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Race
Ankhi Mukherjee
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Race Introduction Modern racial hierarchies draw on two seemingly dissonant lines of history: the humanist desire for freedom and universality...
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 ReadeIntroductionCharles Reade (b. 1814–d. 1884) entered into the Victorian cultural scene through theatrical adaptations, original dramatic w...
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. ReynoldsIntroductionGeorge William Macarthur Reynolds (b. 1814–d. 1879) was at his death labeled “the most popular writer of our time” by the...
Robins, Elizabeth
Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Alexandra Paddock
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2019-05-29
Elizabeth RobinsIntroductionElizabeth Robins (b. 1862–d. 1952) was an American actress, novelist, playwright, short story author, suffragist campaigne...
Rossetti, Christina
Sharon Aronofsky Weltman
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Christina Rossetti Introduction Christina Georgina Rossetti (b. 1830–d. 1894) was a major Victorian poet, arguably the best of the Pre-Raphaelite...
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Sophia Andres
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2014-05-29
Dante Gabriel RossettiIntroductionDante Gabriel Rossetti—major founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, leader of the Aesthetic movement, a key infl...
Ruskin, John
Sharon Aronofsky Weltman
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
John Ruskin Introduction Best known as a theorist, critic, and historian of visual culture, John Ruskin (1819–1900) wrote prolifically and infl...
Rymer, James Malcolm
Rebecca Nesvet
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2022-01-12
James Malcolm RymerIntroductionJames Malcolm Rymer (b. 1814–d. 1884) created two of the most influential monsters of 19th-century fiction: Varney the ...
Satire
Muireann O’Cinneide
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Satire Introduction Victorian literature is not generally notable for satire as a distinct form, but it was an important aspect of the writing...
Science
Alice Jenkins
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Science Introduction The study of literature and science does more than trace the “literature in science” and the “science in literature.” It pro...
Sentimentality
Kirstie Blair, Eliza O'Brien
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Sentimentality Introduction The nature and status of sentimentality is widely contested, though most critics would agree that the adjective “sent...
Serialization
Susan Bernstein, Julia Chavez
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2013-07-24
Serialization ...
Sexual Violence
Doreen Thierauf
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2022-08-23
Sexual ViolenceIntroductionSexual violence in the Victorian period is a subject notoriously difficult to study owing to wide gaps in the historic reco...
Sexuality
Pamela K. Gilbert
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Sexuality Introduction One challenge for a scholar working in this field is to know exactly what the field is. Once past the question of reproduc...
Silver Fork Novel (Fashionable Novel)
Tamara Wagner
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2014-07-30
Silver Fork Novel (Fashionable Novel)IntroductionThe silver fork novel, or novel of fashionable highlife, was a popular subgenre of 19th-century Engli...
Sincerity
Anna Barton
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Sincerity Introduction Sincerity is a term that is associated both with Victorian formulations of cultural and moral value and with 20th- and 21st-c...
Slavery and Antislavery
Katie McGettigan
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2018-11-29
Slavery and AntislaveryIntroductionQueen Victoria’s ascent to the throne coincided with the abolition of slavery (in law, if not in practice) in the m...
Social-Problem Novel
Bethan Carney
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Social-Problem NovelIntroduction“Social-problem novels” (also known as “industrial,” “social,” or “condition-of-England” novels) are a group of mid-19...
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