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A systematic exploration of Thomas Hardy's imaginative assimilation of particular Victorian sciences, this study draws on and swells the widening current of scholarly attention being paid to the cultural meanings compacted and released by the nascent "sciences of man" in the 19th century.

The 22 essays that comprise this volume are some of the first to explore the intriguing and multifaceted interrelationship between science and culture throughout the period of the 19th-century. Scholars from a number of different disciplines contributed to this study.

The title chosen by the author is derived from the distinction Socrates makes between his ideal society and the insalubrious regions to which he banishes the mimetic poets. The notion of health only occurs as a singularity. Diseases are plural. Why did Socrates use the polarity of health and disease so forcefully?

No one, not even God, the devil nor those who believe in the death of the author, escapes the biographer's professional embrace. These essays explore issues raised by some of the Romantic period biographies written since around 1800.

Reading and re-reading is what this book is about. In the widest sense it is concerned with the reading of poetry in general, and the long poem in particular, and it is moreover an attempt to recover "The Excursion" for critical study and to reinstate it with the Wordsworthian canon.

This study charts aspects of the significance of animals for Byron, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats, and relates their interest in animals to discourses about animals produced in various contemporary cultural contexts.

In her study of Dickens's relationship to canines, Gray shows that dogs, real and invented, were intrinsic to Dickens's vision and experience of London and its representation. She makes use of personal reminiscences, periodicals, images of dogs by portrait artists and Dickens's illustrators.

An examination of the importance of language in forming a nexus among popular fiction, biology, and philology at the Victorian fin-de-siecle. This book maps out the dialogue between the Victorian life and social sciences most involved in the study of language and the literary genre indicted for causing linguistic corruption - popular fiction.

A biographical and critical account of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, (1844-1889) and his involvement with religion and literature, specifically Christian poetry. Included are accounts of his contemporaries, such as Christina Rossetti and John Henry Newman.

A study of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a valued icon of British manhood. Diana Barsham discusses Doyle's career and offers a revision of the Doyle myth. She explores his determination to become a great name in the culture of his day and the strains on his identity arising from this project.

This work is a textual study of Hardy's four volumes of short stories. It examines the history of the stories' composition and revision from manuscripts through serial publications, galleys, revisions and collected publications, all stages of which show significant alterations.

This is a collection of essays on the theme of women and property in Victorian fiction. The work comments on texts such as "Shirley", "Cranford", "Villette", "The Moonstone", works by Thomas Hardy and "Diana of the Crossways".

The author's aim in this study is to examine the poetic and amorous aspects of Victorian love poetry.

Robert Bloomfield, whom John Clare described as 'the most original poet of the age,' was a widely read and critically acclaimed poet throughout the first decade of the 19th century. This title considers the relationship between Bloomfield's poetry and that of other Romantic poets, especially Wordsworth.

Presents a study of Tennyson's record of publication in Victorian periodicals. Despite Tennyson's supposed hostility to periodicals, this book shows that he made a career-long habit of contributing to them and in the process revealed not only his willingness to promote his career but also his status as a highly valued commodity.

Provides historical accounts of scientific controversy, documents references to time and space in the periodical press, and follows magazines and journals as they circulate through society to shed light on the dissemination and distribution of periodicals, authorship and textual authority, and the role of mediation in material culture.

Taking up the phenomenon of bric-a-brac in Victorian culture, this collection advances our understanding of materiality by examining the miscellaneous, moveable and rejected objects often overlooked in the discourses of thing theory. Essays examine writers as different as Lear, Browning.

Offering an introduction to issues surrounding the definition and division of labor in British society and culture, this book argues that 'work' was a term rife with ideological contradictions for Victorian males during a period when it was considered synonymous with masculinity.

Presenting a study of astronomy in Hardy's writing, this work brings the analytical tools of both disciplines, and offers readings of seven novels that enrich Darwinian and feminist perspectives on his work, extends formalist evaluations of his achievement as a writer, and provides fresh interpretations of enigmatic passages and scenes.

Despite their desire to rise above the so-called "age of personality" and personal attacks, Romantic-era figures such as Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Sydney Owenson, and the explorer John Ross became enmeshed in public feuds with the Edinburgh Review and the Quarterly Review.

Covers the intellectual formation of English plebeian radicalism and Scottish philosophic Whiggism over the long eighteenth century, and examines their associated strategies of critical engagement with the cultural, social and political crises of the early nineteenth century.

Assembles some 150 annotated interviews and recollections of Thomas Hardy. The author has selected items having literary or biographical significance, and annotated them with meticulous accuracy and a keen eye for the telling detail. This book reveals Hardy's contemporaneous opinions about his own writings.

An exploration of women in literature and art, focusing on the life and work of 19th-century writer Anna Jameson.

In a career that spanned over forty years, Elia Hepworth Dixon was alternately journalist, critic, essayist, short story writer, novelist, editor of a women's magazine, dramatist, and autobiographer. The author sheds light on Dixon's life and work, and provides insight not only into Dixon herself, but also into her multifaceted character.

Traces how 19th-century debates about the human and animal intersected with the venerable genre of the animal story written for children. This work raises questions about the construction of the child reader, the qualifications of the implied author, and the possibilities of children's literature compared with literature written for adults.

Offers original readings of Trollope that recognize and repay his importance as source material for scholars working in diverse fields of literary and cultural studies. This title also includes essays that examine Trollope and sexuality in the context of queer studies, the law, archetypal constructions, and classical feminism.