Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England: Jewish Identity and Christian Culture

General editor
Gillian Beer, University of Cambridge

Editorial board
Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck College, London
Leonore Davidoff, University of Essex
Terry Eagleton, University of Manchester
Catherine Gallagher, University of California, Berkeley
D. A. Miller, Columbia University
J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine
Mary Poovey, New York University
Elaine Showalter, Princeton University

Nineteenth-century British literature and culture have been rich fields for inter disciplinary studies. Since the turn of the twentieth century, scholars and critics have tracked the intersections and tensions between Victorian literature and the visual arts, politics, social organization, economic life, technical innovations, scientific thought – in short, culture in its broadest sense. In recent years, theoretical challenges and historiographical shifts have unsettled the assumptions of previous scholarly syntheses and called into questions the terms of the older debates. Whereas the tendency in much past literary critical interpretation was to use the metaphor of culture as “background, ” feminist, Foucauldian, and other analyses have employed more dynamic models that raise questions of power and of circulation. Such developments have reanimated the field.

The series aims to accommodate and promote the most interesting work being undertaken on the frontiers of the field of nineteenth-century literary studies: work which intersects fruitfully with other fields of study such as history, or literary theory or the history of science. Comparative as well as interdisciplinary approaches are welcomed.

A complete list of titles published will be found at the end of the book.