Views the Victorian novel through the prism of literary imitations that it inspired.

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This collection of essays goes beyond the facts of biography and official history to explore the diverse, and sometimes conflicting, meanings she held for her subjects around the world and even for those outside her empire, who made of her ...

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

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

This first modern full-length study of the silver-fork novel argues that these novels were in fact tools of persuasion, novels deliberately aimed at bringing the British middle classes into an alliance with an aristocratic program of ...

A study of the representation of the occult in late-Victorian popular fiction, exploring different perceptions of authorship and creativity.

Although fairies are now banished to the realm of childhood, these diminutive figures were central to the work of many Victorian painters, novelists, poets and even scientists.

Traces the development of cosmopolitanism and the growing importance of the city in nineteenth-century literature.

An interdisciplinary study of the 'domesticated' or home landscape as it shapes women's lives and their ways of writing.