Michael A Timko

This interdisciplinary and intercultural anthology approaches some fundamental philosophical questions with a focus on the “self” — and its discovery, limitations, possibilities, and contexts. Numerous readings and a wide variety of voices include Africans, Natives, Hispanic Americans, religiou...

Presents articles exploring the wide range of Dickens's interests and talents, and includes essays on other mid- and late- nineteenth-century authors, and on the history and aesthetics of the period's fiction. In addition, each volume contains a substantial review article examining a prior year's sc...

“When one thinks of Emily Dickinson, one thinks of just the two or three poems that are published in anthologies, but she deserves more recognition,” argues the author. “She is perhaps, next to Walt Whitman, the quintessential American poet.” Using Dickinson’s own words, Timko argues that the poet s...

The transcendentalists, with Emerson as their spokesperson, provided a positive response to two questions that had been the chief concern of American authors: l) Did America provide a favorable cultural climate for writers, artists, and intellectuals? 2) Was America capable of making a literature of...

This study of Caryle and Tennyson explores their mutual influence and the effect of each on his own time. The author analyzes the specific Carlylean ideas (social, political, religious, aesthetic) and examines the ways in which Tennyson resisted and transformed these ideas and their impact.

Human beings have always been interested in their origins. We in the twenty-first century still are, and those living in nineteenth-century England during the reign of Queen Victoria (l837-1901) were as much intrigued (and baffled) as we are. Our present day interest in Darwin is attested to by the ...

Florence Nightingale, known for her service as a military nurse, came to America after the start of the Civil War, but she also had a historic career in her native England. One biographer states, “No woman in Victorian England had more political ambition, more administrative talent, and more success...

A lot of gossip has been spread over the years about Charles Dickens' domestic life, but a number of facts remain clear. After an unhappy love affair with Maria Beadnell, young Charles quickly rebounded and in 1836 married Catherine Hogarth, his boss's eldest daughter. It was a cozy arrangement at f...