A “Rightly Constructed Boys Life”
in ‘Littery Man’
October 1996; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 19634 words.
The author suggests three major cultural transformations which best describe the writing of Mark Twain: capital, culture, and education. The second one is tackled in detail in this chapter. This is...
‘A beauty treatment that leaves us glowing’? Female masturbation and its consequences
in The Secret Vice
August 2008; published online July 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 10979 words.
This chapter begins to take a broader look at the way the symptoms of masturbation can be seen to map over those of other conditions. The chapter commences with a detailed consideration of Victorian...
À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott (1811–56)
in Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens
January 2000; published online January 2011.
Reference Entry. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 233 words.
His ‘burlesque ballad opera’ The Revolt of the Workhouse (1834) influenced Oliver Twist (to William Mitchell, 16
‘A Being More Intense’: Byron
in Romanticism and the Self-Conscious Poem
July 1997; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 9571 words.
This chapter discusses performative intensity in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. Of the former poem it is argued that the text frequently persuades us we are in touch with the self that...
‘A Body Without a Head’: Culture Shock in Dickens's American Notes (1842)
in Dickens and Mass Culture
November 2010; published online January 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 12496 words.
This chapter differs from existing readings by explaining Dickens's change of heart about America in terms that go beyond the autobiographical, and in a way that sees his various quarrels with...
‘A deeper nature’: Malthus, Poetry, and Political Economy
in Romanticism, Economics and the Question of ‘Culture’
March 2005; published online January 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 20115 words.
The year 1798 has traditionally enjoyed a certain prominence in the canons of both English literature and economic thought. In each case, however, the justification for such distinction can no longer...
A. G. Rochelle
Overview page. Subjects: literary studies (19th century).
A fair-haired girl whose parents are dead, in the Gondal saga. When she is imprisoned, she is looked after by her former playfellow Julian M. who grows to love and ...
‘A Light Bequeathed’
in Wordsworth and Coleridge
April 1990; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 20492 words.
This chapter reconsiders William Wordsworth's and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's connections with the democratic reform movement, and to John Thelwall and William Godwin in particular. As with ‘Citizen...
‘A Nest of Almost Infant Blackmailers’: The End of Innocence in ‘The Turn of the Screw’ and De Profundis
in Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture
June 2007; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 16704 words.
In the early 1880s, Henry James made the transatlantic aesthete his own despite the figure's increasing association with Oscar Wilde. Though James privately dissociated himself from Wilde's artistic,...
‘A scant but quite ponderable germ‘
in The Awkward Age in Women's Popular Fiction, 1850-1900
July 2004; published online January 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (19th century). 4838 words.
This chapter demonstrates that James's The Awkward Age may be placed within a much longer tradition of writing about adolescence and girlhood, a tradition that also comprises an intriguing prehistory...