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Forthcoming and Recent Publications in Victorian Studies
The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science
John MacNeill Miller
Unraveling the surprising history of the concept of ecology
Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of Water
Ursula Kluwick
Victorians’ view of water and its role in how the social fabric of Victorian Britain was imagined
The Turn of Rhythm: How Victorian Poetry Shaped a New Concept
Ewan Jones
The creation of the concept of rhythm and its emergence in Victorian literature
Narrative and Its Nonevents: The Unwritten Plots That Shaped Victorian Realism
Carra Glatt
An examination of the plots of such classics as Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Henry James’s The Ambassadors, and others, that argues for the central role of “unwritten plots” in Victorian narrative construction
Victorian Metafiction
Tabitha Sparks
An innovative work that identifies a sustained pattern of metafiction in the Victorian novel that illuminates the art and intentions of its female practitioners
Strangers in the Archive: Literary Evidence and London’s East End
Heidi Kaufman
Applying the resources of archives both material and digital to move beyond icon and stereotype to reveal a deeper understanding of East End literature and culture in the Victorian age
Victorians on Broadway: Literature, Adaptation, and the Modern American Musical
Sharon Aronofsky Weltman
A wide-ranging interdisciplinary study of live stage musicals from the mid- to late twentieth century adapted from British literature written between 1837 and 1886
Empire of Diamonds: Victorian Gems in Imperial Settings
Adrienne Munich
The meaning of diamonds as a figure for empire in nineteenth-century British writing
Dandyism: Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present
Len Gutkin
A fascinating study tracing manifestations of dandyism in Victorian works of the modernist avant-garde, the noir novel, Beatnik experimentalism, and the postmodern thriller
The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century
Patrick R. O’Malley
A new account of the comparative racialization of Blackness and Irishness in the mid-nineteenth century
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