The Ohio State University Press has a longstanding list in Victorian studies, and also publishes Victorians journal. Our books regularly win recognition for their innovative and rigorous interventions in literary and cultural studies. Our acquisitions editor for Victorian studies is Rebecca Bostock, bostock.3@osu.edu.
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Forthcoming and Recent Publications in Victorian Studies
Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature
Riya Das
Demonstrates the limitations of female solidarity in Victorian society, showing how the New Woman fashioned social progress for herself through indifference and antagonism toward femininities she excluded as “other.”
Coming September 2024
Sex, Celibacy, and Deviance: The Victorians and the Song of Songs
Duc Dau
The first major study to explore the Song of Songs in Victorian culture, including how writers and artists adapted it to challenge the era’s romantic, marital, and gender norms.
Hotel London: How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories
Barbara Black
Winner, 2020 Victorian Society in America Award
Explores how London’s grand hotels helped construct a consumer economy that underscored the city’s internationalism in Victorian literature and culture.
Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel
Livia Arndal Woods
Runner-Up, 2023 Victorian Popular Fiction Association First Book Prize
Traces the connections between the medicalization of pregnancy and childbirth occurring over the Victorian era and contemporary and historical lived experiences to argue for the value of somatic reading.
The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature
Renée Fox
Honorable Mention, 2024 American Council for Irish Studies Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book
Longlisted, 2024 International Gothic Society Allan Lloyd Smith Prize for Best Monograph
Critiques the boundary between Victorian studies and Irish studies and interrogates how nineteenth-century works involving reanimated bodies use undead figures to reimagine the past.
Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion: Literary, Historical, and Religious Studies in Dialogue
Edited by Joshua King and Winter Jade Werner
Examines the ways in which religion was constructed as a category and region of experience in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
Narrating Trauma: Victorian Novels and Modern Stress Disorders
Gretchen Braun
New in paperback!
Draws on current theories of trauma to examine the prehistory of those psychic and somatic responses to trauma now known as PTSD and their influence on Victorian fiction.
Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre
Dara Rossman Regaignon
New in paperback!
Traces the rhetorical origins of maternal anxiety in Victorian literature, bringing uptake and genre ecology into literary studies.
Missionary Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Winter Jade Werner
Examines the missionary roots of cosmopolitanism through Romantic and Victorian literature, revealing the interconnectedness between evangelically motivated imperialisms and secularized cosmopolitanism.
Narrative Bonds: Multiple Narrators in the Victorian Novel
Alexandra Valint
Integrating narrative theory, gothic theory, and disability studies with analyses of works by Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Wilkie Collins, Emily Brontë, and Bram Stoker, this comprehensive and illuminating study illustrates the significance and impact of the multinarrator structure in Victorian novels.
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