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Snait B. Gissis

Lamarckism and the Emergence of 'Scientific' Social Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France

The book presents an original synthesizing framework on the relations between 'the biological' and 'the social'. Within these relations, the late nineteenth-century emergence of social sciences aspiring t…

Paul Fyfe

Digital Victorians

"Perhaps no period better clarifies our current crisis of digital information than the nineteenth century. Self-aware about its own epochal telecommunications changes and awash in a flood of print, t…

Jess Libow

Vigorous Reforms

Nineteenth-century America saw profound changes in the ways people viewed their bodies, their health, and their corporeal connection to their environments. Though much of the writing about bodies was prod…

Melissa Frazier

Signs of the Material World

Signs of the Material World traces the literary effects of nineteenth-century materialism that includes the mind and body within a multifaceted "living life." The book examines a range of scient…

Madeline Lee Zehnder

Print for the Pocket

In Print for the Pocket, Madeline Zehnder examines how nineteenth-century Americans understood a common but often overlooked feature of their publishing landscape: the pocket-sized book.Analyzing archival…

Elena Emma Sottilotta

Seekers of Wonder

Women's cultural and political engagement with oral tales and traditions in European peripheriesWith Seekers of Wonder , Elena Sottilotta offers the first comparative study of women's manifold roles in th…

Essaka Joshua

Disability and the Gothic

Disability is central to the Gothic imagination. Few accounts of Gothic literature, however, interpret this genre with attention to experiences of disability, or to the socially determined aspects of disa…

Essaka Joshua

Disability and the Gothic

Disability is central to the Gothic imagination. Few accounts of Gothic literature, however, interpret this genre with attention to experiences of disability, or to the socially determined aspects of disa…

Keith Hanley

Wordsworth and English Literary Pilgrimage in the Nineteenth Century

Using Wordsworth as a focal point, this book describes how, in the period of Romanticism and beyond, the historical practice of pilgrimage became internalised figuratively and psychologically so as to rep…

The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 2 (Loa #395)

The second volume in a landmark story collection that redefines what we thought we knew about the great American literary formA diverse, unprecedented gathering of more than one hundred stories, represent…

The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 1 (Loa #394)

The first volume in a landmark story collection that redefines what we thought we knew about the great American literary formA diverse, unprecedented gathering of more than one hundred stories, representi…

A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Nineteenth Century

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies?This volume explores the period when the European fairy tales conquered t…

A Robin Hoffman

Victorian Alphabet Books and the Education of the Eye

Explores what nineteenth-century alphabet books can tell us about literacy and constructions of childhood in Britain throughout this period. The volume shows how artists and writers including William Thac…

Händel-Jahrbuch 2025, 71. Jahrgang

John Stauffer

The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century

A LANDMARK SHORT STORY COLLECTION: More than 100 short stories by 51 different 19th-century writers redefine the great American literary formIncudes both literary masterpieces--including classic stories b…

Natalia Majluf

Inventing Indigenism

A fascinating account of the modern reinvention of the image of the Indian in nineteenth-century literature and visual culture, seen through the work of Peruvian painter Francisco Laso.

Maeve Adams

Rhetoric and Resistance

This book explores how nineteenth-century literature shaped modern democratic dissent through fiction, poetry, and journalism. It traces dissent's literary history from Romantic and Victorian writers to m…

Silvia Riccardi

Dark Romanticism

This book explores the dark regions of Romantic imagination in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature and art. It uncovers the palpable and pleasing anxiety about the human body in the w…

Sarah Soanirina Ohmer

The Keloids We Heal

"The corporeal and spiritual healing in literature by women of colors can be seen to redefine modern thought and printed text. Sarah Soanirina Ohmer traces the impact of colonization and enslavement …