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Utilizing recent developments in book history and digital humanities, this book offers a cultural, economic, and literary history of the Victorian three-volume novel, the prestige format for the British novel during much of the nineteenth century. With the publication of Walter Scott’s popular novels in the 1820s, the three-volume novel became the standard format for new fiction aimed at middle-class audiences through the support of circulating libraries. Following a quantitative analysis examining who wrote and published these novels, the book investigates the success of publisher Richard Bentley in producing three-volume novels, the experiences of the W. H. Smith circulating library in distributing them, the difficulties of authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson and George Moore in writing them, and the resistance of new publishers such as Arrowsmith and Unwin to publishing them. Rather than faltering, the three-volume novel stubbornly endured until its abandonment in the 1890s. Troy J. Bassett is Professor of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on Victorian book history and literature and is the creator of the digital humanities project At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901.

Book history --- Literature --- History of Eastern Europe --- literatuur --- Europese geschiedenis --- boeken --- anno 1800-1899 --- Books --- Literature, Modern --- History of the Book. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- History. --- Great Britain

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This book explores the dark, unruly, and self-destructive side of gift-giving as represented in nineteenth-century literary works by American authors. It asserts the centrality and relevance of gift exchange for modern American literary and intellectual history and reveals the ambiguity of the gift in various social and cultural contexts, including those of race, sex, gender, religion, consumption, and literature. Focusing on authors as diverse as Emerson, Kirkland, Child, Sedgwick, Hawthorne, Poe, Douglass, Stowe, Holmes, Henry James, Twain, Howells, Wilkins Freeman, and O. Henry as well as lesser-known, obscure, and anonymous authors, Dangerous Giving explores ambivalent relations between dangerous gifts, modern ideology of disinterested giving, and sentimental tradition.

American literature --- Literature --- literatuur --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- America --- Literature, Modern --- Anthropology and the arts. --- North American Literature. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Anthropology of the Arts. --- Literatures. --- 19th century.

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The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature explores transnational perspectives of modern city life in Europe by engaging with the fantastic tropes and metaphors used by writers of short fiction. Focusing on the literary city and literary representations of urban experience throughout the nineteenth century, the works discussed incorporate supernatural occurrences in a European city and the supernatural of these stories stems from and belongs to the city. The argument is structured around three primary themes. “Architectures”, “Encounters” and “Rhythms” make reference to three axes of city life: material space, human encounters, and movement. This thematic approach highlights cultural continuities and thus supports the use of the label of “urban fantastic” within and across the European traditions studied here. Patricia García is Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the Universidad de Alcalá, Spain. Her research focuses on narrative spaces and their intersection with urban studies, feminisms and with representations of the supernatural. She coordinates the network Fringe Urban Narratives: Peripheries, Identities, Intersections, has directed the project Gender and the Hispanic Fantastic (funded by the British Academy) and has been a fellow of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2018-2019) with a EURIAS fellowship. She is a member of Executive Committee of the European Society of Comparative Literature, of the Spanish Research Group on the Fantastic (Grupo de Estudios de lo Fantástico) and of the editorial board of BRUMAL: Research Journal on the Fantastic. Her most notable publications include the monograph Space and the Postmodern Fantastic in Contemporary Literature: the Architectural Void (2015). .

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sociology --- Architecture --- Literature --- Regional documentation --- Geography --- History --- sociologie --- geschiedenis --- literatuur --- steden --- architectuur --- gender --- landenkunde --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- Europe --- Literature, Modern --- European literature. --- Architecture. --- Cities and towns --- Sex. --- Sociology, Urban. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- European Literature. --- Cities, Countries, Regions. --- Urban History. --- Gender Studies. --- Urban Sociology. --- 19th century. --- History.

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The introduction of omnibus services in the late 1820s revolutionised urban life in Paris, London and many other cities. As the first form of mass transportation—in principle, they were ‘for everyone’—they offered large swaths of the population new ways of seeing both the urban space and one another. This study examines how the omnibus gave rise to a vast body of cultural representations that probed the unique social experience of urban transit. These representations took many forms—from stories, plays and poems to songs, caricatures and paintings—and include works by many well-known artists and authors such as Picasso and Pissarro and Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Guy de Maupassant. Analysing this corpus, the book explores how the omnibus and horse-drawn tram functioned in the cultural imagination of the nineteenth century and looks at the types of stories and values that were projected upon them. The study is comparative in approach and considers issues of gender, class and politics, as well as genre and narrative technique. Elizabeth Amann is Professor in the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University. She is the author of two books, Importing Madame Bovary: The Politics of Adultery (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and Dandyism in the Age of Revolution: The Art of the Cut (2015), and the co-editor of three edited volumes, the most recent of which is Reverberations of Revolution: Transnational Perspectives, 1770-1850 (2021). She has written numerous articles on nineteenth-century literature and culture.

Sociology of culture --- Literature --- Regional documentation --- History of civilization --- History --- populaire cultuur --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- geschiedenis --- literatuur --- steden --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- Civilization—History. --- Cities and towns—History. --- Popular Culture. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Cultural History. --- Urban History. --- Communication And Traffic --- Transportation

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The adultery novel, which became a pan-European literary paradigm in the second half of the 19th century, has a fascinating back story. In the wake of the French Revolution, there emerged a slew of secular marriage legislation which produced a metaphorical surplus that is still effective today. Through legal history and canonical literary texts from Rousseau to Goethe and Manzoni to Hugo and Flaubert, “Marriage as a National Fiction” traces how marriage became a figure of reflection for the modern nation-state around 1800. At the same time, law and literature are made fruitful for historical semantics of society and community. This book is a translation of an original German 1st edition “Ehe als Nationalfiktion” by Dagmar Stöferle, published by J.B. Metzler, imprint of Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the serviceDeepL.com). The author (with the support of Chris Owain Carter) has subsequently revised the text further in an endeavour to refine the work stylistically. .

Human sciences --- Private law --- Mass communications --- Information systems --- Fiction --- Comparative literature --- Literature --- sociale media --- communicatie --- literatuur --- burgerlijk recht --- gerechtelijk recht --- fantasie (verbeelding) --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- Fiction. --- Comparative literature. --- Literature and technology. --- Mass media and literature. --- Digital humanities. --- Civil procedure. --- Literature, Modern --- Fiction Literature. --- Comparative Literature. --- Literature and Technology. --- Digital Humanities. --- Civil Procedure Law. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- 19th century.