British Studies
Empire News
Examines English-language Indian newspapers from the mid-nineteenth century and their role in simultaneously sustaining and probing British colonial governance.
Reading, Wanting, and Broken Economics
Uses a historical study of bookselling and readers as a way to question and rethink our understanding of the market for symbolic goods.
Medicine Is War
Examines how literature mediated a convergence of militarism and medicine in Victorian culture that continues into the present via a widespread martial metaphor.
Funny How?
Uses comedy skits, from Monty Python to Key and Peele, to probe how humor works.
Kept from All Contagion
Highlights connections between authors rarely studied together by exposing their shared counternarratives to germ theory's implicit suggestion of protection in isolation.
Rule, Britannia!
Assesses how cinematic biographies of key figures reflect and shape what it means to be British.
Ripping England!
Examines an all too often neglected period of postwar British cinema and popular culture.
Beasts of Burden
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.
Envisioning Sociology
Examines the continuing relevance of early British sociologists Victor Branford, Patrick Geddes, and their associates.
Arguing with Angels
An exploration of John Dee’s Enochian magic of angel contact, its reinterpretation over the years, and its endurance to the present day.
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.
Species, Serpents, Spirits, and Skulls
Explores the distinctions between science and pseudoscience.
Byromania and the Birth of Celebrity Culture
Argues that Byron’s popularity marked the beginning of celebrity as a cultural identity.
Literary Remains
Explores Victorian responses to death and burial in literature, journalism, and legal writing.
The Legacy of Anne Conway (1631-1679)
Explores the work of Anne Conway, whose philosophy of the natural world incorporated a spiritual vision.
The Mighty Scot
Turns a spotlight on the Victorian love affair with Scotland.
Excavating Victorians
How Victorians reacted to the new sciences of geology and archaeology.
Cholera and Nation
How cholera epidemics affected Victorian perceptions of the body and the nation.
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.
Nervous Conditions
Examines nineteenth-century scientists’ obsession with nerves and the nervous system.
Margins of Disorder
Traces how progressive liberals in Edwardian Britain responded to contemporary intellectual trends.
Mapping the Victorian Social Body
Explores how medical and social maps helped shape modern perceptions of space.
Living Forms
Examines Romantic poets’ and essayists’ fascination with the human form.
Imagined Londons
Explores the various representations and imaginations of London in literature and popular culture, from Victorian times to the present day.
The Films of Harold Pinter
Examines the screenplays of the master British dramatist and screenwriter Harold Pinter.
On Other Grounds
Examines eighteenth-century French and English landscape gardens as representations of nationalist expression.
Structures of Desire
Examines the cultural, historical, and ideological factors influencing British cinema during World War II and the postwar years, with attention to male-female relationships as well as to utopian desires for a better postwar world.
Contemporary British Poetry
This collection of original essays focuses on new and continuing movements in British Poetry. It offers a wide ranging look at feminist, working class, and other poets of diverse cultural backgrounds.
The Useful Cobbler
Neither a polemic nor a highly specialized study, this book is a comprehensive assessment of Burke's political thought. Using evidence from such neglected sources as Burke's essays on history and law ...
Victorian Childhood
This book presents a broad range of original data on childhood in Victorian Britain. It combines a social science approach to data with historical context, resulting in a highly readable account based ...
Ireland
The essence of the Emerald Isle is captured in this book, which introduces the reader to Irish literature as it reflects and illuminates the history and culture of the people of Ireland. William Dumbleton ...
Donne at Sermons
In Donne at Sermons, Gale Carrithers uncovers the theocentric existentialism that underlies the content and structure of the great poet-preacher's sermons. After considering Donne's grand strategies within ...