Nineteenth-Century Contexts

Title Publication Date Language Citations
Editorial Board2016/09/05English
Vernon Lee’s Imaginary Portraits: ‘somewhere in the borderland between fact and fancy’2016/09/05English
Dancing on a Volcano: Subverting Catastrophe in M.P. Shiel’s The Purple Cloud2018/02/19English
ACentury’s Worth ofHuckleberry Finn2018/02/19English
“A fisherman landing an unwieldy salmon”; The Alpine Guide and Female Mountaineer2018/02/19English
“We have received expresses from the Celestial Empire”: breaking news from China in nineteenth-century Punch2023/03/15English
Dickens’s idiomatic imagination: the inimitable and Victorian body language Dickens’s idiomatic imagination: the inimitable and Victorian body language , by Peter J. Capuano, Ithaca, NY, Cornell UP, 2023, 278 pp., $31.95(paperback), ISBN: 978-1-50177-286-32024/04/05English
Uniform fantasies: soldiers, sex, and queer emancipation in imperial Germany Uniform fantasies: soldiers, sex, and queer emancipation in imperial Germany , by Jeffrey Schneider, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2023, 320 pp., $42.95(paperback), ISBN: 978-1-48754-96332024/04/05English
Food restraint and fasting in victorian religion and literature Food restraint and fasting in victorian religion and literature , by Lesa Scholl, London, Bloomsbury Press, 2022, 166pp., $39.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-350-25651-42024/04/11English
Arsenic poisoning and masquerade of femininity in two novels by Wilkie Collins2023/10/20English
Pressing matters: Degas’s ironers and the main-d’œuvre of the artist2024/01/01English
Sexual restraint and aesthetic experience in Victorian literary decadence Sexual restraint and aesthetic experience in Victorian literary decadence , by Sarah Green, Cambridge, U of Cambridge P, 2023, 266 pp., £85.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-1088-3151-22023/10/20English
Dorian unbound: transnational decadence and the wilde archive Dorian unbound: transnational decadence and the wilde archive , by Sean O'Toole, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins UP, 2023, 170 pp., $34.95 (Paperback), ISBN 97814214465302023/10/20English
The necromantics: reanimation, the historical imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature The necromantics: reanimation, the historical imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature , by Renée Fox, Columbus, The Ohio State UP, 2023, 300 pp., $69.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8142-1549-42023/10/20English
Unremarkable as “the bridge … or the butcher’s wife”: pregnancy, illegitimacy, and realism in Ellen Wood’s A Tale of Sin2023/10/20English
“D’ye hear?”: listening for echoes of empire in Dion Boucicault’s Jessie Brown; or, The Relief of Lucknow2024/01/01English
Immersive media: communal identity and the Victorian magic lantern show2024/01/01English
Strangers in the archive: literary evidence and London’s East End2023/05/27English
Desperate remedies: psychiatry’s turbulent quest to cure mental illness2023/05/27English
Transported to Botany Bay: class, national identity, and the literary figure of the Australian convict2023/01/01English
Material ambitions: self-help and Victorian literature2023/01/01English
The idea of music: Oscar Wilde and the metaphysics of sound2023/01/01English
Nineteenth-century strata2022/10/20English
Ladies’ orchestras and music-as-performance infin-de-siècleBritain2022/12/28English
Jesse Shepard’s sensational musical séances: psychical waves, hypnotic timbres, and the Spiritualist sensorium2022/12/28English
Nineteenth-century moon imaginaries in popular visual culture and planetary critique2024/04/17English
Sensationalising Victorian domestic ecology: from Scrooge’s coals to sweetly-scented chemicals2024/04/19English
Underground climate: infrastructure, Hollow Earth, and the Anthropocene2023/08/08English
Antagonistic boundaries: the professional New Woman’s retro-progress inThe Odd Women2023/08/08English
The plight of the figure of the child-woman in David Copperfield and A Pair of Blue Eyes2023/08/08English