Aestheticism and Sexual Parody 1840-1940

Dennis Denisoff

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 31
• Aestheticism and Sexual Parody adds a new and important dimension to the concept of parody as a combative strategy by which sexually marginalized grou... Lees meer

The Victorian Supernatural

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 42
• This collection brings together essays by scholars from literature, history of art and history of science which explore the diversity of Victorian fas... Lees meer

Dickens's Style

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 86
• Charles Dickens, generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age, was known as 'The Inimitable', not least for his distinctive style ... Lees meer

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

Nadia Valman

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 54
• Stories about Jewesses proliferated in nineteenth-century Britain as debates about the place of the Jews in the nation raged. While previous scholarsh... Lees meer

Moral Authority, Men of Science, and the Victorian Novel

Anne DeWitt

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 84
• Nineteenth-century men of science aligned scientific practice with moral excellence as part of an endeavor to secure cultural authority for their disc... Lees meer

Victorian Renovations of the Novel

Suzanne Keen

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 15
• This study of narrative technique in Victorian novels introduces the concept of "narrative annexes" whereby unexpected characters, impermissible subje... Lees meer

Literary Culture and the Pacific

Vanessa Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 13
• This book examines a range of nineteenth-century European accounts from the Pacific that depict Polynesian responses to imported metropolitan culture,... Lees meer

Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability

Gowan Dawson

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 57
• The success of Charles Darwin's evolutionary theories in mid-nineteenth-century Britain has long been attributed, in part, to his own adherence to str... Lees meer

Time and the Moment in Victorian Literature and Society

Sue Zemka

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 77
• Sudden changes, opportunities or revelations have always carried a special significance in western culture, from the Greek and later the Christian kai... Lees meer

Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s

Nicholas Daly

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 70
• This is a study of high and low culture in the years before the Reform Act of 1867, which vastly increased the number of voters in Victorian Britain. ... Lees meer

Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Janis McLarren Caldwell

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 46
• Janis Caldwell investigates the links between the growing scientific materialism of the nineteenth century and the persistence of the Romantic literar... Lees meer

Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust

Ann Gaylin

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 37
• This study investigates human curiosity and its depiction in eavesdropping scenes in nineteenth-century English and French novels. Ann Gaylin sheds li... Lees meer

Evolution and Victorian Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 92
• In this collection of essays from leading scholars, the dynamic interplay between evolution and Victorian culture is explored for the first time, mapp... Lees meer

The Silver Fork Novel

Edward Copeland

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 81
• In the early nineteenth century there was a sudden vogue for novels centring on the glamour of aristocratic social and political life. Such novels, at... Lees meer

Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination

Katherine Byrne

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 74
• Tuberculosis was a widespread and deadly disease which devastated the British population in the nineteenth-century: consequently it also had a huge im... Lees meer

Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815-1900

Richard Adelman

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 112
• Charting the failure of the Romantic critique of political economy, Richard Adelman explores the changing significances and the developing concepts of... Lees meer

Victorian Writing about Risk

Elaine Freedgood

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 28
• In Victorian Writing about Risk, Elaine Freedgood explores a wide spectrum of once-popular literature, including works on political economy, sanitary ... Lees meer

Aging, Duration, and the English Novel

Jacob Jewusiak

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 120
• The rapid onset of dementia after an illness, the development of gray hair after a traumatic loss, the sudden appearance of a wrinkle in the brow of a... Lees meer

English Fiction and the Evolution of Language, 1850-1914

Will Abberley

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 101
• Victorian science changed language from a tool into a natural phenomenon, evolving independently of its speakers. Will Abberley explores how science a... Lees meer

London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885 1914

Matt Cook

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 39
• Matt Cook explores the relationship between London and homosexuality from 1885 to 1914, years marked by intensification in concern about male-male rel... Lees meer

Victorian Women and Wayward Reading

Marisa Palacios Knox

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu
• In the nineteenth century, no assumption about female reading generated more ambivalence than the supposedly feminine facility for identifying with fi... Lees meer

Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical

Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Graeme Gooday, Richard Noakes, Sally Shuttleworth, Jonathan R Topham

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 45
• Magazines and periodicals played a far greater role than books in influencing the Victorians' understanding of the new discoveries and theories in sci... Lees meer

The Silver Fork Novel

Edward Copeland

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 81
• In the early nineteenth century there was a sudden vogue for novels centring on the glamour of aristocratic social and political life. Such novels, at... Lees meer

Victorian Honeymoons

Helena Michie

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu | nr. 53
• While Victorian tourism and Victorian sexuality have been the subject of much critical interest, there has been little research on a characteristicall... Lees meer