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Elise Garritzen

Reimagining the Historian in Victorian England

What constitutes a historian? What skills and qualities should a historian cultivate? Who is entitled to define historians¿ ¿physiognomy¿? Victorians sought to answer these questions as history transforme…

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…

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…

Barbara Korte

Travel in Victorian Periodicals, 1850-1900

This is the first study to explore the connections between the development of travel and the rapid expansion of the periodicals market in the second half of the nineteenth century in Britain. By the 1860s…

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 t…

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

Tahaney Alghrani,

Wayward Girls in Victorian and Edwardian England

A study of juvenile female offenders within the reformatory and industrial system during the Victorian era, exploring their reform, regulation and representations of immorality.

British Sea Power

Open Season

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…

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

Paul Reade (1943-1997)

A Celebration of Paul Reade

Philippa Davies, Pumeza Matshikiza, Laurence Perkins, London Winds, English Chamber Orchestra, Robin O'Neill

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…

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…

Kimberly J Stern

The Forms and Fictions of Victorian Art Instruction

The Victorian period gave rise to revelatory new approaches to art instruction. A growing investment in standardized education, the rise of exhibition culture, and an expanding body of literature devoted …

Late Night Tales

Grandiose neue »Late Night Tales« Ausgabe der texanischen Psych-Rocker Khruangbin! Als Bonobo 2013 einen Track der unbekannten Band Khruangbin für seine »Late Night Tales« aussuchte, konnte niemand ahn…

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…

Marlena Tronicke

Narrating Empire and Domesticity in Neo-Victorian Fiction

Fiction classified as 'neo-Victorian' has steadily emerged as a crucial mode of British cultural production. It is no coincidence that this most recent Victorian renaissance is taking shape in a climate o…

Keith A. Manley

The Voluntary Libraries of Victorian Britain: Volume 2

This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in Scotland and Wales in the late nineteenth century, but which were not suppo…