Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates; their novels highlight the fragility of public health today ...

This instalment in the Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition series concerns a decade that was as technologically transitional as it was eventful on a global scale. It collects work from a group ...

No. 4 The Nineteenth Century AUTUMN 2019 pp. 719-970 No. 3 Restoration and Eighteenth Century SUMMER 2019 pp. 485-713 No. 2 Tudor and Stuart Drama Spring 2019 pp. 259-479 No. 1 The English Renaissance ...

Using original music alongside source quotations, these videos summarise key 19th Century and modern texts for 14-16s, taking in plot, themes and characters. Suitable for: English Literature at ...

Teaching 19th-century English literature, I regularly encounter gutting depictions of losing a child, and I am reminded that not knowing the emotional cost of widespread child mortality is a luxury.

Teaching 19th-century English literature, I regularly encounter gutting depictions of losing a child, and I am reminded that not knowing the emotional cost of widespread child mortality is a luxury.

(His) actual achievement is to highlight a neglected vein of nineteenth-century literature and visual culture, one that makes sense of some of the most important yet eccentric masterpieces of the era ...

That sentence would cause any lover of 19th-century British literature to do a double take. One half of the line mirrors the opening of Charles Dickens’ novella “A Christmas Carol,” while ...