Bevis, Matthew. The Art of Eloquence: Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce. Oxford: Oxford UP. 2007 302p.
"Considers how Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, and Joyce responded to this 'Parliamentary people', and examines the ways in which they and their publics conceived the relations between political speech and literary endeavour."

Bodenheimer, Rosemarie. Knowing Dickens. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP. 2007 x+238p.
"In a probing, thoughtful, and consistently illuminating manner, Rosemarie Bodenheimer investigates the relationship between knowing and not knowing, between what often seems to be Dickens's deep and fully conscious understanding of his inner conflicts and his equally persistent blindness or willful obtuseness before those same issues."- John O. Jordan

Buckton, Oliver S. Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: Travel, Narrative, and the Colonial Body. Athens, OH: Ohio UP. 2007 x+344p.
"Buckton follows Stevenson's career from his early travel books to show how Stevenson's major works of fiction, such as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Ebb-Tide, derive from the innovative techniques and materials Stevenson acquired on his global travels."

Cain, Lynn. Dickens, Family, Authorship: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Kinship and Creativity. Aldershot, England: Ashgate. 2008 xvii+183p.
"Lynn Cain's substantial study of the four novels produced during this turbulent decade - Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, and Bleak House - traces the evolution of Dickens' creative imagination to discover in the modulating fictional representation of family relationships a paradigm for his authorial development."

Claybaugh, Amanda. The Novel of Purpose: Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP. 2007 xi+246p.
"This book provides sharp insights into the performative nature of 'the novel of purpose,' showing how reformist intentions, even when they were disavowed or domesticated, helped establish national structures of feeling that were circulated transnationally. Claybaugh examines her subjects with clarity and ease."-Russ Castronovo. Covers Eliot's Felix Holt, Dickens's Bleak House, Hardy's Jude the Obscure, and Anne Brontës' The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

Cornes, Judy. Madness and the Loss of Identity in Nineteenth Century Fiction. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. 2008 vii+216p.
"Authors examined include Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Wilkie Collins, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Chesnutt, Lillie Devereux Blake, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon."

Davies, Laurence, et al. The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, Volume 9: Uncollected Letters, 1892-1923. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 2007 xlviii+383p.
"The last volume in The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad presents over two hundred new letters written between 1892 and 1923. Some are to correspondents who have not previously appeared in the collected letters; others are to family members, friends, and colleagues familiar from earlier volumes. "

Davis, Paul. Critical Companion to Charles Dickens: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work. New York, NY: Facts on File. 2007 xii+676p.
"An update of the volume on Dickens published in 1998. Following a seven-page biography, separate sections deal with "Works A-Z" and "Related People, Places, and Topics."- Booklist.

Dickerson, Vanessa D. Dark Victorians. Urbana, IL: U of Illinois P. 2008 163p.
"In carefully analyzing literature and travel narratives by Ida B. Wells, Harriet Martineau, Charles Dickens, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Carlyle, W. E. B. Du Bois, and others, Vanessa D. Dickerson reveals the profound political, racial, and rhetorical exchanges between the groups."

Ehnenn, Jill R. Women's Literary Collaboration, Queerness, and Late-Victorian Culture. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2008 236p.
"For Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) and 'Kit' Anstruther-Thomson; Somerville and Ross (Edith Somerville and Violet Martin); Elizabeth Robins and Florence Bell; and KatharineBradley and Edith Cooper, the couple who wrote under the pseudonym of 'Michael Field', collaborative life and work functioned strategically, as sites of discursive resistance that critique Victorian culture in ways that would be characterized today as feminist, lesbian, and queer."

Gillies, Mary Ann. The Professional Literary Agent in Britain, 1880-1920. Toronto, ON: U of Toronto P. 2007 xi+247p.
Chapters on George MacDonald and A.P. Watt, Somerville / Ross, Joseph Conrad and J.B. Pinker.

Gossin, Pamela. Thomas Hardy's Novel Universe: Astronomy, Cosmology, and Gender in the Post-Darwinian World. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2007 xvii+300p.
"The first book-length study of astronomy in Hardy's writing . . . offers insightful new assessments of A Pair of Blue Eyes, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, Two on a Tower, The Woodlanders, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure."

Harris, Jason Marc. Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2008 ix+235p.
"Analysis includes a wide range of writers, including James Barrie, William Carleton, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Sheridan Le Fanu, Neil Gunn, George MacDonald, William Sharp, Robert Louis Stevenson, and James Hogg."

Havholm, Peter. Politics and Awe in Rudyard Kipling's Fiction. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2008 x+187p.
"Havholm both traces the sources of Kipling's imperialist ideology and persuasively demonstrates how and why his fiction so often brings genuIne pleasure to readers who violently disagree with that ideology."- James Phelan

Hawthorn, Jeremy. Sexuality and the Erotic in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad. London: Continuum. 2007 viii+178p.
"Based on close readings of Conrad's life, letters, critical studies, and fiction including Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, An Outcast of the Islands, and Nostromo, he brings out heretofore closeted characters whose sexuality intersects with colonial power relations between European men and exotic Others."

Hopkins, Lisa. Bram Stoker: A Literary Life. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007 x+173p.
"Offers sustained critical evaluation both of Dracula and also of Stoker's lesser-known works, which prove to yield much interest when reinserted into their original cultural contexts."

Jones, Anna Maria. Problem Novels: Victorian Fiction Theorizes the Sensational Self. Columbus, OH: Ohio State UP. 2007 viii+163p.
"Problem Novels is an exceptionally fine addition to the ranks of Victorian criticism. Jones offers an intelligent argument and expresses it beautifully throughout the book."-Talia Schaffer. "In chapters on Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, and George Meredith, Jones examines 'problem novels'-that is, novels that both narrate and invite problematic reading as part of their theorizing of cultural production."

Kaplan, Cora. Victoriana: Histories, Fictions, Criticism. New York, NY: Columbia UP. 2007 viii+173p.
"In Victoriana, leading feminist cultural critic Cora Kaplan reflects on our modern obsession with Victorian culture. She considers evocations of the nineteenth century in literature . . . Peter Ackroyd's Dickens and asks [why] Jane Eyre still evokes tears and rage from its readers."

Kingston, Angela. Oscar Wilde as a Character in Victorian Fiction. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007 xiv+304p.
"Its genre of annotated-bibliography-as-narrative stands as engaged criticism, contributing greatly to our knowledge of both the artist as critic and critic as artist. This is not straightforward biography, but rigorous textual analysis that broadens our understanding of Wilde as author and cultural subject."-- Frederick Roden

Kucich, John. Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP. 2007 x+258p.
"Imperial Masochism is at once a powerfully analytic and integrative book, clinically anatomizing the generative psychosocial dynamics of masochism while demonstrating through a wealth of interpretive illustration their pervasive influence on late-Victorian literature. It is sure to provoke welcome controversy among literary critics and scholars of class and empire."--Andrew H. Miller,

Ledger, Sally. Dickens and the Popular Radical Imagination. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 2007 xiii+295p.
"Sally Ledger traces the influence of Regency radicals, such as William Hone and William Cobbett, and mid-century radical writers, such as Douglas Jerrold and the Chartists Ernest Jones and G. W. M. Reynolds. She offers substantial new readings of works from Pickwick to Little Dorrit."

Lellenberg, Jon Stashower, Daniel Lellenberg, Jon. Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters. New York, NY: Penguin. 2007 706p.
"Fascinating collection of previously unpublished letters."- Publishers Weekly.

Mahaffey, Vicki. Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions. Malden, MA: Blackwell. 2007 xxi+242p.
"Covers a wide range of authors up to the outbreak of World War II, among them Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Langston Hughes, Samuel Beckett, HD, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Jean Rhys. Includes coverage of women writers and gay and lesbian writers."

Maier, Sarah E. Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented. Peterborough, ON: Broadview. 2007 480p.
"This is a revised, updated, and expanded Broadview edition that highlights a feminist interpretation of the novel in an extensive introduction. The range of historical appendices (including contemporary articles, letters, maps, news stories, and reviews) will greatly enhance a reader's understanding of the text."

Marcus, Sharon. Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP. 2007 ix+368p.
"Marcus powerfully revises more than a century's worth of theory, arguing persuasively that women are capable of objectifying women, that women possess the gaze, as well as the capacity for domination, and that women's homoerotic desire was fully compatible with heterosexuality and femininity.... Between Women has important things to say, not just to Victorianists, literary critics, feminists, and queer theorists, but to all of us."--Rebecca Steinitz, Women's Review of Books. Includes chapters on Villette, Great Expectations, and Can You Forgive Her?.

Markwick, Margaret. New Men in Trollope's Novels: Rewriting the Victorian Male. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2007 216p.
"Trollope's independent views on child-rearing, education, courtship, marriage, parenthood, and gay men are also discussed within the context of Victorian culture in this witty, original, and immensely knowledgeable study of Victorian masculinity."

McNeil, Kenneth. Scotland, Britain, Empire: Writing the Highlands, 1760-1860. Columbus, OH: Ohio State UP. 2007 viii+228p.
Scottish writing on the Highlands. Includes a chapter on "Highland Soldiers, Martial Races, and the Indian Mutiny."

Najder, Zdzislaw, and Halina Najder. Joseph Conrad: A Life. Rochester, NY: Camden House. 2007 xxiv+745p.
"When I reviewed the first English edition of this book in 1984, I called it "the richest and most persuasive portrait of Conrad we have had or will probably ever have." . . . . Everything that has come to light about Conrad during the past quarter-century is now seamlessly integrated into the revised text."--Frederick Crews

Nash, Julie. Servants and Paternalism in the Works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2007 130p.
"Going beyond the permissible feminine realms of courtship and marriage, she says, they addressed the exploitation of the Irish peasantry, anti-Semitism, the imbalance of power within marriage, and other areas."

Novak, Daniel A. Realism, Photography, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 2008 xv+250p.
"Account of the relationship between photography and literary realism in Victorian Britain draws on detailed readings of photographs, writings about photography, and fiction by Charles Dickens, George Eliot and Oscar Wilde."

Pulham, Patricia. Art and the Transitional Object in Vernon Lee's Supernatural Tales. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2008 188p.
"Combines psychoanalytic theory with socio-historical criticism to examine a selection of fantastic tales by the female aesthete and intellectual Vernon Lee."

Ray, Martin. Thomas Hardy Remembered. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2007 xix+338p.
"Assembles some 150 annotated interviews and recollections of Hardy, most of which are being reprinted for the first time."

Regis, Pamela. A Natural History of the Romance Novel. Philadelphia, PA: U of Pennsylvania P. 2007 xiv+240p.
"A thorough, sensible, and partisan book, arguing for romantic fiction as a genre that celebrates freedom of choice."- Times Literary Supplement. Discussion includes Jane Eyre.

Stoneman, Patsy. Jane Eyre on Stage, 1848-1898: An Illustrated Edition of Eight Plays with Contextual Notes. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2007 xi+440p.

Thain, Marion. 'Michael Field': Poetry, Aestheticism and the Fin de Siècle. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 2007 ix+270p.

Thormählen, Marianne. The Brontës and Education. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 2007 xii+304p.
"Marianne Thorm¨ahlen explores how their representations of fictional teachers and schools engage with the intense debates on education in the nineteenth century, drawing on a wealth of documentary evidence about educational theory and practice in the lifetime of the Brontes."

Wainwright, Valerie. Ethics and the English Novel from Austen to Forster. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2007 vi+216p.
Moral issues and narrative ethics in Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Thomas Hardy.

Walsh, Richard. The Rhetoric of Fictionality: Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction. Columbus, OH: Ohio State UP. 2007 x+194p.
"Valuable as much for its negative critique as for its constructive contribution."-Brian McHale. Chapters on Charlotte Bronte, Anthony Trollope and Charles Dickens.

Watson, Nicola J. The Literary Tourist: Readers and Places in Romantic and Victorian Britain. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007 viii+244p.
The travel literature and the tourism of the nineteenth century.

Wright, Julia M. Ireland, India and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 2007 viii+268p.
"Wright examines fiction by Maria Edgeworth and Lady Morgan, gothic tales by Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde, poetry by Thomas Moore and others, as well as a wide array of non-fiction prose."

Yonge, Charlotte Mary. The Letters of Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901). Mitchell, Charlotte, ed & Schinske, Helen, ed. London: University of London School of Advanced Study. 2007

Youngkin, Molly. Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siècle: The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman's Press on the Development of the Novel. Columbus, OH: Ohio State UP. 2007 viii+216p.
"The method, the premise, the virtually untapped contemporary sources and the approach to explicitly feminist criticism of New Woman novels are all original and will be valuable to students and scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature."-Sally Mitchell. Reviews of the works of important male and female authors of the decade-Thomas Hardy, Sarah Grand, George Gissing, Mona Caird, and George Meredith.

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