The cultural and narrative significance of illness, nursing and the sickroom in Victorian literature.

A rich selection from diaries, letters, advice books, magazines, and paintings creates a rooms-by-room portrait of Victorian life--from childbirth in the master

This first modern study of silver-fork novels investigates their role in the alliance of middle class and aristocratic political principles.

In this broad-ranging study of German fiction by women between 1770-1914, the author aims to add a new dimension to existing debates on the association of women