Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates; their novels highlight the fragility of public health today ...

‘well written asnd researched’ Rosemary Ashton, Times Literary Supplement ‘… well written and researched, Linda Hughes's book consists of a set of essays connected by the surprisingly rich and diverse ...

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In The Victorian Parlour: A Cultural Study, Logan uses an interdisciplinary approach that combines the perspectives of art history, social history, and literary theory to describe and analyze the ...

She has published scholarly works on late Victorian literature and Creative Writing pedagogy and served on the editorial boards of Turn-of-the-Century Women, The Walter Pater Newsletter, and The ...

An advanced introduction to Victorian literature, highlighting the engagement by nineteenth century writers with questions of liberalism, democratisation, and the expansion of the British empire. The ...

In this novel, a number of Victorian fears are presented. We see the fear of 'the other' or 'foreignness' presented through the character of Tonga, who is depicted as savage and inherently evil.

Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely died in ...