Charting the failure of the Romantic critique of political economy, Richard Adelman explores the changing significances and the developing concepts of idleness

Explores the failure of Romantic critiques of political economy, and the diminishing importance of aesthetic consciousness across the nineteenth century.

The Art of the Reprint is a vivid and engaging history of the nineteenth-century novel as it was re-imagined for everyday readers by four extraordinary twentiet

Daniel Williams shows how, in a profoundly numerical age, Victorian novels imagined thought and action in the face of uncertainty.

Decadent Ecology illuminates the networks of nature, paganism, and desire in 19th- and early 20th-century decadent literature and art. Combining the environment