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Amy Levy
Her Life and Letters
By Linda Hunt BeckmanAfter a century of critical neglect, poet and writer Amy Levy is gaining recognition as a literary figure of stature.This definitive biography accompanied by her letters, along with the recent publication of her selected writings, provides a critical appreciation of Levy's importance in her own time and in ours.…
Amy Levy
Critical Essays
Edited by Naomi Hetherington and Nadia ValmanAmy Levy has risen to prominence in recent years as one of the most innovative and perplexing writers of her generation. Embraced by feminist scholars for her radical experimentation with queer poetic voice and her witty journalistic pieces on female independence, she remains controversial for her representations of London Jewry that draw unmistakably on contemporary antisemitic discourse.…
Angelic Airs, Subversive Songs
Music as Social Discourse in the Victorian Novel
By Alisa Clapp-ItnyreMusic was at once one of the most idealized and one of the most contested art forms of the Victorian period. Yet this vitally important nineteenth-century cultural form has been studied by literary critics mainly as a system of thematic motifs.…
Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913
A Critical Anthology
Edited by Mary Ellis GibsonAnglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913: A Critical Anthology makes accessible for the first time the entire range of poems written in English on the subcontinent from their beginnings in 1780 to the watershed moment in 1913 when Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature.…
Bleak Houses
Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction
By Lisa SurridgeThe Offenses Against the Person Act of 1828 opened magistrates' courts to abused working-class wives. Newspapers in turn reported on these proceedings, and in this way the Victorian scrutiny of domestic conduct began.…
Charity and Condescension
Victorian Literature and the Dilemmas of Philanthropy
By Daniel SiegelCharity and Condescension explores how condescension, a traditional English virtue, went sour in the nineteenth century, and considers the ways in which the failure of condescension influenced Victorian efforts to reform philanthropy and to construct new narrative models of social conciliation.…
Christina Rossetti and Illustration
A Publishing History
By Lorraine Janzen KooistraReaders do not always take into account how books that combine image and text make their meanings. But for the Pre-Raphaelite poet Christina Rossetti, such considerations were central. Christina Rossetti and Illustration maps the production and reception of Rossetti's illustrated poetry, devotional prose, and work for children, both in the author's lifetime and in posthumous twentieth-century reprints.…
Cleansing the City
Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London
By Michelle AllenCleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London explores not only the challenges faced by reformers as they strove to clean up an increasingly filthy city but the resistance to their efforts.…
Come Buy, Come Buy
Shopping and the Culture of Consumption in Victorian Women’s Writing
By Krista LysackFrom the 1860s through the early twentieth century, Great Britain saw the rise of the department store and the institutionalization of a gendered sphere of consumption. Come Buy, Come Buy considers representations of the female shopper in British women’s writing and demonstrates how women’s shopping practices are materialized as forms of narrative, poetic, and cultural inscription, showing how women writers emphasize consumerism as productive of pleasure rather than the condition of seduction or loss.…
The Complete Works of Robert Browning with Variant Readings and Annotations, Volume XVII
Volume XVII
Edited by Ashby Bland Crowder and Allan C. DooleyWith this seventeenth and final volume, The Complete Works of Robert Browning concludes the major phase of a great scholarly project: the accurate preservation and transmission of the poet’s works for future generations of readers.…
The Complete Works of Robert Browning Volume VI
With Variant Readings and Annotations
By Robert Browning
The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume X
With Variant Readings and Annotations
Edited by Allan C. and Susan E. DooleyThe Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume X contains critical editions of Balaustion's Adventure: Including a Transcript from Euripides and Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society.…
The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume XI
With Variant Readings and Annotations
Edited by Michael BrightVolume XI of The Complete Works of Robert Browning contains two strikingly disparate long poems from the 1870s, Fifine at the Fair and Red Cotton Night-Cap Country. In Fifine at the Fair, Browning creates an idiosyncratic version of the Don Juan figure, a distinctly post-Romantic and intellectual Don Juan who derives little from any literary predecessor.…
The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume XII
Edited by Rita PattesonBy Robert Browning
Edited by Paul Turner
A single work, the complex Aristophanes’ Apology (1875), comprises the twelfth volume of The Complete Works of Robert Browning. Second in Browning’s series of long narrative poems based on classical Greek materials, Aristophanes’ Apology begins as a further adventure of Browning’s young Greek heroine, Balaustion (previously encountered in Balaustion’s Adventure, in Volume X of the present edition).…
The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume XIV
With Variant Readings and Annotations
By Robert Browning
The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume XV
With Variant Readings and Annotations
Edited by Allan C. Dooley, David Ewbank, Jack W. Herring and Paul D. L. TurnerBy Robert Browning
In the 1880s, the aging Browning showed once again the remarkable versatility of his lyric and narrative talents. Ranging across eras and cultures, the books here reveal his late thoughts about history, myth, legend, faith, love, and desire.…
The Complete Works of Robert Browning, Volume XVI
With Variant Readings and Annotations
Edited by Susan Crowl, Roma A. King and Jr.By Robert Browning
Robert Browning wrote Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day in his seventy-third year. The work is a capstone to the poet's long career, encompassing autobiography as well as influences bearing on the poet's life and career and on Victorian thought and culture in general.…
Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson
Travel, Narrative, and the Colonial Body
By Oliver S. BucktonCruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: Travel, Narrative, and the Colonial Body is the first booklength study about the influence of travel on Robert Louis Stevenson’s writings, both fiction and nonfiction.…
The Cultural Production of Matthew Arnold
By Antony H. HarrisonThe career of Matthew Arnold as an eminent poet and the preeminent critic of his generation constitutes a remarkable historical spectacle orchestrated by a host of powerful Victorian cultural institutions.…
The Culture of Christina Rossetti
Female Poetics and Victorian Contexts
Edited by Mary Arseneau, Antony H. Harrison and Lorraine Janzen KooistraThe Culture of Christina Rossetti explores a “new” Christina Rossetti as she emerges from the scrutiny of the particular historical and cultural context in which she lived and wrote. The essays in this collection demonstrate how the recluse, saint, and renunciatory spinster of former studies was in fact an active participant in her society's attempt to grapple with new developments in aesthetics, theology, science, economics, and politics.…
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