{"product_id":"9783032330758","title":"Close Reading the Nineteenth Century","description":"\u003ch1\u003eClose Reading the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSimon Kövesi | Jane Stabler\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Modern \/ 19th Century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of essays provides upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers with a fresh view of the nineteenth century through 18 readings of individual texts from 1800-1900, chosen to show the range and diversity of the Romantic-Victorian period, combining the still-canonical with the newly recovered. After decades of critical focus on historical context, this collection seeks to re-centre close analysis on the literary text – broadly conceived – attending to form and texture, while also drawing in dialogues with other texts, responses and contexts. The aim is not to displace historical awareness, but to show how it might be combined with attention to literary shape, which is itself subject to historical, political and aesthetic forces. The 18 readings explore poetry, fiction, essays, drama and periodicals, ensuring full coverage of the formal and thematic diversity of print culture across the century. Our claim is that close reading emerges in the nineteenth century as a central concern of literary, critical and cultural practice. The collection seeks to disrupt the conventional critical division of Romantic from Victorian, showing how formal experimentation works throughout the nineteenth century as literary shape is recreated in each decade of cultural and technological development, alongside a continuous dialogue with literary commonalities and inheritances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSimon Kövesi\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English and Scottish Literature and Head of the School of Critical Studies, at the University of Glasgow, UK. He focuses on Romantic-period culture, and working-class writing from 1800 through to now. His books include \u003cem\u003eEighteenth-Century Labouring-Class Poets\u003c\/em\u003e (2003), \u003cem\u003eJames Kelman\u003c\/em\u003e (2007), \u003cem\u003eNew Essays on John Clare: Poetry, Culture and Community\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), \u003cem\u003eJohn Clare: Nature, Criticism and History\u003c\/em\u003e (2017), and \u003cem\u003ePalgrave Advances in John Clare Studies\u003c\/em\u003e (2020). He is currently co-editing Pierce Egan’s \u003cem\u003eLife in London\u003c\/em\u003e (1821) for Oxford World’s Classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJane Stabler\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Romantic Literature in the School of English, University of St Andrews, UK. She works on Lord Byron, Jane Austen, and English travel writing. Her books include \u003cem\u003eByron, Poetics and History\u003c\/em\u003e (2002), \u003cem\u003ePalgrave Advances in Byron Studies\u003c\/em\u003e (2007), \u003cem\u003eThe Artistry of Exile: Romantic \u0026amp; Victorian Writers in Italy\u003c\/em\u003e (2013) and an edition of Jane Austen’s \u003cem\u003eMansfield \u003c\/em\u003ePark for Oxford World’s Classics series (2003). She is the lead editor for the Longman Annotated English Poets Edition of Lord Byron’s Poetry. The first two volumes of \u003cem\u003eDon Juan\u003c\/em\u003e were published in 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e09 November 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032330758\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50806388261004,"sku":"9783032330758","price":71.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783032330758","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}