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Actresses
Gail Marshall
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Actresses Introduction Studies of the Victorian actress have persisted since the times of the actresses themselves, when they were regarded with ...
Aestheticism
Ruth Livesey
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Aestheticism Introduction Aestheticism can be defined broadly as the elevation of taste and the pursuit of beauty as chief principles in art and ...
Affect
Tamara Ketabgian
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Affect Introduction The Victorian period is renowned for its culture of shared powerful feeling: its mawkish sentimentality, its anxieties of gen...
Arnold, Matthew
Stefano Evangelista
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Matthew Arnold Introduction Matthew Arnold (b. 1822–d. 1888) is one of the most influential writers of the Victorian age. After receiving a Class...
Barrett Browning, Elizabeth
Anna Barton
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Elizabeth Barrett Browning IntroductionElizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett was born in 1806 at Coxhoe Hall in County Durham, the eldest of the twelve ...
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth
Pamela K. Gilbert
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Mary Elizabeth Braddon Introduction Mary Elizabeth Braddon (b. 1835–d. 1915) was a Victorian popular novelist best known for her sensation fictio...
Brontë, Charlotte
Sharon Aronofsky Weltman, Doris Raab
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Charlotte Brontë Introduction Charlotte Brontë (b. 1816–d. 1854) was the eldest of the three Brontë sisters (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne) whose bo...
Brontë, Emily
Elisabeth Jay
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Emily Brontë IntroductionThe reputation of Emily Jane Brontë (b. 1818–d. 1848) rests on one published novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), and some two ...
Browning, Robert
Anna Barton
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Robert Browning Introduction Robert Browning was born in Camberwell in 1812, the first child of Sarah Anna Browning (née Wiedemann) and Robert Brown...
Carlyle, Thomas
David Sorensen, Brent E. Kinser
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Thomas Carlyle Introduction In the history of English literature, few figures have risen to such commanding heights and fallen to such neglect...
Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism
Carol Herringer
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism Introduction At the beginning of the 19th century, the Roman Catholic Church in Britain was small, quiescent,...
Chartism
Kirstie Blair
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Chartism Introduction Chartism was a national political movement, associated with working-class radicalism, with the avowed goal of forcing the Brit...
Children's Literature
Roderick McGillis
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
Children’s Literature Introduction At the outset of the Victorian period, children’s literature continued the tradition of the moral story as ...
Christian Church, The
Matthew Bradley
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
The Christian Church Introduction The changes and challenges to religion are one of the defining features of the Victorian period and its liter...
City, The
Anne Humpherys
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
The City Introduction The 19th century saw the rise of the world’s first great metropolis, London, and the transformation of several northern B...
Class
Ruth Livesey
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Class Introduction The presence and force of class difference in Victorian literature and culture are both self-evident and surprisingly diffic...
Clough, Arthur Hugh
Samantha Matthews
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Arthur Hugh Clough Introduction The English poet Arthur Hugh Clough (b. 1819–d. 1861) is a representative figure of the mid-Victorian religious c...
Collins, Wilkie
Andrew Scott Mangham
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Wilkie Collins Introduction Wilkie Collins (b. 1824–d. 1889) was one of the most influential authors of the 19th century. He was credited with cr...
Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur
Tom Bragg
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Introduction Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (b. 1859–d. 1930) was a Scottish physician, writer, and spiritualist most famous for...
Conrad, Joseph
J.H. Stape
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Joseph Conrad Introduction Joseph Conrad was the pen name of Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski (b. 1857–d. 1924), coat of arms Nałęcz, born to Pol...
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