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Examines the ways 'contagion' or disease inform and shape a variety of nineteenth century texts and contexts. Dissecting the cultural assumptions concerning disease, health, and impurity, this book focuses on certain key texts including Dicken's "Bleak House", Gaskell's "Ruth", and Zola's "Le Docteur Pascal".

A study of American women's narratives of mobility and travel. It examines how geographic movement opened up other movements or mobilities for antebellum women at a time of great national expansion. It demonstrates how women not only went out on the open road, but participated in public discussions of nationhood in the texts they wrote.

Utilizing an array of cultural texts, fiction, servant autobiography, diaries and pamphlets, this study examines the debate on mass literacy as it developed around the figure of the Victorian servant, as well as its significance for understanding the nexus between class and narrative power in nineteenth-century literature.

Demonstrates the way in which representations of the Victorian suburb in mid- to late-nineteenth century British writing occasioned a literary sub-genre that attempted to reassure readers that the suburb was a place where outsiders could be controlled and where middle-class values could be enforced.

Examines the broadly neglected body of Victorian women's religious verse, showing how women of the period used an array of inventive literary strategies to construct and wield provocative forms of authority.

The essays in this collection research the historical significance of her many geographical references and suggest how contemporaries may have read them, whether as indications of the rapid development of national travel, of Britain's imperial status, or as signifiers of wealth and social class.

The study focuses on how branding established important assumptions about Wilde and his work in his own mind and in those of his readers, and it examines how each stage of brand development affected the immediate responses to Wilde's writings and, as it continued to evolve, progressively shaped our understanding of the Wilde canon.

This volume explores intersections of nationalism and trauma in Romantic and Victorian literature from the emergence of British nationalism through the height of the British Empire.

This book outlines the public discourses around marriage in the 19th century, the legal reforms achieved as a result of public pressure, and the ways in which these laws and economic concerns impacted on the marital relationship, drawing on life writing, journalism, and conduct books.

This book contributes to transatlantic literary studies and an emerging body of work on identity formation and print culture in the Atlantic world. It identifies the ways in which historically-situated but malleable subjectivities can engage with popular and pressing debates about class, slavery, natural knowledge, democracy, and relig

This book examines the hotel experience of Anglo-American travelers in the 19th century from the viewpoint of literary and cultural studies as well as spatiality theory.

This volume asks how and why issues of sexuality, desire, and economic processes intersect in the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siecle. It considers how the literature of the period meditates on the interaction between economy and desire, doing so with particular reference to the themes of fetishism, homoeroticism, the li

The Victorians elevated the home and heteronormative family life to an almost secular religion. Yet alongside the middle-class domestic ideal were other families, many of which existed in the literature of the time. Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in Literature is chiefly concerned with these atypical or "queer" families. This

Melissa Walker Heidari's introduction offers a review of scholarship on King's fiction and a discussion of King's awareness of her place in literary movements; she examines selections from King's journals as views into her journey toward a modernist aesthetic - what King describes in one passage as "the continual voyage I made."