19th Century Literature

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Fashion Nation

Picturing the United States in the Long Nineteenth Century

By Sandra Tomc
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature

A colorful look at the relationship between ethnic nationalism and gaudy dress in the early 19th-century United States

Clothed in Meaning

Literature, Labor, and Cotton in Nineteenth-Century America

By Sylvia Jenkins Cook
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, American Studies, African American Studies, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Textured readings of the literary expression of workers in the era of big cotton

Who Killed American Poetry?

From National Obsession to Elite Possession

By Karen L. Kilcup
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Studies

19th-century American magazine reviewers helped establish—and subsequently destroy—poetry’s place as a powerful national literature

Spectral Characters

Genre and Materiality on the Modern Stage

By Sarah Balkin
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, 20th Century Literature, Modern Literature

Reimagines modern drama by shining light on the ghostly presences within it

Everyone’s Theater

Literature and Daily Life in England, 1860–1914

By Michael Meeuwis
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature, 20th Century Literature

Connects the practices of the professional Victorian stage to the world of the amateur theatricals across England and its empire

Victorian Bestseller

The Life of Dinah Craik

By Karen Bourrier
Subjects: Biography, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Disability Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, British and Irish Literatures

An engaging, rigorously researched biography of popular 19th century novelist Dinah Craik
 

A World of Fiction

Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History

By Katherine Bode
Subjects: Literary Studies, Editorial Theory, Digital Projects, History, Intellectual History, 19th Century Literature
Series: Digital Humanities

Proposes a new basis for data-rich literary history

The Drama of the American Short Story, 1800-1865

By Michael J. Collins
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Theater and Performance, American Studies, 19th Century Literature

A new history of the origins of the American short story and its relationship to theatrical performance culture

Dreams for Dead Bodies

Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction

By Miriam Michelle Robinson
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, African American Studies, Class Studies, 19th Century Literature
Series: Class : Culture

Explores U.S. detective fiction's deep engagement with the shifting dynamics of race and labor in America
 

Anonymous Connections

The Body and Narratives of the Social in Victorian Britain

By Tina Young Choi
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature

An important contribution to Victorian literature studies with strong connections to cultural and medical history

Emotional Reinventions

Realist-Era Representations Beyond Sympathy

By Melanie V. Dawson
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, 19th Century Literature

A historically informed approach to realist-era American fiction, engaging with contemporary affect theory, evolutionary theory, studies of realism, and studies of affect in American literature

The Measure of Manliness

Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel

By Karen Bourrier
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Sheds new light on the narrative importance of the disabled man in Victorian literature and culture

A Tale of Two Capitalisms

Sacred Economics in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By Supritha Rajan
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature, Economics, History of Economic Thought, History, European History

An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century British capitalism, its architects, and its critics

The Real and the Sacred

Picturing Jesus in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

By Jefferson J. A. Gatrall
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, History, European History, Religion, Art, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature, American Literature

A cultural history of representations of Jesus in nineteenth-century European and American fiction and visual art

Shipwrecked

Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World

By James Morrison
Subjects: Classical Studies, Greek, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, 19th Century Literature, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Media Studies, Cinema Studies

Four thousand years of shipwrecks in literature and film

Are We There Yet?

Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism

By Alison Byerly
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, Intellectual History, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Media Studies, New Media

An unusual approach to the Victorian phenomenon of virtual travel and realism through the lens of contemporary conceptualizations of media and its effects

New York-Paris

Whitman, Baudelaire, and the Hybrid City

By Laure Katsaros
Subjects: American Studies, Cultural Studies, History, American History, European History, Intellectual History, European Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, European Literature, 19th Century Literature

A comparison of the mid-19th-century city in the poetry of Walt Whitman and Charles Baudelaire and their responses to the inescapable push of modernization

Industry and the Creative Mind

The Eccentric Writer in American Literature and Entertainment, 1790-1860

By Sandra Tomc
Subjects: American Studies, History, American History, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Cultural Studies

A new look at the "eccentric author" figure in early nineteenth-century America

Architecture and Modern Literature

By David Anton Spurr
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Cultural Studies, History, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, 20th Century Literature, European Studies

Exploring the related cultural forms of architecture and literature in the modern era

The Empire Inside

Indian Commodities in Victorian Domestic Novels

By Suzanne Daly
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, European History, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature

A tightly focused study of the ubiquity of Indian objects in Victorian novels

Building Romanticism

Literature and Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By Nicole Reynolds
Subjects: History, European History, Art, Architecture, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature

A study of the importance of architecture in Romanticism

The Feeling of Reading

Affective Experience and Victorian Literature

Edited by Rachel Ablow
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, European History, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature

The first collection of criticism devoted to the problem of reading in Victorian literature

The Novel as Event

By Mario Ortiz Robles
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Literary Criticism and Theory

Exploring the importance of language in the Victorian novel

The Adventures of Philip

On His Way through the World Shewing Who Robbed Him, Who Helped Him, and Who Passed Him by

By William Thackeray
Edited by Judith Law Fisher & Peter L. Shillingsburg
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, 19th Century Literature
Series: The Thackeray Edition

Thackeray's last completed novel, edited and with commentary by a leading textual scholar

Fictions of Affliction

Physical Disability in Victorian Culture

By Martha Stoddard Holmes
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, British and Irish Literatures
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Reveals the cultural meanings and literary representations of disability in Victorian Britain

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