Showing papers in "Victorian Studies in 2021"
TL;DR: This article argued that George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860) aligns natural catastrophe with the image of the disastrous female body in order to challenge contemporary geological readings o...
Abstract: This article argues that George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860) aligns natural catastrophe with the image of the disastrous female body in order to challenge contemporary geological readings o...
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TL;DR: The authors argue that we need to pay renewed attention to the aesthetic to address and incorporate everyday experience into our academic discussions, and at stake here is the opportunity to recursively recurve the aesthetic in our discussions.
Abstract: Paul Jay claims that we need to pay renewed attention to the aesthetic to address and incorporate everyday experience into our academic discussions. Clearly, at stake here is the opportunity to rec...
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TL;DR: This paper deduced Conan Doyle's map of London from the writings of his long career and particularly his autobiography Memories and Adventures (1924) and found a portrait of the city in the map.
Abstract: This essay attempts to deduce Conan Doyle’s map of London from the writings of his long career and particularly his autobiography Memories and Adventures (1924). Here we can find a portrait of the ...
TL;DR: The more Victorian physicians deepened their research into female sexuality, the more a culture of lust infected the hypocritical facade of a nation strictly attached to social norms of order, form and propriety as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The more Victorian physicians deepened their research into female sexuality, the more a culture of lust infected the hypocritical facade of a nation strictly attached to social norms of order, form...
TL;DR: This article showed that the Middle Ages Virginia Woolf imagines in her 1906 short story "The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn" are influenced by the staging of the medieval in late-Victorian museums.
Abstract: This article shows that the Middle Ages Virginia Woolf imagines in her 1906 short story ‘The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn’ are influenced by the staging of the medieval in late-Victorian museums...
TL;DR: Since the 1930s George Sturt's Change in the Village (1912) and The Wheelwright's shop (1923) have been associated with the cultural theory of the journal Scrutiny and its idealised concept of a ru...
Abstract: Since the 1930s George Sturt's Change in the Village (1912) and The Wheelwright's Shop (1923) have been associated with the cultural theory of the journal Scrutiny and its idealised concept of a ru...
TL;DR: Sheri Holman's The Dress Lodger as discussed by the authors depicts the beginning of the 1831 cholera epidemic in Britain and skilfully manipulates the conventions of nineteenth-century reali...
Abstract: Sheri Holman’s neo-Victorian novel The Dress Lodger (1999) depicts the beginning of the 1831 cholera epidemic in Britain. The novel skilfully manipulates the conventions of nineteenth-century reali...
TL;DR: The Story of Willie Ellin' as mentioned in this paper combines the gothic and realism and uses multiple narrators to telescript the story of the protagonist's life, and is a fragment of Charlotte Bronte's eighteen-page fragment, written shortly after the publication of Villette.
Abstract: Charlotte Bronte’s eighteen-page fragment, ‘The Story of Willie Ellin’, written shortly after the publication of Villette in 1853, combines the gothic and realism and uses multiple narrators to tel...
TL;DR: In this paper, the author examines Arthur Conan Doyle's status as a London writer and places his own experiences of the city within the same historical frame as that of his father, his uncles, and his grandfa...
Abstract: This article examines Arthur Conan Doyle's status as a ‘London’ writer. It places his own experiences of the city within the same historical frame as that of his father, his uncles, and his grandfa...
TL;DR: This paper explored the short period of time that Arthur Conan Doyle spent between March and June 1891 when he moved his family into rooms in Bloomsbury and took a consulting room near Harley Stree.
Abstract: This essay explores the short period of time that Arthur Conan Doyle spent between March and June 1891 when he moved his family into rooms in Bloomsbury and took a consulting room near Harley Stree...
TL;DR: The relationship between Britain and Portugal in the 1820s filtered through Baillie's eyes in her travel writing Lisbon in the Years 1821, 1822, and 1823 as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: This paper seeks to shed light on the relationship between Britain and Portugal in the 1820s filtered through Marianne Baillie's eyes in her travel writing Lisbon in the Years 1821, 1822, and 1823 ...
TL;DR: For example, this article pointed out that "Arthur Conan Doyle's spiritualist interests are often viewed today as idiosyncratic for a medical professional and anachronistic for the late Victorian era".
Abstract: Arthur Conan Doyle's spiritualist interests are often viewed today as idiosyncratic for a medical professional and anachronistic for the late Victorian era. However, historians of the era recognise...
TL;DR: For example, this article pointed out that several Sherlock Holmes stories were highly influential in the development of this genre in the late Victorian and early Edwardian percolation of spy fiction.
Abstract: Arthur Conan Doyle is rarely considered a master of spy fiction, but several Sherlock Holmes stories were highly influential in the development of this genre in the late Victorian and Edwardian per...
TL;DR: The authors explored the links between the early verse of Arthur Symons and his definitions of impressionism, particularly as they are outlined in "The Decadent Movement in Literature" (1893).
Abstract: This article explores the links between the early verse of Arthur Symons and his definitions of impressionism, particularly as they are outlined in ‘The Decadent Movement in Literature’ (1893). It ...
TL;DR: In the late nineteenth century, amid pervasive fears of decadence and widespread pessimism, Frederic Leighton (1830-96) completed Flaming June (1895) taking as its starting point Victorian...
Abstract: At the close of the nineteenth century, amid pervasive fears of decadence and widespread pessimism, Frederic Leighton (1830–96) completed Flaming June (1895). Taking as its starting point Victorian...