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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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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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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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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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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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Watering Holes: Healthy Waters and Moral Dangers in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Western European spa and sea bathing enjoyed renewed popularity, as new models of the body came to frame both skin cleanliness and perspiration as...
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From Malandros to Agregados: The Precarious Labourer and the Novel Form in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
In this chapter I identify a number of formal characteristics in the nineteenth-century Brazilian novel that will recur later in other places. Using...
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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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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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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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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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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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Nineteenth-Century Models of Development: Precocity Before and After Darwin
In this chapter, I first argue that, in The Prelude (1850) and the ‘Immortality Ode’ (1815), Wordsworth uses two fixed points—child and adult—to...
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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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The Late Nineteenth Century (1848–1899)
The second half of the nineteenth century, particularly its final quarter, was the great age of the utopian novel, perhaps of the utopian...
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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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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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Women Across Boundaries: Transnational Exchanges in Nineteenth-Century Europe—Rewriting Women’s History from a Transnational Perspective
This introductory essay examines the editorial agendas of nineteenth-century women who sought to participate in the literary and cultural life of...