Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture is a new monograph series that
aims to represent the most innovative research on literary works that were produced in the …

Even as Romantic-period authors asserted the importance of telling the unvarnished truth,
novelists were deploying narrative glossing in particularly sophisticated forms. The author …

This essay explores two approaches to affect in literary theory. The first of these approaches
locates affect in discrete bodies and persons. The second views affect as a phenomenon …

A self-described “disappointed Author”, Charles Robert Maturin (1780-1824) has been
largely relegated to the margins of literary history since his death in 1824. Yet, as this study …

Addressing what she perceived as a lacuna in contemporary intellectual history, ellet staked
her claim as the first to chart women's contributions to the arts as she observed “i do not …

Romantic writers such as Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge aspired to rise
above the so-called'age of personality,'a new culture of politicized print gossip and personal …

Recently there has been a growing scholarly interest in Sydney, Lady Morgan (nee Sydney
Owenson). The reasons are many. In this work Dr. Donovan contextualizes an important yet …

From Song to Print is a study of the major cultural transition from oral forms of art and
discourse to the commercial culture of print that happened during the Industrial Revolution …

INTRODUCTION The rise of cultural nationalism in early-nineteenth-century Ireland
coincided with a growing interest in Gaelic antiquity and history. Fed by a passion for things …

Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms explores the ways
Irish and Scottish literatures have influenced each other from the 1760s onwards. Although …