Browse  ▾ How to… ▾ Poetry Prize About the Press shopping_cart search Victorian Studies Victorian Studies Book List Sign up to be notified when new Victorian Studies titles come out. Name Email Sign up We will only use your email address to notify you of new titles in the subject area(s) you follow. We will never share your information with third parties. First Previous 1 2 3 4 5 Last The Moxon Tennyson A Landmark in Victorian Illustration By Simon Cooke Cooke’s analysis of this milestone Victorian publication reveals the fluctuating harmony and dissonance between Tennyson’s poems and their illustrations, the technical challenges and occupations involved in its manufacture, its readers’ contemporary reception, and its subsequent influence as a variously revered and reviled publication. LITERARY CRITICISM, UK · LITERARY CRITICISM | MODERN | 19TH CENTURY · VICTORIAN STUDIES · PUBLISHING Michael Field Decadent Moderns Edited by Sarah Parker and Ana Parejo Vadillo As “Michael Field,” Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper conversed with fin-de-siècle aesthetic movements and twentieth-century modernism, articulated ideas associated with the New Woman, and expressed queer desire. Essays address Michael Field’s engagements with a range of cultural touchstones, highlighting their work’s radicalism and relevance. LITERARY CRITICISM, UK · LGBT STUDIES · VICTORIAN STUDIES Collaborative Dickens Authorship and Victorian Christmas Periodicals By Melisa Klimaszewski In Collaborative Dickens, Melisa Klimaszewski undertakes the first comprehensive study of Dickens’s Christmas numbers. She argues for a revised understanding of Dickens as an editor who, rather than ceaselessly bullying his contributors, sometimes accommodated contrary views and depended upon multivocal narratives for his own success. LITERARY CRITICISM, UK · VICTORIAN STUDIES · BOOK AND PERIODICAL STUDIES Transported to Botany Bay Class, National Identity, and the Literary Figure of the Australian Convict By Dorice Williams Elliott In analyzing depictions of Australian convicts in novels, broadsides, and first-person accounts, Dorice Williams Elliott demonstrates how Britain linked class, race, and national identity at a key historical moment when it was still negotiating its relationship with its empire. LITERARY CRITICISM, UK · LITERARY CRITICISM, AUSTRALIA · EUROPEAN HISTORY · 19TH CENTURY · VICTORIAN STUDIES The Plot Thickens Illustrated Victorian Serial Fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier By Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge In the early 1800s, books were largely unillustrated. By the 1830s and 1840s, however, innovations in wood- and steel-engraving techniques changed how Victorian readers consumed and conceptualized fiction. A new type of novel was born, often published in serial form, one that melded text and image as partners in meaning-making.These LITERARY CRITICISM, UK · BOOK AND PERIODICAL STUDIES · VICTORIAN STUDIES Inventing Pollution Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800 By Peter Thorsheim Preface by Peter Thorsheim Inventing Pollution examines new understandings of pollution, centered not on organic decay but on coal combustion, that emerged in the late 19th century in Britain. This change, Thorsheim argues, gave birth to the smoke-abatement movement and to new ways of thinking about the relationships among humanity, technology, and the environment. BRITISH HISTORY · ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY · HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY · PUBLIC HEALTH · VICTORIAN STUDIES · ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY · UNITED KINGDOM Drawing on the Victorians The Palimpsest of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Graphic Texts Edited by Anna Maria Jones and Rebecca N. Mitchell Afterword by Kate Flint Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images—illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera—to a mass readership. This Victorian visual turn prefigured the present-day impact of the Internet on how images are produced and shared, both driving and reflecting the visual culture of its time.From LITERARY CRITICISM, UK · COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVEL CULTURE · VICTORIAN STUDIES Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century Abstracting Economics Edited by Daniel Bivona and Marlene Tromp Grounded in literary studies and spanning the Americas, India, England, and Scotland, this book explores the relationship between economic concepts and culture in the period, focusing on how economic tropes were abstracted into other discourses in fields as diverse as evolutionary science, business, or literary narrative. LITERARY CRITICISM, UK · ECONOMIC HISTORY · LITERATURE · VICTORIAN STUDIES Reading for Health Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel By Erika Wright In Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Erika Wright argues that the emphasis in Victorian Studies on disease as the primary source of narrative conflict that must be resolved has obscured the complex reading practices that emerge around the concept of health. LITERARY CRITICISM, UK · SOCIAL SCIENCE | DISEASE AND HEALTH ISSUES · VICTORIAN STUDIES · LITERATURE The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father, 1842–1843 By Richard Doyle Edited by Grant F. Scott Before he joined the staff of Punch and designed its iconic front cover, illustrator Richard “Dicky” Doyle was a young man whose father (political caricaturist John Doyle) charged him with sending a weekly letter, even though they lived under the same roof. This volume collects the fifty-three illustrated missives in their entirety for the first time and provides an uncommon peek into the intimate but expansive observations of a precocious social commentator and artist.In ART HISTORY · VICTORIAN STUDIES · ART · ILLUSTRATION - HISTORY AND CRITICISM The Victorian Novel of Adulthood Plot and Purgatory in Fictions of Maturity By Rebecca Rainof In The Victorian Novel of Adulthood, Rebecca Rainof confronts the conventional deference accorded the bildungsroman as the ultimate plot model and quintessential expression of Victorian nation building. The novel of maturity, she contends, is no less important to our understanding of narrative, Victorian culture, and the possibilities of fiction.Reading LITERARY CRITICISM, UK · LITERATURE · VICTORIAN STUDIES Forget Me Not The Rise of the British Literary Annual, 1823–1835 By Katherine D. Harris Katherine D. Harris assesses the phenomenal rise of the literary annual and its origins in English, German, and French literary forms as well as its social influence on women, its redefinition of the feminine, and its effects on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century print culture. LITERARY CRITICISM, UK · BOOK AND PERIODICAL STUDIES · GENDER STUDIES · VICTORIAN STUDIES Functions of Victorian Culture at the Present Time Edited by Christine L. Krueger We are a century removed from Queen Victoria’s death, yet the culture that bears her name is alive and well across the globe. Not only is Victorian culture the subject of lively critical debate, but it draws widespread interest from popular audiences and consumers.Functions of Victorian Culture at the Present Time addresses the theme of the Victorians’ continuing legacy and its effect on our own culture and perception of the world. LITERATURE · VICTORIAN STUDIES · BRITISH LITERATURE · LITERARY CRITICISM Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing The Illustrated Gift Book and Victorian Visual Culture, 1855-1875 By Lorraine Janzen Kooistra In Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing eminent Rossetti scholar LorraineJanzen Kooistra demonstrates the cultural centrality of a neglected artifact: the Victorian illustrated gift book. Turning a critical lens on “drawing-room books” as both material objects and historical events, Kooistra reveals how the gift book’s visual/verbal form mediated “high” and popular art as well as book and periodical publication.A LITERARY CRITICISM, UK · VICTORIAN STUDIES · BOOK AND PERIODICAL STUDIES A Room of His Own A Literary-Cultural Study of Victorian Clubland By Barbara Black In nineteenth-century London, a clubbable man was a fortunate man, indeed. The Reform, the Athenaeum, the Travellers, the Carlton, the United Service are just a few of the gentlemen’s clubs that formed the exclusive preserve known as “clubland” in Victorian London—the City of Clubs that arose during the Golden Age of Clubs. Why were these associations for men only such a powerful emergent institution in nineteenth-century London? LITERARY CRITICISM, UK · BRITISH HISTORY · GENDER STUDIES · VICTORIAN STUDIES First Previous 1 2 3 4 5 Last BROWSE… New Titles Series Subjects Catalogs HOW TO… Contact Us Order a Book Request an Exam or Desk Copy Request Permission to Reprint Submit a Manuscript About the Press Support the Press Poetry Prize Privacy Policy Shopping Cart Follow us on Twitter Find us on Facebook Ohio University Press · Swallow Press Alden Library, Suite 101 30 Park Place Athens, OH 45701-2909 +1 740 593 1154