Decadent Ecology illuminates the networks of nature, paganism, and desire in 19th- and early 20th-century decadent literature and art.

This book confronts a significant paradox in the development of literary realism: the very novels that present themselves as purveyors and celebrants of direct, ordinary human experience also manifest an obsession with art that threatens to ...

Oscar Wilde's imagination was haunted by ancient Greece; this book traces its presence in his life and works.

Examination into how the new religious movement known as New Thought or "mind cure" influenced fin-de-siècle Anglophone children's fiction.

The cultural and narrative significance of illness, nursing and the sickroom in Victorian literature.

Examines the interrelationship between Caribbean narratives and British fiction in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Explores the first appearance of 'science fiction' in the pages of late nineteenth-century general interest periodicals.

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This study uses popular literature to offer a fresh account of Victorian manliness as it was transformed by imperial and colonial politics.

Anna Johnston analyses missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire. Johnston argues that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in colonial cultures, caught between imperial and religious interests.