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Offers a critical insight into the relationship between Milton and the Romantic poets. Discussing the role that 17th and 18th-century writers like Dryden, Johnson and Burke played in formulating the political and spiritual mythology that grew up around Milton, this work contextualizes various major Romantic poets' 'misreadings' of Milton.

Through a survey of a diverse range of crimes, criminals, detectives, modes of detection and reportage, the essays in this volume chart the development of crime writing as a genre and the growing dialogue between fact and fiction through Victoria's reign.

Starting with a review of the historical evidence available to Victorian writers and an examination of how historians of the time represented Arthur, the author connects Victorian accounts of Arthur's quest to contemporary scientific and historical searches for origins and knowledge, and appropriation by competing religions.

Tracing those deliberate and accidental Romantic echoes that reverberate through the Victorian age into the beginning of the twentieth century, this collection acknowledges that the Victorians decided for themselves how to define what is 'Romantic'.

Their Fair Share identifies and contextualises 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 the field of cultural production, in the period 1870-1920.

Karl Marx's youngest daughter Eleanor (1855-98) is one of the most significant figures in the cultural politics of the late nineteenth century. As a feminist and radical socialist she never flinched from confrontation; as an aspiring actress, working journalist and literary translator she advanced contemporary understanding of Flaubert, Ibsen and S

Romantic Wars is a collection of eight specially commissioned essays focusing on the relations between British Romantic culture (poetry, fiction, painting, and non-fictional prose) and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Whilst in recent years much attention has been paid to the influence of the French Revolution on British Romanticism, comparat

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.

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.

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.

This book explores the Victorians through their materiality, and asks how objects were part of being Victorian, and how reading the Victorians through their possessions, can deepen our understanding of Victorian culture. This interdisciplinary collection looks at the historical, cultural and literary debris that makes up the background of Victorian life.

At its height, during the 1830s and 40s, Chartism inspired a prodigious literary output, based on its own newspapers and journals.

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 timely collection attends to both critical strands, positioning Brontë as an author whose career encompassed the Romantic and Victorian eras and delving into the developing nineteenth century''s literary concerns as well as the growth of the writer''s mind. As the contributors show, Brontë''s authorship took shape among the pages of her juvenilia, as figures from Brontë''s childhood experience of the world such as Wellington and Napoleon transmuted to her fictional pages, while her siblings'' works and worlds both overlapped with and extended beyond her own.

Harriet Martineau wrote in the mid-nineteenth century when new disciplines and areas of knowledge were being established. Reflecting her prodigious achievements, this volume explores her influence on emerging fields such as economics, sociology, history, education, science, economics, childhood, the status of women, disability studies, journalism, travel writing, life-writing, and letter writing. This wide-ranging collection confirms her place as one of the leading intellectuals, cultural theorists and commentators of the nineteenth century.

Paying particular attention to the representation of non-normative or alternative masculinities, the contributors to Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities examine the works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, William Bell Scott, William Holman Hunt, among others.

Presents research on the Brontes' relationship to the wider world of the arts, including their relationship to the visual arts. This title examines the siblings' artistic ambitions, productions, and literary representations of creative work in both amateur and professional realms.

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.

This volume brings together 160 of Joseph Severn's letters, most never before published, along with reproductions of 30 of Severn's paintings and drawings.

This is a collection of eight specially-commissioned essays focusing on the relations between British Romantic culture and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. The essays seek to correct a prevailing assumption that the culture of this period is unaffected by discourses of violence.

Hardy kept notebooks on a variety of subjects which he would later use as an aide-memoire when writing his novels. This carefully edited volume explores Hardy's notebooks which should have been destroyed upon his death uncopied, as he so eloquently put it.