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Taking up the phenomenon of bric-a-brac in Victorian culture, this collection advances our understanding of materiality by examining the miscellaneous, moveable and rejected objects often overlooked in the discourses of thing theory. Essays examine writers as different as Lear, Browning.

Examining a wide range of representations of physical, metaphorical, and dream landscapes in Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, the author explores the way in which gender attitudes are expressed, both in descriptions of landscape as the human body and in ideas of nature.

In this sequel to her 2000 anthology, Sanders again brings together autobiographical accounts of childhood that show women making sense of the children they were and the women they have become. The collection includes children's authors (Frances Hodgson Burnett and E. Nesbit).

Reading forms a genuine meeting place for historians, literary scholars, theorists, librarians, and historians of the book. This collection examines nineteenth-century reading in all its personal, historical, literary and material contexts, while also asking fundamental questions about how we read the Victorians' reading in the present day.

From 1854 to 1855, George Eliot spent eight months in Germany, a period that marked the start of her life with George Lewes. This book draws on Eliot's own writings, as well as on extensive original research in German archives and libraries.

Controversy, especially religious controversy, was the great spectator sport of Victorian England. This work offers a study of the biggest of these by describing the way in which "Essays and Reviews", between 1860 and 1864, brought England its first serious exposure to biblical criticism.

A biographical and critical account of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1844-1889) and his involvement with religion and literature, specifically Christian poetry. Included are accounts of his contemporaries, such as Christina Rossetti and John Henry Newman.

This work is a textual study of Hardy's four volumes of short stories. It examines the history of the stories' composition and revision from manuscripts through serial publications, galleys, revisions and collected publications, all stages of which show significant alterations.

This is a collection of essays on the theme of women and property in Victorian fiction. The work comments on texts such as "Shirley", "Cranford", "Villette", "The Moonstone", works by Thomas Hardy and "Diana of the Crossways".

In her study of Dickens's relationship to canines, Gray shows that dogs, real and invented, were intrinsic to Dickens's vision and experience of London and its representation. She makes use of personal reminiscences, periodicals, images of dogs by portrait artists and Dickens's illustrators.

This study charts aspects of the significance of animals for Byron, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats, and relates their interest in animals to discourses about animals produced in various contemporary cultural contexts.

Composed in memory of Bill Ruddick, these essays engage with a selection of literal "master narratives" - texts which in one way or another represent growth points in the development of the novel. All the essays explore what Frederic Jameson called the "objective" structures of particular texts.

This volume identifies and contextualizes many previously unknown critical writings by a selection of well-known turn-of-the-century women. It reveals the networks behind an influential journal like the "Athenaeum" and presents a more shaded assessment of its position in cultural production.

A study of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a valued icon of British manhood. Diana Barsham discusses Doyle's career and offers a revision of the Doyle myth. She explores his determination to become a great name in the culture of his day and the strains on his identity arising from this project.

This is an anthology of Chartist fiction. It includes Will Harper's "A Poor Law Tale", stories from Ireland ("The Defender"), stories of revolution ("A Midnight Rising"), of women ("The Outcast", by W.J. Linton), and of the principles of Chartism, "The Poor Man's Wrongs", by Mary Hutton.

The author's aim in this study is to examine the poetic and amorous aspects of Victorian love poetry.

Robert Bloomfield, whom John Clare described as 'the most original poet of the age,' was a widely read and critically acclaimed poet throughout the first decade of the 19th century. This title considers the relationship between Bloomfield's poetry and that of other Romantic poets, especially Wordsworth.

Provides historical accounts of scientific controversy, documents references to time and space in the periodical press, and follows magazines and journals as they circulate through society to shed light on the dissemination and distribution of periodicals, authorship and textual authority, and the role of mediation in material culture.

Presents a study of Tennyson's record of publication in Victorian periodicals. Despite Tennyson's supposed hostility to periodicals, this book shows that he made a career-long habit of contributing to them and in the process revealed not only his willingness to promote his career but also his status as a highly valued commodity.

The Victorian period witnessed the beginning of a debate on the status of animals. This work acknowledges the way twenty-first-century deliberations about animal rights and the fact of past and prospective animal extinction haunt the discussion of the Victorians' obsession with animals.

Presenting a study of astronomy in Hardy's writing, this work brings the analytical tools of both disciplines, and offers readings of seven novels that enrich Darwinian and feminist perspectives on his work, extends formalist evaluations of his achievement as a writer, and provides fresh interpretations of enigmatic passages and scenes.

Offering an introduction to issues surrounding the definition and division of labor in British society and culture, this book argues that 'work' was a term rife with ideological contradictions for Victorian males during a period when it was considered synonymous with masculinity.

Traces how 19th-century debates about the human and animal intersected with the venerable genre of the animal story written for children. This work raises questions about the construction of the child reader, the qualifications of the implied author, and the possibilities of children's literature compared with literature written for adults.

Assembles some 150 annotated interviews and recollections of Thomas Hardy. The author has selected items having literary or biographical significance, and annotated them with meticulous accuracy and a keen eye for the telling detail. This book reveals Hardy's contemporaneous opinions about his own writings.

In a career that spanned over forty years, Elia Hepworth Dixon was alternately journalist, critic, essayist, short story writer, novelist, editor of a women's magazine, dramatist, and autobiographer. The author sheds light on Dixon's life and work, and provides insight not only into Dixon herself, but also into her multifaceted character.