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English Assimilation and Invasion From Outside the Empire: Problems of the Outsider in England in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Posted on February 1, 2012 | No CommentsNo matter how relevant the novel may seem to current readers, it would be foolish to ignore the ways in which Dracula excited emotions in its earliest readers. Late Victorian English citizens would have viewed the novel through a number of different lenses that 21st century readers may be unable to appreciate. -
Scripture versus Church in the Debate of More and Tyndale
Posted on January 29, 2012 | No CommentsWritten law was given to the people of Israel as their morals got generally corrupted and they became blind to understand the will of God, thus God gave them the Ten Commandements of his his mercy... -
Victorian Governesses : A Look at Education and Professionalization
Posted on January 27, 2012 | No CommentsHistories and fictions explore the lives of Victorian governesses. The governess appeared lonely, depressed, and unwanted, yet thousands of women entered the profession. Victorian governesses experienced changing social and economic conditions. -
Courtship and Marriage Rituals in Seventeenth Century England
Posted on January 27, 2012 | No CommentsThis thesis will examine the more personal side of courtship and marriage, through the use of seventeenth century diaries and letters. -
Dickens’s fans sought to celebrate author’s bicentenary
Posted on January 24, 2012 | No CommentsUniversity of Leicester to stage series of events marking 200th anniversary of birth of Charles Dickens -
Imagining the pain and peril of seventeenth-century childbirth: travail and deliverance in the making of an early modern world
Posted on January 23, 2012 | No CommentsAlice Thornton’s accounts of the pains and perils of childbirth, including this passage on the birth of her fifth child, have attracted the attention of a number of recent historians as particularly detailed and evocative examples of personal testimony to the experience of giving birth in the early modern period. -
Young England : the medieval spirit in an industrial age, 1842-1850
Posted on January 12, 2012 | No CommentsIt cannot be said that Young England left an indelible mark on the legislation or social life of Victorian England. As Disraeli's biographer, E.T. Raymond,,, has remarked, "It left no mark on the statute book. -
Gothic Horror, Monstrous Science and Steampunk
Posted on January 3, 2012 | No CommentsUsing a case study of the Steampunk film Van Helsing, the Gothic roots are examined using the inspirational texts Frankenstein and Dracula alongside an analysis of the changing ethos of wonderment toward and faith in “safe” science. -
Literature, war and politics, 1642-1668
Posted on January 3, 2012 | No CommentsWhat the two poems could not register (beyond a loaded remark in the Epilogue to the effect that if the play had offended the prince then ‘we’ve now / Three hours done treason here’) was the full extent of the political crisis then unfolding. -
New in Victorian Books this Week!
Posted on December 29, 2011 | No CommentsRing in the New Year Victorian Style with these new releases! -
Dickens’s Haunted Christmas: The Ethics of the Spectral Text
Posted on December 21, 2011 | No CommentsMarley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. -
Working with the body : subjectivity, gender, commodification and the labouring body in Victorian England
Posted on December 20, 2011 | No CommentsThe dissertation’s contrapuntal structure places middle-class texts against working-class texts. -
The Creation, Reception and Perpetuation of the Sherlock Holmes Phenomenon, 1887 – 1930
Posted on December 16, 2011 | No CommentsDecember 1887 saw the publication of the first of sixty tales that have immortalized the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. -
Scholar discovers 16th-century love poem written by an Englishwoman
Posted on December 16, 2011 | No CommentsThe erotic-love poem seems to have been by a Roman Catholic woman and sent to a Protestant scholar who was the tutor to Edward VI. -
Charlotte Bronte manuscript sold for £690,000
Posted on December 15, 2011 | No CommentsA miniature manuscript written by Charlotte Bronte has been purchased at auction for £690,000 by a museum in Paris. -
The contexts and contours of British economic literature, 1660-1760
Posted on December 12, 2011 | No CommentsIn the century after the Restoration of Charles II there was a remarkable outpouring of thinking about economic issues in Britain, of exploring the ways and means to prosperity and plenty. -
An ideal woman : literary, parliamentary, and sexual representations of model femininity in mid-Victorian England
Posted on November 18, 2011 | No CommentsMiddle-class women of the Victorian era experienced isolation from various aspects of society, in favor of removal to the “woman‟s sphere” of hearth and home. -
Three early seventeenth-century watercolours of the tombs of Henry VII and Elizabeth I in Westminster Abbey
Posted on November 16, 2011 | No CommentsOne of the two paintings of Henry VII’s tomb (fol.24) shows the gilded bronze effigies of the King and his wife, Elizabeth of York. -
Literary detectives unravel famous Ben Jonson mystery
Posted on October 26, 2011 | No CommentsThe amazing chance discovery of a manuscript hidden among papers in an ancient family archive is shedding new light on the legendary career of William Shakespeare’s biggest rival, the poet and playwright, Ben Jonson. -
The Ghost in Early Modern Protestant Culture: Shifting perceptions of the afterlife, 1450-1700
Posted on October 25, 2011 | No CommentsThe Ghost in Early Modern Protestant Culture:Shifting perceptions of the afterlife, 1450-1700 McKeever, Amanda Jane PhD Thesis, Philosophy, University of Sussex, September 27, (2010) Abstract My thesis seeks to address... -
“And With All That, Who Believes in Vampires?” Undead Legends and Enlightenment Culture
Posted on October 25, 2011 | No Comments“And With All That, Who Believes in Vampires?” Undead Legends and Enlightenment Culture Burns, Stu Paper given at 33rd Annual European Studies Conference (2007) Abstract In the winter of 1740,... -
Elfland Revisited: A Comparative Study of Late Twentieth Century Adaptations of Two Traditional Ballads
Posted on October 24, 2011 | No CommentsElfland Revisited: A Comparative Study of Late Twentieth Century Adaptations of Two Traditional Ballads Giebert, Stefanie PhD Dissertation, Philosophy, University of Trier, (2009) Abstract Once upon a time there was... -
Ophelia’s Mistreatment and Ignored Monastic Opportunities
Posted on October 16, 2011 | No CommentsAn examination of her relationship with Polonius and Laertes will culminate with an inspection of the relationship between Ophelia and Laertes, using the feminist theory employed by Virginia Wolf -
The Hunt for Jack the Ripper
Posted on October 16, 2011 | No CommentsWilliam D. Rubinstein reviews the achievements of the ‘Ripperologists’ and lends weight to the argument surrounding the Ripper Diaries. -
Margaret Cavendish’s Imaginary Friends
Posted on October 15, 2011 | No CommentsMargaret Cavendish’s Imaginary Friends Rachel Warburton – Lakehead University Session: “English Epistolary Friendships” Paper given at the conference: Friendship In Pre-Modern Europe (1300-1700) This paper analysed Margaret Cavendish’s sociable letters. They... -
Promoting ‘English Civility’ in Tudor Times
Posted on October 14, 2011 | No CommentsPromoting ‘English Civility’ in Tudor Times Ellis, Steven G. (National University of Ireland, Galway) Tolerance and Intolerance in Historical Perspective, (University of Pisa, 2003) Like states everywhere, the 16th-century English monarchy regulated... -
The Life Of Jane Dormer Duchess of Feria
Posted on October 10, 2011 | No CommentsThe Life Of Jane Dormer Duchess of Feria Departamento de la Lengua Inglesa Intramuros – Studia: Commemrorative Booklet (1995) Abstract Acera del estilo de vida de una viuda de la... -
“Most Barbarous and Damnable Treason”: The Gunpowder Plot and how it is viewed in the Past and Present
Posted on October 10, 2011 | No Comments“Most Barbarous and Damnable Treason”: The Gunpowder Plot and how it is viewed in the Past and Present York, Jill B.A. Thesis, University of Wisconsin, (2008) Abstract This paper will discuss... -
The Threat of Otherness in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Posted on October 9, 2011 | No CommentsThe Threat of Otherness in Bram Stoker’s Dracula Muskovits, Eszter Trans— No 10 (2010) Abstract Hand in hand with scientific research on sexuality for modern culture, gothic fiction became immensely... -
Inventing the Wicked Women of Tudor England: Alice More, Anne Boleyn, and Anne Stanhope
Posted on October 9, 2011 | No CommentsInventing the Wicked Women of Tudor England: Alice More, Anne Boleyn, and Anne Stanhope Warnicke, Retha M. (Arizona State University) Quidditas: Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association,... -
Political Bodies and Animal Economies: Reconsidering the Relationship between Healthcare and Statecraft in Late Seventeenth-Century England
Posted on October 7, 2011 | No CommentsPolitical Bodies and Animal Economies: Reconsidering theRelationship between Healthcare and Statecraft in Late Seventeenth-Century England Ridge, Steve (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London) Ex... -
Sex Differentiation in Hair in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain
Posted on October 7, 2011 | No CommentsSex Differentiation in Hair in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain Chen,Pei-Ching (University of Exeter) Ex Historia, Vol. 3 (2011) Abstract This article will explore the role of hair as a marker... -
WHAT CAN ELIZABETHAN PAMPHLETS AND BALLADS TELL US ABOUT ELIZABETHAN MILITARY CULTURE?
Posted on October 5, 2011 | No CommentsWHAT CAN ELIZABETHAN PAMPHLETS AND BALLADS TELL US ABOUT ELIZABETHAN MILITARY CULTURE? Seo, Dong-Ha THE BIRMINGHAM JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE , Vol.1:2 (2008) Abstract In the early part of... -
Aberrant Accounts: William Dugdale’s Handling of Two Tudor Murders in The Antiquities of Warwickshire
Posted on October 5, 2011 | No CommentsAberrant Accounts: William Dugdale’s Handling of Two Tudor Murders in The Antiquities of Warwickshire Broadway, Jane Midland history, Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring (2008) Abstract This article examines two accounts... -
“If he be Mr Hyde…I shall be Mr Seek”: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and its place within crime fiction
Posted on October 4, 2011 | No Comments“If he be Mr Hyde…I shall be Mr Seek”: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and its place within crime fiction Kristinsdóttir ,Fríða Háskóli Íslands,... -
The Victorian Child, c. 1837-1901
Posted on October 4, 2011 | No CommentsThe Victorian Child, c. 1837-1901 Gubar, Marah (University of Pittsburgh) The Representing Childhood Project (2005) Abstract In 1799, children’s author and educator Hannah More reacted against the revolutions that had... -
‘I do mistake my person all this while’: Blindness and Illusion in Richard III
Posted on October 3, 2011 | No Comments‘I do mistake my person all this while’: Blindness and Illusion in Richard III Rutter Giappone, Krista Bonello (University of Kent) Skepsi: Bad Behaviour in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Volume... -
Historicising Shakespeare’s Richard II: Current Events, Dating, and the Sabotage of Essex
Posted on May 5, 2010 | No CommentsHistoricising Shakespeare’s Richard II: Current Events, Dating, and the Sabotage of Essex Fitter, Chris Early Modern Literary Studies 11.2 (September, 2005) Abstract This essay unfolds three, interlinked arguments. First, on... -
The Muse of Mount Orgueil: a reading of William Prynne’s poetry
Posted on May 5, 2010 | No CommentsThe Muse of Mount Orgueil: a reading of William Prynne’s poetry Green, Paul D. Early Modern Literary Studies 10.2 (September, 2004) Abstract The author of Histriomastix, the mortal enemy of... -
Shakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: “Reason of State” in Hamlet
Posted on April 29, 2010 | No CommentsShakespeare and the Public Discourse of Sovereignty: “Reason of State” in Hamlet DiMatteo, Anthony Early Modern Literary Studies 10.2 (September, 2004) Abstract Hamlet marks a turning point in Shakespeare’s evolving... -
“Caparisoned like the horse”: Tongue and Tail in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew
Posted on April 29, 2010 | No CommentsCaparisoned like the horse”: Tongue and Tail in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew Sloan, LaRue Love Early Modern Literary Studies 10.2 (September, 2004) Abstract Critics commenting on Petruchio’s diseased... -
Monuments in Late Elizabethan Literature: A Conservatory of Vanishing Traditions
Posted on April 23, 2010 | No CommentsMonuments in Late Elizabethan Literature: A Conservatory of Vanishing Traditions Michel, J.Y. Early Modern Literary Studies 9.2 (September 2003) Abstract Although the word “monument” seems very straightforward, it has a... -
“He is turned a ballad-maker”: Broadside Appropriations in Early Modern England
Posted on April 23, 2010 | No Comments“He is turned a ballad-maker”: Broadside Appropriations in Early Modern England Fisher, Joshua B. Early Modern Literary Studies 9.2 (September 2003) Abstract Responding to an enduring critical heritage that often... -
The ”popular philosopher”: Plato, Poetry, and Food in Tudor Aesthetics
Posted on April 22, 2010 | No CommentsThe ”popular philosopher”: Plato, Poetry, and Food in Tudor Aesthetics Mitsi, Efterpi Early Modern Literary Studies 9.2 (September 2003) Abstract Sixteenth-century arguments on the role of poetry reveal the ambiguous... -
The Metaphysical Sonnets of John Donne and Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski: A Comparison
Posted on April 22, 2010 | No CommentsThe Metaphysical Sonnets of John Donne and Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski: A Comparison Kay, Magdalena Early Modern Literary Studies 9.2 (September 2003) Abstract Two of the most extraordinary minds of the... -
Meet the Peters
Posted on April 22, 2010 | No CommentsMeet the Peters Abrams, Richard Early Modern Literary Studies 8.2 (September 2002) / Special Issue 10 Abstract Recent internal evidence makes clear that John Ford had a principal hand in... -
“The City Cannot Hold You”: Social Conversion in the Goldsmith’s Shop
Posted on April 22, 2010 | No Comments“The City Cannot Hold You”: Social Conversion in the Goldsmith’s Shop Jenstad, Janelle Day Early Modern Literary Studies 8.2 (September 2002) / Special Issue 10 Abstract The goldsmith’s imbrication in... -
“O unquenchable thirst of gold”: Lyly’s Midas and the English quest for Empire
Posted on April 22, 2010 | No Comments“O unquenchable thirst of gold”: Lyly’s Midas and the English quest for Empire Connolly, Annaliese Early Modern Literary Studies 8.2 (September 2002) / Special Issue 10 Abstract This paper argues... -
Rare copy of Jungle Book discovered
Posted on April 15, 2010 | No CommentsA rare first edition copy of Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book – with a poignant handwritten inscription by the author to his young daughter – has been discovered at the National... -
‘The Good and Bad of that Sexe’: Monstrosity and Womanhood in Early Modern England
Posted on April 12, 2010 | No Comments‘The Good and Bad of that Sexe’: Monstrosity and Womanhood in Early Modern England By Alletta Brenner Online work (2004) – Winner of the Undergraduate Library Research Award scholarship competition...