Victorians

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1 Victorian Publishing History The History of Reading In the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, reading was a… Charlotte Barrett
2 ‘‘Beauty […] lay not within the thing but in what the thing symbolised’’: Female Clothing and the Senses in the Works of Thomas Hardy By Charlotte Barrett This essay examines how female clothing plays a vital part in Hardy's… Charlotte Barrett
3 The Importance of Being Wilde "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all" Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)… Kate O'Connor
4 Gothic Elements in 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' The relationship between scientific discourse and the Victorian Gothic is greatly emphasised when… Charlotte Barrett
5 The Celebration of Nature in Victorian Poetry Despite the publication of Darwin's radical text On the Origin of Species (1859),which promoted a… Charlotte Barrett
6 George Eliot and The Influence of Science Black and White Portrait of George Eliot [Public Domain], via Wikimedia CommonsThroughout all of… Charlotte Barrett
7 George Eliot George Eliot [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons George Eliot is the pseudonym created in 1857… Charlotte Barrett
8 Science and Religion At the beginning of the nineteenth century, William Paley published Natural Theology (1802),the… Charlotte Barrett
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