Routledge Literature Research

Victorian Servants, Class, and the Politics of Literacy

By Jean Fernandez

Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

In this volume, Fernandez brings the under-examined figure of the Victorian servant out of obscurity in order to tell the story of his or her encounter with literacy, as imagined and represented in nineteenth-century fiction, autobiography, pamphlets and diaries. A vast body of writing is uncovered...

Published September 2nd 2009 by Routledge

The Textual Condition of Nineteenth-Century Literature

By Josephine Guy, Ian Small

Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

In this important new book, Guy and Small develop a new account of literary creativity in the late nineteenth century, one that combines concepts generated by text-theorists concerning the embodied nature of textuality with the empirical insights of text-editors and book historians. Through these...

Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge

Science and Religion in Neo-Victorian Novels

Eye of the Ichthyosaur

By John Glendening

Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

Criticism about the neo-Victorian novel — a genre of historical fiction that re-imagines aspects of the Victorian world from present-day perspectives — has expanded rapidly in the last fifteen years but given little attention to the engagement between science and religion. Of great interest to...

Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge

Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion

'Our Feverish Contact'

By Allan Conrad Christensen

Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

This intriguing book examines the ways contagion - or disease - inform and shape a wide variety of nineteenth century texts and contexts. Christiensen dissects the cultural assumptions concerning disease, health, impurity and so on before exploring different perspectives on key themes such as...

Published April 6th 2005 by Routledge

Narrative Hospitality in Late Victorian Fiction

Novel Ethics

By Rachel Hollander

Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

Bringing together poststructuralist ethical theory with late Victorian debates about the morality of literature, this book reconsiders the ways in which novels engender an ethical orientation or response in their readers, explaining how the intersections of nation, family, and form in the late...

Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Aging in Nineteenth-Century Culture

Edited by Anne-Julia Zwierlein, Katharina Boehm, Anna Farkas

Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

This essay collection develops new perspectives on constructions of old age in literary, legal, scientific and periodical cultures of the nineteenth century. Rigorously interdisciplinary, the book places leading researchers of old age in nineteenth-century literature in dialogue with experts from...

To Be Published July 24th 2013 by Routledge

Domesticity and Design in American Women’s Lives and Literature

Stowe, Alcott, Cather, and Wharton Writing Home

By Caroline Hellman

Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

Domesticity and Design in American Women’s Lives and Literature explores the ways in which four American women writers from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century inhabited domestic space and portrayed it in their work. Hellman explores independent female authors who had intriguing and...

Published June 6th 2011 by Routledge

Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era

By Lara Baker Whelan

Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

This book demonstrates how representations of the Victorian suburb in mid- to late-nineteenth century British writing occasioned a literary sub-genre unique to this period, one that attempted to reassure readers that the suburb was a place where outsiders could be controlled and where middle-class...

Published November 3rd 2009 by Routledge

Christian and Lyric Tradition in Victorian Women’s Poetry

By F. Elizabeth Gray

Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

Women in the Victorian period were acknowledged to be the "religious sex," but their relationship to the doctrines, practices, and hierarchies of Christianity was both highly circumscribed, which has been well documented, and complexly creative, which has not. Gray visits the importance of the...

Published August 18th 2009 by Routledge

Antebellum American Women Writers and the Road

American Mobilities

By Susan L. Roberson

Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

A study of American women’s narratives of mobility and travel, this book examines how geographic movement opened up other movements or mobilities for antebellum women at a time of great national expansion. Concerned with issues of personal and national identity, the study demonstrates how women not...

Published October 26th 2010 by Routledge