British realist novelists of the nineteenth century viewed sympathy not as a feeling but as a form of imaginative thinking useful in constructing their fiction.

This text explores the scope and variety of the great novels of the 19th century. The essays in this collection trace the experimentation of 19th-century writer

This book is about food, eating, and appetite in the nineteenth-century British novel. While much novel criticism has focused on the marriage plot, this book re

Revealing how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel and its representation of social change and individual and collective life in nineteenth-

Bringing the collaborative process to life through an array of examples, Heather Witcher shows that sympathetic co-creation is far more than the mere act of wri