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| 1 | Shakespeare and the Victorians |
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Professor of English Literature, Oxford, gives a talk for Shakespeare... |
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst |
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| 1 | Victorian Publishing History |
During the nineteenth century, the population of England grew from 8.9 to 32.5 million. This... |
Charlotte Barrett |
| 2 | ‘‘Beauty […] lay not within the thing but in what the thing symbolised’’: Female Clothing and the Senses in the Works of Thomas Hardy |
By Charlotte Barrett ... |
Charlotte Barrett |
| 3 | The Importance of Being Wilde |
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all" ... |
Kate O'Connor |
| 4 | Gothic Elements in 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' |
The relationship between scientific discourse and the Victorian Gothic is greatly emphasised... |
Charlotte Barrett |
| 5 | The Celebration of Nature in Victorian Poetry |
Despite the publication of Darwin's radical text On the Origin of Species (1859),which... |
Charlotte Barrett |
| 6 | George Eliot and The Influence of Science |
Why Science?
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Charlotte Barrett |
| 7 | George Eliot |
... |
Charlotte Barrett |
| 8 | Science and Religion |
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, William Paley published Natural Theology (... |
Charlotte Barrett |
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| 1 | Pen, Pencil, and Poison: A Study |
Text upon which this Online Edition is Based: First version, in Fortnightly Review, January 1889... |
Oscar Wilde |
| 2 | On the Origin of Species |
Publisher info: London: John Murray, 1859. |
Charles Darwin |
| 3 | Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions | Frank Harris | |
| 4 | Supernatural Horror in Literature |
Long essay by the celebrated horror writer H. P. Lovecraft surveying the field of horror fiction... |
H.P. Lovecraft |
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| 1 | Photograph of Oscar Wilde |
By Napoleon Sarony (Library of Congress) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons |
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| 2 | Wilkie Collins' Grave |
Photograph depicting Wilkie Collin's grave in Kensal Green Cemetery, London [Public Domain] via... |
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| 3 | Wilkie Collins' Signature |
Image of Wilkie Collins'signature written in ink, 1893.
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