From the invention of the phonograph in 1877 to some of the first recorded performances of modernist works in the 1930s, this book tells the neglected story of early spoken recordings and their significance for the experience and understanding of literature.
India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display maps for the first time a series of historical events - from the Raj in the mid-nineteenth century up to the present day - through which India was made fashionable to Western audiences within the popular cultural arenas of t…
Drawing on the Victorians
Late 19th-century Britain experienced an explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images--illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera--to…
Drawing on the Victorians
Late 19th-century Britain experienced an explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images--illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera--to…
This study examined Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which foreshadows the Victorian period, and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, which reflects on it. The two novels are both monster stories that share many similarities, including themes of creativity and morality. However…
In Victorian Glasgow, marital cruelty was understood by both the civil legal system and broader society to include emotional, psychological, verbal, economic, and physical abuses. In contrast to existing historiography, this thesis rests on the quantitative analysis of records o…
Holy Stitches, Batman, or, Performative Villainy in Gothic/am is an interdisciplinary examination of gothic affect and deviant fashion in the narrative construction of villainy. It asks not just what a villain looks like, but what it means to look like a villain. A villain is a …
This dissertation argues that Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s (1834–1892) activism held that Christian work and active service to Christ are not optional, but rather essential to the Christian life, the mission of the church, and pastoral ministry. Such activism expressed itself in ea…
This thesis argues that Oscar Wilde anticipates Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s concept of reparative reading. In 2003’s Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity, Sedgwick argues that the hermeneutics of suspicion–whereby the reader exposes the unjust power structures lying be…
This thesis centres on one of the most widely read illustrated fiction magazinesof the nineteenth century, The London Journal. Despite its popularity, this pennyweekly has received scant attention from either media historians or critics, partlybecause of the lack of bibliographi…
This edition of unpublished letters is an attempt to illustrate the life and achievements of W. E. Henley, man of letters, and is the result of the location of over 2300 letters in both public and private hands. More than half are located in the U.S.A. and Canada and were found …