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Affective Accretion: Reconciling the Material and the Emotional in Studies of the Victorian Era
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Affective Accretion: Reconciling the Material and the Emotional in Studies of the Victorian Era

Posted on August 12, 2019by Rosalind White

How do we approach an age that, increasingly, feels unanchored from our emotional present? Why do the outsized passions and…

‘I had no escape from it. I loved an animalcule:’ Romance Through the Microscope
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‘I had no escape from it. I loved an animalcule:’ Romance Through the Microscope

Posted on August 18, 2018by Rosalind White

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
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Defining Curiosity in the Victorian Era

Posted on September 3, 2016by Rosalind White

What is curiosity? Does it change according to the ebbs and flows of time? While today we might associate it with…

Lewis Carroll's Alice

Alice Through the Magnifying Glass, Visual and Verbal Interplay in Wonderland

Posted on May 13, 2016by Rosalind White

 What is the use of a book,’ thought Alice, ‘without pictures or conversation?’ At the start of Alice’s Adventures in…

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