Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
A Female Poetics of Empire: From Eliot to Woolf
1st Edition
By Julia Kuehn
August 23, 2018
Many well-known male writers produced fictions about colonial spaces and discussed the advantages of realism over romance, and vice versa, in the ‘art of fiction’ debate of the 1880s; but how did female writers contribute to colonial fiction? This volume links fictional, non-fictional and ...
Narrative Hospitality in Late Victorian Fiction: Novel Ethics
1st Edition
By Rachel Hollander
May 24, 2017
Bringing together poststructuralist ethical theory with late Victorian debates about the morality of literature, this book reconsiders the ways in which novels engender an ethical orientation or response in their readers, explaining how the intersections of nation, family, and form in the late ...
Dickens’ Novels as Poetry: Allegory and Literature of the City
1st Edition
By Jeremy Tambling
April 27, 2017
Focusing on the language, style, and poetry of Dickens’ novels, this study breaks new ground in reading Dickens’ novels as a unique form of poetry. Dickens’ writing disallows the statement of single unambiguous truths and shows unconscious processes burrowing within language, disrupting received ...
Christian and Lyric Tradition in Victorian Women’s Poetry
1st Edition
By F. Elizabeth Gray
April 23, 2015
Women in the Victorian period were acknowledged to be the "religious sex," but their relationship to the doctrines, practices, and hierarchies of Christianity was both highly circumscribed, which has been well documented, and complexly creative, which has not. Gray visits the importance of the ...
Victorian Servants, Class, and the Politics of Literacy
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By Jean Fernandez
April 23, 2015
In this volume, Fernandez brings the under-examined figure of the Victorian servant out of obscurity in order to tell the story of his or her encounter with literacy, as imagined and represented in nineteenth-century fiction, autobiography, pamphlets and diaries. A vast body of writing is uncovered...
Antebellum American Women Writers and the Road: American Mobilities
1st Edition
By Susan L. Roberson
February 27, 2015
A study of American women’s narratives of mobility and travel, this book examines how geographic movement opened up other movements or mobilities for antebellum women at a time of great national expansion. Concerned with issues of personal and national identity, the study demonstrates how women not...
Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era
1st Edition
By Lara Baker Whelan
September 11, 2014
This book demonstrates how representations of the Victorian suburb in mid- to late-nineteenth century British writing occasioned a literary sub-genre unique to this period, one that attempted to reassure readers that the suburb was a place where outsiders could be controlled and where middle-class ...
Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion: 'Our Feverish Contact'
1st Edition
By Allan Conrad Christensen
December 12, 2013
This intriguing book examines the ways contagion - or disease - inform and shape a wide variety of nineteenth century texts and contexts. Christensen dissects the cultural assumptions concerning disease, health, impurity and so on before exploring different perspectives on key themes such as ...