The Victorian  

Sandra M. Adams

This study examines a number of travel narratives from nineteenth and early twentieth century male and female writers, offering direct sources to demonstrate that writers were both obliged and even willing to create gendered texts as responses to their tr... see more

Heid Renée Aijala

On December 5, 1863, the working-class Ellen Johnston was dismissed from herposition as a power loom weaver in the Verdant Factory in Dundee, Scotland. Thedismissal came shortly after a considerable period of unemployment and added to aseries of unfortuna... see more

Bilal Tawfiq Hamamra

Both Jane Eyre (1847) and Villette (1852) are narratives of psychological development that raise the moral question of the relation of woman’s self-transcendence to self-indulgence on the one hand and self-negation on the other. Jane Eyre and Villette, wh... see more

Zeynep Harputlu

This article probes the extent to which social-class stratification, moralthresholds and liminal spaces and bodies played a role in the survival of the East Endin the late-nineteenth century. Arthur Morrison’s fiction, in this sense, buildsawareness of ne... see more

Jalal Uddin Khan

Abstract: This article is about what the author argues to be the ideal contents of an annotated poetry textbook (or a coursebook) for the native Arab students in the Arabian Gulf considering their not so well developed command/proficiency in English, thei... see more

Eric Meljac

In the “Editor’s Introduction” of an issue of Modernism/Modernity, Cassandra Laity writes: “While, individually, modernist and Victorian studies vigorously pursue new cultural, theoretical, and social ‘modernities,’ less scholarly attention is given to cr... see more

Janet Powney,Jeremy Mitchell

The second half of the nineteenth century saw a surge in the number of literary tourists to Iceland inspired by English translations of the Viking sagas. Mary Gordon (Mrs. Disney Leith), one of the few visitors who spoke Icelandic, made eighteen visits be... see more

Lauren M. Rohrs

The genre of fanfiction has, arguably, existed for centuries, with many well-knownpieces of literature matching the definition of “fanfiction”. While countless classicsmeet the requirements of a “fanfiction” text by retelling the stories of classic figure... see more

Heidi Turner

Evolution and Imagination in Victorian Children’s Literature by Jessica Straley outlines the effect of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species on the Victorian understanding of the child. She argues that Victorian children’s literature was written to a tho... see more