Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.

Revealing how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel and its representation of social change and individual and collective life in nineteenth-

Centring on Darwin and on literature throughout the nineteenth century, this book documents a general crisis in the species concept.

At the turn of the twentieth century, novelists faced an unprecedented crisis of scale. While exponential increases in industrial production, resource extractio

The first collected study of Pater's significance to criticism, revealing his pivotal role in establishing principles of the literary essay.