SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Antipodal England
Examines Victorian conceptions of home and identity by looking at portrayals and accounts of middle-class emigration to Australia.
Terror and Irish Modernism
Presents a new genealogy and synoptic overview of modern Irish fiction.
Victorian Fetishism
Examines the importance of fetishism in nineteenth-century cultural theory.
Literary Remains
Explores Victorian responses to death and burial in literature, journalism, and legal writing.
Byromania and the Birth of Celebrity Culture
Argues that Byron’s popularity marked the beginning of celebrity as a cultural identity.
Aging by the Book
Uncovers the origins of midlife anxiety in Victorian print culture.
Anxious Anatomy
Examines the body in literature and science in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe.
The Mighty Scot
Turns a spotlight on the Victorian love affair with Scotland.
Cholera and Nation
How cholera epidemics affected Victorian perceptions of the body and the nation.
Excavating Victorians
How Victorians reacted to the new sciences of geology and archaeology.
Decadent Culture in the United States
The paradoxes of the American decadent movement in the 1890s and 1920s.
Manly Leaders in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Examines fantasies of charismatic, virile leaders in British literature from the 1790s to the 1840s.
White Horizon
From explorers’ accounts to boys’ adventure fiction, how Arctic exploration served as a metaphor for nation-building and empire in nineteenth-century Britain.
Virginia Woolf and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel
Traces Woolf’s persistent yet vexed fascination with nineteenth-century descriptions of English domesticity and female creativity.
Altered States
Considers the role of Spiritualism in Victorian culture.
Nervous Conditions
Examines nineteenth-century scientists’ obsession with nerves and the nervous system.
Worldwide Pre-Raphaelitism
Examines the influence of the Pre-Raphaelite movement on art and literature around the world.
Mapping the Victorian Social Body
Explores how medical and social maps helped shape modern perceptions of space.
Nervous Reactions
Addresses how Victorian receptions of Romanticism and Romantic writers were shaped by notions of "nervousness. "
Romantic Science
Uncovers the vital role that new scientific discoveries played in Romantic literary culture.
Living Forms
Examines Romantic poets’ and essayists’ fascination with the human form.
Time Is of the Essence
Examines the intricate relationships between time and gender in the novels of five fin-de-siecle British writers--Thomas Hardy, Olive Schreiner, H. Rider Haggard, Sarah Grand, and Mona Caird.