Victorian Poetry and Modern Life

Natasha Moore

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• Faced with the chaos and banality of modern, everyday life, a number of Victorian poets sought innovative ways of writing about the unpoetic present i... Lees meer

Dickens and the Virtual City

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• This book explores the aesthetic practices used by Dickens to make the space which we have come to know as the Dickensian City. It concentrates on thr... Lees meer

Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• This volume explores the politics and poetics of Victorian surfaces in their manifold manifestations. In so doing, it examines various cultural produc... Lees meer

Panoramas and Compilations in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Helen Kingstone

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• This book shows how in nineteenth-century Britain, confronted with the newly industrialized and urbanized modern world, writers, artists, journalists ... Lees meer

Literature, Journalism, and the Vocabularies of Liberalism

J MacLeod

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• This book examines the impact of the new liberalism on English literary discourse from the fin-de-siècle to World War One. It maps out an extensive ne... Lees meer

Literature, Journalism, and the Vocabularies of Liberalism

J MacLeod

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• This book examines the impact of the new liberalism on English literary discourse from the fin-de-siècle to World War One. It maps out an extensive ne... Lees meer

The New Mountaineer in Late Victorian Britain

Alan McNee

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• This book is about the rise of a new ethos in British mountaineering during the late nineteenth century. It traces how British attitudes to mountains ... Lees meer

The Omnibus

Elizabeth Amann

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• The introduction of omnibus services in the late 1820s revolutionised urban life in Paris, London and many other cities. As the first form of mass tra... Lees meer

Hairwork in Victorian Literature and Culture

Heather Hind

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• This book presents an original and engaging study of the cultural history and literary significance of hairwork - the crafting of decorative objects, ... Lees meer

Nineteenth-Century Verse and Technology

Jason David Hall

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• This book repositions thinking about rhythm, meter and versification during the "Mechanical Age." Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, the book exa... Lees meer

Dickens and the Virtual City

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• This book explores the aesthetic practices used by Dickens to make the space which we have come to know as the Dickensian City. It concentrates on thr... Lees meer

The Rise of Victorian Caricature

Ian Haywood

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• This book serves as a retrieval and reevaluation of a rich haul of comic caricatures from the turbulent years between the Reform Bill crisis of the ea... Lees meer

Women in Journalism at the Fin de Siècle

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• As the nineteenth-century drew to a close, women became more numerous and prominent in British journalism. This book offers a fascinating introduction... Lees meer

Robert Louis Stevenson, Science, and the Fin de Siècle

J Reid

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• In this fascinating book, Reid examines Robert Louis Stevenson's writings in the context of late-Victorian evolutionist thought, arguing that an inter... Lees meer

The Faiths of Oscar Wilde

J Killeen

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• An original and energetic examination of the relationship between theology, faith, religious history and national politics in the works of Oscar Wilde... Lees meer

Minds, Bodies, Machines, 1770-1930

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• It is during the nineteenth-century, the age of machinery, that we begin to witness a sustained exploration of the literal and discursive entanglement... Lees meer

'The Jew' in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• The turbulent period from the Boer War to the introduction of the Aliens Act was marked by contradictory imaginings of 'the Jew' - pauper/capitalist, ... Lees meer

The Victorian Novel, Service Work, and the Nineteenth-Century Economy

Joshua Gooch

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• This book offers a much-needed study of the Victorian novel's role in representing and shaping the service sector's emergence. Arguing that prior acco... Lees meer

Adolescent Girlhood and Literary Culture at the Fin de Siècle

Beth Rodgers

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• This book examines the construction of adolescent girlhood across a range of genres in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. It argues that t... Lees meer

Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Ryan Sweet

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American literary and cultural sources from t... Lees meer

Victorian Soul-Talk

Julia F Saville

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• This book explores the decades between the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1884 when British poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Rob... Lees meer

British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, 1870-1900

D Maltz

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• This cultural study reveals the interdependence between British Aestheticism and late-Victorian social-reform movements. Following their mentor John R... Lees meer

The Figure of Christ in the Long Nineteenth Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explores the variety of ways in which the interface between understanding the figure of Ch... Lees meer

Victorian Environments

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• This collection will draw attention to new ideas in both Victorian studies and in the emerging area of literature and the environment. Adopting a broa... Lees meer