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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.

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.

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.

Until now, the female missionary has appeared to be absent from 19th century literature. This book provides new readings of texts such as Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre to reveal the presence of the female missionary in 19th century writing, arguing that the character influenced cultural debates about religion, gender and domesticity

G.W.M. Reynolds's contribution to Victorian print culture provides a unique opportunity to explore interrelated questions of authorship, genre, and radicalism in popular print culture of the 19th century. This collection of the essays explores the importance of Reynolds Studies to scholarship on the 19th century

G.W.M. Reynolds's contribution to Victorian print culture provides a unique opportunity to explore interrelated questions of authorship, genre, and radicalism in popular print culture of the 19th century. This collection of the essays explores the importance of Reynolds Studies to scholarship on the 19th century

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.

Using close reading, this text studies the ways in which Thomas Hardy writes about music, and argues that this focus allows for a close and varied investigation of the affective dimensions of his poetry and fiction - and his recurrent preoccupations with time, community and love.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.