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Medievalist forgery? Editions, adaptations, and translations of Kudrun in the nineteenth century
This ‘terms of art’ essay considers whether, and how far, the term forgery can usefully be applied to the study of translations and adaptations in...
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Sacrilegious bodies: Gender, race, and medieval dance in nineteenth-century missions
Through pairing a study of vernacular religious texts from late medieval England with a case study focused on Baptist mission work and conflicts over...
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Sounds national: mediating the ballad in nineteenth-century Scotland and Transylvania
When Transylvanian bishop János Kriza published Vadrózsák [Wild roses], his collection of Székely folklore in 1863, he was soon to be hailed as “the...
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Bees in Nineteenth-Century Lore and Law
The nineteenth century gave rise to a surprising proliferation of legal cases involving bees, but the depictions of bees in the law display an...
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Literary Cultures and Nineteenth-Century Childhoods: An Introduction
The nineteenth century was a crucial period for shifting definitions of children and childhood and for the development and diversification of...
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Stealing Sweetness: Science, Sex and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Bee
Beginning with John Evans’ epic, The Bees (1806–1813), this chapter shows how in the nineteenth century long-standing apian literary conceits came...
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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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Metareference in the Nineteenth-Century Pictorial Press and Beyond
Metareference is a medial and semiotic phenomenon that occurs whenever a media product directs attention to its own medial and representational...
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Picturing Music in the Nineteenth Century
Although music has been conceived as an art of pure emotions and devoid of concepts, it has always gained its significance in intermedial contexts....
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Transnational Flows: Women Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century
The role of women intellectuals across and beyond national borders expanded rapidly at the dawn of the nineteenth century, thus allowing for a...
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Picturing Music in the Nineteenth Century
Although music has been conceived as an art of pure emotions and devoid of concepts, it has always gained its significance in intermedial contexts....
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National Anthems in the Nineteenth Century: Honour Anthems versus Revolutionary Anthems
In the nineteenth century, national anthems became a growing necessity for many territories which defended their borders, fought for their...
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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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Writing About the Unspeakable: Gender Violence in the Nineteenth Century
Gender violence is one of the multiple issues nineteenth-century women writers portrayed in their fictions. Early feminists understood that the ideal...
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Metareference in the Nineteenth-Century Pictorial Press and Beyond
Metareference is a medial and semiotic phenomenon that occurs whenever a media product directs attention to its own medial and representational...
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Modern Science, Moral Lessons and Honey Bees in Nineteenth-Century Natural History
The emergence of entomological and social sciences in the nineteenth century constructed ideas about society that relied heavily on analogies to...
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Sound in Place: Italian Migrant Street Music in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
In 1864, the mathematician and “father of the computer” Charles Babbage published his memoir, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, devoting a...
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The Early Nineteenth Century (1800–1850)
The nineteenth century, particularly in the United States, sees the great flowering of utopian literature and alternative living experiments. Things...
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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...