Provocative account exploring how a population explosion transformed nineteenth-century European and American culture, creating shared narratives of urban life.

This book considers the fiction of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–73) in their original material and cultural contexts of the early-to-mid Victorian period in

This study explores the role of fiction in the social production of the West Central district of London in the nineteenth century. It tells a new history of the

This collection of authoritative essays represents the latest scholarship on topics relating to the themes, movements, and forms of English fiction, while chron

Demographically, nineteenth-century London, or what Victorians called the “new Rome,” first equaled, then superseded its ancient ancestor. By the mid-eighte