English Literature
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.
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.
Jane Austen's Women
An original critical introduction to women characters in the novels of Jane Austen.
Antipodal England
Examines Victorian conceptions of home and identity by looking at portrayals and accounts of middle-class emigration to Australia.
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.
Chaucerian Spaces
Examines affect and the significance of space and place in the first six Canterbury Tales.
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.
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.
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.
Romantic Psychoanalysis
How the Romantics invented psychoanalysis in advance of Freud.
Eternal Bonds, True Contracts
Uses legal and literary resources to explore Shakespeare's use of the law and its instruments in the problem plays.
Anglo-Saxon Styles
Considers the definitions and implications of style in Anglo-Saxon art and literature.
Rereading George Eliot
A noted Eliot scholar explores how we become different interpreters of literature as we undergo psychological change.
The Christian Wordsworth, 1798-1805
Traces the evolution of Wordsworth's religious attitudes from his revisions of The Ruined Cottage to the completion of The Prelude.
Shakespeare's Political Realism
Explores the continuing relevance of important political themes in five of Shakespeare's English History plays.
Creating Safe Space
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.
Blake's Nostos
Establishes Blake’s controversial, unfinished epic, The Four Zoas, as the culmination of his mythos.
Yeats and Alchemy
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. ...
The Ludic Self in Seventeenth-Century English Literature
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 ...
Beyond Marginality
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 ...