"Looks freshly at facts that have remained marginal to most critics' sense of the literature--the sheer mechanism of artistic and literary reproductions. These

Richly illustrated study drawing on art, literature and science to explore Victorian attitudes towards sight.

Nineteenth-century British culture frequently represented the eye as the preeminent organ of truth. These essays explore the relationship between the verbal and

Discusses the cultural and social effect that the railway had on nineteenth century society in Great Britain

Oceania, or the South Pacific, loomed large in the Victorian popular imagination. It was a world that interested the Victorians for many reasons, all of which s