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A Special Issue on Domesticity and Worldliness: Victorians Like Us
Ana Cristina Mendes and Iolanda Ramos, editors of “‘Victorians Like Us,” a special issue published by Open Cultural Studies in 2017, discuss in their introduction the insights that its various contributions offer on the...
Iolanda Ramos Published Online: 2017-12-29 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0056 Abstract This article draws on an alternate history approach to the Victorian world and discusses steampunk and neo-Victorian literary and cultural features. It focuses on Richard Francis Burton-one of...
James Connelly Published Online: 2017-12-29 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0053. Abstract This paper examines the Collingwood family of Lanehead, Coniston, in the UK’s Lake District. It shows that the family itself was a unity which allowed for...
Simon Magus Published Online: 2017-12-29 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0045. Abstract The following article analyses the ways in which the developing field of Egyptology found its way into Victorian culture, more especially via the romances of H....
Flore Janssen Published Online: 2017-11-30 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0025 Abstract This article explores the debate around widening access to birth control information in the late nineteenth century through a case study of Annie Besant’s participation in the 1877...
Kristine Swenson Published Online: 2017-11-09 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0017 Abstract The Victorian artistic community that grew up on the Isle of Wight around Tennyson and Julia Margaret Cameron has been reimagined in Virginia Woolf’s play, Freshwater (1923, 1935),...
Joanne Paisana Published Online: 2017-10-18 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0015 Abstract The reforming work of Isabella Caroline Somerset (Lady Henry Somerset 1851-1921) is largely overlooked today. Dedicated to women’s causes at home and abroad and to temperance in particular,...
Kathryn Rachel Ferry Published Online: 2017-09-30 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0011 Interior design offered new members of the Victorian middle-class a means to demonstrate their success. Yet the choices they made in decorating domestic spaces could be harshly judged,...
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