Shipwrecks in nineteenth-century literature have commonly been interpreted as metaphors for religious crisis or loss of faith. Yet by reading shipwreck as only a metaphor, I argue that we have lost a sense of the ...

This article suggests that Frances Burney’s Camilla dramatizes and critiques the advice on female friendship given by fellow Bluestocking Hester Chapone in her conduct book Letters on the Improvement of the Mind. Burney’s critiques affirm ...

This article examines patterns of silence and inexpressibility between characters, author, and reader, beginning in Sir Thomas Malory’s Book of Tristram. These silences indicate Cornwall and Camelot cannot discuss adultery without the discourse of treason. ...

In just one nineteenth-century decade, the Times estimated nearly seven thousand shipwrecks occurred on the coasts of the British Isles; yet most of these wrecks and their influences on nineteenth-century literature and culture have been ...