Kirstie Blair explores Victorian poetry in relation to Victorian religion, with particular
emphasis on the bitter contemporary debates over the use of forms in worship. She argues …

Recent debates about secularization are transforming Victorian literary studies. Earlier
consensus about how to understand the relationship between religion, modernity, and …

Examining the place of nature in Victorian women's poetry, Fabienne Moine explores the
work of canonical and long-neglected women poets to show the myriad connections …

This study explores lyric poetry's response to a crisis of relevance in Victorian Modernity,
offering an analysis of literature usually elided by studies of the modern formation of the …

Emily Harrington offers a new history of women's poetry at the turn of the century that breaks
from conventional ideas of nineteenth-century lyric, which focus on individual subjectivity …

Traces Victorian self-harm through an engagement with literary fictionSelf-Harm in New
Woman Writing offers a trans-disciplinary study of Victorian literature, culture and medicine …

Victorian England: a Jesuit priest writes of wrestling with God at night, limbs entangled; an
Anglican sister begs Jesus, her divine lover, to end her aching anticipation of their union; a …

Despite the undeniable influence of hymns in Victorian culture, hymnody has remained a
neglected field of criticism in Victorian studies, having been largely restricted by the …

What does it mean to feel time, to sense its passing along the sinews and nerves of the body
as much as the synapses of the mind? And how do books, as material arrangements of print …

This book is a study of nineteenth-century poems that remember, yearn for, fixate on, and
forget the past. Reflecting the current critical drive to reconcile formalist and historicist …