A Richardson
A Richardson
Bradley Deane
Bradley Deane
Representations of perpetual boyhood came to fascinate the late Victorians, partly because such images could naturalize a new spirit of imperial aggression and new policies of preserving power. This article traces the emergence of this fant...
Caroline Sumpter
Caroline Sumpter
This article links Thomas Hardy's exploration of sympathy in "Jude the Obscure" to contemporary scientific debates over moral evolution. Tracing the relationship between pessimism, progressivism, and determinism in Hardy's understanding of ...
Gavarni at the casino: reflections of class and gender in the visual culture of 1848 [0.03%]
穿赌场的高瓦尔尼：1848年视觉文化中的阶级与性别形象
Jo Briggs
Jo Briggs
Drawing on cultural history and opposing the idea that British visual culture in 1848 has nothing interesting to say about class, politics, and revolution, this article examines a depiction of the London dance-hall Laurent's Casino by Guill...
"To surrender himself, in perfectly liberal inquiry": Walter Pater, many-sidedness, and the conversion novel [0.03%]
"交出自己，进行完全自由的探究";沃特尔·帕特、多面性与皈依小说
Sebastian Lecourt
Sebastian Lecourt
This essay uses Walter Pater's "Marius the Epicurean" (1885) to explore why certain Victorian liberals preferred to see religion as a matter of collective inheritance rather than personal belief. Recent commentators have portrayed the Prote...
Christopher Todd Matthews
Christopher Todd Matthews
This essay explores the Victorian debate about the place of pockets in men's and women's clothing. By studying the representation of men as naturally pocketed creatures and the general denial of useful pockets to middle-class women, the ess...
Matthew Rowlinson
Matthew Rowlinson
Beginning with a discussion of the sources in Darwin's writing for Freud's theory of the hysterical symptom, this essay proceeds to a symptomatic reading of Darwin himself. With reference to "The Origin of Species," "The Descent of Man," an...
Vampires and resurrection men: the perils and pleasures of the embodied past in 1840s sensational fiction [0.03%]
吸血鬼与复活者：19世纪40年代惊险小说中肉体的危险与魅力
Sara Hackenberg
Sara Hackenberg
This essay examines embodied representations of the past in two of the most popular penny serials of the 1840s, G.W.M. Reynolds's "The Mysteries of London" and James Malcolm Rymer's "Varney the Vampyre; or, The Feast of Blood." The cadavero...
Isobel Hurst
Isobel Hurst
Under the editorship of Oscar Wilde, the "Woman's World" exemplified the popular dissemination of Hellenism through periodical culture. Addressing topics such as marriage, politics, and education in relation to the lives of women in the anc...