Nordic Literature of Decadence

• Paperback | Engels | Among the Victorians and Modernists
• Nordic Literature of Decadence fills a gap on the map of world literature and participates in a thriving area of research by extending the investigati... Lees meer

Louise Jopling

Patricia de Montfort

• Paperback | Engels | Among the Victorians and Modernists
• Louise Jopling: A Biographical and Cultural Study is the first in-depth study of this nineteenth-century painter who was among the first women admitte... Lees meer

Arthur O'Shaughnessy, A Pre-Raphaelite Poet in the British Museum

Jordan Kistler

• Hardcover | Engels | Among the Victorians and Modernists
• In her study of Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844-1881), Jordan Kistler examines the Pre-Raphaelite poet's work in the context of his career as a natural his... Lees meer

Secrecy and Disclosure in Victorian Fiction

Leila Silvana May

• Paperback | Engels | Among the Victorians and Modernists
• Why were the Victorians more fascinated with secrecy than people of other periods? What is the function of secrets in Victorian fiction and in the soc... Lees meer

Testing New Opinions and Courting New Impressions

• Hardcover | Engels | Among the Victorians and Modernists
• Reflecting Walter Pater's diverse engagements with literature, the visual arts, history, and philosophy, this collection of essays explores new interd... Lees meer

Strange Gods

Timothy L Carens

• Paperback | Engels | Among the Victorians and Modernists
• Anxiety about adoring humans more than God frequently overshadows and sometimes derails the progress of romance in Victorian novels. By probing this a... Lees meer

Critical Essays on Arthur Morrison and the East End

• Paperback | Engels | Among the Victorians and Modernists
• Critical Essays on Arthur Morrison and the East End throws fresh new light on this innovative novelist of poverty and urban life. Lees meer

Arthur O'Shaughnessy, A Pre-Raphaelite Poet in the British Museum

Jordan Kistler

• Paperback | Engels | Among the Victorians and Modernists
• Arthur O'Shaughnessy's career as a natural historian in the British Museum, and his consequent preoccupation with the role of work in his life, provid... Lees meer

The Socio-Literary Imaginary in 19th and 20th Century Britain

• Paperback | Engels | Among the Victorians and Modernists
• At once an invitation and a provocation, The Socio-Literary Imaginary represents the first collection of essays to illuminate the historically and int... Lees meer

Fieldwork of Empire, 1840-1900

Adrian S Wisnicki

• Paperback | Engels | Among the Victorians and Modernists
• Fieldwork of Empire, 1840-1900: Intercultural Dynamics in the Production of British Expeditionary Literature examines the impact of non-western cultur... Lees meer

The Ethical Vision of George Eliot

Thomas Albrecht

• Paperback | Engels | Among the Victorians and Modernists
• The Ethical Vision of George Eliot is one of the first monographs devoted entirely to the ethical thought of George Eliot, a profoundly significant, i... Lees meer

Beyond the Victorian/ Modernist Divide

• Hardcover | Engels | Among the Victorians and Modernists
• Beyond the Victorian/ Modernist Divide contributes to a new phase in the Victorian-modern debate of traditional periodization through the perspective ... Lees meer

Victorian Sustainability in Literature and Culture

• Paperback | Engels | Among the Victorians and Modernists
• From a growing awareness of the depletion of energy resources and the perils of environmental degradation to the founding of self-sufficient communiti... Lees meer

Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal

James Martell

• Paperback | Engels | Among the Victorians and Modernists
• Focusing on their conception and use of the notion of the mother, 　 Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal　 proposes a new interpretation of liter... Lees meer

Secrecy and Disclosure in Victorian Fiction

Leila Silvana May

• Hardcover | Engels | Among the Victorians and Modernists
• Why were the Victorians more fascinated with secrecy than people of other periods? What is the function of secrets in Victorian fiction and in the soc... Lees meer

Peril and Protection in British Courtship Novels

Geri Giebel Chavis

• Hardcover | Engels | Among the Victorians and Modernists
• Peril and Protection in British Courtship Novels: A Study in Continuity and Change explores the use and context of danger/safety language in British c... Lees meer

A Space of Their Own

• Hardcover | Engels | Among the Victorians and Modernists
• This collection explores how nineteenth and twentieth-century women writers incorporated the idea of 'place' into their writing. Whether writing from ... Lees meer

Music and Myth in Modern Literature

Josh Torabi

• Paperback | Engels | Among the Victorians and Modernists
• This book is the first major study that explores the intrinsic connection between music and myth, as Nietzsche conceived of it in The Birth of Tragedy... Lees meer

Re-Reading the Age of Innovation

• Paperback | Engels | Among the Victorians and Modernists
• Through its examinations of a wide range of texts and writers, Re-reading the Age of Innovation re-reads these texts as part of an age of innovation c... Lees meer

Philanthropy and Early Twentieth-Century British Literature

Milena Radeva-Costello

• Paperback | Engels | Among the Victorians and Modernists
• Philanthropy and Early Twentieth-Century British Literature explores the relationship between British literature and philanthropy at the end of the ni... Lees meer

Gender and the Intersubjective Sublime in Faulkner, Forster, Lawrence, and Woolf

Erin Speese

• Paperback | Engels | Among the Victorians and Modernists
• Exploring how the modern novel's complex depictions of parenthood restructure traditional conceptions of the Romantic sublime, Erin K. Johns Speese sh... Lees meer

Poetry and Uselessness

Robert Archambeau

• Hardcover | Engels | Among the Victorians and Modernists
• W.H. Auden famously claimed "poetry makes nothing happen." That may or may not be the case, but the idea that poetry makes nothing happen has, itself,... Lees meer

Re-Reading the Age of Innovation

• Hardcover | Engels | Among the Victorians and Modernists
• The period of 1830-1950 was an age of unprecedented innovation. From new inventions and scientific discoveries to reconsiderations of religion, gender... Lees meer

Strange Gods

Timothy L Carens

• Hardcover | Engels | Among the Victorians and Modernists
• Despite frequent declarations of the sanctity of love and marriage, British Protestant culture nurtured the fear that human affection might easily sli... Lees meer