Victorian Literature - E - Oxford Bibliographies
Education
Jenny Holt
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Education Introduction In many ways the history of education goes hand in hand with the history of literacy and the history of reading. For thi...
Eliot, George
Gail Marshall
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
George Eliot Introduction George Eliot was born Mary Ann Evans in Warwickshire in 1819. Before she died in 1880, she had become one of the most n...
Empire
Grace Moore
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Empire Introduction The publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) heralded the beginning of a scholarly interest in the literature of im...
Evangelicalism
Richard Gibson, Timothy Larsen
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Evangelicalism Introduction Evangelicalism is an international Christian movement that arose from impulses of revival and renewal in 18th-centu...
Fiction, Detective
Anne Humpherys
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Detective Fiction Introduction The standard history of Victorian detective fiction (in which a detective works to solve a specific crime or myste...
Fiction, Sensation
Matthew Rubery
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Sensation Fiction Introduction Sensation fiction was a literary genre that achieved enormous popularity during the 1860s in Britain. The first an...
Fin de Siècle
Ruth Livesey
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Fin de Siècle Introduction In its simplest definition, “fin de siècle” refers to the end of a century, yet at the end of the 19th century in Br...
Gaskell, Elizabeth
Ella Dzelzainis
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Elizabeth Gaskell Introduction In her own lifetime, Elizabeth Gaskell (b. 1810–d. 1865) was an eminent and sometimes controversial writer. Her ...
Gender
Pamela K. Gilbert
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Gender Introduction The Victorian period is one of the literary fields in which gender scholarship advanced earliest and most fully. The most sig...
Haggard, H. Rider
Roger Luckhurst
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
H. Rider Haggard Introduction Henry Rider Haggard (b. 1856–d. 1925) assisted in the annexation of the Transvaal in South Africa as a young man ...
Hardy, Thomas
Matthew Bradley
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Thomas Hardy Introduction Thomas Hardy (b. 1840–d. 1928) was born in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, the son of a builder. After an education at his loc...
Historical Novel, The
Isobel Hurst
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
The Historical Novel Introduction No student of the Victorian historical novel can fail to observe the divergence between the genre’s critical...
Homosexuality
Ben Winyard
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Homosexuality Introduction The 19th century crucially witnessed the genesis of homosexual identities, subcultures, and politics in forms that h...
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
Alice Jenkins
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Gerard Manley Hopkins Introduction Gerard Manley Hopkins (b. 1844–d. 1889), or Gerard M. Hopkins, as he usually signed himself, was born in Strat...
James, Henry
Deborah Wynne
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Henry James Introduction Henry James (b. 1843–d. 1916), a prolific writer of fiction, travel writing, essays, book reviews, and plays, was ...
Journalism
Matthew Rubery
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Journalism Introduction The quantity of affordable print increased dramatically during the 19th century to satisfy the demands of the first mass ...
Keble, John
Kirstie Blair
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
John Keble Introduction John Keble (b. 1792–d. 1866) is remembered as one of the founding figures of the Oxford Movement (or Tractarianism). J. H...
Lee, Vernon
Stefano Evangelista
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Vernon Lee Introduction Vernon Lee (b. 1856–d. 1935) is the pen name of the prolific author and critic Violet Paget. Lee was a cosmopolitan intel...
Machines
Tamara Ketabgian
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Machines Introduction Essayist Thomas Carlyle famously described the Victorian period as the Age of Machinery. This phrase captures the growing p...
Marryat, Florence
Greta Depledge
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Florence Marryat Introduction Florence Marryat (b. 1833–d. 1899) was born in Brighton on 9 July 1833. Some accounts of Marryat’s life put her ...
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