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A characteristic movement within the novels of William Makepeace Thackeray--a sudden collision with a famous individual--points to Thackeray's place within the gradual formation in mid-Victorian society of the category of the celebrity, a category unmoored from the political or aristocratic underpinnings of older forms of public notoriety, and increasingly dependent upon mechanisms of journalistic publicity.

F. R. Leavis is typically seen as a powerful agent in the formulation of both an imperial canon and of reading practices that promote Englishness as universally human. Johnson reassesses \"The Great Tradition\" by stressing its non-English constituents and by pondering Leavis' three attempts to accommodate George Eliot's Daniel Deronda,\" a novel that he could neither live without nor live with.

It has long been a puzzle of literary history that in the nineteenth century Walt Whitman enjoyed far greater popularity in England than in the US. Elfenbein argues that Whitman became in England the poet of \"populist elitism,\" a movement to reinvent the traditional role of the clerisy on the part of men newly enfranchised by the Third Reform Act.

Arthur Hugh Clough'sAmours de Voyage(1858) provides a revealing lens through which to explore the implications for genre of the changing status of action in the nineteenth century. For historical reasons, conceptions of action shifted in the Victorian period, leading most notably to a decrease in the legibility of deeds. The shift opened up a critical dispute concerning the relative importance of the Aristotelian categories of character and action in literature. This dispute resulted in an emphasis on a literature of inaction - both frustrated external action and heightened internal action - which in turn had consequences for the development of the novel as a genre concerned with character and states of consciousness. Clough's own Hamlet-like inability to act is the stuff of legend, and his hero Claude suffers from the same affliction, as is made manifest by the failed courtship plot of the poem.Amours de Voyage, as an epistolary novel in verse, in mock-epic hexameters interspersed with lyrical elegiacs, stands at the place where genres - and the different attitudes toward action that they represent - collide. Both its subject matter and its method reflect the Victorian crisis of action.

Sutherland discusses the multifaceted career of Michael Sadleir. Not only was Sadleir a great collector, but he can also be seen as a founder of the discipline now known as publishing history.

Brickhouse examines a single work that emerged from William Cullen Bryant's inter-American career, a little-discussed prose work titled \"A Story of the Island of Cuba.\" This 1829 tale traces the proximity between North America and the Caribbean, testing the fluid boundaries between the two regions, displacing onto the island-colony the underlying political tensions pervading the US public sphere, and suggesting Bryant's status as a writer of the Americas rather than simply an \"American\" writer.