To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature

To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature

This powerful book argues that white culture in America does not exist apart from black culture. The revolution of the rights of man that established this country collided long ago […]


Sexualities in Victorian Britain

Sexualities in Victorian Britain

An introduction to Victorian sexualities and a survey of current critical methods, these essays will energize reflection on the complexity of human sexuality and on the many different arrays of […]


Novels behind Glass: Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative

Novels behind Glass: Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative

Drawing on recent work in critical theory, feminism, and social history, this book explains the relationship between the novel and the emergent commodity culture of Victorian England, using the image […]


At the Limits of Romanticism: Essays in Cultural, Feminist, and Materialist Criticism

At the Limits of Romanticism: Essays in Cultural, Feminist, and Materialist Criticism

The essays in this collection question romanticism’s suppression of the feminine, the material, and the collective, and its opposition to readings centering on these concerns.


Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters

Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters

The literary importance of letters did not end with the demise of the eighteenth-century epistolary novel. In the turbulent period between 1789 and 1830, the letter was used as a […]


Faulkner: The House Divided

Faulkner: The House Divided

A determined study of the political evidence, of contemporary literature and of sociological documents.