Bøger i SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century serien

Investigates how nineteenth-century British literature grappled with a new understanding of aging as both an individual and collective experience.

Ranges widely and deeply across William Blake's oeuvre to show how his post-Newtonian vision of space-time anticipates Einsteinian relativity.

Explores how Victorian women writers used the popular science of phrenology to challenge socially constructed forms of power.

Offers a new, Spinozist framework for understanding encounters with otherness in Romantic literature as experiences of immanence.

Offers a feminist theory of ignorance that sheds light on the misunderstood or overlooked epistemic practices of women in literature.

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

Examines the concept of a poetics of vacancy in Romantic-era literature.

Argues that the descriptions of buildings frequently encountered in Victorian novels offer more than evocative settings for characters and plot; instead, such descriptions signal these novels' self-reflexive consideration of the structure itself.

Pairs literary works with philosophical and theoretical texts to examine how the Kantian sublime influenced authors in their treatments of freedom and subjectivity through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Draws from the work of Jacques Lacan to provide innovative readings of Romantic literature in the long nineteenth century.