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A Winged Victory For The Sullen

The Undivided Five

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The Fall

This Nation's Saving Grace

Rachel Gotlieb,

Ceramics in the Victorian Era

"This book broadens the discussion of pottery and china in the Victorian era by situating them in the national, imperial, design reform, and domestic debates between 1840 and 1890. Largely ignored in…

Christopher Page

The Guitar in Victorian England

In 1893 Clara Lindow sang the ballad Dreamtide to her own guitar accompaniment in the Cumbrian hamlet of Lowick. A writer for the local newspaper not only admired her 'marked skill and ability' but also c…

Sara K Kaushal

Murder in Victorian Dayton

A sad & shocking story of love betrayed. The murder of Bessie Little and the trial of her murderer rocked Victorian Dayton. Believing herself pregnant and desperate to save her reputation, young Bessi…

Lindsay Wilhelm

Evolutionary Aestheticism in Victorian Culture

The Aesthetic Movement, a collection of artists, writers and thinkers who rejected traditional ideas of beauty as guided and judged by morals and utility and rallied under the banner of 'art for art's sak…

Michael Punter

The Mysterious and the Occult from Newton to the Victorians

This book examines the search for ¿occult¿ or hidden forces in the two centuries after Newton¿s theory of gravity. It investigates how history has simplified the work of some of the key figures of the age…

Meegan Kennedy

Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy

Writing Embodiment in Victorian Microscopy: Beautiful Mechanism tracks Victorians' skeptical romance with the microscope, from a time when microscopists struggled for scientific authority, to one where th…

Sarah E. Maier

Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives

Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives examines the neo-Victorian themes and motifs currently appearing in young adult fiction-specifically addressing the themes of authorship, sexuality, and criminality in…

Sarah Flew

Charitable Giving in Victorian Britain

This book examines the growth of charity in 19th century Britain through the lens of the philanthropic activities of Samuel Jones-Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone, over a 40-year period.Sarah Flew incorporates c…

Julia Thomas

The Victorian Mind's Eye

The Victorian Mind's Eye: Reading Literature in an Age of Illustration The Victorians lived in an age of illustration. In a matter of decades, words and images had become enmeshed and entangled, printed a…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

"This book offers an extremely original reading of key figures in the Victorian period in relation to what the author calls 'sacred geographies', a term which embraces direct engagements with place, …

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 ch…

William Vincent Wallace (1812-1865)

Lurline

Keith Lewis, Paul Ferris, David Soar, Donald Maxwell, Roderick Earle, Sally Silver, Victorian Opera Chorus & Orchestra, Richard Bonynge