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Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

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Editor: Professor Dame Gillian Beer

Nineteenth-century British literature and culture are a rich field for interdisciplinary studies. Since the turn of the twentieth century, scholars and critics have tracked the intersections and tensions between Victorian literature and the visual arts, politics, social organisation, economic life, technical innovations, scientific thought - in short, culture in its broadest sense. In recent years, theoretical challenges and historiographical shifts have unsettled the assumptions of previous scholarly syntheses and called into question the terms of older debates. Whereas the tendency in much past literary critical interpretation was to use the metaphor of culture as 'background', feminist, Foulcauldian, and other analyses have employed more dynamic models that raise questions of power and of circulation. Such developments have re-animated the field. This series aims to accommodate and promote the most interesting work being undertaken on the frontiers of the field of nineteenth-century literary studies: work which intersects fruitfully with other fields of study such as history, or literary theory, or the history of science.

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[58] 'Michael Field'

Poetry, Aestheticism and the Fin de Siècle

[16] Actresses on the Victorian Stage

Feminine Performance and the Galatea Myth

[16] Actresses on the Victorian Stage

Feminine Performance and the Galatea Myth

[31] Aestheticism and Sexual Parody 1840–1940

[31] Aestheticism and Sexual Parody 1840–1940

[20] After Dickens

Reading, Adaptation and Performance

[20] After Dickens

Reading, Adaptation and Performance

[18] Ancestry and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Blood Relations from Edgeworth to Hardy

[18] Ancestry and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Blood Relations from Edgeworth to Hardy

[4] Byron and the Victorians

[4] Byron and the Victorians

[61] Caribbean Culture and British Fiction in the Atlantic World, 1780–1870

[51] Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture

[50] Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture

[50] Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture

[7] Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology

[7] Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology

[59] Colonies, Cults and Evolution

Literature, Science and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Writing

[66] Darwin and the Memory of the Human

Evolution, Savages, and South America

[57] Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability

[57] Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability

[17] Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud

Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins

[17] Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud

Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins

[26] Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science

[26] Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science

[25] Dickens and the Daughter of the House

[25] Dickens and the Daughter of the House

[56] Dickens and the Popular Radical Imagination

[19] Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre

[19] Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre

[11] Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels

[11] Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular Novels

[37] Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust

[37] Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust

[52] Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain

[52] Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain

[33] Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature

[33] Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature

[40] Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland

[40] Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland

[48] From Dickens to Dracula

Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction

[48] From Dickens to Dracula

Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction

[67] From Sketch to Novel

The Development of Victorian Fiction

[41] Gender and the Victorian Periodical

[41] Gender and the Victorian Periodical

[23] Gender, Race, and the Writing of Empire

Public Discourse and the Boer War

[34] George Eliot and the British Empire

[34] George Eliot and the British Empire

[71] Ghost-Seers, Detectives, and Spiritualists

Theories of Vision in Victorian Literature and Science

[55] Ireland, India and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature

[55] Ireland, India and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature

[13] Literary Culture and the Pacific

Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters

[13] Literary Culture and the Pacific

Nineteenth-Century Textual Encounters

[63] Literature and Dance in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Jane Austen to the New Woman

[46] Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain

From Mary Shelley to George Eliot

[46] Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain

From Mary Shelley to George Eliot

[5] Literature in the Marketplace

Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices

[5] Literature in the Marketplace

Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices

[32] Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880–1920

[32] Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880–1920

[39] London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885–1914

[39] London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885–1914

[38] Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800–1860

[38] Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800–1860

[2] Muscular Christianity

Embodying the Victorian Age

[2] Muscular Christianity

Embodying the Victorian Age

[29] Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture

[29] Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture

[14] Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel

Women, Work and Home

[14] Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel

Women, Work and Home

[60] Realism, Photography and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

[12] Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature

[12] Realism, Representation, and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature

[10] Remaking Queen Victoria

[10] Remaking Queen Victoria

[9] Rereading Walter Pater

[9] Rereading Walter Pater

[22] Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry

[22] Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry

[24] Ruskin's God

[24] Ruskin's God

[45] Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical

Reading the Magazine of Nature

  • Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Graeme Gooday, Richard Noakes, Sally Shuttleworth, Jonathan R. Topham
  • Hardback | Published September 2004
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[45] Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical

Reading the Magazine of Nature

  • Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Graeme Gooday, Richard Noakes, Sally Shuttleworth, Jonathan R. Topham
  • Paperback | Published January 2008
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[70] Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s

[64] Shakespeare and Victorian Women

[69] Shock, Memory and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction

[27] Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology

[27] Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology

[47] The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf

[47] The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf

[68] The Crimean War in the British Imagination

[8] The Gothic Body

Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siècle

[8] The Gothic Body

Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siècle

[43] The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination

[54] The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

[54] The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

[62] The Poetry of Chartism

Aesthetics, Politics, History

[44] The Revolution in Popular Literature

Print, Politics and the People, 1790–1860

[44] The Revolution in Popular Literature

Print, Politics and the People, 1790–1860

[1] The Sickroom in Victorian Fiction

The Art of Being Ill

[65] The Tragi-Comedy of Victorian Fatherhood

[30] The Victorian Parlour

A Cultural Study

[30] The Victorian Parlour

A Cultural Study

[42] The Victorian Supernatural

[42] The Victorian Supernatural

[73] Thinking about Other People in Nineteenth-Century British Writing

[53] Victorian Honeymoons

Journeys to the Conjugal

[53] Victorian Honeymoons

Journeys to the Conjugal

[36] Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body

[36] Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body

[3] Victorian Masculinities

Manhood and Masculine Poetics in Early Victorian Literature and Art

[6] Victorian Photography, Painting and Poetry

The Enigma of Visibility in Ruskin, Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites

[15] Victorian Renovations of the Novel

Narrative Annexes and the Boundaries of Representation

[15] Victorian Renovations of the Novel

Narrative Annexes and the Boundaries of Representation

[21] Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question

[28] Victorian Writing about Risk

Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World

[28] Victorian Writing about Risk

Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World

[49] Voice and the Victorian Storyteller

[49] Voice and the Victorian Storyteller

[35] Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England

Jewish Identity and Christian Culture

[35] Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England

Jewish Identity and Christian Culture