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Conditions for criticism: authority, knowledge, and literature in the late nineteenth century
eBook. English.
Published
Oxford: Clarendon, 1991
This study examines changes in the practice of literary criticism in the 19th century and locates those changes within wider movements in British intellectual...
The physiology of the novel: reading, neural science, and the form of Victorian fiction
eBook. English.
Published
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007
How did the Victorians read novels? The author answers that deceptively simple question by revealing a now-forgotten range of 19th century theories of...
The beauty of inflections: literary investigations in historical method and theory
eBook. English.
Published
Oxford: Clarendon, 1985
A collection of essays written between 1977 and 1983 which explores the fault-lines that mark the various kinds of ahistorical literary studies from the...
Literary ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism: the haunting interval
Hardback. English.
Published
New York; London: Routledge, 2012
This text resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint neo...
Rewriting the Victorians: theory, history, and the politics of gender
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Routledge, 2014
This collection of essays, both feminist and historical, analyses power relations between men and women in the Victorian period. This volume reshapes...
Victorian poetry: poetry, poetics and politics
eBook. English.
Published
New York; London: Routledge, 1993
In a work that is uniquely comprehensive and theoretically astute, Isobel Armstrong rescues Victorian poetry from its longstanding sepia image as `a moralised...
Dialogue and literature: apostrophe, auditors, and the collapse of romantic discourse
eBook. English.
Published
New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994
Extending and modifying the works of Bakhtin, Gadamer, Ong and Foucault, this treatise constructs a theoretical model of dialogic romanticism and applies...
Revolution and the form of the British novel, 1790-1825: intercepted letters, interrupted seductions
eBook. English.
Published
Oxford: Clarendon, 1994
This study argues that the epistolary novel, the principal form of narrative in the 18th century, was eventually suppressed in favour of more authoritarian...
Reviewing sex: gender and the reception of Victorian novels
Paperback. English.
Published
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996
Reviewing Sex: Gender and the Reception of Victorian Novels looks at the influence of Victorian definitions of gender on the cultural processes of reading...
Curtained room: hallucination & late-Victorian writing
Hardback. English.
Published
Brighton: Sussex Academic, 2008
Focusing on a series of neologisms from writing of the period, such as 'handconscience', 'figmentary' & 'aftersense', & moving between a number of disciplines...
