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This study concentrates on the implications of the emergence of the female detective during the Victorian and early Edwardian periods. The author draws attention to the many social conventions that would label women detectives as having too transgressive a quality for the period.

Shows that even the poet's apparently slighter works are important in their own right and are instructive as expressions of Shelley's developing art of composition and the diverse interests he pursued throughout his career.

Reading forms a genuine meeting place for historians, literary scholars, theorists, librarians, and historians of the book. This collection examines nineteenth-century reading in all its personal, historical, literary and material contexts, while also asking fundamental questions about how we read the Victorians' reading in the present day.

Examining works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, William Morris and John Ruskin, Dentith uses the notion of hindsight to approach issues of interpretation and historicity. It is possible, Dentith argues.

George Gissing and the Woman Question reads Gissing's novels, short stories and personal writings as a crux in European fiction's formulations of gender and sexuality. The contributors place Gissing alongside authors as diverse as Paul Bourget, Ella Hepworth Dixon, May Sinclair and Theodore Dreiser.

Reading the diaries of well-known writers and public figures such as Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, Henry Crabb Robinson, George Eliot, George Gissing, John Ruskin, Edith Simcox and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anne-Marie Millim locates the diary at the intersection of the public and private spheres. Diaristic writing, Millim argues.

Through close readings of individual serials and books Sarah Dewis examines the significant contributions John and Jane Webb Loudon made to the gardening press and democratic discourse. Vilified during their lifetimes by some sections of the press, they were innovatory in emphasizing the value of scientific knowledge and the acquisition of taste.

Using the metaphor of the published journey, whether it involves actual travel or translation, Johnston focuses on the relationships of various British women travellers, translators and journalists, mainly with continental Europe. Devoted in part to case studies of women such as Anna Jameson and Mary Howitt.

In this sequel to her 2000 anthology, Sanders again brings together autobiographical accounts of childhood that show women making sense of the children they were and the women they have become. The collection includes children's authors (Frances Hodgson Burnett and E. Nesbit).

G W M Reynolds (1814-1879) had a major impact on the mid-Victorian era. A prolific novelist whose work had a massive circulation, and an influential journalist and editor, he was a man of contradictions in both his life and writing. This study presents a range of Reynolds' achievement and influence.

Focuses on nineteenth-century British women while examining queer authorship and culture. This book shows that collaborative texts from such diverse genres as poetry, fiction, drama, the essay, and autobiography negotiate many limitations of post-Enlightenment patriarchy.

This work explores some of the source material that reported on the attitude of the British Empire towards its Irish subjects at a time of Ireland's most desperate need.

Using archival resources in the United Kingdom and the United States, this title examines advertisements, promotional materials, and programs, as well as letters, diaries, and account books, to reconstruct the ways in which Richard D'Oyly Carte, W S Gilbert, and Arthur Sullivan attracted and shaped the expectations of theatergoers.

Seeking to understand Tennyson's poetry as the work of a man concerned with making and then living up to one of the most famous names in Victorian literature, this book offers readings of Tennyson's major works.

Considers various aspects of Shelley's prolific and remarkably diverse output, including the verse letter, plays, prose essays, satire, pamphlets, political verse, romance, prefaces, translations from the Greek, prose style, artistic representations, fragments and early writings.

Focusing on key members of the Pisan Circle, Byron, the Shelleys, and Leigh Hunt, this book explores configurations of identity and the acculturating practices of British expatriates in post-Napoleonic Italy. It covers the problems involved in British Romanticism's relations to its European 'others'.

Presents an account of the evolution of Dickens, an author from whose psychological honesty and imaginative generosity emerged precocious fictional portents of Freudian and post-Freudian theory. It traces the evolution of Dickens' creative imagination.

In her study of the relationship between Byron's lifelong interest in history and the development of history as a discipline, Carla Pomare focuses on how Byron's writings interact with a variety of historiographical texts ranging from monographs to dictionaries. Calling attention to Byron's massive use of paratexts.

Percy Bysshe Shelley joined the deluge of sightseers that poured into the Continent after Napoleon's defeat in 1814. Shelley's Eye is the first study to address Shelley's participation in the travel culture of Post-Napoleonic Europe, and the first to consider Shelley as an important travel writer in his own right.

This study looks at the ways in which individuals, pressure groups, political organizations and the state sought to understand the mass communications media of the 19th century, and use them to influence public opinion and effect moral and social reform.

During the Victorian period there developed a new anxiety about male-female relations and roles in modern society. This book of essays examines Victorian painting in the light of this "woman question". The art and artists are considered in a socio-political context.

Controversy, especially religious controversy, was the great spectator sport of Victorian England. This work offers a study of the biggest of these by describing the way in which "Essays and Reviews", between 1860 and 1864, brought England its first serious exposure to biblical criticism.

Examining a wide range of representations of physical, metaphorical, and dream landscapes in Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, the author explores the way in which gender attitudes are expressed, both in descriptions of landscape as the human body and in ideas of nature.

Provides an overview of Beddoes' criticism and identifies significant directions in Beddoes studies. These include exploring Beddoes' German context; reading Beddoes' plays in light of gender theory; and reassessing Beddoes' use of dramatic genre in the context of work by theatre historians.

Between 1880 and 1914, England saw the emergence of an unprecedented range of literary forms from Modernism to the popular thriller. This book asks the following key questions: How did publishing and distribution practices influence reader choice? Who decided whether or not a book was a 'classic'?

Drawing upon extensive archival work in the British Library, the author analyzes seance accounts, novels about mediumship, and metaphysical treatises, to make important connections between contemporary writings on mysticism and fictional works. She also presents the theories of compelling characters such as Newton Crosland and Lois Waisbrooker.

In 1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti published his sonnet sequence "The House of Life". Many poets wrote thousands of sonnets resulting in the flourishing of the sonnet sequence since the 1590s. This study explores the causes behind this outpouring, providing the contributions of the late Victorian sonneteers to the poetry and culture of their age.

This is a study of one of the most widely read publications of 19th century Britain, the London Journal. Treating the magazine as a case study, the book maps the Victorian mass market periodical in general and provides both new bibliographical and theoretical knowledge of this area.

By analyzing how Victorian literary texts both reveal and reconcile historical anxieties about the meaning of manliness, Dowling argues that masculinity is a complex construction rather than a natural given. He examines the fear of unmanliness inherent in works featuring male novelists.