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.
Titles in this Series
Willful Listeners
Reading Aloud and the Politics of Attention from Austen to Audiobooks
Kate Nesbit
Willful Listeners
Reading Aloud and the Politics of Attention from Austen to Audiobooks
Kate Nesbit

What We Mourn
Child Death and the Politics of Grief in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Lydia Murdoch

Confessing the Flesh
Reading Hopkins in Context
Lesley Higgins

Victorian Nightshades
How the Solanaceae Shaped the Modern World
Elizabeth A. Campbell

Haunting Ecologies
Victorian Conceptions of Water
Ursula Kluwick

The Turn of Rhythm
How Victorian Poetry Shaped a New Concept
Ewan Jones

Narrative and Its Nonevents
The Unwritten Plots That Shaped Victorian Realism
Carra Glatt

Victorian Metafiction
Tabitha Sparks

Strangers in the Archive
Literary Evidence and London’s East End
Heidi Kaufman

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
David Sweeney Coombs

Parting Words
Victorian Poetry and Public Address
Justin A. Sider

The Physics of Possibility
Victorian Fiction, Science, and Gender
Michael Tondre

Willful Submission
Sado-Erotics and Heavenly Marriage in Victorian Religious Poetry
Amanda Paxton

Pirating Fictions
Ownership and Creativity in Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture
Monica F. Cohen

Mathilde Blind
Late-Victorian Culture and the Woman of Letters
James Diedrick

Ruskin's Culture Wars
Fors Clavigera and the Crisis of Victorian Liberalism
Judith Stoddart

Poetry and the Thought of Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Elizabeth K. Helsinger

The Language of Flowers
A History
Beverly Seaton

Promises Broken
Courtship, Class, and Gender in Victorian England
Ginger S. Frost

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
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
The Geography of Class and Crime in Victorian London
Simon Joyce

Victorian Connections
Jerome J. Mcgann, ed.

Matthew Arnold and the Betrayal of Language
David G. Riede

Author and Printer in Victorian England
Allan C. Dooley

Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskell's Work
Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund

The Vulgarization of Art
The Victorians and Aesthetic Democracy
Linda Dowling

Tennyson's Fixations
Psychoanalysis and the Topics of the Early Poetry
Matthew Rowlinson

The Child, the State and the Victorian Novel
Laura C. Berry

Culture and Irony
Studies in Joseph Conrad's Major Novels
Anthony Winner

Thomas Hardy and the Proper Study of Mankind
Simon Gatrell

Vanishing Lives
Style and Self in Tennyson, D. G. Rossetti, Swinburne, and Yeats
James Richardson

The Feminine Political Novel in Victorian England
Barbara Leah Harman

Paradise Dislocated
Morris, Politics, Art
Jeffrey Skoblow

The Mysteries of Paris and London
Richard Maxwell

The Antagonist Principle
John Henry Newman and the Paradox of Personality
Lawrence Poston

Second Person Singular
Late Victorian Women Poets and the Bonds of Verse
Emily Harrington

Personal Business
Character and Commerce in Victorian Literature and Culture
Aeron Hunt

The Ghost behind the Masks
The Victorian Poets and Shakespeare
W. David Shaw

Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture
Discourse and Ideology
Antony H. Harrison

Supposing Bleak House
John O. Jordan

Liberal Epic
The Victorian Practice of History from Gibbon to Churchill
Edward Adams

Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible
Charles LaPorte

Feeling for the Poor
Bourgeois Compassion, Social Action, and the Victorian Novel
Carolyn Betensky

The Science of Religion in Britain, 1860-1915
Marjorie Wheeler-Barclay

Reading for the Law
British Literary History and Gender Advocacy
Christine L. Krueger

The Dynamics of Genre
Journalism and the Practice of Literature in Mid-Victorian Britain
Dallas Liddle

The Fowl and the Pussycat
Love Letters of Michael Field, 1876–1909
Michael Field. Edited by Sharon Bickle

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
A Critical Edition
Edward Fitzgerald. Edited by Christopher Decker

Victorian Prism
Refractions of the Crystal Palace
Edited by James Buzard, Joseph W. Childers, and Eileen Gillooly

Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1917
Linda M. Austin

The English Cult of Literature
Devoted Readers, 1774–1880
William R. McKelvy

Artist of Wonderland
The Life, Political Cartoons, and Illustrations of Tenniel
Frankie Morris

The Material Interests of the Victorian Novel
Daniel Hack

Behind Her Times
Transition England in the Novels of Mary Arnold Ward
Judith Wilt

Christina Rossetti
The Patience of Style
Constance W. Hassett

The Circus and Victorian Society
Brenda Assael

The Letters of Christina Rossetti
Volume 1
1843-1873
Christina Rossetti. Edited by Antony H. Harrison

Acting Naturally
Victorian Theatricality and Authenticity
Lynn M. Voskuil

Frances Power Cobbe
Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer
Sally Mitchell

Emily Davies
Collected Letters, 1861-1875
Emily Davies. Edited by Ann B. Murphy and Deirdre Raftery

Manufacturing Culture
Vindications of Early Victorian Industry
Joseph Bizup

The Serious Pleasures of Suspense
Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt
Caroline Levine

Victorian Poetry As Cultural Critique
The Politics of Performative Language
E. Warwick Slinn

Vernon Lee
A Literary Biography
Vineta Colby

The Victorian Illustrated Book
Richard Maxwell, ed.

The Angel out of the House
Philanthropy and Gender in Nineteenth-Century England
Dorice Williams Elliott

The Letters of Matthew Arnold
Volume 1
Matthew Arnold. Edited by Cecil Y. Lang

The Private Rod
Marital Violence, Sensation, and the Law in Victorian Britain
Marlene Tromp

Essays and Reviews
The 1860 Text and Its Reading
Victor Shea and William Whitla, eds.

A Queer Chivalry
The Homoerotic Asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Julia F. Saville

The Forgotten Female Aesthetes
Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England
Talia Schaffer

Idol of Suburbia
Marie Corelli and Late-Victorian Literary Culture
Annette R. Federico

On Exhibit
Victorians and Their Museums
Barbara J. Black

Royalties
The Queen and Victorian Writers
Gail Turley Houston

The Genius of John Ruskin
Selections from His Writings
John D. Rosenberg. Foreword by Herber F. Tucker

Lost Saints
Silence, Gender, and Victorian Literary Canonization
Tricia A. Lootens

Victorian Women Poets
Writing Against the Heart
Angela Leighton

Journal of Emily Shore
Barbara Timm Gates, ed.

The Romance of the Harem
Anna Leonowens. Edited with an Introduction by Susan Morgan