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Darwin's Plots
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 28.00This second edition of Professor Dame Gillian Beer's highly acclaimed book incorporates a new preface by the author and a foreword by the distinguished American scholar George Levine. '... a work of criticism that takes its modest place among the other 'cloudy triumphs' of English genius.' Michael Neve, Sunday Times more...
Darwin's Plots
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 25.00A new edition of the classic study, featuring a new essay and an updated bibliography. more...
Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 34.00Scheinberg examines Anglo-Jewish (Grace Aguilar and Amy Levy) and Christian (Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti) women poets, and argues that there are important connections between the discourses of nineteenth-century poetry, gender and religious identity. more...
Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 40.00At the time of the Irish Famine, novels by Dickens and Gaskell, and commentaries on the famine, introduced a new theory of individual expression, which gradually replaced the older ideas of political economy, and became the foundation for modern concepts of capitalism based on the desires of the individual consumer. more...
The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 83.00Chakravarty explores representations of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 in British popular fiction and historiography. He draws on a range of primary sources including diaries, autobiographies and state papers. The book has a broad interdisciplinary base and will appeal to scholars of English literature, modern Indian history and cultural studies. more...
After Dickens
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 40.00John Glavin uncovers a richly ambivalent, often unexpectedly hostile, relationship between Dickens and the theatre and theatricality of his own time. Yet he also explores the performative potential in Dickens's fiction, and describes new ways to stage that fiction in emotionally powerful, critically acute adaptations. more...
Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 34.00Thurschwell examines the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-siècle. Making unexpected connections between, for instance, speaking on the telephone and speaking to the dead, she examines how psychical research is reflected in the work of Henry James, George du Maurier and Oscar Wilde among others. more...
Dickens and the Daughter of the House
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 40.00The daughter in Dickens' fiction is considered not as an emblem of tranquil domesticity and the hearth-fire, but as a bearer of cultural values - and as a potentially disruptive force. The daughter's secret inheritance, her 'portion', is to give Dickens a way of reading and writing his own culture differently. more...
Gender, Race, and the Writing of Empire
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 36.00This book examines the impact of ideas of race and gender on imperialism through various forms of discourse surrounding the Boer War of 1899-1902: from the writings of Arthur Conan Doyle, Olive Schreiner, H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling to newspapers, propaganda, and other forms of debate in print. more...
Victorian Writing about Risk
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 40.00In Victorian Writing about Risk, Elaine Freedgood explores the geography of risk produced by a wide spectrum of once-popular literature. The consolations this geography of risk offers are precariously predicated on dominant Victorian definitions of people and places which have assigned identities which allow risk to be located and contained. more...









