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

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

In a remarkable literary career, Andrew Lang challenged the increasing specialism that accompanied the advance of modernity and science in the last quarter of t

This book addresses the evident but unexplored intertwining of visibility and invisibility in the discourses around syphilis. A rethinking of the disease with r