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The Private Rod
Sensation novels, a genre characterized by scandalous narratives, and emotionally and socially provocative dialogue and plots, had their heyday in England in the 1860s and 1870s, …
Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible
Building upon a recent and ongoing reevaluation of religion as a vital aspect of Victorian culture, Charles LaPorte shows the enduring relevance of religion in a period usually …
Queer Chivalry
The Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins was a practitioner of strict asceticism in its broadest definition - the refusal of physical pleasure or comfort in the interests of moral or …
Victorian Poets and Romantic Poems
Bringing together the critical strategies of both his new historicism and intertextual analysis, ""Victorian Poets and Romantic Poems"" questions the ideological operations of …
The Letters of Matthew Arnold v. 3; 1866-70
The letters in this volume show Arnold, now midway in his professional career, publishing his first volume of poems in a decade and emerging as a critic - simultaneously - of …
The Letters of Matthew Arnold v. 4; 1871-1878
This is the fourth in a series of six volumes collecting together all the known letters of Matthew Arnold. In his writings, Arnold ranges from religion to literature; ""St Paul and …
The Letters of Christina Rossetti v. 1; 1843-73
This first volume of letters reveals intimate details about the Rossetti's family life, their illnesses and their accomplishments. It covers a period of 30 years, and over 300 of …
The Genius of John Ruskin
Intended to make his ideas and writings accessible to the modern reader, this text presents Ruskin through five of his most famous works, presented in date order. It provides an …
Traditions of Victorian Women's Autobiography
Arguing that women's autobiography does not represent a singular separate tradition but instead embraces multiple lineages, this work explores the poetics and politics of these …
The Angel Out of the House
Was 19th-century British philanthropy the ""truest and noblest woman's work"" and praiseworthy for having raised the nation's moral tone, or was it a dangerous mission likely to …
On Exhibit
Why did the Victorians collect with such a vengeance and exhibit in museums? Focusing on this key 19th-century enterprise, Barbara J. Black seeks to illuminate British culture of …
Essays and Reviews
A collection of seven articles that appeared in 1860, sparking a Victorian culture war that lasted for at least a decade. With pieces written by such prominent Oxford and Cambridge …