Victorian Literature and Culture Series from Virginia

Victorian Literature and Culture Series

Karen Chase, Jerome McGann, and Herbert Tucker, editors

New and Recent Titles

Royalties: The Queen and Victorian Writers
by Gail Turley Houston
By exploring a wide range of representations of the queen by significant Victorian writers, Houston points out the complexity of Victorian constructions of gender, representation, authority, and identity. "Houston's book very neatly demonstrates how the profession of writing got feminized alongside the monarchy during the nineteenth century. From Dickens with his defensive masculine posturing to Oliphant with her constructive use of the identity she shared with Victoria, writers of all kinds represented what they did in relation to the central figure of their queen," writes Margaret Homans of Yale University.

Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskell's Work
by Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund
For much of her own century, Elizabeth Gaskell was recognized as a voice of Victorian convention—the loyal wife, good mother, and respected writer—a reputation that led to her steady decline in the view of twentieth-century literary critics. Recent scholars, however, have begun to recognize that Mrs. Gaskell's high standing in Victorian society allowed her to effect change in conventional ideology. Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund focus this reevaluation on issues pertaining to the Victorian literary marketplace.

Traditions of Victorian Women's Autobiography
The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing
by Linda H. Peterson
"Situating her study in relation to earlier attempts to discover—or invent—a tradition of women's autobiography, Peterson challenges some of the prevailing orthodoxies by her extensive research into texts that have, until now, been largely absent from such discussions. Lucidly written, elegantly argued, and impeccably structured, Traditions of Victorian Women's Autobiography will make a major contribution to nineteenth-century women's literary history."

—Mary Jean Corbett, Miami University

The Letters of Christina Rossetti
Edited by Antony H. Harrison
When complete in four volumes, the Virginia edition of The Letters of Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) will make available all the extant letters, almost two-thirds of which have never been published.

http://www.upress.virginia.edu/books/victorian.html
Revised 3/23/04

		Victorian Literature and Culture Series
		Karen Chase, Jerome McGann, and Herbert Tucker, editors
		New and Recent Titles
		Royalties: The Queen and Victorian Writers by Gail Turley Houston By exploring a wide range of representations of the queen by significant Victorian writers, Houston points out the complexity of Victorian constructions of gender, representation, authority, and identity. "Houston's book very neatly demonstrates how the profession of writing got feminized alongside the monarchy during the nineteenth century. From Dickens with his defensive masculine posturing to Oliphant with her constructive use of the identity she shared with Victoria, writers of all kinds represented what they did in relation to the central figure of their queen," writes Margaret Homans of Yale University.
		Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskell's Work by Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund For much of her own century, Elizabeth Gaskell was recognized as a voice of Victorian convention—the loyal wife, good mother, and respected writer—a reputation that led to her steady decline in the view of twentieth-century literary critics. Recent scholars, however, have begun to recognize that Mrs. Gaskell's high standing in Victorian society allowed her to effect change in conventional ideology. Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund focus this reevaluation on issues pertaining to the Victorian literary marketplace.
		Traditions of Victorian Women's Autobiography The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing by Linda H. Peterson "Situating her study in relation to earlier attempts to discover—or invent—a tradition of women's autobiography, Peterson challenges some of the prevailing orthodoxies by her extensive research into texts that have, until now, been largely absent from such discussions. Lucidly written, elegantly argued, and impeccably structured, Traditions of Victorian Women's Autobiography will make a major contribution to nineteenth-century women's literary history." —Mary Jean Corbett, Miami University
		The Letters of Christina Rossetti Edited by Antony H. Harrison When complete in four volumes, the Virginia edition of The Letters of Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) will make available all the extant letters, almost two-thirds of which have never been published.


		http://www.upress.virginia.edu/books/victorian.html Revised 3/23/04