Bøger i The Nineteenth Century Series serien

Embracing figures as diverse as Gandhi, Wilde, and Bradlaugh, this collection explores the way in which narratives contested one another in a society that devoted an abundance of cultural energy to writing about, and reading of, lives.

Investigates the role of anonymous periodical journalism in the fashioning of women's authorial identities during the Victorian period.

Composed in memory of Bill Ruddick, these essays engage with a selection of literal "master narratives" - texts which in one way or another represent growth points in the development of the novel. All the essays explore what Frederic Jameson called the "objective" structures of particular texts.

This volume identifies and contextualizes 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 cultural production.

This is an anthology of Chartist fiction. It includes Will Harper's "A Poor Law Tale", stories from Ireland ("The Defender"), stories of revolution ("A Midnight Rising"), of women ("The Outcast", by W.J. Linton), and of the principles of Chartism, "The Poor Man's Wrongs", by Mary Hutton.

This reference collects many of the original texts from the debate which surrounded the rise of English as an academic subject. Each text is given an introduction which sets it in context and highlights themes. The book also touches upon the history of English studies in the nineteenth century.

Beginning with the premise that men and women of the Romantic period were lively interlocutors who participated in many of the same literary traditions and experiments, this title offers a counterpoint to studies of Romantic-era women writers that stress their differences from their male contemporaries.

A collection of autobiographical accounts of childhood by a range of prominent 19th-century literary women. These are strongly individualized descriptions offering accounts of their schooling, Victorian family life, the games they invented, and their sense of being misunderstood.