Argues that the photographic negative gives a new way of understanding Victorian debates surrounding origins and copies as well as reality and representation.

Investigates how depictions of young people in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America use artifice to destabilize pre-existing narratives of truth, news, and fact.

Offers a feminist theory of ignorance that sheds light on the misunderstood or overlooked epistemic practices of women in literature.

Draws from the work of Jacques Lacan to provide innovative readings of Romantic literature in the long nineteenth century.

Pairs literary works with philosophical and theoretical texts to examine how the Kantian sublime influenced authors in their treatments of freedom and subjectivity through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Examines the impact of Persian poetry in the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

An interdisciplinary examination of French fashion, modernity, and materiality from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries.

An original critical introduction to women characters in the novels of Jane Austen.

Provides a rhetorical analysis of female spirit medium's autobiographies in the historical and social contexts of Victorian era America.

Uses literature, art, and cultural texts from the British Romantic period to explore the age in which biological life and its abilities first became regulated by the rising nation.

Investigates the ways in which new technologies and theories of photography, phonography, moving images, and digital media engage with a diverse set of texts by British Romantic writers.

Presents a new genealogy and synoptic overview of modern Irish fiction.

Explores Victorian responses to death and burial in literature, journalism, and legal writing.

Uncovers the origins of midlife anxiety in Victorian print culture.

Examines the body in literature and science in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe.

How cholera epidemics affected Victorian perceptions of the body and the nation.

The fate of the hero-gambler, as described by Dostoevsky, Balzac, Poe, and others, is the focus of this unprecedented exploration of gambling and the human psyche.