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This fascinating study explores the ways in which fin-de-siecle periodicals portrayed science, both imaginatively and intellectually. It shows how general interest magazines and those who wrote for them, particularly H. G. Wells, contributed to the birth of a new genre: science fiction.

An original and wide-ranging study that examines the convergence of evolutionary theory, educational reform, and Victorian children's literature. It includes discussions of evolutionary ideas underpinning the work of Rudyard Kipling, Lewis Carroll, Charles Kingsley, and Frances Hodgson Burnett.

This fascinating study uncovers the rich variety of exploration texts flourishing before the Victorian equation of discovery with disaster: from the manuscript culture of secretive corporations like the Hudson's Bay Company, to the Admiralty and its illustrated books of naval science, to the Victorian popular exhibits of disaster relics.

The hands of colonized subjects were vital sites of fascination and interpretation in late-Victorian imperial narratives. The book considers accounts of fingerprinting, amputation, disease, manual labor, and mummification as central examples of the racial significance assigned to hands around the fin de siecle.

A study of the occult in the popular fiction of the late Victorian period, exploring not only the immense appeal, at that time, of accounts of the paranormal, but also the ways in which ideas of the paranormal seeped into perceptions of authorship and creativity.

Deborah Lutz investigates the high value the Victorians placed on the artefacts and personal effects of the dead. By close study of works by Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Thomas Hardy, Lutz explores the ways these objects were used in creative narratives for emotional effect.

Nicholas Daly offers a lively and provocative account of the transformation of culture by the population explosion of the nineteenth century. Finding examples in everything from ghost stories to opera to fashion, Daly shows how narratives and images of crowded city life circulated among Paris, London and New York.

Bradley Deane explores popular literature of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras to reveal how imperial politics reshaped ideals of manliness. Deane's analysis of texts, by writers including Kipling, Conrad and Conan Doyle, also reveals how these new ideals reinforced and propagated the politics of the New Imperialism.

An innovative and interdisciplinary study of the Victorian novel's relationship to visual art, showing how major authors including Dickens, Thackeray, Collins and Hardy borrowed from debates about museums, exhibitions, and the art market, as they tried to reach a new readership with new kinds of novels.

Will Abberley explores how Victorian fiction and science imagined the evolution of language, providing a new, historical angle on current debates about language evolution and the language of science. Abberley offers fresh perspectives on authors including Thomas Hardy and H. G. Wells, and genres including utopian, historical and science fiction.

The Victorians first articulated key questions about sustainability and global eco-catastrophe that are now staples of our cultural discourse. Allen MacDuffie explores the way in which the imaginative literature of the nineteenth century sought to address these emerging ecological concerns and helped in the creation of society's environmental consciousness.

How did Victorian novelists including Eliot, Hardy and Wells respond to contemporary men of science who aligned scientific practice with moral excellence in an endeavor to secure cultural authority for their discipline? Anne DeWitt argues that novelists came to reject this alignment, denying that science held widely accessible moral benefits.

In this fascinating, full-length study surveying the diverse ways in which a living was made from death, Claire Wood examines Dickens's creative works, including The Old Curiosity Shop and Our Mutual Friend, within the context of his attitude towards the Victorian commodification of death.

Studies of the literature of the British imperialism too often focus on India to the exclusion of other areas. This book redresses the balance by demonstrating how integral China and the Chinese were to the British imagination and to globalization, literature, aesthetics and popular culture from the 1840s to 1911.

This is a study of Victorian middle-class fatherhood from the fathers' own perspective. It aims to dismantle the classic stereotype of the nineteenth-century paterfamilias by focusing on the lives of influential public men, ranging from novelists to politicians, scientists and leading churchmen.

A study of Oscar Wilde's Hellenism and the influence it had on his life and works. It offers new perspectives on The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest and delivers an insight into the source of Wilde's inspirations and the intellectual currents that shaped him.

Featuring a wide range of images, from paintings displayed at Royal Academy exhibitions and in the Houses of Parliament to wood engravings in Punch and the Illustrated London News, this study offers new perspectives on the connections between Victorian art and politics by examining visualizations of franchise reform.

This book analyses works by Jane Austen, W. M. Thackeray, George Eliot and Anthony Trollope, as well as extensive material from nineteenth-century dance manuals, to show how dance provided a vehicle through which writers could convey social commentary and cultural critique on issues such as gender, social mobility, and nationalism.

A study exploring the prevalence of bigamy as a popular plot in Victorian fiction that upends familiar categories and revises our sense of the period's social and narrative conventions. It features the innovative use of periodical archives, an exhaustive appendix, and detailed close readings of familiar and unfamiliar novels.

This first full-length study of the influence of Shakespeare and his plays on Victorian women sheds light on the work of actresses and writers, the reading habits of women generally, and the education of girls in the nineteenth century.

Offers an account of high and low literature and culture in the years leading up to the 1867 Reform Act. It argues that writers and artists re-evaluated their role as Britain moved towards democracy. Some embraced the crowd; some tried to escape from it; others tried to manipulate it.

The first study of Marian Evans's career as a journalist, editor and serial-fiction writer arguing the importance of periodical culture in the making of 'George Eliot'. It considers the limits of her pseudonymous identity and charts her move to vocal criticism of celebrity culture and the power of the press.

Explores how the range and subject-matter of Anglophone poetry were diversified by the Victorian practice of translation. This study offers a new account of translation's dynamic role in nineteenth-century culture, gives fresh interpretations of canonical and non-canonical poems, and describes poetic translation into, as well as out of, English.

Examines the ways in which nineteenth-century England, under the influence of industrializing forces and increased precision in assessing the passing of time, began to attach new importance to moments, and how writers introduced into major works of fiction incidents and events of great significance compressed into small units of time.

This first modern full-length study of the silver-fork novel argues that such novels, wildly popular in the early years of the nineteenth century and yet condemned by contemporary critics as dangerously seductive, were in fact political fictions designed to effect an alliance of the middle-classes and the aristocracy.

This book explores the role of sacrifice in the Victorian novel and how the idea of self-abnegation was placed under pressure by increasing industrialisation and democratisation. Work by Dickens, Gaskell, Eliot and others registers the tensions caused by evolving attitudes at a time of legal and theological change.

This book combines an analysis of literature and art, women's history and culture, and real and conceptual gardens as it reconsiders the role of the garden in educational, aesthetic, and political debates from 1780 to 1870. Written in a lively and engaging style and amply illustrated.

This study examines representations of tuberculosis in Victorian fiction, analyzing consumptive characters for insights into how society viewed this 'dread disease' and its sufferers, and revealing the myths which surrounded this socially significant illness. It displays, also, how popular assumptions were used as diagnostic tools by a frustrated medical profession.

Examining works by writers including Wordsworth, Dickens and Conan Doyle, as well as spectacles such as the Great Exhibition, Tanya Agathocleous shows how London was conceived as a cosmopolis - an image of the world that allowed writers and readers to come to grips with the advent of globalization.

In this 2006 book, Jonathan Smith explains how Darwin managed to illustrate the unillustratable - his theories of natural selection - by manipulating the visual conventions of natural history. With its many illustrations this study provides new insights into this little known aspect of Darwin's lasting influence on literature, art and culture.