Still Life: Suspended Development in the Victorian Novel rethinks the nineteenth-century
aesthetics of agency through the Victorian novel's fascination with states of reverie, trance …

The long interval that elapsed between the completion of Northanger Abbey in 1798, and
the commencement of Mansfield Park in 1811, may sufficiently account for any difference of …

Writing from a feminist perspective, the author of this study describes how Charlotte and
Emily Bronte transformed the meaning of the muse that inspired the Romantic poets by …

The 120 years between Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) and George Eliot's Middlemarch
(1871) marked both the rise of the novel and the shift from the presumption of a stable …

More than thirty years after it occurred, Clarissa Dalloway still remembers the kiss between
herself and Sally Seton as" the most exquisite moment of her whole life"(Woolf 35). In …

Awarded the Elma Dangerfield Prize by the International Byron Society in 2013 The
nineteenth century is sometimes seen as a lacuna between two literary periods. In terms of …

Rebirth of Rhetoric brings together contributions from several fields to provide a forum in
which a unifying theory for language and literature studies can be debated. The book does …

In this volume, Fernandez brings the under-examined figure of the Victorian servant out of
obscurity in order to tell the story of his or her encounter with literacy, as imagined and …

Even when representing other issues with the precise detail and complex col oration of
Mughal painting at its best, many studies adopt the bold gestural strokes of Franz Kline to …

Nostalgia formed an important cultural force in the formation of Western modernity, while the
novel of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries at once reflected and influenced the …