Author and professor Grace Lavery could not have picked a catchier and more alluring title than Quaint, Exquisite for her recently released book about Victorian aesthetics and the way Victorian ...

Set between Manchester and Leeds, this pretty Victorian town is packed with galleries, indie stores, and music venues — and ...

The notion of the Victorian era has historically been one of a formal, well-mannered, civilized and seemingly repressed society. New research challenges this neatly preserved image of Victorianism and ...

It is hardly news to say that, in his famous opening lines for A Tale of Two Cities – “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” – Charles Dickens was remarkably prescient about how his ...

Sure they might have been sticklers for following the rules, but from being courted to dressing up for dinner, some Victorian mandates could be fun. Crop tops and sweatpants were certainly not dinner ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professor Akim Reinhardt talked about Victorian Era culture in the United States in the last half of the 19th century. He described the societal ...

Introduction. The Poetics of Transparency -- Part I. Facets of glass culture: making and breaking glass -- 1. Factory Tourism: Morphology of the 'Visit to a Glass Factory' -- 2. Robert Lucas Chance, ...

Aeron Hunt specializes in Victorian literature and culture, with particular interests in the relationship of literature and economic life, the novel, Victorian popular and mass culture, and gender and ...