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.

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

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

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.

Examines how Indigenous figures used British Romantic poetry in their interactions with settler governments and publics.

Shows how feminist writing in British Romanticism developed alternatives to linear time.

Forges a fresh interpretation of Charlotte Brontë’s oeuvre as a response to ecological instability.

The first book to examine and establish characteristics of the British South African novel.

First comprehensive account of the figure of the Irish Celt in modern British and Irish literature.

Examines how literature mediated a convergence of militarism and medicine in Victorian culture that continues into the present via a widespread martial metaphor.

Investigates how nineteenth-century British literature grappled with a new understanding of aging as both an individual and collective experience.

Argues that the descriptions of buildings frequently encountered in Victorian novels offer more than evocative settings for characters and plot; instead, such descriptions signal these novels' self-reflexive consideration of the structure itself.

Highlights connections between authors rarely studied together by exposing their shared counternarratives to germ theory's implicit suggestion of protection in isolation.

Offers a feminist theory of ignorance that sheds light on the misunderstood or overlooked epistemic practices of women in literature.

Argues that the photographic negative gives a new way of understanding Victorian debates surrounding origins and copies as well as reality and representation.

Examines the concept of a poetics of vacancy in Romantic-era literature.

Pairs literary works with philosophical and theoretical texts to examine how the Kantian sublime influenced authors in their treatments of freedom and subjectivity through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Draws from the work of Jacques Lacan to provide innovative readings of Romantic literature in the long nineteenth century.

Uses literature, art, and cultural texts from the British Romantic period to explore the age in which biological life and its abilities first became regulated by the rising nation.

Investigates the ways in which new technologies and theories of photography, phonography, moving images, and digital media engage with a diverse set of texts by British Romantic writers.