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Priyanka Anne Jacob

The Victorian Novel on File

The Victorian Novel On File argues that the nineteenth-century information explosion shapes the novel form. In a world teeming with data, the novel is a storage medium, cluttered with detail and accumulat…

Nicola Kirkby

Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel

"Railway and novel infrastructure shared the task of getting nineteenth-century society moving in new ways. In canonical fiction by Dickens, Gaskell, Trollope, Eliot, Hardy, and Forster, Nicola Kirkb…

Asha Hornsby

Vivisection and Late-Victorian Literary Culture

The nineteenth-century antivivisection movement was supported by a striking number of poets, authors, and playwrights who attended meetings, signed petitions, contributed funds, and lent their pens to the…

R D McChesney

An Afghan Prince in Victorian England

The first English account of the diplomatic visit of Prince Nasr Allah to Europe in the late nineteenth century, concentrating on his time in England

Keith Hanley

Sacred Geographies in Victorian Literature

Chapter 1; Introduction: Sacred Geographies.- Chapter 2: Carlyle's "Exodus to Houndsditch".- Chapter 3: Ruskin's Holy Lands.- Chapter 4: Diasporas of the Book.- Chapter 5: Newman's "Territo…

Michael William Balfe (1808-1870)

Satanella

Kang Wang, Quentin Hayes, Anthony Gregory, Trevor Bowes, Frank Church, Sally Silver, Christine Tocci, John Powell Singers, Victorian Opera Orchestra, Richard Bonynge

Heather Hind

Hairwork in Victorian Literature and Culture

.- 1 Introduction: Working with Hair.- 2 A History of British Hairwork: Desire.- 3 A History of British Hairwork: Anxiety.- 4 Matter: Hairwork, Touch, and Connection in Charlotte Brontë's Villette and Emi…

Louise Logan-Smith

Neo-Victorian Cultural Collections of Disability

This book offers new readings and interpretations of the non-normative narratives of 'freak show' performers in the Victorian period as they have been reimagined by contemporary fictions, museum exhibitio…

Denae Dyck

Biblical Wisdom and the Victorian Literary Imagination

Examining the creative thought that arose in response to 19th-century religious controversies, this book demonstrates that the pressures exerted by historical methods of biblical scholarship prompted an i…

Linda Hughes

Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany

Shedding new light on the alternative, emancipatory Germany discovered and written about by progressive women writers during the long nineteenth century, this illuminating study uncovers a country that of…

Amy Carol Reeves

How to Grieve Like a Victorian

It's fine. She's fine. Really.When life's turned you into a big hot mess, there's still love, laughs, and snark to be had...Dr. Lizzie Wells, professor of British literature and bestselling author, is not…

Danielle Mariann Dove

Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction

Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction is the first full-length study to investigate and attend to the deeply suggestive and highly symbolic iterations of Victorian women's dress in the contem…

Sabrina Gilchrist Hadyk

The Waltzing Body in Victorian Literature

The Waltzing Body in Victorian Literature traces the evolution of the waltz from subversive to traditional across the 19th century, focusing on the Victorian authors who wrote about the waltz, exploring i…

British Sea Power

Open Season

Michael J. Turner

Church Politics in Mid-Victorian Britain

This book is a new and original study of High Church activism in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the church union movement, it describes and explains unprecedented levels of cler…

Donna Loftus,

Capital and Labour in Victorian England: Manufacturing Consensus

Despite extensive scholarship on the social and cultural history of industrial England there is little work that explores how new forms of capitalist production were understood and normalised. Capital and…

Mark Jackson

Infanticide and Baby-farming in Victorian England

This open access book explores the tragic case of the Torquay Murder of 1865, when the body of a young boy was discovered abandoned on the outskirts of Torquay in Devon, England. Having identified the chi…

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Literature and the Environment

Today's environmental decimation and climate crises have arisen from our drive for individual material prosperity. We even appreciate nature primarily for its fulfilment of our interests, whether economic…

Lois Burke

Late-Victorian Girls and their Manuscript Magazines

"This book is engaging and well-written, and it makes an original contribution to our understanding of Victorian girlhood in the last decades of the nineteenth century and manuscript magazine culture…