Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series

The Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series incorporates a broad range of titles within the fields of literature and culture, comprising an excellent collection of interdisciplinary academic texts. The series aims to promote the most challenging and original work being undertaken in the field and encourages an approach that fosters connections between areas including history, science, religion and literary theory. Our titles have earned an excellent reputation for the originality and rigour of their scholarship and our commitment to high-quality production.
 

Series Editor
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst – University of Oxford, UK
 

Editorial Board
Dinah Birch – University of Liverpool, UK
Kirstie Blair – University of Stirling, UK
Archie Burnett – Boston University, USA
Christopher Decker – University of Nevada, USA
Heather Glen – University of Cambridge, UK
Linda K. Hughes – Texas Christian University, USA
Simon J. James – Durham University, UK
Angela Leighton – University of Cambridge, UK
Jo McDonagh – King’s College London, UK
Seamus Perry – University of Oxford, UK
Clare Pettitt – King’s College London, UK
Adrian Poole – University of Cambridge, UK
Jan-Melissa Schramm – University of Cambridge, UK
 

Proposals
We welcome submissions of proposals for challenging and original works from emerging and established scholars that meet the criteria of our series. We make prompt editorial decisions. Our titles are published in print and e-book editions and are subject to peer review by recognized authorities in the field. Should you wish to send in a proposal for a monograph (mid-length and full-length), edited collection or course book, please contact us at: [email protected].

Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation

Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation

Bharat Tandon

An ingeniously innovative analysis of Jane Austen's work, a highly respected and engaging critical study.

Paperback

9781843311027

March 2003

£ 18.95 / $ 29.95

Unsettled Accounts

Unsettled Accounts

Money and Narrative in the Novels of George Gissing

Simon J. James

Gissing's work reveals an unhappy accommodation with money's underwriting of human existence and culture, and how daily life in all its forms – moral, intellectual, familial and erotic – is transcended or made irrelevant by its commodification.

Paperback

9781843311089

December 2003

£ 15.99 / $ 26.95

Outsiders Looking In

Outsiders Looking In

The Rossettis Then and Now

Edited by David Clifford and Laurence Roussillon

A fascinating and comprehensive review of the position of the Rossettis within the social and cultural maelstrom of Victorian London.

Paperback

9781843311065

January 2004

£ 16.95 / $ 27.50

Victorian Sensation

Victorian Sensation

Or the Spectacular, the Shocking and the Scandalous in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Michael Diamond

A captivating look at the origins of our own tabloid culture in the salacious and titillating media of the Victorian era.

Paperback

9781843311508

October 2004

£ 9.99 / $ 18.95

John Keble in Context

John Keble in Context

Edited by Kirstie Blair

A unique and timely volume, offering the first major reassessment of Keble's work for several decades.

Paperback

9781843311478

November 2004

£ 14.99 / $ 27.50

Elegy for an Age

Elegy for an Age

The Presence of the Past in Victorian Literature

John D. Rosenberg

A magisterial study of the Victorian longing for the past in the face of a turbulent present.

Paperback

9781843311546

February 2005

£ 14.99 / $ 26.95

Unmapped Countries

Unmapped Countries

Biological Visions in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture

Edited by Anne-Julia Zwierlein

An enlightening, multi-disciplinary investigation into the fascinating and courageous scientific explorations of the nineteenth century.

Paperback

9781843311607

March 2005

£ 14.99 / $ 19.49

Colonial Childhoods

Colonial Childhoods

The Juvenile Periphery of India 1850-1945

Satadru Sen

An exploration of the shaping of childhood in the colonial period.

Paperback

9781843311782

August 2005

£ 19.99 / $ 29.95

Repositioning Victorian Sciences

Repositioning Victorian Sciences

Shifting Centres in Nineteenth-Century Thinking

Edited by David Clifford, Elisabeth Wadge, Alex Warwick and Martin Willis

An intriguing look at the marginal sciences of the nineteenth century and their influence on the culture of the period.

Hardback

9781843312123

May 2006

£ 70.00 / $ 115.00

Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century

Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century

Filling the Blank Spaces

Edited by Tim Youngs

An insightful and illuminating collection of essays on the political and cultural dynamics of travel literature in the nineteenth century.

Hardback

9781843312185

September 2006

£ 70.00 / $ 115.00

Victorian Fiction and the Insights of Sympathy

Victorian Fiction and the Insights of Sympathy

An Alternative to the Hermeneutics of Suspicion

Brigid Lowe

This ground-breaking study of sympathetic readings in Victorian fiction breathes new life into contemporary literary criticism.

Hardback

9781843312338

March 2007

£ 70.00 / $ 115.00

Spies in the Empire

Spies in the Empire

Victorian Military Intelligence

Stephen Wade

Stephen Wade’s enthralling book reveals the unsteady foundations of one of the country’s most prominent and renowned organizations, tracing the various elements that gradually composed the intelligence and political branches of Britain’s Secret Service.

Paperback

9781843312628

July 2007

£ 9.99 / $ 18.99

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