Literary critics often pursue analyses of music or painting and literature as 'sister arts', yet this was the first full-length study of the treatment of social

Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.

This book examines nineteenth-century interests in beauty, and considers whether these aesthetic pursuits were necessary to British public life.

This book explores the ordinary turns of phrase by which major nineteenth-century British writers created character.