by wilkieco | Nov 21, 2017 | News
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by wilkieco | Apr 23, 2017 | Reviews
Jason Hall and OUP are to be congratulated on this first ever scholarly volume of one of Collins’s more readable later works. Jezebel’s Daughter as brought out by Sutton Publishing in 1998 certainly responded to a need created by the sudden flourishing of interest in...
by wilkieco | Apr 23, 2017 | Reviews
Sabine Schülting’s Dirt in Victorian Literature and Culture comes at a welcome time as the Victorian sanitation movement, as well as studies on dust and dirt, are gaining attention in Victorian Studies. Her book is a useful contribution to the existing work on dirt in...
by wilkieco | Apr 23, 2017 | Reviews
The middle decades of the nineteenth century were characterized by an intense rethinking of professional ideals, as Victorian professionals strove to redefine their corporate identities. Occupational groups employed in cultural and artistic fields such as actors,...
by wilkieco | Apr 23, 2017 | Reviews
Leila Silvana May’s Secrecy and Disclosure in Victorian Fiction begins with the assertion that secrecy is crucial in fiction not only because it can drive a plot (through the reader’s desire to reveal the secrets it holds, and through narrative or characters’...
