A NEW COMPANION TO VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE The Victorian period was a time of rapid cultural change, which resulted in a huge and varied literary outpu

An introduction to Victorian literature and its context from 1837-1900 includes historical, cultural, political, and intellectual background.

Addressing the Victorian obsession with the sordid materiality of modern life, this book studies dirt in nineteenth-century English literature and the Victorian

This book provides a comprehensive reflection of the processes of canonization, (un)pleasurable consumption and the emerging predominance of topics and theoreti

This literary and cultural study explores the practice in nineteenth-century Britain of treasuring objects that had belonged to the dead.