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Amy Lowell, Diva PoetMelissa Bradshaw, Loyola University Chicago, USA

Bradshaw uses theories o the diva and emalecelebrity to account or Lowells etraordinaryliterary inuence in the early twentieth century andthe dismissal o her work ater her death. Drawingon a rich array o letters, memoirs, newspapersand periodicals, but eschewing the biographicalinterpretations o her poetry that have otencharacterized criticism on Lowell, Bradshaw restoresLowell to her rightul place as a powerul writer andimpresario o modernist verse.

December 2011 188 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-1002-7 55.00

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Anna Seward: A Constructed LieA Critical Biography

Teresa Barnard, University o Derby, UK

Eamining the unpublished letters and manuscripts othe poet Anna Seward (1742-1809), Barnard providesa resh perspective on her lie and historical milieuthat restores and problematizes Sewards careullyconstructed narrative o her lie. Barnards biographyo Seward not only challenges what is known aboutSeward, but provides new inormation about the livesand times o eighteenth-century writers.

September 2009 208 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6616-5 55.00ebook 978-0-7546-9346-8


Anonymity in Early ModernEnglandWhats In A Name?

Edited by Janet Wright Starner, Wilkes University, USAand Barbara Howard Traister, Lehigh University, USA

Epanding the scholarly conversation aboutRenaissance anonymity and attribution studies, thiscollection eplores the phenomenon o anonymouspublication in all its variety o methods and genres.The volume opens with essays investigating particularEnglish tets and the inection each genre gives to theissue o nameless authoring. Later chapters considermore abstract consequences o anonymity, includingits unction in destabilising scholarly assumptionsabout authorship; its ethical ramifcations; and itsrelationship to attribution studies.

February 2011 198 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6949-4 55.00ebook 978-0-7546-9713-8


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The Ashgate ResearchCompanion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and theOccultEdited by Tatiana Kontou, Oord Brookes University,UK and Sarah Willburn

This is an outstanding guide to the current state oscholarship in an area that has become central to ourunderstanding o nineteenth-century culture. Theeditors have put together a well-conceived array oessays on a range o spiritualist and occult practices,and the individual essays are uniormly well-inormedand smart. Both experts in the eld and students will

nd it extremely valuable.

Adela Pinch, University o Michigan, USA

Designed both or those new to the feld and or

eperts, this volume is organized into sections coveringthe relationship between Victorian spiritualism andscience, the occult and politics, and the culture omystical practices. The Ashgate Research Companion toNineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult bringstogether some o the most prominent scholars workingin the feld to introduce current approaches to the studyo nineteenth-century mysticism and to defne newareas or research.

Includes 17 commissioned essays

July 2012 454 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6912-8 85.00ebook 978-0-7546-9626-1


Balzac, Grandville, and the Riseo Book IllustrationKeri Yousi, Indiana State University, USA

How the rise o book illustration aected the historichegemony o the word is the topic o Keri Yousisstudy o the comple relationship between the novelistHonor de Balzac and the illustrator J. J. Grandville.As Yousi shows, the industrialisation o the illustratedbook spawned a triadic relationship between publisher,writer and illustrator that transormed the book rom

a product o individual genius to a cooperative andcommercial aair.

Includes 24 b&w illustrations

June 2012 212 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-1808-5 55.00ebook 978-1-4094-1809-2


Baroness Orczys The ScarletPimpernelA Publishing History

Sally Dugan, Birkbeck College, UK

This well-researched and lucidly written study tracesthe origins o the story and its variegated history in

ction, drama, and lm, exploring how the author andher publishers adapted the tales to suit various markets.The analysis oers particularly valuable insights intothe mass-reading public o the early twentieth century.

Sally Dugan creates a convincing explication o thestaying power o an unlikely popular myth. This workwill interest students o publishing history, cultural

studies, and popular entertainment.

Judith Fisher, Trinity University, USA

Since its publication in 1905, The Scarlet Pimpernelhas eperienced global success, not only as a novel

but in theatrical and flm adaptations. Drawing onetensive archival research, Dugan charts the historyo Baroness Orczys elusive hero, rom the novelsorigins through its continuing aterlie. Dugan eploresthe mystery o this imperialist English gentleman,originally conceived by Orczy as an anarchist Pole,and traces his durability as a worldwide phenomenon.

November 2012 314 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-2717-9 60.00ebook 978-1-4094-7104-2


Browning, Victorian Poetics andthe Romantic LegacyChallenging the Personal Voice

Britta Martens, University o the West o England, UK

A subtle, nuanced and original new reading oBrownings authorial identity and poetics in the wake oRomanticism, Victorian reactions to it, and nineteenth-century changes in the reading public. The authorexplores the complex contradictions that pervaded the

poets responses not only to Romantic poetic modesbut also to key gures o Romanticism and Victorian

poets whom he associated with Romantic sel-

expression. In the second hal o the study especially,a ascinating analysis o Brownings negotiation o the

private/public divide emerges as a signicant theme.

Marjorie Stone, Dalhousie University, Canada

Taking an original approach to Robert Browningspoetics, Martens analyses his work in relation toRomanticism and an evolving Victorian poetic culture.She goes beyond reductive interpretations o Browningas a sel-eacing poet to reveal a highly sel-conscious,sel-dramatising and conicted engagement with theRomantic tradition. Martens Browning is a poet ocomple contradictions and an illuminating case studyin voice, authorial authority and sel-reerence.

August 2011 300 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-2303-4 55.00ebook 978-1-4094-2304-1



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Byron and the Discourseso HistoryCarla Pomar, Universit del Piemonte Orientale, Italy

In her study o the relationship between Byrons

lielong interest in history and the development ohistory as a discipline, Pomar ocuses on how Byronswritings interact with a variety o historiographicaltets ranging rom monographs to dictionaries.Calling attention to Byrons massive use o paratets,she discusses how historical discourses suppliedepistemological models that shaped his preoccupationwith the transmission o historical knowledge and itsideological uses.

February 2013 180 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-4356-8 55.00ebook 978-1-4724-0135-9


Dangerous Women, LibertineEpicures, and the Rise oSensibility, 16701730Laura Linker, North Carolina State University, USA

BRITISH LITERATURE IN CONTExT IN THE LONGEIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Dangerous Womens overall claim is an important one.The idea that libertinism and sensibility are connectedallows Linker to bring light previously obscured linksbetween the two modes, and in so doing, yields a resh

perspective on both.Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research

In the frst ull-length study o the fgure o the emalelibertine in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century literature, Linker eamines plays and novelsby John Dryden, Aphra Behn, Catharine Trotter,Delariviere Manley and Daniel Deoe. Her study placesthe emale libertine within her cultural, philosophicaland literary contets and suggests new ways oconsidering womens participation and the early novel.

April 2011 184 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-1811-5 55.00ebook 978-1-4094-1812-2


Early Modern Poetics in Melvilleand PoeMemory, Melancholy, and the Emblematic Tradition

William E. Engel, The University o the South, USA

Engel brings an outstanding scholarly reputation inEnglish Renaissance literature to his task, and it is justwhat the study o American literature needs at present:explorations o its debt to the literature o the past andits use o that past in new ways to transorm Americanliterary culture.

Bainard Cowan, University o Dallas, USA

While other scholars have remarked on the inuenceo seventeenth-century literature on Melville and Poe,Engel is the frst to eplore how their close readingso early modern tets inuenced their compositionalpractice. Rather than simply oering an account owhat these authors read, Engel ocuses principally on

the overlapping rhetorical and iconic assumptions otheArt o Memory and its relation to chiasmus in orderto illustrate the authors proound debt to the past.

March 2012 204 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-3586-0 55.00ebook 978-1-4094-3587-7


The Eighteenth-Century Noveland the Secularization o EthicsCarol Stewart, Queens University, Belast, UK

Linking the decline in Church authority in the lateseventeenth and early eighteenth centuries withthe increasing respectability o fction, Stewartprovides a new perspective on the rise o the novel.The resulting readings o novels by authors such asSamuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding, Frances Sheridan,Charlotte Lenno, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne,William Godwin and Jane Austen shed light on theliterary marketplace and the status o writers.



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Imitation and Praise in thePoems o Ben JonsonSecond edition

Richard S. Peterson, University o Connecticut, USA

The original publication o Imitation and Praise in thePoems o Ben Jonson in 1981 led to a reinterpretationo the Jonsons poems and philosophy; the resultingportrait o Jonson served as a corrective to earlierviews based primarily on the satiric poems and plays.This second edition o a now-classic tet makesPetersons important scholarship available to a newgeneration o scholars.

October 2011 234 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-0876-5 55.00


James Hogg and the LiteraryMarketplaceScottish Romanticism and the Working-ClassAuthor

Edited by Sharon Alker, Whitman College, USA andHolly Faith Nelson, Trinity Western University, Canada

Responding to the resurgence o interest in theScottish working-class writer James Hogg, Alkerand Nelson oer the frst edited collection devotedto a critical eamination o his writings. The essayseplore the varied and eperimental works o Hogg toestablish that they deserve a central place in Romantic

studies and to demonstrate that they anticipate andaddress many recent concerns voiced in contemporarydiscussions o literature.

October 2009 278 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6569-4 60.00


Letters and CulturalTransormations in the UnitedStates, 1760-1860Edited by Theresa Strouth Gaul, Teas ChristianUniversity, USA and Sharon M. Harris, University oConnecticut, USA

Rejecting the common categorization o lettersas primarily private documents, this collectiondemonstrates the genres persistent publicengagements with changing cultural dynamics o therevolutionary, early republican, and antebellum eras.Transatlantic studies, authorship, reorm movements,and the politics and practices o editing letters aretreated in this eemplary collection that oers scholarsa template o new approaches or eploring anunderstudied yet critically important genre.

October 2009 290 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6622-6 60.00ebook 978-0-7546-9504-2


The Military Memoir and RomanticLiterary Culture, 17801835Neil Ramsey, University o Western Sydney, Australia

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SERIES

This is lucid and convincing analysis, fuently writtenAdmirably nuanced and impressively thoughtul animportant scholarly contribution that illuminatinglyrealigns war literature with other literary models.

Times Literary Supplement

Eamining the little-known memoirs andautobiographies o British soldiers during theRomantic period, Ramsey shows how these popularworks prooundly shaped nineteenth-century Britishcultures understanding o war as Romantic adventure,establishing images o the nations middle-classsoldier heroes that would be o enduring signifcancethrough the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

December 2011 282 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-1034-8 60.00


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Models o Collaboration inNineteenth-Century FrenchLiteratureSeveral Authors, One Pen

Edited by Seth Whidden, Villanova University, USA

Prize: A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2010Contributing to the current lively discussion ocollaboration in French letters, this collection oessays raises undamental questions about thelimits and defnition o authorship in the contet othe nineteenth centurys eplosion o collaborativeventures. The volume will interest scholars onineteenth-century French literature, and moregenerally, any scholar interested in whats at stake inredefning the role o the French author.






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Modernist Short Fictionby WomenThe Liminal in Katherine Mansfeld, DorothyRichardson, May Sinclair and Virginia Wool

Claire Drewery, Shefeld Hallam University, UK...a distinctly original and welcome contribution thatlays the groundwork or urther studies o womenmodernists and the short story.

Wool Studies Annual

Eploring the short storys relationship to literaryModernism, Drewery considers works by KatherineMansfeld, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair andVirginia Wool. Drewery argues that the short storyis preoccupied with transgressing boundaries, andthus is an ideal genre or eamining the Modernistascination with the liminal. Drewery shows howthese writers contribute signifcantly to the Modernist

aesthetic that interrogates identity, the constructiono the sel, and the relationship between the individualand society.

May 2011 158 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6646-2 50.00ebook 978-1-4094-2888-6


The Mothers Legacy in EarlyModern EnglandJennier Heller, Lenoir-Rhyne University, USA

WOMEN AND GENDER IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD

a valuable resource or anyone studying thedevelopment o womens writing. The Mothers Legacyin Early Modern England provides a comprehensive

survey o mothers advice books across a hundredyear time span...With careul attention to the orcesthat shaped these works - their personal, cultural, and

political contexts - this book urther denes the genre,but more importantly, it rearms the importance othese texts as sites o emale voice and power, both

public and private.

Susan C. Staub, Appalachian State University, USA

Reading twenty printed and manuscript tets

composed between 1575 and 1672, Heller defnes thegenre o the mothers legacy as a distinct branch o theadvice tradition in early modern England. Attending tocultural, social and historical trends, Heller eploreshow legacy writers used the genre to secure personaland amily status, to shape their childrens belies andbehaviours, and to intervene in the periods religiousand political debates.



Nineteenth-Century BritishTravelers in the New WorldEdited by Christine DeVine, University o Louisiana, USA

By creating an idea o America, popular New World

travel writing oered an understanding o Americathrough British eyes, and a lens through which 19th-century Britain could view itsel. Nineteenth-CenturyBritish Travelers in the New Worlddemonstrates theimportance o 19th-century New World travel writing,eamining narratives by some o the popular writers othe day, as well as paintings and drawings by travellingartists.

December 2012 300 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-2726-1 60.00ebook 978-1-4094-2727-8


Petrarchs English Laurels,14751700A Compendium o Printed Reerences and Allusions

Compiled by Jackson Campbell Boswell andGordon McMurry Braden

Were I the librarian o any European or AmericanUniversity or National library I would orderPetrarchsEnglish Laurels immediately. It is an important andvery accurate reerence book lling a gap in European

studies. Any major library should keep it on its shelves.

Mario Domenichelli, University o Florence, Italy

The powerul inuence o Petrarch on the development oRenaissance vernacular poetry has long been recognisedas one o the major actors in early modern culturalhistory. It provides a ar more comprehensive catalogueo the direct evidence or that inuence in England thanany yet available. It oers an itemised presentation, yearby year, o printed citations, translations and allusions,with complete bibliographical inormation, quotations othe relevant passages and brie commentary.

September 2012 598 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-0118-6 75.00


Playing the Canterbury TalesThe Continuations and Additions

Andrew Higl, Winona State University, USA

Playing the Canterbury Tales addresses the additions,continuations and reordering ound in early copieso the Canterbury Tales. Using eamples and theoriesrom new media studies, Higl demonstrates that theTales are best viewed as an interactive fction. Readersparticipated in the on-going creation and production othe tales by adding new tet, rearranging eisting tet,and through this tetual transmission, introduced new

social and literary meaning to the work.

January 2012 210 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-2728-5 55.00ebook 978-1-4094-2729-2





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The Political in MargaretAtwoods FictionThe Writing on the Wall o the Tent

Theodore F. Sheckels, Randolph-Macon College, USA

Suggesting that politics and power are at the centero Margaret Atwoods fction, Sheckels eaminesAtwoods novels rom The Edible Woman to The Yearo the Flood. Sheckels stresses that Atwoods workshould not be viewed as political commentary butrather as a creative treatment o the laudable, butultimately only partially successul ways in whichwomen and other groups resist the constraints placedon them by institutionalized oppression.



The Politics o Gender in AnthonyTrollopes NovelsNew Readings or the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Margaret Markwick, University o Eeter, UK,Deborah Denenholz Morse, College o William and Mary,USA and Regenia Gagnier, University o Eeter, UK


Bringing together established critics and ecitingnew voices, this collection oers readings o Trollopethat recognize and repay his importance as source

material or scholars working in diverse felds oliterary and cultural studies. Drawing on work romeconomics, colonialism and ethnicity, gender studies,new historicism, liberalism, legal studies and politics,the contributors make a convincing case or Trollopeswritings as a vehicle or the theoretical eplorations oVictorian culture that currently predominate.

March 2009 274 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6389-8 60.00


Rape and the Rise o the AuthorGendering Intention in Early Modern England

Amy Greenstadt, Portland State University, USA

WOMEN AND GENDER IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD

Contending that early modern fctional portrayalso seual violence identiy the position o the authorwith that o the chaste woman threatened withrape, Greenstadt challenges the prevalent scholarlyview that this periods concept o The Author wasinherently masculine. Instead, she argues, the analogybetween rape and writing centrally inormed ideas oliterary intention and individual ree will that emergedduring the English Renaissance.

October 2009 204 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6274-7 55.00ebook 978-0-7546-9593-6


Reason and Religion in ClarissaSamuel Richardson and the Famous Mr. Norris,o Bemerton

E. Derek Taylor, Longwood University, USA

Departing rom traditional Lockean readings oClarissa, Taylor oers a new interpretation inormedby the writings o Lockes frst critic, John Norris.Alluded to throughout Richardsons novel, Norrissphilosophical and religious ideas provide the rhetoricalgrounding or Clarissa, while the arguments on behalo women by early eminists like Mary Astell (anintellectual ally o Norris) supply the combination oprogressive eminism and conservative theology thatanimate the tet.



Remembering BoethiusWriting Aristocratic Identity in Late MedievalFrench and English Literatures

Elizabeth Elliott, University o Edinburgh, UK

Elizabeth Elliott treats a number o subjectsBoethius,Boethiuss ortune in the later Middle Ages, memory,lie-writing, prison literature, advice to princesin a detand sophisticated manner. Engaging with Boethius,a philosopher, she deals with complex philosophicalquestions, and she insists upon the serious, intellectual

component in texts which, up to now, were consideredlargely to be works o aristocratic and aesthetic play.

William Calin, University o Florida, USA

Remembering Boethius eplores the rich intersectionbetween the reception o Boethiuss Consolation oPhilosophy and the literary construction o aristocraticidentity. Elliott presents new interpretations oMachauts Conort dami, Remede de Fortune andFonteinne amoureuse, Froissarts Prison amoureuse,Thomas Usks Testament o Love and the Kingis Quair.In asking how and why medieval writers rememberBoethius, this book sheds new light on how medievalpeople imagined, and reimagined themselves.

December 2012 190 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-2418-5 55.00ebook 978-1-4094-2419-2





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Robert Burns and TransatlanticCultureEdited by Sharon Alker, Whitman College, USA,Leith Davis, Simon Fraser University, Canada andHolly Faith Nelson, Trinity Western University, Canada

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This splendid collection establishes the tremendoushistorical impact that Burns has had on transatlanticliterature and demonstrates the vibrant role he continuesto play in our culture. Raising important questions abouthow Burns has been read, reinterpreted, and reinventedacross the centuries and across media, as well as acrossthe Atlantic ocean, this volume will be o interest not onlyto anyone working in Scottish literary studies, but also to

scholars o Canadian and American literary history andprint culture.

Pam Perkins, University o Manitoba, Canada

The ourteen essays included in Robert Burns andTransatlantic Culture re-orient scholarly understandingo Robert Burns by ocusing on the reception andrepresentation o the Scottish poet and songwriter inthe Americas. Divided into fve sections, the volumeeplores: transatlantic concerns in Burnss own work;Burnss early publication in North America; Burnssreception in the Americas; Burnss creation as a siteo cultural memory; and etra-literary remediations oBurns, including contemporary digital representations.



Robert Fergusson and theScottish Periodical PressRhona Brown, University o Glasgow, UK

Characterised by insightul close readings, thisbook oers an alternative way o reading this mostvigorous and interesting poet, challenging existing

scholarship and proposing to correct a number omisconceptions. The Fergusson revealed here engaged

ully with contemporary culture - news, poems, letters

- countering long-held assumptions that his work isbackward-looking and nostalgic.

Suzanne Gilbert, University o Stirling, UK

Though Robert Fergusson published only onecollection o poems during his lietime, he was afture in the Scottish periodical press. Brown eploresFergussons poetic output in its immediate periodicalcontet, enabling a new understanding o Fergussonscontribution to poetry that also enlarges on ourunderstanding o the Scottish periodical press and thepolitical climate o Enlightenment Scotland.

July 2012 288 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-2023-1 60.00

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Robert Louis Stevenson inthe PacifcTravel, Empire, and the Authors Proession

Roslyn Jolly, University o New South Wales, Australia

Prize: Shortlisted for the New South Wales PremiersPrize for Literary Scholarship 2010

Jolly eamines a crucial period (1887-1894) inStevensons lie, ocusing on the sel-transormationwrought in his Pacifc travel-writing and political tets.As his geographical and cultural horizons epanded,Stevensons proessional sphere also enlarged. A keyeature o the study is Jollys analysis o the resistanceo Victorian readers, not only to the Pacifc subjectmatter o Stevensons later works, but also to hiseperiments with new styles and genres.

April 2009 206 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6195-5 55.00


Romantic Autobiographyin EnglandEdited by Eugene Stelzig, State University o New York,USA


Taking into account the popularity and variety o thegenre, this collaborative volume considers a wide

range o English Romantic autobiographical writersand modes, including working-class autobiography, theamiliar essay, and the staged presence. Major writerssuch as William Wordsworth, De Quincey and MaryShelley, and recent additions to the canon such as MaryRobinson, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Hays aretreated in this eploratory mapping o the feld.






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Translation, Authorship and theVictorian Proessional WomanCharlotte Bront, Harriet Martineau andGeorge Eliot

Lesa Scholl, The University o Queensland, Australia...Translation, Authorship and the VictorianProessional Woman is not just a companion tocolonial and postcolonial, gender, and/or nineteenth-century literary studies, but a distinctive, original, and

nely crated work o scholarship in its own right.

Transnational Literature

In her study o Charlotte Bront, Harriet Martineauand George Eliot, Scholl shows how three Victorianwomen writers broadened their capacity or literaryproessionalism by participating in translation andother activities such as editing and reviewing early intheir careers. Access to oreign languages and locales

and their translation o tets, nations and culturesultimately enabled them to transgress the physical andideological boundaries imposed by English middle-class conventions.



Twentieth-Century ChaucerCriticism

Reading AudiencesKathy Cawsey, Dalhousie University, Canada

A Yankee Book Peddler US Core Title for 2011

...provides an excellent review o the trajectory ChaucerStudies took in the past century. Cawsey delivers anelegant, even-handed study o six twentieth-centuryChaucerians not always treated with the criticaldetachment she practices in her examination o theways shiting conceptions o audience shape scholarsinterpretations o Chaucers work.

Candace Barrington,Central Connecticut State University, USA

Cawsey draws on Michel Foucaults concept o theauthor-unction to propose the idea o an audienceunction which shows the ways critics concepts oaudience aect and condition their criticism. Focusingon si trend-setting Chaucerian scholars, Cawseyidentifes the assumptions about Chaucers audienceunderpinning each critics work. In making sense othe conusing and conicting mass o modern Chaucercriticism, Cawsey provides insights into the developmento twentieth-century literary criticism and theory.



Verse and Poetics in GeorgeHerbert and John DonneFrances Cruickshank, Australian National University,

This study traces George Herberts and John Donnes

development o a distinct poetics through closereadings o their poetry, as well as letters, sermons,and prose treatises. In demonstrating a relationshipbetween poetics and religious consciousness,Cruickshank eplores the poets privileging o verse,and makes an important contribution to the ongoingscholarly dialogue about the nature o literary andcultural study o early modern England.



Victorian Women and theEconomies o Travel, Translationand Culture, 18301870Judith Johnston, The University o Western Australia

...an authoritative study o an important area o womensparticipation in the proession o writing, engaginglywritten and persuasively argued. It makes a timely andeective intervention in current critical debates abouttranslation and travel literature, and broadens ourunderstanding o Britains interactions with other nationsand cultures in the nineteenth century.

Hilary Fraser, Birkbeck, University o London, UK

Using the metaphor o the published journey, whetherit involves actual travel or translation, Johnstonocuses on the relationships o various Britishwomen travellers, translators and journalists, mainlywith continental Europe. Devoted in part to casestudies o women such as Anna Jameson and MaryHowitt, Johnstons book shows women establishingthemselves as robust participants in the publishinghistory and as actors in the broad business o culture.

January 2013 180 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-4823-5 55.00ebook 978-1-4724-0136-6





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Virginia Wools Common ReaderKaterina Koutsantoni

In the frst comprehensive study o Virginia WoolsCommon Reader, Koutsantoni draws on theorists romthe felds o sociology, sociolinguistics, philosophy,and literary criticism to investigate the thematicpattern underpinning these books with respect tothe persona o the common reader. As she eploresand challenges the meaning o impersonality inWools Common Reader, Koutsantoni shows howrelated issues, including authority, reader-response,intersubjectivity and dialogism, oer useulperspectives rom which to eamine Wools work.



Women and Literary Celebrityin the Nineteenth CenturyThe Transatlantic Production o Fame and Gender

Brenda R. Weber, Indiana University, USA

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Nuanced, insightul, and richly detailed, Brenda Webersstudy o womens literary celebrity in the nineteenthcentury oers provocative readings o texts by ElizabethGaskell, Fanny Fern, Margaret Oliphant and ElizabethKeckley, among others. Detly revealing how Victorian

women writers on both sides o the Atlantic navigatedthe treacherous waters o public lie, Webers writing isboth witty and erudite, and her book sheds new light onthe uneasy intersection o ame and Victorian emininity.

Suzanne Raitt, College o William & Mary, USA

Focusing on representations o womens literarycelebrity in nineteenth-century nonfction and fction,Weber eamines the transatlantic cultural politics ogender, se and the body. Looking at discursive patternsand tets by authors like Charlotte Bront, ElizabethGaskell, Fanny Fern, Margaret Oliphant and Eliza Potterthat eature successul woman writers, Weber arguesthat discursive representations o the legitimately

amous woman used celebrity as a tactic or alteringperceptions about emininity and emale identity.



Women Reviewing Women inNineteenth-Century BritainThe Critical Reception o Jane Austen, CharlotteBront and George Eliot

Joanne Wilkes, University o Auckland, New ZealandTHE NINETEENTH CENTURY SERIES

Giving special attention to critical reception o JaneAusten, Charlotte Bront and George Eliot, Wilkes oersin-depth eaminations o reviews by eight emale critics:Maria Jane Jewsbury, Sara Coleridge, Hannah Lawrance,Jane Williams, Julia Kavanagh, Anne Mozley, MargaretOliphant and Mary Augusta Ward. What they wrote aboutwomen writers, and what their writings tell us aboutthe critics sense o themselves, reveals the distinctivecharacter o nineteenth-century womens contributionsto literary history.

April 2010 194 pages

Hardback 978-0-7546-6336-2 55.00ebook 978-0-7546-9857-9


Womens Diaries as Narrative inthe Nineteenth-Century NovelCatherine Delafeld, University o Leicester, UK


Using private diary writing as her model, Delafeldinvestigates the cultural signifcance o nineteenth-century womens writing and reading practices.

Eamining historical and fctional diaries by authorssuch as Frances Burney, Elizabeth Gaskell, AnneBront, Wilkie Collins and Bram Stoker, Delafeldreveals the ideological discrepancy between theprivate diary and its perormance in the role onarrator, oering resh insights into domesticity,authorship, and the diary as a eminine orm andmodel or narrative.

August 2009 200 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6517-5 55.00


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