Why is liberalism so often dismissed by thinkers from both the left and the right? To those
calling for wholesale transformation or claiming a monopoly on “realistic” conceptions of …

Scholars have criticized the industrial novel for failing to find political solutions to the
problem of working-class suffering. This paper, however, argues that we might find political …

Nineteenth-century social problem fiction anticipated state-centralized collectivism by
modernizing Britain's centuries-old organic ideology. George Eliot's Felix Holt, the Radical …

Generic innovation has the potential to create strong new frameworks for political discourse.
Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South hybridizes two nineteenth-century narrative genres …

Fanny Price, the ostensible protagonist of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1814), is unique in
the tradition of Austenian main characters, in that she begins the novel in a psychological …

To address the era's" condition of women" question, Charlotte Brontë's Shirley employs
Caroline Helstone's storyline through two frameworks: community and anti-community …

This essay surveys Dickens scholarship in the year 2012, summarizing and commenting on
nearly 150 critical articles, books, and worldwide celebrations of the bicentenary of …

In her novel North and South (1854–55), the nineteenth-century British writer Elizabeth
Gaskell suggests an innovative practice of conversational rhetoric involving diverse …

This dissertation examines the shifting set of formal and conceptual relations that have
structured the intertwined development and reception of “the novel” and “poetry” since the …

Victorian literature contains many explorations of not just death as an event, but the
particularity, idiosyncrasy, and meaning behind material acts of mourning. However, the …