Examines the constructions of feminine consumption in the nineteenth century in relation to capitalism and domesticity.

Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism focuses on American romantic writers' attempts to theorize aesthetic experience through the language

The nineteenth-century French novel has long been seen as the heroic production of great men, who confronted in their works the social consequences of the Frenc

This collection of new essay examines how authors of the 20th and 21st centuries continue the use of sentimental forms and tropes of 19th century literature. Cu