by Speak Digital | Oct 23, 2018 | Reviews
The belief that humans and animals shared a capacity for emotions and pain was highly debated in the years following Darwin’s theory of evolution. How humans regarded and treated animals was bound up in the construction of the category of the ‘human’, and debates on...
by Speak Digital | Oct 23, 2018 | Reviews
Andrew Mangham opens Dickens’s Forensic Realism by asserting that this will be “a book about bodies in Dickens, especially the dead ones” (1). Dickens is particularly fascinated with such dead or “unstable” bodies, Mangham argues, “as forensic subjects” (2), and this...
by Speak Digital | Oct 22, 2018 | Reviews
In Novel Craft: Victorian Domestic Handicraft and Nineteenth-Century Fiction (2011), Talia Schaffer recovered an alternative world of aesthetics in which ephemeral, thrifty, speedy and disposable handicrafts held real value. In Romance’s Rival (2016), Schaffer...
by Speak Digital | Oct 19, 2018 | Articles
Megan Nash In the famously improbable storyline of Ellen Wood’s East Lynne (1860–1), the disgraced protagonist Lady Isabel returns to the home she has abandoned, disguised as the dowdy governess Madame Vine. While her deception is aided by disfigurements sustained in...
by Speak Digital | Oct 19, 2018 | Articles
Hannah Scupham University of Kansas Sensation Fiction as a Semiotic Genre What do we talk about when we talk about sensation in sensation fiction? Many modern scholars, including Lyn Pykett, Andrew Mangham, Kimberly Harrison, and Richard Fantina, have discussed...
