For Janice Carlisle, sniffing her way through Victorian literature has little to do with musty books. Her olfactory tour through 1860s novels, Common Scents: Comparative Encounters in High-Victorian ...

Good girls learn from bad girls in 19th-century fiction. In a recurrent plot, coquettes, paired with angelic heroines, instruct their purer sisters although their lesson plans are scorned. But erotic ...

For years, Professor Deborah Denenholz Morse’s classes on Victorian fiction and the Brontës —the famous literary sisters whose works were published form 1846-1855 — have been popular with W&M students ...

Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Vol. 22, No. 1-2, SPECIAL ISSUE: The White Album: Looking through a Glass Onion (2020), pp. 52-77 (26 pages) https://doi.org/10. ...

According to new research from the Universities of Illinois and California, Berkeley, female representation in fiction was better during the Victorian Era than it is today. Researchers found that ...

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As I recently reread Anthony Trollope’s Barchester Towers I commented to my husband that one could use the events of the novel to argue for why the Catholic Church should not have married priesthood ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person in possession of a good brain must be in want of a book. From Jane Austen to the Brontë sisters, 19th century literature churned out some powerful ...

Lesa Scholl’s Hunger Movements tells the story of these bleak times through the lens of early Victorian writers and the pre-eminent political, social and economic thinkers of the age. Our modern world ...

Ever notice how certain foods in books stick with you long after you've finished reading? There's something about the way authors describe a meal, a snack, or even a simple drink that can transport ...