While “freaks” have captivated our imagination since well before the nineteenth century, the Victorians flocked to shows featuring dancing dwarves, bearded ladies, “missing links,&r
While “freaks” have captivated our imagination since well before the nineteenth century, the Victorians flocked to shows featuring dancing dwarves, bearded ladies, “missing links,” and six-legged shee
Since the 1980s, scholars have made the case for examining nineteenth-century culture??particularly literary output? ??through the lens of economics. InCulture and Money in the Nineteenth Century: Abs
This volume brings together essays from a variety of literary perspectives which examine the works of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, a journal editor, author of over 80 novels during the Victorian period, an
In this groundbreaking collection, scholars explore Victorian xenophobia as a rhetorical strategy that transforms “foreign” people, bodies, and objects into perceived invaders with the dangerous power
In this groundbreaking collection, scholars explore Victorian xenophobia as a rhetorical strategy that transforms “foreign” people, bodies, and objects into perceived invaders with the dangerous power
