Literary Studies / English Literature (19th Century)

Extraordinary Aesthetes sheds light on English, Irish, and Scottish artists whose careers thrived during the nineteenth century.

The Smallpox Report explores the Romantic-era medical and literary narratives that made vaccination plausible, available, and desirable.

This book examines the letters, essays, and fiction of Joseph Conrad through an Aristotelian lens.

Ross Woodman and Joel Faflak focus on the clash in British Romantic poets' works between depth psychology and mysticism in the context of post-Enlightenment crises of belief.

Writing Fear examines how nineteenth-century Russian writers borrowed from European gothic fiction, demonstrating the ways in which this helped transform literary realism.

In Common Things explores the implacable agency of common substances in the life and literature of the Romantic period.

Applying media theory to late-Victorian print, Making Pictorial Print shows how popular illustrated magazines developed a new design interface that encouraged dynamic engagement and media literacy in the British public.

Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil explores literary representations of evil, pursuing the points of intersection between aesthetics and morality.

Penetrating Critiques pairs Victorian literary texts set in Africa with archival texts in order to explore the fraught problem of British masculinity and its construction.

This is the first critical volume to examine William Blake as a visionary thinker on disaster and the advent of modernity.

Spheres of Action examines the significant intersections between language and performance during the Romantic period.

Strange Truths in Undiscovered Lands examines the ways in which Shelley developed a ‘Romantic geography’ to provide visionary alternatives to an earth devastated by a new type of European colonialism and global expansion.

This study argues that feminist collaboration was vital to women’s successful infiltration of the marketplace at the end of the nineteenth century and Edwardian period.

Drawing on the theories of Kant and Lacan, this book reveals how modernity's characteristic stance produces an infinitely demanding ethics and a traumatic sublime.

Romantic Revelations argues that Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, John Clare, and Jane Austen sketch out a post-apocalyptic world that is paradoxically the vision that offers us hope. Washington contends that these authors craft an optimistic vision of the future that leads to a new politics.

Beautiful Untrue Things explores the astonishing flurry of Oscar Wilde forgeries that circulated in the early twentieth century, offering an innovative reading that considers literary forgery a form of fan fiction.