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1. 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...

   Robert Hampson

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2. 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’...

   Brenda Ayres, Sarah E. Maier

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3. 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...

   James E. Caron in Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

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4. 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...

   Roger Ebbatson

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5. 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...

   David Worrall in Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

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6. 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...

   Mark Crosby, Josephine A. McQuail

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7. 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...

   Kristine Moruzi, Michelle J. Smith in Literary Cultures and Childhoods

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8. Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives

   Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narrativesexamines the neo-Victorian themes and motifs currently appearing in young adult fiction—specifically addressing...

   Sarah E. Maier

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9. The Unspoken Menace

   Representations of tuberculosis in early nineteenth-century Irish fiction stand in marked contrast with later writing. They are notable for the...

   Rachael Sealy Lynch in Tuberculosis and Irish Fiction, 1800–2022

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10. Solitary Confinement in Rachilde’s La Tour d’amour: Dehumanization and Madness of the Buried Alive

    In La Tour d’amour (1899), Rachilde imagines the secluded life of Mathurin Barnabas and Jean Maleux, two lighthouse keepers trapped in the Ar-Men...

    Céline Brossillon in The Palgrave Handbook of Transnational Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century

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11. Epistolary and Commodity Exchanges in Nineteenth-Century Argentina, or Mariquita Sánchez de Mendeville’s Agency

    Sánchez de Mendeville’s life was profoundly meshed into the fabric of Argentina’s early republic. Her tertulias gathered the most important voices of...

    Soledad Mocchi-Radichi in The Palgrave Handbook of Transnational Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century

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12. Luck of the Draw: Gambling, Marriage, and the Labor Economy in Clorinda Matto de Turner’s Herencia

    Clorinda Matto de Turner has been studied as an important naturalist writer. However, her use of economic topics deserves more attention. Herencia...

    Emily Joy Clark in The Palgrave Handbook of Transnational Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century

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13. Epilogue

    Beginning with A. S. Byatt’s Possession of 1990, Ayres suggests that, despite the plethora of critical attention already paid to Byatt, there is more...

    Brenda Ayres in The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism

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14. Misfits and Queers: Alienism, Detective Agency, and Neo-Victorian Investigation in The Alienist(s)

    One of the subgenres in neo-Victorian writing that has had a great deal of interest and success is a revisioning of the detective novel. These texts...

    Sarah E. Maier in The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism

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15. Neo-Victorianism and the End(s) of Religion

    Neo-Victorian fiction may be grounded in postmodernism, but its treatment of religion is rooted in modernism’s rejection of Victorian evangelical...

    Miriam Elizabeth Burstein in The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism

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16. Postcolonial and Global Neo-Victorianisms

    The theoretical and practical twin interventions of Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s “Three Women’s Texts and a...

    Felipe Espinoza Garrido in The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism

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17. Dust and Sewers, Filth and Waste: “Disgusting” Retro-Speculation in Neo-Victorian Narratives

    This chapter investigates neo-Victorian material culture and more specifically the way in which neo-Victorian writing engages with Victorian...

    Eckart Voigts in The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism

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18. Introduction

    The introduction provides an overview of neo-Victorianism, giving a brief history; defining it as a term, genre, and discipline; and identifying its...

    Sarah E. Maier, Brenda Ayres in The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism

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19. ‘Rending the Veil of Mortal Frailty’: Queen Mab (1813)

    This chapter, focusing on Queen Mab (1813), arguesShelley, Percy Bysshe that Shelley’s early vision of death is informed by a distinct amalgam of...

    Andrew Lacey in Shelley's Visions of Death

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20. ‘While Yet a Boy I Sought for Ghosts’: Contexts

    This introductory, contextualising chapter provides close readings of Shelley’s youthful writings on death, including ‘To St Irvyne’ (1810), ‘How...

    Andrew Lacey in Shelley's Visions of Death

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