19th Century Literature Books

New and Published Books

1. The Textual Condition of Nineteenth-Century Literature

   By Josephine Guy, Ian Small

   Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

   In this important new book, Guy and Small develop a new account of literary creativity in the late nineteenth century, one that combines concepts generated by text-theorists concerning the embodied nature of textuality with the empirical insights of text-editors and book historians. Through these...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
2. Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals

   By Kathryn Prince

   Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

   Based on extensive archival research, Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals offers an entirely new perspective on popular Shakespeare reception by focusing on articles published in Victorian periodicals. Shakespeare had already reached the apex of British culture in the previous...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
3. Charlotte Yonge

   Rereading Domestic Religious Fiction

   Edited by Tamara Wagner

   Charlotte Yonge, a dedicated religious, didactic, and domestic novelist, has become one of the most effectively rediscovered Victorian women writers of the last decades. Her prolific output of fiction does not merely give a fascinatingly different insight into nineteenth-century popular culture; it...

   Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge
4. The Heyday of Sir Walter Scott

   By Donald Davie

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1961, this book examines a number of works popular in the Romantic period, during the heyday of Sir Walter Scott in the early part of the nineteenth century. Encompassing works by the likes of Alexander Pushkin, Sir Walter Scott, Adam Mickiewicz and James Fenimore Cooper, this...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
5. Pinocchio, Puppets, and Modernity

   The Mechanical Body

   Edited by Katia Pizzi

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   This study assesses the significance of Pinocchio in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in addition to his status as the creature of a nineteenth century traversed by a cultural enthusiasm for dummies, puppets, and marionettes. This collection identifies him as a figure characterized by a '...

   Published October 24th 2011 by Routledge
6. The Brontë Novels (Routledge Revivals)

   By W. A. Craik

   First published in 1968, this reissue of Dr. Craik’s critical appreciation of the completed novels of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë is seminal for the way in which it shifts emphasis away from the Brontë family biography towards a detailed critical analysis of the novels themselves. Separate...

   Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
7. Reading Victorian Schoolrooms

   Childhood and Education in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

   By Elizabeth Gargano

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   Reading Victorian Schoolrooms examines the numerous schoolroom scenes in nineteenth-century novels during the fraught era of the Victorian education debates. As Gargano argues, the fiction of mainstream and children’s writers such as Dickens, Brontë, and Carroll reflected widespread Victorian...

   Published October 12th 2011 by Routledge
8. The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama

   W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory and J.M. Synge

   By George Cusack

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   This study examines the early dramatic works of Yeats, Synge, and Gregory in the context of late colonial Ireland’s unique socio-political landscape. By contextualizing each author’s work within the artistic and political discourses of their time, Cusack demonstrates the complex negotiation of...

   Published October 10th 2011 by Routledge
9. Jane Austen and the State (RLE Jane Austen)

   By Mary Evans

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Jane Austen

   Jane Austen is often associated with conservatism and her novels are often seen as light entertainment depicting a vanished world and its manners. Mary Evan's study, first published in 1987, seeks to contradict the conventional wisdom regarding Austen's social and political leanings and&...

   Published September 6th 2011 by Routledge
10. Jane Austen (RLE Jane Austen)

    The Six Novels

    By Wendy Craik

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Jane Austen

    First published in 1965, this reissued work by Wendy Craik provides a thorough and extensive study of Jane Austen's six complete novels: Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion. This is a truly groundbreaking study of Austen which,...

    Published September 6th 2011 by Routledge