Victorian Literature - Oxford Bibliographies
Du Maurier, George
Verity Jane Hunt
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
George Du Maurier Introduction George Du Maurier (b. 1834–d. 1896), the celebrated Victorian cartoonist and novelist, is the author of Trilby (18...
Ecology in Victorian Literature
Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
Ecology in Victorian LiteratureIntroductionEcology, as a topic in studies of Victorian literature, is both longstanding and new. As recently as 2015, ...
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...
Epic Tradition, The
Isobel Hurst
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
The Epic TraditionIntroductionEpic occupied a prominent position as the highest test of poetic genius, yet any poet imprudent enough to attempt an epi...
Evangelicalism
Richard Gibson, Timothy Larsen
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
EvangelicalismIntroductionEvangelicalism is an international Christian movement that arose from impulses of revival and renewal in 18th-century Protes...
Feminism
Molly Youngkin
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2014-10-28
FeminismIntroductionAlthough there is overlap with categories in Oxford Bibliographies entries such as Gender, Sexuality, Homosexuality, and the New W...
Fiction, Detective
Anne Humpherys
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Detective FictionIntroductionMuch of 19th-century detective fiction was published in periodicals, the form of Victorian detective fiction being primar...
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...
Field, Michael
Rhian Williams
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2018-10-25
Michael FieldIntroduction“Michael Field” is the pseudonym shared by the writers, aunt and niece, and likely lovers Katharine Bradley (b. 1846) and Edi...
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...
France
Nathalie Vanfasse
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2019-05-29
FranceIntroductionWhat kind of knowledge did the Victorians have about 19th-century France, and what were their representations of France during a per...
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...
Gosse, Edmund
Kathy Rees
Subject: Victorian Literature »
Date Added: 2014-08-26
Edmund GosseIntroductionEdmund William Gosse (b. 1849–d. 1928) was the preeminent man of letters during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. Alth...
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...
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