Richard Salmon provides an original account of the formation of the literary profession
during the late Romantic and early Victorian periods. Focusing on the representation of …

Reconstructing the literary and philosophical reaction to Adam Smith's dictum that man is a
labouring animal above and before all else, this study explores the many ways in which …

This book examines representations of working-class masculine subjectivity in Victorian
autobiography and fiction. In it, Ying focuses on ideas of domesticity and the male body and …

This chapter examines the formation of the working-class intellectual as a distinctive modern
cultural figure within the work of two influential middle-class writers of the mid-nineteenth …

Unsurprisingly his intimate knowledge of, and love for, the southwest emerged in his poems
and novels: while Yeast is set in Cornwall, Devon provided the locale for his celebrated …

How did Victorian readers choose what to read, and why should this matter? Studies of
Victorian reading practices have explored which texts Victorian readers chose to read and …

In the Wordsworthian tradition the adult has to go back to his childhood to find the sources
for spiritual growth and rebirth, but in his novel Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. An …

Now considered a quintessentially Victorian doctrine, the practice of 'self-help'—or 'self-
culture'as it was often termed—was propagated in countless biographies, conduct books …

In a sermon on 'Self-Help', first published in 1867, Charles Kingsley offered a
characteristically ambivalent endorsement of his subject:'self-help, self-government …

Creatures Like The Bee: The Social Insect in the Social Problem Novel Christopher George
Harrington BA (Hons) Thesis to be submi Page 1 Creatures Like The Bee: The Social Insect …