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Wilkie Collins Journal Materiality Introduction: “Hosts of odd, old-fashioned things” Kym Brindle The Victorians are justifiably famous as collectors of objects. From ornaments, portraits, and furnishings to ferns, shells, minerals, butterflies, and more curious items...
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Jessica Banner University of Ottawa “Do I end and begin at the surface of my skin?” – Bill Brown (“The Bodies of Things” 225) From everyday objects to strange collections of antiques, amputated limbs, and rare gems, Victorian texts are populated by clamouring...
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Hannah-Freya Blake Leeds Trinity University This paper analyses the use of traditional signifiers of time in Victorian sensation fiction, such as clocks and time-pieces, to assess the function they have in a world organised by new technology. As many critics have...
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Sarah Lennox Eastern Connecticut State University In The Victorians and the Visual Imagination Kate Flint explores how Victorian science impacted popular beliefs “about how the invisible could be brought to view, and how knowledge and control over the natural world...
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Heather Hind University of Exeter and University of Bristol Hairwork—the art of making decorative objects, such as jewellery, from human hair—is a craft in which identity is articulated not only through the object’s design, making, exchange, and possession, but...
