Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
Margaret Oliphant’s Curative Gothic Literature
1st Edition
By Katerina García-Walsh
November 05, 2025
Prolific Scottish novelist Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897), remembered chiefly for her realist fiction and biting literary criticism of contemporary authors, also wrote nineteen supernatural tales. This monograph offers a comprehensive exploration of Oliphant’s Gothic literature, in the light of her ...
The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels: Dickens, Braddon, and Collins
1st Edition
By Sarah Yoon
October 26, 2025
The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels studies how the detective as a literary character evolved through the mid-nineteenth century in England, as seen in sensation novels. In contrast to most assumptions about the English detective, Yoon argues that the detective was more often ...
Doctrine and Difference: The Thematic Scale of Classic American Literature
1st Edition
By Michael J. Colacurcio
May 05, 2025
Doctrine and Difference: The Thematic Scale of Classic American Literature aims to expand and deepen our knowledge into the inquiry of “contextual historicism,” observing writers of the American nineteenth century, and their vastly differing approaches to perceptions such as race, gender, and ...
Strangers and the Enchantment of Space in Victorian Fiction, 1830–1865
1st Edition
By Kristen Pond
January 30, 2025
Tracing the origins of how we think about strangers to the Victorian period, Strangers and the Enchantment of Space in Victorian Fiction, 1830– 1865 explores the vital role strangers had in shaping social relations during the cultural transformations of the Industrial Revolution, transportation ...
Liberalism, Theology, and the Performative in Antebellum American Literature
1st Edition
By Patrick McDonald
December 18, 2024
The 1850s United States witnessed a far-reaching political, social, and economic crisis. Symptomatic of this, a wide range of narrative fiction from sentimental novels to sensational drama identifies a foundational link between liberal institutions and performative utterances. Auctions, trials, ...
Keats and Scepticism
1st Edition
By Li Ou
November 28, 2024
Keats and Scepticism explores Keats’s affinity with the philosophical tradition of scepticism and reads Keats’s poetry anew in the light of this affinity. It suggests Keats’s links with the origin of scepticism in ancient Greece as recorded in Sextus Empiricus’s Outlines of Scepticism. It also ...
Prepossessing Henry James: The Strange Freedom
1st Edition
By Julián Jiménez Heffernan
November 28, 2024
The novels of Henry James are filled with ghosts, but most of them escape dramatic treatment. These elusive specters are the voices of precursors that haunt his narratives, compromising their constitutive freedom. The Strange Freedom is an examination of the ways James’s fiction is prepossessed by ...
Domesticity and Design in American Women's Lives and Literature: Stowe, Alcott, Cather, and Wharton Writing Home
1st Edition
By Caroline Hellman
October 14, 2024
Domesticity and Design in American Women’s Lives and Literature explores the ways in which four American women writers from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century inhabited domestic space and portrayed it in their work. Hellman explores independent female authors who had intriguing and ...
The Textual Condition of Nineteenth-Century Literature
1st Edition
By Josephine Guy, Ian Small
October 14, 2024
In this important new book, Guy and Small develop a new account of literary creativity in the late nineteenth century, one that combines concepts generated by text-theorists concerning the embodied nature of textuality with the empirical insights of text-editors and book historians. Through these ...
Memory in German Romanticism: Imagination, Image, Reception
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher R. Clason, Joseph D. Rockelmann, Christina M. Weiler
October 07, 2024
Memory in German Romanticism treats memory as a core element in the production and reception of German art and literature of the Romantic era. The contributors explore the artistic expression of memory under the categories of imagination, image, and reception. Romantic literary aesthetics raises ...
The Significance of Fabrics in the Writings of Elizabeth Gaskell: Material Evidence
1st Edition
By Amanda Ford
August 26, 2024
Elizabeth Gaskell’s writings abound in references to a cultural materiality encompassing different types of fabric, stuffs, calicoes, chintzes and fine-point lace. These are not merely the motifs of the Realist genre but reveal a complex polysemy. Utilizing a metonymic examination of these tropes, ...
Jane Austen and the Ethics of Description
1st Edition
By Brett Bourbon
May 27, 2024
Jane Austen and the Ethics of Description demonstrates that Elizabeth Bennet and her creator are misunderstood, and often unrecognized, geniuses of moral philosophy, but not simply because of their virtue or wit or natural skills in game theory. The engine driving the moral judgement and growth of ...