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In this text, Jill Matus goes beyond existing studies of the history of trauma to argue that both Victorian psychology and the novel were significant antecedents of twentieth-century trauma theory. In particular, the Victorian novel was instrumental in shaping the idea of the haunted, possessed and traumatized subject.

Nadia Valman investigates how the figure of the Jewess brought the instabilities of nineteenth-century religious, racial and national identity into sharp focus. Reading Walter Scott, George Eliot and Anthony Trollope alongside Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, Grace Aguilar and Amy Levy, Valman demonstrates the remarkable persistence of this theme across the century.

This book links literary works to psychological and philosophical beliefs of the Victorian era, by demonstrating a common concern among poets, novelists, philosophers, psychologists, and devotees of the occult with the question of whether thinking about someone can cause something to happen to them.

Examines how realism in the nineteenth-century novel became so extreme in its portrayal of human experience that it blurred into satire. Close study of the novels of Eliot, Hardy, Gissing, and Conrad, and the theater of Ibsen, reveals how Victorian realism's transfiguration into satire ultimately led to its demise.

Epic poetry in the Homeric style was widely seen as an ancient and anachronistic genre, yet Victorian authors worked to recreate it for the modern world. Simon Dentith explores the relationship between epic and the British national identity in the works of Scott, Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Morris and Kipling.

This cultural history of the honeymoon explores accounts in novels such as Middlemarch, conduct material, and a case study of 61 real-life honeymooning couples through private letters and diaries. Helena Michie uncovers the meaning of the honeymoon for Victorian expectations of marriage.

Between 1838 and 1852, the leading Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, published over 1,000 poems by more than 350 poets. As well as examining the critical history of Chartist poetry, this book explores its contribution to the struggle for democratic rights, analysing the interplay between politics, aesthetics and history.

This book studies the influence of the Crimean War (1854-6) on British literary culture, this book explores how mid-Victorian writers and artists reacted to the original 'media war'. By looking at journalism, novels, poetry, and visual art, the book demonstrates the tremendous cultural force of this event.

Matt Cook explores the relationship between London and homosexuality in the period 1885 to 1914. Cook combines discussion of London's homosexual subculture and various major and minor scandals with a detailed examination of representations in the press, in science and in literature.

In this book Cannon Schmitt shows how Darwin and other Victorian naturalists transformed their encounters with the South American continent and its indigenous peoples into influential accounts of biological change, race, and the origins of humanity. His observations open a new discussion concerning the cultural meanings of evolutionary theory in the Victorian period.

In this unusual study of a previously neglected literary form, Amanpal Garcha shows how the literary sketch influenced the careers of William Thackeray, Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell, transformed the marketplace for fiction, and led to the development of some of the Victorian novel's key formal and ideological elements.

Ruskin's God, first published in 1999, was the first full-length study of the impact that John Ruskin's religion had upon his writings. Michael Wheeler shows how Ruskin drew upon ancient wisdom, first to teach people how to see paintings, buildings and landscapes, and later to teach people how to live.

Combines literary criticism and historical analysis, examining a wide range of sources to rescue the stories of ordinary black Jamaicans and travelling African Americans from historical obscurity. At the same time, the book uses canonical fiction to show how crucial Caribbean culture was in the development of British fiction.

'Michael Field' (1884-1914) was the literary pseudonym of Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper, who lived and wrote together as 'lovers'. Together they produced many poems and dramas and a vast diary. Marion Thain recounts the development of a fascinating and idiosyncratic poetic persona.

This 2003 book investigates human curiosity and its representation in eavesdropping scenes in nineteenth-century English and French novels. Ann Gaylin analyses eavesdropping in Austen, Balzac, Collins, Dickens and Proust. This study will be of interest to scholars of nineteenth-century English and European literature.

Sally Ledger explores the influence on Dickens of the popular radical culture of his time. This richly illustrated study offers readings of works from Pickwick to Little Dorrit against radical writings and popular graphic art.

Applying the methods of feminist criticism to the study of masculinity, this book is the first to examine constructions of manhood in early Victorian literature and art. Sussman concentrates on representative major figures: Thomas Carlyle, Robert Browning, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Walter Pater.

In this study Nancy Henry introduces a set of facts that place George Eliot's life and work within the contexts of mid-nineteenth-century British colonialism and imperialism. Henry examines Eliot's roles as an investor in colonial stocks, a parent to emigrant sons and a reader of colonial literature.

David Amigoni shows how the modern concept of 'culture' developed out of the interdisciplinary interactions between literature, philosophy, anthropology, colonialism, and, in particular, Darwin's theories of evolution. This fascinating book includes much material on the history of evolutionary thought and its cultural impact.

Through detailed readings of the fiction of Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens and George Eliot Miriam Bailin explores the cultural and narrative significance of illness in Victorian literature, providing insight into canonical works and approaches to narrative realism.

This title examines works of literature by Mary Shelley, Thomas Carlyle, the Bronte sisters and George Eliot alongside medical lectures, textbooks and journal articles to demonstrate the similar ways of reading employed by nineteenth-century doctors and imaginative writers.

Ivan Kreilkamp shows that the nineteenth-century novel was deeply marked by and engaged with vocal performances and the preservation and representation of speech. This innovative 2005 study will change the way readers consider the Victorian novel and its many ways of telling stories.

Julia M. Wright examines how nineteenth-century Irish writers such as Maria Edgeworth, Lady Morgan, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde and Thomas Moore wrote about India, showing how their own experience of colonial subjection informed their work. In doing so she opens up new avenues in Irish studies and nineteenth-century literature.

The daughter in Dickens' fiction is considered not as an emblem of tranquil domesticity and the hearth-fire, but as a bearer of cultural values - and as a potentially disruptive force. The daughter's secret inheritance, her 'portion', is to give Dickens a way of reading and writing his own culture differently.

John Glavin uncovers a richly ambivalent, often unexpectedly hostile, relationship between Dickens and the theatre and theatricality of his own time. Yet he also explores the performative potential in Dickens's fiction, and describes ways to stage that fiction in emotionally powerful, critically acute adaptations.

Focusing particularly on aesthetic literature and legal definitions of obscenity, Dawson reveals the underlying tension between Darwin's theories and conventional notions of Victorian respectability.

Pamela Gilbert argues that popular fiction in mid-Victorian Britain was regarded as both feminine and diseased. She discusses, in particular, work by three very popular women novelists of the time - M. E. Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, and 'Ouida' - in the context of their reception by readers and critics.

In this 1997 book, William F. Shuter shows how Walter Pater attempted to rewrite his own literary and cultural past, and how Pater's later work serves, paradoxically, as a necessary introduction to the earlier. This rereading reveals patterns of continuity and anticipation, and sheds light on Pater and his writings.

Monica F. Cohen offers new readings of fictional narratives, to show how domestic work gained social credibility through the vocabulary of nineteenth-century professionalism. Her study questions the stereotypes of Victorian domesticity, and revises our understanding of nineteenth-century domestic ideology.

Using texts ranging from local newspapers to medical tomes, Sally Shuttleworth explores Victorian constructions of psychology, sexuality, and insanity, and offers a reading of Bronte's fiction informed by a new understanding of the complex, often contradictory, psychological debates of her time.