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

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

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

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

An original critical introduction to women characters in the novels of Jane Austen.

Examines Victorian conceptions of home and identity by looking at portrayals and accounts of middle-class emigration to Australia.

Argues that Byron’s popularity marked the beginning of celebrity as a cultural identity.

Examines the importance of fetishism in nineteenth-century cultural theory.

Uncovers the origins of midlife anxiety in Victorian print culture.

Explores Victorian responses to death and burial in literature, journalism, and legal writing.

Examines the body in literature and science in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe.

Examines affect and the significance of space and place in the first six Canterbury Tales.

Turns a spotlight on the Victorian love affair with Scotland.

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

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

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

How the Romantics invented psychoanalysis in advance of Freud.

Recovers a dynamic women’s tradition of vision and sexuality, challenging Darwinian and Freudian accounts of women as nonvisual sexual agents.

Shows how Alfred the Great's translations of Latin works exposed Anglo-Saxon elites to classical learning and Christian thought while bringing prestige to the king and his West Saxon dialect.

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

Examines the influence of the Pre-Raphaelite movement on art and literature around the world.

An early British novel, attributed to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, which explores the problems of first impressions and arranged marriages from the perspective of a woman who would suffer the long-term consequences of both.

Uses legal and literary resources to explore Shakespeare's use of the law and its instruments in the problem plays.

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

Addresses how Victorian receptions of Romanticism and Romantic writers were shaped by notions of "nervousness. "

Considers the definitions and implications of style in Anglo-Saxon art and literature.

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.

Explores the continuing relevance of important political themes in five of Shakespeare's English History plays.

Offers a striking new interpretation of Beckett's major fiction, demonstrating how his development as a writer was shaped by shifting twentieth-century ideas about the social function of literature.

Argues that Victorian legal, linguistic, and cultural attitudes toward promises--especially promises to marry--had a formative effect on novels of the period.

Explores the multiple, often contradictory identifications and fantasies that distinguish Lawrence's fiction, casting fresh light on his relationship with women.

An anthology of literary essays focusing on the ways in which sexual, emotional, physical, racial, and other forms of violence have affected women artists' imaginations.

Establishes Blake’s controversial, unfinished epic, The Four Zoas, as the culmination of his mythos.

This book traces the development of alchemical discourse in the work of W. B. Yeats. His early essays and Golden Dawn transcripts demonstrate that for the poet, the alchemist was both artist and initiate. ...

This book argues that play offered Hamlet, John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burton, and Sir Thomas Browne a way to live within the contradictions and conflicts of late Renaissance life ...

In a unique study of Anglo-Jewish writers in the post-war period, Dr. Sicher traces through their works the story of the rise of the Jewish community from slum poverty to suburban affluence. This period ...