no assumption about female reading generated more ambivalence than the supposedly feminine facility for identifying with fi... Lees meer

The Victorian Novel and the Space of Art

Dehn Gilmore

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 89
• This interdisciplinary study argues for the vital importance of visual culture as a force shaping the Victorian novel's formal development and reading... Lees meer

Dickens and the Popular Radical Imagination

Sally Ledger

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 56
• The relationship between the work of Charles Dickens and popular literature has often been noted, but the extent to which his fiction and journalism w... Lees meer

Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920

Pamela Thurschwell

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 32
• Thurschwell examines the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-siècle. She argues that as new technologies, su... Lees meer

The Brontës and the Idea of the Human

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 115
• What does it mean to be human? The Brontë novels and poetry are fascinated by what lies at the core - and limits - of the human. The Brontës and the I... Lees meer

The Sickroom in Victorian Fiction

Miriam Bailin

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 1
• In this exploration of the significance of illness in the Victorian literary imagination Miriam Bailin maps the cultural implications and narrative ef... Lees meer

London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914

Matt Cook

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 39
• Matt Cook explores the relationship between London and homosexuality from 1885 to 1914, years marked by intensification in concern about male-male rel... Lees meer

Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siècle

Fraser Riddell

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 137
• Drawing on an ambitious range of interdisciplinary material, including literature, musical treatises and theoretical texts, Music and the Queer Body e... Lees meer

Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel

Timothy Gao

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 127
• Pondering the town he had invented in his novels, Anthony Trollope had 'so realised the place, and the people, and the facts' of Barset that 'the pave... Lees meer

Aging, Duration, and the English Novel

Jacob Jewusiak

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 120
• The rapid onset of dementia after an illness, the development of gray hair after a traumatic loss, the sudden appearance of a wrinkle in the brow of a... Lees meer

Actresses on the Victorian Stage

Gail Marshall

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 16
• Gail Marshall looks at actresses on the English stage of the later nineteenth century, and argues that much of their work was determined by the popula... Lees meer

From Sketch to Novel

Amanpal Garcha

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 67
• When William Thackeray, Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell began their writing careers in the 1830s, they chose to write literary sketches, adoptin... Lees meer

Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages

Eavan O'Dochartaigh

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 136
• In the mid-nineteenth century, thirty-six expeditions set out for the Northwest Passage in search of Sir John Franklin's missing expedition. The array... Lees meer

Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the Nineteenth Century

Tanya Agathocleous

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 75
• This book tells a story about the transformation of mid-Victorian urban writing in response both to London's growing size and diversity, and Britain's... Lees meer

Remaking Queen Victoria

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 10
• Queen Victoria's central importance to the era defined by her reign is self-evident, and yet it has been surprisingly overlooked in the study of Victo... Lees meer

Women Writing Art History in the Nineteenth Century

Hilary Fraser

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 95
• This book sets out to correct received accounts of the emergence of art history as a masculine field. It investigates the importance of female writers... Lees meer

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

Nadia Valman

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 54
• Stories about Jewesses proliferated in nineteenth-century Britain as debates about the place of the Jews in the nation raged. While previous scholarsh... Lees meer

Ghost-Seers, Detectives, and Spiritualists

Srdjan Smajic

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 71
• This is an original study of the narrative techniques that developed for two very popular forms of fiction in the nineteenth century - ghost stories a... Lees meer

The Victorian Parlour

Thad Logan

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 30
• The parlor was the center of the Victorian home and, as Thad Logan shows, the place where contemporary conflicts about domesticity and gender relation... Lees meer

Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature

Richard Fallon

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 132
• When the term 'dinosaur' was coined in 1842, it referred to fragmentary British fossils. In subsequent decades, American discoveries--including Bronto... Lees meer

Colonies, Cults and Evolution

David Amigoni

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 59
• The concept of culture, now such an important term within both the arts and the sciences, is a legacy of the nineteenth century. By closely analyzing ... Lees meer