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The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare
In the Victorian era, William Shakespeare's work was often celebrated as a sacred text: a sort of secular English Bible. Even today, Shakespeare remains a uniquely important …
The Political Lives of Victorian Animals
During the Victorian era, animals were increasingly viewed not as property or utility, but as thinking, feeling subjects worthy of inclusion within a political community. This book …
The Poetry of Chartism
Between 1838 and 1852, the leading Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, published over 1000 poems written by more than 350 poets - as the readership of the Northern Star numbered …
Automatism and Creative Acts in the Age of New Psychology
The late nineteenth century saw a re-examination of artistic creativity in response to questions surrounding the relation between human beings and automata. These questions arose …
The Victorian Novel and the Space of Art
This interdisciplinary study argues for the vital importance of visual culture as a force shaping the Victorian novel's formal development and reading history. It shows how authors …
Dickens and the Business of Death
Charles Dickens is famous for his deathbed scenes, but these have rarely been examined within the context of his ambivalence towards the Victorian commodification of death. Dickens …
Dickens and the Daughter of the House
Feminist criticism has not been kind to Charles Dickens. The characters George Orwell referred to as ‘legless angels’ - Little Nell, Agnes Wickfield, Esther Summerson and others - …
Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britain and Ireland
We think of economic theory as a scientific speciality accessible only to experts, but Victorian writers commented on economic subjects with great interest. Gordon Bigelow focuses …
The Poetry of Victorian Scientists
A surprising number of Victorian scientists wrote poetry. Many came to science as children through such games as the spinning-top, soap-bubbles and mathematical puzzles, and this …
The Victorian Novel and the Space of Art
This interdisciplinary study argues for the vital importance of visual culture as a force shaping the Victorian novel's formal development and reading history. It shows how authors …