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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‘I had no escape from it. I loved an animalcule:’ Romance Through the Microscope
Fitz-James O’Brien (1828-1862) was an Irish-American Civil War soldier and one of the forerunners of the Science-Fiction genre. His primary literary connection…
Defining Curiosity in the Victorian Era
What is curiosity? Does it change according to the ebbs and flows of time? While today we might associate it with…
Alice Through the Magnifying Glass, Visual and Verbal Interplay in Wonderland
What is the use of a book,’ thought Alice, ‘without pictures or conversation?’ At the start of Alice’s Adventures in…