Explores Victorian writers’ conception of the novel’s potential to become serious knowledge and differentiate itself from other educational genres.

Combines historical, literary, art historical, and archaeological perspectives to explore the idea of the Hindu temple in the British colonial imagination.

Shows how nineteenth-century discoveries in acoustical science shaped Victorian literary representations of gender, sexuality, and intimacy.

Shows how Britain's trans-imperial engagements in the long nineteenth century have come to shape global cultural commodity flows today.

Offers a new, Spinozist framework for understanding encounters with otherness in Romantic literature as experiences of immanence.

Retraces Hölderlin's journeys to Bordeaux and back in 1801–02, explaining why they are turning points in the great poet's life.

Explores how Victorian women writers used the popular science of phrenology to challenge socially constructed forms of power.

Ranges widely and deeply across William Blake's oeuvre to show how his post-Newtonian vision of space-time anticipates Einsteinian relativity.

Examines the fascination with identity fraud in sensation fiction and Victorian culture more broadly.

Illuminates the ways games—from baseball cards to board games, charades to boxing, and croquet to strategies of war—were integral to nineteenth-century life and culture in the United States and Britain.

A collection of poems weaving together astrology, motherhood, music, and literary history.

How cholera epidemics affected Victorian perceptions of the body and the nation.

From explorers’ accounts to boys’ adventure fiction, how Arctic exploration served as a metaphor for nation-building and empire in nineteenth-century Britain.

How Victorians reacted to the new sciences of geology and archaeology.

Explains why poetry gave way to the realist novel as the dominant literary form in nineteenth-century England.

Explores how medical and social maps helped shape modern perceptions of space.

Explores the various representations and imaginations of London in literature and popular culture, from Victorian times to the present day.

This is the first book to address the entire career of this key Victorian author.