Yanni (art history, Rutgers U.) examines the relationship between architecture and science in the 19th century by considering the physical placement and display of natural artifacts in Victorian natural history museums. She begins by discussing the problem of classification, the…
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ENGLISH IMPERIAL CULTURE: Home and Harem: Domesticity, Gender, and Nationalism. Empire and the Movement for Women's Suffrage in Britain. The Guidebook and the Museum -- EUROIMPERIAL TRAVEL AND INDIAN WOMEN. The Culture of Travel and the Gendering of Colonial Modernity in Ninetee…
What is Sappho, except a name? Although the Greek archaic lyrics attributed to Sappho of Lesbos survive only in fragments, she has been invoked for many centuries as the original woman poet, singing at the origins of a Western lyric tradition. Victorian Sappho traces the emergen…
"What is Sappho, except a name? Although the Greek archaic lyrics attributed to Sappho of Lesbos survive only in fragments, she has been invoked for many centuries as the original woman poet, singing at the origins of a Western lyric tradition. Victorian Sappho traces the emerge…
"Recent critical and historical work on the late-Victorian period has furnished a vocabulary for discussing gender and sexuality. These popular terms include categories such as homo/hetero, patriarchal/feminist, and masculine/effeminate. This collection exploits this framework -…
'Cleansing the City' explores not only the challenges faced by reformers as they strove to clean up an increasingly filthy city but the resistance to their efforts.
"Carolyn Oulton recovers the strategies nineteenth-century authors used to justify the ideal of same-sex romantic friendship and the anxieties these strategies reveal. Informed by recent insights into the erotic potential of such relationships, but focused on romantic friendship…
"This volume explores the cultural, political, and intellectual forces that helped shape and define the nineteenth-century British Christianity. Larsen challenges many of the standard assumptions about Victorian era Christians in their attempts to embody their theological commit…
This volume explores the cultural, political and intellectual forces that helped shape and define nineteenthcentury British Christianity. Larsen challenges many of the standard assumptions about Victorian era Christians in their attempts to embody their theological commitments. …
"The Demography of Victorian England and Wales uses the full range of nineteenth-century civil registration material to describe in detail for the first time the changing population history of England and Wales between 1837 and 1914. Its principal focus is the great demographic …
