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Among the Victorians and Modernists: Among the Victorians and Modernists


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This series publishes monographs and essay collections on literature, art, and culture in the context of the diverse aesthetic, political, social, technological, and scientific innovations that arose among the Victorians and Modernists. Viable topics include, but are not limited to, artistic and cultural debates and movements; influential figures and communities; and agitations and developments regarding subjects such as animals, commodification, decadence, degeneracy, democracy, desire, ecology, gender, nationalism, the paranormal, performance, public art, sex, socialism, spiritualities, transnationalism, and the urban. Studies that address continuities between the Victorians and Modernists are welcome. Work on recent responses to the periods such as NeoVictorian novels, graphic novels, and film will also be considered.

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Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel Senses and Sensations

Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel: Senses and Sensations

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Nadine Böhm-Schnitker
April 14, 2025

Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel: Senses and Sensations establishes a new analytical method in the broader context of sensory studies in order to explain how the genre of the novel can impact on our perception of ourselves and our social contexts. Taking cultural literary studies ahead,...

Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England The ‘Black Ghost’ of Bermondsey

Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England: The ‘Black Ghost’ of Bermondsey

1st Edition

By Anna Kay
December 19, 2024

Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England seeks to provide a comprehensive examination of the notorious Mannings' ‘Bermondsey murder’, and its wider implications in Victorian criminal narrative and popular culture. Exploring the ongoing textual afterlife of Maria Manning, including significant...

The Maternal Image of God in Victorian Literature

The Maternal Image of God in Victorian Literature

1st Edition

By Rebecca Styler
November 28, 2024

This book is the study of a religious metaphor: the idea of God as a mother, in British and US literature 1850–1915. It uncovers a tradition of writers for whom divine motherhood embodied ideals felt to be missing from the orthodox masculine deity. Elizabeth Gaskell, Josephine Butler, George ...

George Egerton Terra Incognitas

George Egerton: Terra Incognitas

1st Edition

Edited By Isobel Sigley, Whitney Standlee
November 26, 2024

George Egerton: Terra Incognitas is the first published work to focus solely on Egerton and her literary legacy. It covers the range and extent of Egerton's life and literary career from her emergence into the milieu of London publishing in 1893 to her dramatic works (both original and in ...

Hotel Modernisms

Hotel Modernisms

1st Edition

Edited By Anna Despotopoulou, Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Efterpi Mitsi
October 08, 2024

This collection of essays explores the hotel as a site of modernity, a space of mobility and transience that shaped the transnational and transcultural modernist activity of the first half of the twentieth century. As a trope for social and cultural mobility, transitory and precarious modes of ...

Legal Narratives in Victorian Fiction

Legal Narratives in Victorian Fiction

1st Edition

By Joanne Bridget Simpson
October 08, 2024

The law holds up a mirror to society and reflects that society and its ongoing preoccupations. This book establishes legal interpretation as a mode of literary interpretation, contextualising the opinions and sociological background of literature within the context of the law of its period and ...

A Space of Their Own Women, Writing and Place 1850-1950

A Space of Their Own: Women, Writing and Place 1850-1950

1st Edition

Edited By Katie Baker, Naomi Walker
October 07, 2024

This collection explores how nineteenth and twentieth-century women writers incorporated the idea of ‘place’ into their writing. Whether writing from a specific location or focusing upon a particular geographical or imaginary place, women writers working between 1850 and 1950 valued ‘a space of ...

Uncanny Fairy Tales Hybrid Wonders in the Mirror

Uncanny Fairy Tales: Hybrid Wonders in the Mirror

1st Edition

By Francesca Arnavas
May 31, 2024

There are fairy tales that surprise, destabilise, or even shock us: these are uncanny fairy tales that manipulate familiar stories in creative and bewildering ways in order to express new meanings. This work analyses these tales, basing its approach on a reformulation of Freud’s concept of the ...

Form and Modernity in Women’s Poetry, 1895–1922 A Line of Her Own

Form and Modernity in Women’s Poetry, 1895–1922: A Line of Her Own

1st Edition

By Sarah Parker
February 29, 2024

While W. B. Yeats’s influential account of the ‘Tragic Generation’ claims that most fin-de-siècle poets died, or at least stopped writing, shortly after 1900, this book explodes this narrative by attending to the twentieth-century poetry produced by women poets Alice Meynell, Michael Field (...

Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience Late Victorian Speculative Fiction

Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience: Late Victorian Speculative Fiction

1st Edition

By Michael Kramp
February 26, 2024

Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience explores the disturbing sustainability of White male supremacy. Kramp traces an imaginative failure and an imaginative success; his focus on British speculative fiction published between 1870 and 1900 demonstrates how even this elastic and wildly inventive literary ...

Critical Essays on Arthur Morrison and the East End

Critical Essays on Arthur Morrison and the East End

1st Edition

Edited By Diana Maltz
January 29, 2024

In 1896, author Arthur Morrison gained notoriety for his bleak and violent A Child of the Jago, a slum novel that captured the desperate struggle to survive among London’s poorest. When a reviewer accused Morrison of exaggerating the depravity of the neighborhood on which the Jago was based, he ...

Re-Reading the Age of Innovation Victorians, Moderns, and Literary Newness, 1830-1950

Re-Reading the Age of Innovation: Victorians, Moderns, and Literary Newness, 1830-1950

1st Edition

Edited By Louise Kane
January 29, 2024

The period of 1830–1950 was an age of unprecedented innovation. From new inventions and scientific discoveries to reconsiderations of religion, gender, and the human mind, the innovations of this era are recorded in a wide range of literary texts. Rather than separating these texts into Victorian ...

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