by Speak Digital | Mar 18, 2019 | Articles
Samuel Saunders The mid-eighteenth century was a significant era for the development of crime journalism, and various kinds of writing focused on reporting criminal activity appeared in this period. Common execution pamphlets and prison chaplains’ accounts such as the...
by Speak Digital | Mar 18, 2019 | Articles
Janine Hatter and Helena Ifill Our understanding of Victorian popular authors, such as Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, can undoubtedly be enhanced by a knowledge of their non-, sometimes semi-, fictional and/or autobiographical journalistic contributions to...
by Speak Digital | Oct 23, 2018 | Reviews
The nineteenth-century British novel is deeply textured in its narrative structure, and critical emphasis on the marriage plot has tended to occlude the shadow plots that contribute to the novel’s complexity. Michael Parrish Lee’s well-argued and well-written study...
by Speak Digital | Oct 23, 2018 | Reviews
The jacket cover of Holly Furneaux’s book features a painting from 1856 by Thomas William Wood in which a young Private convalesces in a hospital bed during the Crimean War. The soldier passes the time with needle and thread, carefully stitching together...
by Speak Digital | Oct 23, 2018 | Reviews
In Novel Politics: Democratic Imaginations in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Isobel Armstrong seeks to challenge the conventional wisdom that the novel in the nineteenth century is inevitably structured and guided by a bourgeois ideology. To do so, her study focuses not...
