Structural Bias, Education Reform, and Victorian Women’s Poetry
How nineteenth-century British school textbooks help to institutionalise gender bias and erase women poets from literary history?
Q&A with Michelle Honeybun, author of “‘His Vest, I Perceive, Is But Padded with Cotton!”: John Bull in Cotton Famine Poetry during the American Civil War (1861–5)’
This interview explores how John Bull became a literary and political figure in Victorian newspaper poetry during the American Civil War and the Cotton Famine.
Violence in Brontë Afterlives
Explore five adaptations of Brontë novels that amplify violence, from Wuthering Heights to Jane Eyre, reshaping the Brontës’ enduring cultural impact.
Professionalisation and the New Woman: Q&A with Riya Das, editor of the critical edition of Mona Caird’s The Daughters of Danaus
Riya Das discusses the making of her fully annotated edition of Mona Caird’s immensely successful novel, The Daughters of Danaus.
5 reasons why Dickens wasn’t a bad playwright
The editors of The Plays of Charles Dickens discuss five arguments in defense of Dickens's dramatic works.
Q&A with Ruth M. McAdams, author of Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature
by Ruth M. McAdams Tell us a bit about your book. Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature is about what happened when Victorians looked around for signs of the historical progress that was allegedly taking place on a broad scale.…
The Persistence of Victorian Middle Class Fictions
by Albert Pionke The US has just emerged from a mid-term election cycle. In the UK, calls for a general election grow ever louder. Politicians, pundits, and pollsters alike cite the discontent of the middle class with, depending upon one’s ideological predilections,…
All Stories Run on Two Tracks:What Formalism Offers Presentism
EUP author Katherine Voyles discusses the process around writing a double review for the Victoriographies Journal.
Writing Letters, Writing Lives: Dash & Lily and Born in Exile
By Tom Ue Dash & Lily (2020-), Netflix’s charming new adaptation of Rachel Cohn’s and David Levithan’s popular YA series (2010-), has achieved an enviable 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics lauding its performances, story, and festive mood. The first…