From Aestheticism to Modernism, and Back Again
This paper argues that the conventional art-historical periodization, in which Modernism inexorably supersedes Aestheticism, and the year 1900 marks a radical break in the history of art, is seriously...
View ArticleReason vs Revelation: Feminism, Malthus, and the New Poor Law in Narratives...
My article examines the profoundly influential presence of eighteenth-century stadial or ‘four stages' theory in industrial fiction of the early Victorian period. Axiomatic within this Enlightenment...
View ArticleWhat is Interdisciplinary about Victorian History today?
This article examines the way demands for interdisciplinarity have shaped the writing of Victorian history in recent years. It briefly explores the writing of Victorian history since the 1930s (arguing...
View ArticleMrs Birkbeck's Album: The Hand-written and the Printed in Early...
Mrs Birkbeck's Album, collected between 1825 and 1847 by the wife of the founder of the College, contains poems, songs and other texts, as well as drawings and watercolours by famous women and men of...
View ArticlePutting Women in the Boat in The Idler (1892-1898) and TO-DAY (1893-1897)
In this essay I show how the monthly illustrated journal, The Idler (1892-1898), under the editorship of Jerome K. Jerome, despite its insistent masculinist tone and viewpoint, becomes...
View ArticleMapping the "Mighty Maze": Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition
This paper reflects on attempts, past and present, to map the mighty maze of periodical literature. The Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition Project (ncse), seeks to achieve two key objectives. First the...
View ArticleCultural Philanthropy, Gypsies and Interdisciplinary Scholars: Dream of a...
Although he was a major force in fin-de-siecle cultural philanthropy in both North America and Britain, Charles Godfrey Leland is today known mainly through Occult websites on the Internet. This essay...
View ArticleShared Concerns: Thoughts on British Literature and British Music in the Long...
As part of the growth of interdisciplinary studies, a number of recent writings have focused upon links between music and literature in the long nineteenth century. In addition to the general...
View ArticleReplacing Victoria's Scientific Culture
Traditional views of nineteenth century science has viewed it in terms of a largely unproblematic institutional consolidation. More recently, the consensus view of the century as a period of leisurely...
View ArticleTennyson’s Wrinkled Feet: Ageing and the Poetics of Decay
This article argues that Tennyson’s ‘Tithonus’ (1860) draws together ageing and decay through the poem’s formal wrinkling: moments where metrical disruption, folding, slackness, or concealment...
View ArticleCurating Historic Interiors at the Charles Dickens Museum during Covid
Emma Treleaven gives us an insight into Dickens’s interiors and reveals how the Dickens House Museum faced the challenges of lockdown.
View Article‘Look Back, and Smile on Perils Past’: Abbotsford in Lockdown
Kirsty Archer-Thompson discusses her work at Abbotsford, the early nineteenth-century home of Sir Walter Scott, and examines the impact of lockdown on the development of future initiatives.
View ArticleIntroduction: The Time Elapsed
The Introduction highlights broad developments within age studies reflected in this issue of 19. Detecting a shift in emphasis away from concern with representations of the old, it explores heuristic...
View ArticleAncient Trees and Aged Peasants
This article takes as its starting point Jacob George Strutt’s description, in his Sylva Britannica (1826) of the Cowthorpe Oak, an ancient oak tree, as being ‘like some aged peasant, whose toil-worn...
View ArticleOdd Age, Old Age, and Doubled Lives: Asynchronicity and Ageing Queerly in...
This article explores ageing in the short, comic fiction of the Anglo-Jewish New Humourist writer Israel Zangwill. In a range of short stories, which reflect on the ways in which fin-de-siècle culture...
View ArticleBending the Clock: New Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Ageing: A...
Over the past decade, several academic studies have taken nineteenth-century ageing as their topic, including Devoney Looser’s Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain (2008), Karen Chase’s The...
View ArticleHomeworking at the Soane
Helen Dorey considers parallels between our recent experience of homeworking and that of Sir John Soane, whose life as a homeworker was shaped by his architectural practice.
View Article‘How differently it came upon her’: The Ageing Young Stepmother in Charlotte...
This article looks at two domestic novels of the 1860s, The Young Step-Mother by Charlotte Yonge and Christian’s Mistake by Dinah Craik, alongside Victorian vital statistics and family structure in...
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