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British Novelists, The Edited by Anna Lætitia Barbauld
When bookseller Thomas Longman planned a 50-volume collection of previously published British novels, he chose Anna Lætitia (also Letitia) Barbauld...
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Reassembling the Novel. The English Novel, 1789–1919
An inclusive history of the novel during the long 19th century, one involving the demography of novels and novelists, has been widely discussed. A...
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‘There was weather’: Jon McGregor’s Reservoir 13 and Climate Realism in the Contemporary British Novel
This chapter analyses the ways in which McGregor’s Reservoir 13 achieves a climate realism through its phenological narrative structure. I argue that...
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‘The Name’s Bond. James Bond’: The Rise of the British Spy Novel
Spy fiction in Britain dates to the turn of the nineteenth century and has clear roots in both detective and adventure fiction. Heavily influenced by...
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Zola, Moore, Lee and the Vivisectional Novel
This chapter starts from Émile Zola’s ‘The Experimental Novel’, which in attempting to locate a scientific basis for the novel relies problematically...
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Introduction: How the British Enlightenment Transformed Allegory
The British Enlightenment threatened to end allegory. Enlightenment writers put pressure on the allegory, preferring more transparent literary forms....
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Introduction: Provincialising the Rise of the British Novel in the Transatlantic Public Sphere
In the introduction to Familial Feeling, Haschemi Yekani proposes a transatlantic reframing of Ian Watt’s famous work on the rise of the novel....
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The Good Pole in an Ailing Britain: An Imagological Approach to Polish Migration in British Literature
Extant research on how Polish migration to Britain is represented in literature often focuses on contemporary texts, sees Polish migrants as forming...
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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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Hau Kiou Choaan: Encyclopedic Novel, Print Culture, and the Knowledge About China
This chapter examines one of the earliest encounters between traditional Chinese fiction and the English-speaking world. The first traditional...
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Ectogenesis on the NHS: Reproduction and Privatization in Twenty-first-Century British Science Fiction
This chapter argues that the portrayal of ectogenesis in recent British women’s speculative fiction—specifically in Baby X (2016) by Rebecca Ann...
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Pierre Boulle’s Planet of the Apes (1963): From Novel to Screenplay
This chapter analyzes in detail Planet of the Apes (1963) by Pierre Boulle; the novel tells the story of a reverse world where apes, not humans, rule...
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Migrant Lives and the Dynamics of (Non)belonging in the Polish-British Works of A.M. Bakalar, Wioletta Greg, and Agnieszka Dale
Migration exposes such givens as home and belonging to be more than national or ethnic categories; instead, they emerge as complex affective...
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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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“Poland Has No Claim on You”: By Celia’s Arbour and British Representations of Poland in the Victorian Era
Polish characters appear in nineteenth-century British literature with surprising regularity, most famously in Jane Porter’s Thaddeus of Warsaw...
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“The Testimony of Love”: The Lesbian Neo-Victorian Novel
The cultural and critical focus on queer revisioning of the nineteenth century has proliferated in the last two decades. This chapter contends that...
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Introduction: Selfhood and the Novel
The Introduction sets out the philosophical and cultural background to eighteenth-century understandings of selfhood. It identifies Austen’s...
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Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture: An Introduction
The introduction to this volume charts the major historical and cultural transformations of medicine and mobility in nineteenth-century Britain and...
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Angelica Palli and Alessio: Love and Patriotism in the Early Italian Historical Novel
This chapter focuses on Alessio, ossia gli ultimi giorni di Psara (1827), not only one of the first Italian historical novels but also the brainchild...
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The Colonial Practitioner in British India
This chapter focuses on representations of those practising Western medicine in British India. It reads the Indian Medical Gazette and Indian Medical...