Robbie McLaughlan maps the fin de si?cle mission to open up the "Dark Continent." Although nineteenth-century map-makers imposed topographic definition upon a perceived geographical void, writers of a
"Dickens' City" opens the a dialogue between phenomenology, philosophy and the Dickensian city in all its forms. Taking Walter Benjamin's "Arcades Project" as its model, Julian Wolfreys shows that, in
Explores Thomas Hardy's engagement with Victorian legal debates in his prose fiction. Thomas Hardy's fiction is examined in this book in the context of the seismic legal reforms of the nineteenth cen
This book is devoted to Mary Elizabeth Braddon's complex relationship with the three main Victorian literary genres: the Gothic, the Detective and the Realist novel. Using Braddon's bestselling sensat
Provides an innovative approach to articulate what 'underground' meant to the Victorians. The construction of London's underground sewers, underground railway and suburban cemeteries created seismic
Roomscape examines the Reading Room of the British Museum as a space of imaginative and historically generative potential in relation to the emergence of modern women writers in Victorian and early tw
Oscar Wilde's libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry and its disastrous repercussions dominated British newspapers during the spring of 1895, but as this innovative study reveals, the Wilde sc
This book examines late nineteenth-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality. The New Woman, the fi
In his biography of William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope posits the ideal of a man without style: 'I hold that gentleman to be the best dressed whose dress no one observes. I am not sure but
This exploration of the streets of Dickens's London opens up new perspectives on the city and the writerTaking Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project as an inspiration, Dickens's London offers an exciting
This is the first book dedicated to examining the marital relationships of Mary and George Watts and Evelyn and William De Morgan as creative partnerships. The study demonstrates how they worked, indi
Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture assesses the unexplored links between Victorian material culture and political theory. It seeks to transform understanding of Victorian liberalism's key conce
Reads Kipling's fiction through the lens of French feminism to reinstate the abjected maternal feminine in his artThis study provides an entirely new reading of Kipling's fiction using the feminist ps
`Blasted Literature is a remarkable study of the complex circuits of influence between political terror, popular fiction and early modernism, ranging from the nineteenth-century dynamite novel to the
The Pre-Raphaelites and Orientalism: Language and Cognition in Remediations of the East redefines the task of interpreting the East in the late nineteenth century. Weaving together literary, linguisti
