by Speak Digital | Apr 15, 2021 | Reviews
Victorian Environments: Acclimatizing to Change in British Domestic and Colonial Culture. (2018), ed. by Grace Moore and Michelle J. Smith Elizabeth Bridgham The essays in this book, which developed out of the 2013 Australian Victorian Studies Association Conference...
by Speak Digital | Apr 15, 2021 | Reviews
Neo-Victorianism and Sensation Fiction (2019) by Jessica Cox Lydia Craig A provocative claim initiates the self-described first-ever study of the Victorian sensation novel and its neo-Victorian descendants. Previous investigations into Victorian sensation fiction,...
by Speak Digital | Apr 15, 2021 | Reviews
Wilkie Collins’s Lo scrigno di Mr Wray, ovvero la maschera e il mistero. Una storia di Natale (2019), edited with an introduction by Mariaconcetta Costantini, translated by Emilia Carmen Cavaliere Chiara Scarlato The voice of Wilkie Collins still proves to be original...
by Speak Digital | Sep 20, 2019 | Reviews
Emily Bell When we think about replicas now, our perception is often clouded by a sense, explored in such detail in Walter Benjamin’s text “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1935), that replicas are worse than their originals, somehow lacking in...
by Speak Digital | Sep 20, 2019 | Reviews
Jessica H. Everard Citing Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s “On Self-Control” (1863), Helena Ifill begins her first monograph, Creating Character: Theories of Nature and Nurture in Victorian Sensation Fiction, repeating its opening, “What is Self?” (1). It is clear to see why...
