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].

A Critical Edition of Caroline Norton's Love in "The World"

A Critical Edition of Caroline Norton's Love in "The World"

Edited by Ross Nelson and Marie Mulvey-Roberts

A late-1820s unpublished fashionable novel describing the romantic adventures of teenage Alixe St Clair during her first two seasons in London Regency society.

Hardback

9781839987281

October 2023

£ 80.00 / $ 110.00

American Literary Naturalism

American Literary Naturalism

Late Essays

Donald Pizer

The book collects Pizer’s late career essays on various writers and subjects related to American naturalism.

Hardback

9781785275463

October 2020

£ 80.00 / $ 125.00

An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Science Writing

An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Science Writing

Edited by C. R. Resetarits

This anthology is the first collection of primary science articles written by scientists working in America during the nineteenth century.

Paperback

9781783080625

November 2013

£ 25.00 / $ 40.00

Anthology of New Woman Poetry

Anthology of New Woman Poetry

Controversies and Insights

Edited by Patricia Murphy

Women poets of the late Victorian period created much fascinating verse from the standpoint of the independent and advanced New Woman, a profoundly important figure. This anthology features a broad range of crucial subjects addressed by these poets, including marriage, motherhood, female desire, and social problems.

Hardback

9781839994098

July 2025

£ 80.00 / $ 110.00

Anton Chekhov Through the Eyes of Russian Thinkers

Anton Chekhov Through the Eyes of Russian Thinkers

Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov

Edited by Olga Tabachnikova

This volume offers modern perspectives, from a strong international team of scholars, on the perception of Anton Chekhov's works by three leading cultural figures of the Silver Age of Russian culture - Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov.

Paperback

9780857285744

October 2012

£ 25.00 / $ 40.00

Bakhtin and his Others

Bakhtin and his Others

(Inter)subjectivity, Chronotope, Dialogism

Edited by Liisa Steinby and Tintti Klapuri

‘Bakhtin and his Others’ offers fresh theoretical insights into Bakhtin’s ideas on (inter)subjectivity and temporality, research into his theoretical backgrounds, and case studies where these insights are employed in literary analysis.  

Paperback

9781783083312

November 2014

£ 25.00 / $ 40.00

Before Einstein

Before Einstein

The Fourth Dimension in Fin-de-Siècle Literature and Culture

Elizabeth L. Throesch

Before Albert Einstein proposed the concept of four-dimensional spacetime, late Victorian scientists, radical philosophers and writers were discussing the possibility of a different kind of fourth dimension. ‘Before Einstein’ offers the first book-length examination of the impact of pre-Relativity four-dimensional theory on literature and culture at the turn of the twentieth century.

Paperback

9781785271786

September 2019

£ 25.00 / $ 40.00

Bestsellers in Nineteenth-Century America

Bestsellers in Nineteenth-Century America

An Anthology

Edited by Paul C. Gutjahr

Bestsellers in Nineteenth Century America seeks to produce for students novels, poems and other printed material that sold extremely well when they first appeared in the United States.

Paperback

9781785271915

September 2019

£ 45.00 / $ 75.00

Captain Philip Beaver's African Journal

Captain Philip Beaver's African Journal

Edited by Carol Bolton and Christopher Brown

Captain Philip Beaver’s journal, originally published in 1805, recounts his attempt to establish a colony in West Africa with British settlers to demonstrate that cooperation between Africans and Europeans could supply the tropical produce provided by West Indian plantations, so proving the unhumanitarian transatlantic slave trade to be unnecessary.

Hardback

9781839983405

September 2023

£ 120.00 / $ 165.00

Changing France

Changing France

Literature and Material Culture in the Second Empire

Anne Green

Focusing on cultural areas such as exhibitions, transport, food, dress and photography, ‘Changing France’ shows how apparently trivial aspects of modern life provided Second Empire writers with a versatile means of thinking about deeper issues.

Paperback

9781783080700

December 2013

£ 25.00 / $ 40.00

Christian Fiction and Religious Realism in the Novels of Dostoevsky

Christian Fiction and Religious Realism in the Novels of Dostoevsky

Wil van den Bercken

This study offers a literary analysis and theological evaluation of the Christian themes in the five great novels of Dostoevsky - 'Crime and Punishment', 'The Idiot', 'The Adolescent', 'The Devils' and 'The Brothers Karamazov'.

Hardback

9780857289766

January 2011

£ 70.00 / $ 115.00

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

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