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].

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A late-1820s unpublished fashionable novel describing the romantic adventures of teenage Alixe St Clair during her first two seasons in London Regency society.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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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