Explores the diverse forces that shaped developments in literature in the 1880s, an often overlooked literary decade.

Offering an in-depth overview and reappraisal of the 1860s in British literature, this innovative volume features in-depth analyses from noted scholars at the t

The 1890s were once seen as marginal within the larger field of Victorian studies, which tended to privilege the realist novel and the authors of the mid-centur

This book explores the ordinary turns of phrase by which major nineteenth-century British writers created character.