'can we doubt ... that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have ...

Original study of narrative technique in Victorian fiction from Charlotte Bront to H. G. Wells.

Literary-historical account of Byron's influence on Victorian writers, concentrating on class and...

This innovative collection of essays addresses important issues in the history of the book. The m...

Revisionary study of how domestic work gained social credibility through the language of professi...

This is the first book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the ...

A study of women's bodies and eating disorders as depicted in Victorian literature.

Situates George Eliot's life and work within the contexts of mid-nineteenth-century British colon...

The nineteenth-century novel has always been regarded as a literary form pre-eminently occupied w...

Arguing that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in colonial cultures, Anna Johnson analyze...

Popular fiction in mid-Victorian Britain was regarded as both feminine and diseased. Critical art...

A study of women's bodies and eating disorders as depicted in Victorian literature.