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Joseph Conrad, Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism
In 1908, Joseph Conrad was criticised by a reviewer for being a man ‘without either country or language’: even his shipboard communities were the...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism
This handbook offers analysis of diverse genres and media of neo-Victorianism, including film and television adaptations of Victorian texts, authors’...
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The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern
The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fernargues that Sara Parton and her literary alter ego, Fanny Fern, occupy a star-power position...
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Perception, Class and Environment in the Works of Thomas Hardy
This book examines Thomas Hardy’s writing in both prose and poetry, focusing on issues of perception, ‘being’, class and environment. It illustrates...
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William Blake's Visions Art, Hallucinations, Synaesthesia
This book is an inquiry into whether what Blake called his ‘visions’ can be attributed to recognizable perceptual phenomena. The conditions...
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William Blake's Manuscripts Praxis, Puzzles, and Palimpsests
This collection of essays examines how close analysis of William Blake’s manuscripts can yield new discoveries about his techniques, his working...
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Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods
Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoodsexplores the construction of the child and the development of texts for children in the...
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Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives
Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narrativesexamines the neo-Victorian themes and motifs currently appearing in young adult fiction—specifically addressing...
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Shelley's Visions of Death
This book provides the first modern, in-depth analysis of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s engagement with the phenomenon of death. It argues that, for...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Transnational Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century
This handbook explores the rich and as yet understudied field of women’s writing during the nation-building years that characterized the global...
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Tuberculosis and Irish Fiction, 1800–2022 A Lingering Condition
This book focuses on Ireland’s lived experience of tuberculosis as represented in the nation’s fiction; not surprisingly, the disease both manifests...
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“‘Faith’ is a fine invention” Dickinson’s Performance of Doubt and Belief
This book covers nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson who captured the multifaceted nature of life in all of its uncertainties. Studies...
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The Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture Development and Selfhood from Darwin to Freud
This book examines representations of precocity in Victorian textual culture – canonical literature, children’s fiction, scientific texts, and...
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Narratives of Women’s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Narratives of Women’s Health and Hysteria in the Nineteenth-Century Novel looks extensively at hysteria discourse through medical and sociological...
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Romanticism and the Contingent Self The Challenge of Representation
This book offers a new critique of selfhood in Romantic literature. In the past, Romanticism has been seen as an individualistic movement, with...
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Cavafy's Hellenistic Antiquities History, Archaeology, Empire
This book reinterprets C. P. Cavafy’s historical and archaeological poetics by correlating his work to major cultural, political and sexualized...
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The Famine Diaspora and Irish American Women's Writing
The Famine Diaspora and Irish American Women’s Writingconsiders the works of eleven North American female authors who wrote for or descended from...
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The Persistence of the Soul in Literature, Art and Politics
This book analyses the evolution of literary and artistic representations of the soul, exploring its development through different time periods. The...
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The Shelleyan Brontës Mary and Percy Shelley in the Work of the Brontës
This book explores the significant textual relationship between Mary and Percy Shelley and the early works of the Brontë siblings. Through a detailed...
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Bees, Science, and Sex in the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
The long nineteenth century (1789-1914) has been described as an axial age in the history of both bees and literature. It was the period in which the...