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Things as Yet Undone: Encountering the Past Through the Present
Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives is an ongoing project that seeks to provide conversation about the intensified interest and curiosity in...
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Behn, Bysshe, and the Blakes: Bibliomancy and the Joys of Unbinding
An instance of bibliomancy from Blake’s Notebook raises significant questions about intertextuality, anthologizing, and the pleasures and powers of...
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“minutely Appropriate Execution”: Variation and Pentimento in Blake’s Title Pages
In the Descriptive Catalogue, Blake draws on and develops some of his manuscript responses to Reynolds to set out a theory of art that emphasizes an...
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Bayou St. John Stories
This chapter will examine three Chopin stories that are set in the Bayou St. John neighborhood, which is found in the middle of the city of New...
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City Business: Commerce and the Short Fiction
New Orleans has long enjoyed its status as a major commercial hub in the United States. Dating back well before the Civil War, the city served as a...
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“Her position in the universe”: The Awakening’s Edna Pontellier and New Orleans
This study culminates in an examination of Kate Chopin’s depictions of New Orleans in her most well-known narrative, the 1899 novel The Awakening. Of...
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“little conversations”: Child Communities and Political Agency in the Writing of Frederick Douglass
This first part of this chapter spotlights Frederick Douglass’s treatment of children as historical actors and groups of children as political...
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Feeding Dickens’s Dysfunctional Families: Advocating Social Surrogacy in The Adventures of Oliver Twist and Great Expectations
Almost every novel by Charles Dickens could be said to expose the ideological blinders we willingly wear to live within certain ideological state...
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The Child Reader: Children’s Literary Culture in the Nineteenth Century
In this chapter, we turn our attention to the nineteenth-century child reader, whose widespread capacity to read only became possible after...
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Constructing the “Scientific” Child in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Children’s Periodicals
While the influence of classic Confucian texts such as The Twenty-Four Exemplars of Filial Piety, One Hundred Surnames, Thousand-Character Text, and...
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“Being Editors”: Childhood Over Time
The popularity of periodical literature in the nineteenth century made textual duration over time a frequent and familiar element of the reading...
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Child Figures, Conceptualisations of Time, and Notions of Progress in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
The vast social and technological transformations of the nineteenth century resulted in both a widespread spirit of optimism and a sense of...
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Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper
Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper entered the Victorian era almost simultaneously albeit via different means: a literary text published in an 1887...
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Parallel Culture-Texts
Both Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes experienced a hiatus: the former for almost 40 days, and the latter for almost a decade between Doyle’s...
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Introduction: “Writing Is the Divine Revelation”
As a facet of Blake’s creative output alongside his pictorial art and printmaking, his writings are prodigious. While considerable scholarly...
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Manuscripts
Women’s manuscripts of the Romantic period include a potentially vast range of documents by and about women, including correspondence and literary...
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Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
Like Jane Porter’s earlier novel, Thaddeus of Warsaw, The Scottish Chiefs, a Romance (1810) is a historical novel that is attentive to the liberty of...
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Simple Story, A by Elizabeth Inchbald
A Simple Story (1791), a novel in four volumes, fuses the sentimental fiction of the earlier eighteenth century with the Gothic novel of the 1790s....
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Wild Irish Girl, The by Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Sydney Owenson’s novel, The Wild Irish Girl (1806), provides both information about Irish history and culture for her British readers, in a form...
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The Playful Warrior
In the previous chapter, Dickinson displays a persona who is a hopeful supplicant—someone who pleads with God—and like Pip in Moby-Dick, who achieves...