Charity & Condescension

Daniel Siegel

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Studies
• Charity and Condescension explores how condescension, a traditional English virtue, went sour in the nineteenth century, and considers how the failure... Lees meer

Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing

Lorraine Janzen Kooistra

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Studies
• In Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing eminent Rossetti scholar Lorraine Janzen Kooistra demonstrates the cultural centrality of a neglected arti... Lees meer

Reading Victorian Deafness

Jennifer Esmail

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Studies
• Winner of the 2013 Sonya Rudikoff Award for best first book in Victorian Studies Short-listed for the 2013 British Society for Literature and Science ... Lees meer

Collaborative Dickens

Melisa Klimaszewski

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Studies
• From 1850 to 1867, Charles Dickens produced special issues (called "numbers") of his journals Household Words and All the Year Round, which were relea... Lees meer

Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Studies
• Since the 1980s, scholars have made the case for examining nineteenth-century culture-particularly literary output-through the lens of economics. In C... Lees meer

Drawing on the Victorians

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Studies
• Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social class... Lees meer

Forget Me Not

Katherine D Harris

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Studies
• By November 1822, the British reading public had already voraciously consumed both Walter Scott's expensive novels and Rudolf Ackermann's exquisite li... Lees meer

The Wake of Wellington

Peter W Sinnema

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Studies
• Soldier, hero, and politician, the Duke of Wellington is one of the best-known figures of nineteenth-century England. From his victory at Waterloo ove... Lees meer

Melodramatic Imperial Writing

Neil Hultgren

• Paperback | Engels | Victorian Studies
• Melodrama is often seen as a blunt aesthetic tool tainted by its reliance on improbable situations, moral binaries, and overwhelming emotion, features... Lees meer

Textile Orientalisms

Suchitra Choudhury

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Studies
• The first major study of Cashmere and Paisley shawls in nineteenth-century British literature, this book shows how they came to represent both high fa... Lees meer

Reading for Health

Erika Wright

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Studies
• In Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Erika Wright argues that the emphasis in Victorian Studies on disease as t... Lees meer

Indian Angles

Mary Ellis Gibson

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Studies
• A 2012 CHOICE "Outstanding Academic Title" A new historical approach to Indian English literature Mary Ellis Gibson shows that poetry, not fiction, wa... Lees meer

Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780-1913

• Paperback | Engels | Victorian Studies
• Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780-1913: A Critical Anthology makes accessible for the first time the entire range of poems written in English ... Lees meer

Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780-1913

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Studies
• Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780-1913: A Critical Anthology makes accessible for the first time the entire range of poems written in English ... Lees meer

The Victorian Novel of Adulthood

Rebecca Rainof

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Studies
• In The Victorian Novel of Adulthood, Rebecca Rainof confronts the conventional deference accorded the bildungsroman as the ultimate plot model and qui... Lees meer

Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century

• Paperback | Engels | Victorian Studies
• Since the 1980s, scholars have made the case for examining nineteenth-century culture--particularly literary output--through the lens of economics. In... Lees meer

Women, Work, and Representation

Lynn M Alexander

• Hardcover | Engels | Victorian Studies
• In Victorian England, virtually all women were taught to sew; needlework was allied with images of domestic economy and with traditional female roles ... Lees meer