Victorian Literature and Culture Series

This series seeks to publish the best contemporary scholarship and criticism on the Victorian period, including work undertaken from a range of disciplinary—and interdisciplinary—perspectives.

Series Editors: Herbert F. Tucker Associate Editors: William McKelvy, Jill Rappoport, and Andrew Stauffer
UVA Editor(s): Angie Hogan

Books in this Series

Confessing the Flesh
Confessing the Flesh
Reading Hopkins in Context
Lesley Higgins
Victorian Nightshades
Victorian Nightshades
How the Solanaceae Shaped the Modern World
Elizabeth A. Campbell
Haunting Ecologies
Haunting Ecologies
Victorian Conceptions of Water
Ursula Kluwick
The Turn of Rhythm
The Turn of Rhythm
How Victorian Poetry Shaped a New Concept
Ewan Jones
Narrative and Its Nonevents
Narrative and Its Nonevents
The Unwritten Plots That Shaped Victorian Realism
Carra Glatt
Victorian Metafiction
Victorian Metafiction
Tabitha Sparks
Strangers in the Archive
Strangers in the Archive
Literary Evidence and London’s East End
Heidi Kaufman
Evangelical Gothic
Evangelical Gothic
The English Novel and the Religious War on Virtue from Wesley to Dracula
Christopher Herbert
Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science
Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science
David Sweeney Coombs
Parting Words
Parting Words
Victorian Poetry and Public Address
Justin A. Sider
The Physics of Possibility
The Physics of Possibility
Victorian Fiction, Science, and Gender
Michael Tondre
Willful Submission
Willful Submission
Sado-Erotics and Heavenly Marriage in Victorian Religious Poetry
Amanda Paxton
Pirating Fictions
Pirating Fictions
Ownership and Creativity in Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture
Monica F. Cohen
Mathilde Blind
Mathilde Blind
Late-Victorian Culture and the Woman of Letters
James Diedrick
Ruskin's Culture Wars
Ruskin's Culture Wars
Fors Clavigera and the Crisis of Victorian Liberalism
Judith Stoddart
Poetry and the Thought of Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Poetry and the Thought of Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Elizabeth K. Helsinger
The Language of Flowers
The Language of Flowers
A History
Beverly Seaton
Promises Broken
Promises Broken
Courtship, Class, and Gender in Victorian England
Ginger S. Frost
Modified Rapture
Modified Rapture
Comedy in W. S. Gilbert's Savoy Operas
Alan Fischler
Tennyson
The Muses' Tug-of-War
Daniel Albright
Tennyson
The Muses' Tug-of-War
Daniel Albright
The Victorian Serial
The Victorian Serial
Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund
The Gypsy-Bachelor of Manchester
The Life of Mrs. Gaskell's Demon
Felicia Bonaparte
The Gypsy-Bachelor of Manchester
The Life of Mrs. Gaskell's Demon
Felicia Bonaparte
Capital Offenses
Capital Offenses
The Geography of Class and Crime in Victorian London
Simon Joyce
Victorian Connections
Victorian Connections
Jerome J. Mcgann, ed.
Matthew Arnold and the Betrayal of Language
Matthew Arnold and the Betrayal of Language
David G. Riede
Author and Printer in Victorian England
Author and Printer in Victorian England
Allan C. Dooley
Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskell's Work
Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskell's Work
Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund
The Vulgarization of Art
The Vulgarization of Art
The Victorians and Aesthetic Democracy
Linda Dowling
Tennyson's Fixations
Tennyson's Fixations
Psychoanalysis and the Topics of the Early Poetry
Matthew Rowlinson
The Child, the State and the Victorian Novel
The Child, the State and the Victorian Novel
Laura C. Berry
Culture and Irony
Culture and Irony
Studies in Joseph Conrad's Major Novels
Anthony Winner
Thomas Hardy and the Proper Study of Mankind
Thomas Hardy and the Proper Study of Mankind
Simon Gatrell
Vanishing Lives
Vanishing Lives
Style and Self in Tennyson, D. G. Rossetti, Swinburne, and Yeats
James Richardson
The Feminine Political Novel in Victorian England
The Feminine Political Novel in Victorian England
Barbara Leah Harman
Paradise Dislocated
Paradise Dislocated
Morris, Politics, Art
Jeffrey Skoblow
The Mysteries of Paris and London
The Mysteries of Paris and London
Richard Maxwell
The Antagonist Principle
The Antagonist Principle
John Henry Newman and the Paradox of Personality
Lawrence Poston
Second Person Singular
Second Person Singular
Late Victorian Women Poets and the Bonds of Verse
Emily Harrington
Personal Business
Personal Business
Character and Commerce in Victorian Literature and Culture
Aeron Hunt
The Ghost behind the Masks
The Ghost behind the Masks
The Victorian Poets and Shakespeare
W. David Shaw
Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture
Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture
Discourse and Ideology
Antony H. Harrison
Supposing Bleak House
Supposing Bleak House
John O. Jordan
Liberal Epic
Liberal Epic
The Victorian Practice of History from Gibbon to Churchill
Edward Adams
Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible
Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible
Charles LaPorte
Feeling for the Poor
Feeling for the Poor
Bourgeois Compassion, Social Action, and the Victorian Novel
Carolyn Betensky
The Science of Religion in Britain, 1860-1915
The Science of Religion in Britain, 1860-1915
Marjorie Wheeler-Barclay
Reading for the Law
Reading for the Law
British Literary History and Gender Advocacy
Christine L. Krueger
The Dynamics of Genre
The Dynamics of Genre
Journalism and the Practice of Literature in Mid-Victorian Britain
Dallas Liddle
The Fowl and the Pussycat
The Fowl and the Pussycat
Love Letters of Michael Field, 1876–1909
Michael Field. Edited by Sharon Bickle
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
A Critical Edition
Edward Fitzgerald. Edited by Christopher Decker
Victorian Prism
Victorian Prism
Refractions of the Crystal Palace
Edited by James Buzard, Joseph W. Childers, and Eileen Gillooly
Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1917
Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1917
Linda M. Austin
The English Cult of Literature
The English Cult of Literature
Devoted Readers, 1774–1880
William R. McKelvy
Artist of Wonderland
Artist of Wonderland
The Life, Political Cartoons, and Illustrations of Tenniel
Frankie Morris
The Material Interests of the Victorian Novel
The Material Interests of the Victorian Novel
Daniel Hack
Behind Her Times
Behind Her Times
Transition England in the Novels of Mary Arnold Ward
Judith Wilt
Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti
The Patience of Style
Constance W. Hassett
The Circus and Victorian Society
The Circus and Victorian Society
Brenda Assael
The Letters of Christina Rossetti
The Letters of Christina Rossetti
Volume 1
1843-1873
Christina Rossetti. Edited by Antony H. Harrison
Acting Naturally
Acting Naturally
Victorian Theatricality and Authenticity
Lynn M. Voskuil
Frances Power Cobbe
Frances Power Cobbe
Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer
Sally Mitchell
Emily Davies
Emily Davies
Collected Letters, 1861-1875
Emily Davies. Edited by Ann B. Murphy and Deirdre Raftery
Manufacturing Culture
Manufacturing Culture
Vindications of Early Victorian Industry
Joseph Bizup
The Serious Pleasures of Suspense
The Serious Pleasures of Suspense
Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt
Caroline Levine
Victorian Poetry As Cultural Critique
Victorian Poetry As Cultural Critique
The Politics of Performative Language
E. Warwick Slinn
Vernon Lee
Vernon Lee
A Literary Biography
Vineta Colby
The Victorian Illustrated Book
The Victorian Illustrated Book
Richard Maxwell, ed.
The Angel out of the House
The Angel out of the House
Philanthropy and Gender in Nineteenth-Century England
Dorice Williams Elliott
The Letters of Matthew Arnold
The Letters of Matthew Arnold
Volume 5
Matthew Arnold. Edited by Cecil Y. Lang
The Private Rod
The Private Rod
Marital Violence, Sensation, and the Law in Victorian Britain
Marlene Tromp
Essays and Reviews
Essays and Reviews
The 1860 Text and Its Reading
Victor Shea and William Whitla, eds.
A Queer Chivalry
A Queer Chivalry
The Homoerotic Asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Julia F. Saville
The Forgotten Female Aesthetes
The Forgotten Female Aesthetes
Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England
Talia Schaffer
Idol of Suburbia
Idol of Suburbia
Marie Corelli and Late-Victorian Literary Culture
Annette R. Federico
On Exhibit
On Exhibit
Victorians and Their Museums
Barbara J. Black
Royalties
Royalties
The Queen and Victorian Writers
Gail Turley Houston
The Genius of John Ruskin
The Genius of John Ruskin
Selections from His Writings
John D. Rosenberg. Foreword by Herber F. Tucker
Lost Saints
Lost Saints
Silence, Gender, and Victorian Literary Canonization
Tricia A. Lootens
Victorian Women Poets
Victorian Women Poets
Writing Against the Heart
Angela Leighton
Journal of Emily Shore
Journal of Emily Shore
Barbara Timm Gates, ed.
The Romance of the Harem
The Romance of the Harem
Anna Leonowens. Edited with an Introduction by Susan Morgan
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