Affective Accretion: Reconciling the Material and the Emotional in Studies of the Victorian Era
How do we approach an age that, increasingly, feels unanchored from our emotional present? Why do the outsized passions and…
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The Victorian Kindle: Schloss’s Bijou Almanac
In the mid nineteenth-century no handbag was complete without a Schloss Bijou Almanac. Anticipating the portability of kindles and tablets,…
The Secret Art of Victorian Fore-edge Painting
They say that beauty is everywhere, often hidden in plain sight. In the case of the lost art of…