The Romantic period coincided with revolutionary transformations of traditional political and
human rights discourses, as well as witnessing rapid advances in technology and a …

Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland is the first book-length
study of the great Victorian novelist's relationship with Ireland, the country which became his …

Literature and Union opens up a new front in interdisciplinary literary studies. There has
been a great deal of academic work--both in the Scottish context and more broadly--on the …

This essay explores the movements in and of Irish-authored publications, including those of
Regina Maria Roche, produced by the leading publisher of early-nineteenth century Irish …

Henrietta Rouvière Mosse (d. 1834) compellingly sketches the realities of her position as an
Irish émigré author in early nineteenth-century London. Having hoped to publish the novel …

This article concerns the early career of William Lane as a fiction publisher, before his
adoption of the Minerva brand in 1792. It reveals that Lane played an active role in …

Novelistic fiction from the United Kingdom has been consistently acknowledged as a major
repository of narrative paradigms for the incipient Brazilian novel. Genres originally offering …

This thesis focuses on the use of regional spaces in a corpus of forty-four female-authored
novels set in Wales, the West Country, and the Midlands, published between 1810 and …

This article focuses on Maria Edgeworth as a theorist of professional society—that
meritocratic ideal of an elite defined not by birth and property, but by work ethic and the …

The essay overviews Maria Edgeworth's life, work, and criticism from contemporary reviews
to current scholarship. Biography provides basic details to situate the author relative to her …