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Composed of serialized works, poems, short tales, and novellas, Charlotte Brontë's juvenilia merit serious scholarly attention as revelatory works in and of themselves as well as for what they tell us about the development of Brontë as a writer. This collection attends to both critical strands, positioning Brontë's career within the Romantic and Victorian eras and delving into the nineteenth century's literary concerns and the growth of the writer's mind.

In this interdisciplinary collection, leading scholars explore the world of Edward Lloyd and his stable of writers; Edward Lloyd and his World fills a major gap in the histories of popular fiction and journalism, whilst developing links with Victorian politics, theatre and music.

This modern scholarly edition of the letters and memoirs of Joseph Severn, English painter and deathbed companion of Keats, is the first ever to include letters from a remarkable collection of recently discovered correspondence. Scott challenges traditional assumptions about Severn's life and character by offering new information about his early artistic success in Italy, his work as an artist in England, and his experiences as British Consul in Rome. The volume also features three important memoirs that previously appeared only in inaccurate excerpts and thirty-three illustrations that demonstrate the range of Severn's talents as a painter. Severn's friends included William Gladstone, Leigh Hunt, John Ruskin, and Mary Shelley. The edition, which includes a detailed chronology of Severn's life, an index of the newly discovered letters, and a ledger of Severn's patrons, paintings, and commissions, will appeal to literary biographers and Keats scholars, as well as art and cultural historians of the Romantic and Victorian eras.

A study of the work of 19th-century English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne.

Charles Dickens' views on class and race have, in the past, been misread. This book does not exonerate him from charges of racism, but examines his changing imaginative engagement with the empire and his complex attitude toward the racial other at key stages of personal, national and global significance.

In 1850, Charles Dickens founded "Household Words", a weekly intended to instruct and entertain a middle-class readership. This book demonstrates the role that "Household Words" in particular, and the Victorian press more generally, played in responding to the developing world of commodities and their consumption at mid-century.

This study concentrates on the implications of the emergence of the female detective during the Victorian and early Edwardian periods. The author draws attention to the many social conventions that would label women detectives as having too transgressive a quality for the period.

Throughout the 19th century, British and foreign poets wrote widely and often on oriental topics. Poets found in orientalism an imaginative landscape that they deployed as a venue for experimentation with alternatives to poetic conventions. This text explores this literary history.

An examination of allusion to folksong and popular culture in British 19th-century realist prose. It focuses in particular on the work of Scott, Kingsley, Gaskell, Dickens, Thackeray and Hardy, demonstrating how they mediated the culture of the working classes for their middle-class audiences.

This volume comprises 150 letters (out of a corpus of 2500) written by the late 19th-century poet, critic, lexicographer, editor and journalist W.E. Henley, to various figures of the period, including R.L. Stevenson, H.G. Wells, J.M. Barrie, as well as those in his more immediate circle.

This work examines the writings of Dickens, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Hamilton, Mill, Arnold, Pater and Newman, and makes reference to Hawthorne, Dickinson, Spencer, Carlyle, and Hardy, all in the context of the dominant intellectual movements of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Whilst the 'God is dead' message was ringing throughout Europe, Dickens, ever the Protestant, centred his quest for order and value in individuals rather than in institutions like the Catholic Church. This study explores his writings with regard to man's place in what was becoming a mechanistic universe.

A collection of essays representing a diversity of approaches to Anne Bronte's work. While many of the essays place Bronte's writings in the context of her life and make comparisons to the more famous works of her sisters, they also recognize that her novels can and should stand alone.

As Pierre Bourdieu points out, economic success and artistic status rarely overlap in cultural industries. This volume focuses on the period in which commercial book publishing became a mass market business that was able to appeal to a wide range of interests and incomes.

This study examines the construction of masculinity in culture based on an analysis of pictorial representations of the male in many contexts: social; historical; legal; literary; institutional; anthropological; educational; marital; imperial; and aesthetic. Artists featured include Burne-Jones.

A study of George Eliot as a psychological novelist, this work examines his writings in the context of a large volume of nineteenth-century scientific writing about the mind. It reveals how Eliot responds both creatively and critically to contemporary theories of mind.

This book suggests alternative ways of looking at what made a writer, what people gained from writing, and explores the alternative world of temperance periodicals of the 19th and early 20th century. Introducing now-forgotten writers who, in their thousands, kept the Victorian periodical presses rolling, and the public entertained.

This essay collection proposes that G.W.M. Reynolds's contribution to Victorian print culture reveals the interrelations between authorship, genre, and radicalism in popular print culture of the nineteenth century. As a best-selling author of popular fiction marketed to the lower classes, and a passionate champion of radical politics and "the industrious classes," Reynolds and his work demonstrate the relevance of Victorian Studies to topics of pressing contemporary concern including populism, working-class fiction, the concept of 'originality', and the collective scholarly endeavour to 'widen' and 'undiscipline' Victorian Studies. Bringing together well-known and newly-emerging scholars from across different disciplinary perspectives, the volume explores the importance of Reynolds Studies to scholarship on the nineteenth-century. This book will appeal to students and scholars of the nineteenth-century press, popular culture, and of authorship, as well as to Victorian Studies scholars interested in the translation of Victorian texts into new and indigenous markets.

This essay collection proposes that G.W.M. Reynolds's contribution to Victorian print culture reveals the interrelations between authorship, genre, and radicalism in popular print culture of the nineteenth century. As a best-selling author of popular fiction marketed to the lower classes, and a passionate champion of radical politics and "the industrious classes," Reynolds and his work demonstrate the relevance of Victorian Studies to topics of pressing contemporary concern including populism, working-class fiction, the concept of 'originality', and the collective scholarly endeavour to 'widen' and 'undiscipline' Victorian Studies. Bringing together well-known and newly-emerging scholars from across different disciplinary perspectives, the volume explores the importance of Reynolds Studies to scholarship on the nineteenth-century. This book will appeal to students and scholars of the nineteenth-century press, popular culture, and of authorship, as well as to Victorian Studies scholars interested in the translation of Victorian texts into new and indigenous markets.

Until now, the missionary plot in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre has been seen as marginal and anomalous. Despite women missionaries being ubiquitous in the nineteenth century, they appeared to be absent from nineteenth-century literature. As this book demonstrates, though, the female missionary character and narrative was, in fact, present in a range of writings from missionary newsletters and life writing, to canonical Victorian literature, New Woman fiction and women's college writing. Nineteenth-century women writers wove the tropes of the female missionary figure and plot into their domestic fiction, and the female missionary themes of religious self-sacrifice and heroism formed the subjectivity of these writers and their characters. Offering an alternative narrative for the development of women writers and early feminism, as well as a new reading of Jane Eyre, this book adds to the debate about whether religious women in the nineteenth century could actually be radical and feminist.

In Middlemarch, George Eliot famously warns readers not to see themselves as the centre of their own world, which produces a 'flattering illusion of concentric arrangement'. The scholarly contributors to Antipodean George Eliot resist this form of centrism. Hailing from four continents and six countries, they consider Eliot from a variety of de-centred vantage points, exploring how the obscure and marginal in Eliot's life and work sheds surprising light on the central and familiar. With essays that span the full range of Eliot's career-from her early journalism, to her major novels, to eccentric late works such as Impressions of Theophrastus Such-Antipodean George Eliot is committed to challenging orthodoxies about Eliot's development as a writer, overturning received ideas about her moral and political thought, and unveiling new contexts for appreciating her unparalleled significance in nineteenth-century letters.

With essays that span the full range of Eliot's career, this volume considers Eliot from a variety of de-centred vantage points, exploring how the obscure and marginal in Eliot's life and work sheds surprising light on the central and familiar.

In this interdisciplinary collection, leading scholars explore the world of Edward Lloyd and his stable of writers; Edward Lloyd and his World fills a major gap in the histories of popular fiction and journalism, whilst developing links with Victorian politics, theatre and music.