What does it mean to focus on the decade as a unit of literary history? Emerging from the shadows of iconic Victorian authors such as Eliot and Tennyson, the 18

Explores the diverse forces that shaped developments in literature in the 1880s, an often overlooked literary decade.

Between 1880 and 1914, England saw the emergence of an unprecedented range of new literary forms, which meant new relationships between books, authors, readers

This volume explores the impact of printing on the European theatre in the period 1480-1880 and shows that the printing press played a major part in the birth o

This book is the first study of how ‘weird fiction’ emerged from Victorian supernatural literature, abandoning the more conventional Gothic horrors of the p