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].

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Satadru Sen
An exploration of the shaping of childhood in the colonial period.
Paperback
9781843311782
August 2005
£ 19.99 / $ 29.95

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

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

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

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