How reading by touch challenged perceptions of blindness, what it means to be a reader
A colorful look at the relationship between ethnic nationalism and gaudy dress in the early 19th-century United States
Textured readings of the literary expression of workers in the era of big cotton
19th-century American magazine reviewers helped establish—and subsequently destroy—poetry’s place as a powerful national literature
Reimagines modern drama by shining light on the ghostly presences within it
Connects the practices of the professional Victorian stage to the world of the amateur theatricals across England and its empire
An engaging, rigorously researched biography of popular 19th century novelist Dinah Craik
Proposes a new basis for data-rich literary history
A new history of the origins of the American short story and its relationship to theatrical performance culture
Explores U.S. detective fiction's deep engagement with the shifting dynamics of race and labor in America
An important contribution to Victorian literature studies with strong connections to cultural and medical history
A historically informed approach to realist-era American fiction, engaging with contemporary affect theory, evolutionary theory, studies of realism, and studies of affect in American literature
Sheds new light on the narrative importance of the disabled man in Victorian literature and culture
An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century British capitalism, its architects, and its critics
A cultural history of representations of Jesus in nineteenth-century European and American fiction and visual art
Four thousand years of shipwrecks in literature and film
An unusual approach to the Victorian phenomenon of virtual travel and realism through the lens of contemporary conceptualizations of media and its effects
A comparison of the mid-19th-century city in the poetry of Walt Whitman and Charles Baudelaire and their responses to the inescapable push of modernization
A new look at the "eccentric author" figure in early nineteenth-century America
Exploring the related cultural forms of architecture and literature in the modern era
A tightly focused study of the ubiquity of Indian objects in Victorian novels
A study of the importance of architecture in Romanticism
The first collection of criticism devoted to the problem of reading in Victorian literature
Exploring the importance of language in the Victorian novel
Thackeray's last completed novel, edited and with commentary by a leading textual scholar