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The Victorian Novel and Masculinity
What did it mean, in the rapidly changing world of Victorian England, to 'be a man'? In essays written specially for this volume, nine distinguished...
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Philology and Global English Studies Retracings
This book retraces the formation of modern English Studies by departing from philological scholarship along two lines: in terms of institutional...
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Map** British Women Writers’ Urban Imaginaries Space, Self and Spirituality
This study provides an alternative to the postmodern tradition of writing about the city by exploring spatialized constructions of gender and...
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Women, Work and the Victorian Periodical Living by the Press
Covering a wide range of magazine work, including editing, illustration, poetry, needlework instruction and typesetting, this book provides fresh...
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Ireland and the New Journalism
This volume explores the ways in which the complicated revolution in British newspapers, the New Journalism, influenced Irish politics, culture, and...
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The Peripheral Child in Nineteenth Century Literature and its Criticism
Established accounts of the child in nineteenth century literature tend to focus on those who occupy a central position within narratives. This book...
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The History of British Women's Writing, 1920-1945 Volume Eight
Featuring sixteen contributions from recognized authorities in their respective fields, this superb new map** of women's writing ranges from...
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Women in Transit through Literary Liminal Spaces
This edited book provides a unique opportunity for international scholars to contribute to the exploration of liminality in the field of...
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Angela Carter and Decadence Critical Fictions/Fictional Critiques
By reading key Carter texts alongside their Decadent intertexts, Tonkin interrogates the claim that Carter was in thrall to a fetishistic aesthetic...
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Becoming the Gentleman British Literature and the Invention of Modern Masculinity, 1660–1815
Becoming the Gentleman explains why British citizens in the long eighteenth century were haunted by the question of what it meant to be a gentleman....
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Women's Life Writing, 1700-1850 Gender, Genre and Authorship
This collection discusses British and Irish life writings by women in the period 1700-1850. It argues for the importance of women's life writing as...
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Indography Writing the "Indian" in Early Modern England
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Europeans invented 'Indians' and populated the world with them. The global history of the term 'Indian'...
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The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction
From The Other Boleyn Girl to Fingersmith , this collection explores the popularity of female-centred historical novels in recent years. It asks how...
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Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England A Feminist Literary History
Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what...
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The History of British Women's Writing, 1750-1830 Volume Five
This period witnessed the first full flowering of women's writing in Britain. This illuminating volume features leading scholars who draw upon the...
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Gender and Power in Shrew-Taming Narratives, 1500-1700
Explores dramatic, narrative and polemical versions of the 'taming of the shrew' story, from the Middle Ages to the Restoration, in light of recent...
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The History of British Women's Writing, 1690 - 1750 Volume Four
This volume charts the most significant changes for a literary history of women in a period that saw the beginnings of a discourse of 'enlightened...
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Renaissance Earwitnesses Rumor and Early Modern Masculinity
Renaissance Earwitnesses examines how maintaining masculinity on the early modern stage is intimately tied to 'earwitnessing,' or a sense of...
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Disability, Representation and the Body in Irish Writing 1800–1922
Covering a diverse range of figures and issues from Jonathan Swift's pornographic poetry to Oscar Wilde's famous cello-shaped coat this book...
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The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity Body Image in Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton
This book offers the first sustained examination of fatness in the early modern period. Using readings of such major figures as Shakespeare, Jonson,...