Victorian Literature - X - Oxford Bibliographies
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 ...
Martineau, Harriet
Ella Dzelzainis
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Harriet Martineau ...
Material
Deborah Wynne
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Material Culture Introduction Material culture is a broad term covering all aspects of the material world, including clothing, household goods, too...
Medicine
Andrew Scott Mangham
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Medicine Introduction The 19th century saw enormous demands on the field of medical inquiry. That period saw urban development and international ...
Mobility
Wendy Parkins
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Mobility Introduction Arguably the defining characteristic of the 19th century, mobility seems omnipresent in Victorian literature as narrative...
Morris, William
Anna Vaninskaya
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
William Morris Introduction William Morris, poet, romancer, translator, designer, businessman, printer, and socialist pioneer, was the ultimat...
Neo-Victorianism
Jessica Cox
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Neo-Victorianism Introduction Neo-Victorianism can be divided into two distinct categories: creative works that in some way engage with Victoria...
New Woman, The
Clare Mendes
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
The New Woman Introduction Since the 1970s, interest in the New Woman has flourished threefold, with numerous attempts to capture her complex nat...
Newgate Novel, The
Lyn Pykett
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
The Newgate Novel Introduction Newgate novels take their name from the London prison, destroyed by fire in 1780, whose more illustrious or infa...
Newman, John Henry
Diana Powell
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
John Henry Newman Introduction John Henry (Cardinal) Newman (b. 1801–d. 1890) was an extremely influential and controversial Victorian author, re...
Oliphant, Margaret
Elisabeth Jay
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Margaret Oliphant Introduction Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (b. 1828–d. 1897) was a prolific and influential Victorian author. She turned ...
Oxford Movement, The
Elisabeth Jay
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
The Oxford Movement Introduction An 1833 bill to suppress a number of Irish bishoprics seemed to threaten the disestablishment of the Church of E...
Pantomime
Michael G. Foy
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Pantomime Introduction Pantomime was a popular Victorian theatrical genre that drew on centuries of European performance styles. It grew in pop...
Pater, Walter Horatio
Anne Varty
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Walter Horatio Pater Introduction Walter Pater, classicist and Oxford don, radical aesthetic philosopher, and consummate prose stylist, was im...
Periodical Press, The
Deborah Wynne
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
The Periodical Press Introduction The Victorian periodical press offers a rich archive for scholars of Victorian culture, yet it is only in recent...
Raphaelitism, Pre-
Stefano Evangelista
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Pre-Raphaelitism Introduction Pre-Raphaelitism was a countercultural movement that aimed to reform Victorian art and writing. It originated with the...
Reade, Charles
Beth Palmer
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Charles Reade Introduction Charles Reade (b. 1814–d. 1884) entered into the Victorian cultural scene through theatrical adaptations, original d...
Realism
Matthew Beaumont, Anna Despotopoulou
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Realism Introduction “The concept of verisimilitude is no longer fashionable,” admitted Tzvetan Todorov in 1968. From roughly the late 1960s t...
Reynolds, G. W. M.
Anne Humpherys
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
G. W. M. Reynolds Introduction George William Macarthur Reynolds (b. 1814–d. 1879) was at his death labeled “the most popular writer of our time”...
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