Comforting Creatures: Changing Visions of Animal Otherness in the Victorian Period by Laurence Roussillon-Constanty, Sara Thornton

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Angelia Poon. Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period : Colonialism and the Politics of Performance by Annie Escuret

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Alexis Easley, Clare Hill, and Beth Rogers (eds), Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in the Victorian Period, by Bénédicte Coste

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‘At once pet, ornament, and “subject for dissection”’: The Unstable Status of Marine Animals in Victorian Aquaria by Silvia Granata

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Newman’s Poetry: The Heart of a Victorian Renaissance Project  by Dampi Somoko

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Lady Clara Cavendish: Reynolds and Rymer’s Political Hoax by Rebecca L. Nesvet

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From Victorian Buildings to the Victorian Built Heritage: Victorian studies and the Re-interpretation of 19th-century architecture by Isabelle Cases

“…Art history is an obvious first step, and indeed a necessary but difficult approach due to the constant reinterpretation of styles of the past and the discovery of new exotic models in the Victorian period, which resulted in the so-called Victorian architectural eclecticism. …”
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Le genre féerique illustré à l’époque victorienne : splendeurs et déclin d’un genre entré en résistance by Audrey Doussot

“…After having been blacklisted for decades, fairy tales unexpectedly came back into favour in Great Britain during the Victorian period, being staunchly supported by authors like Ruskin, Dickens or MacDonald. …”
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‘The Drunkard’s Raggit Wean’: Broadside Culture and the Politics of Temperance Verse by Kirstie Blair

“…It argues for the significance and continued popularity of broadsides in the mid-Victorian period, and highlights the importance of temperance verse in this period’s popular culture.…”
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Working-Class Readers and Literary Culture in North-East England: The Allendale Lead-Miners’ Libraries by Kirstie Blair

“…It considers popular reading habits in this community and the patterns of borrowing among individuals, suggesting that these give us insight into the way in which working-class readers used libraries, especially those founded through management initiatives, and their reading preferences in the mid-Victorian period.…”
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Dickens et Gaskell ou les difficultés mid-victoriennes à dire le vieillir by Marianne Camus

“…The analysis of the representation of ageing will be limited to the midVictorian period and centred on the works of Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell. …”
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« Appartenir aux classes populaires » : L’exemple du pub dans l’Angleterre victorienne by Isabelle Cases

“…In the Victorian period, the public house gradually replaced the former beer shops and gin palaces. …”
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Brumes et brouillards de Bleak House à Heart of Darkness by Audrey Sabathier-Lepetre

“…This article analyses the ways in which air is combined to water to generate mist or fog in three novels of the Victorian period (Bleak House, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Heart of Darkness). …”
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‘Diaphaneitè’ and Dante: a New Perspective on Pater’s Early Essay by Julia Straub

“…This article gives an overview of Pater’s general interest in Dante, seen within the context of the reception of Dante’s works in the Victorian period, but then focuses on Pater’s early essay ‘Diaphaneitè’. …”
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The Poetics of Social Deviance in Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens by Nathalie Vanfasse

“…During the Victorian period, social deviance became a source of growing interest and anxiety. …”
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Dynamisme du néo-gothique, architecture du renouveau religieux : le débat sur la création architecturale dans les années 1840 : A. W. N. Pugin et J. H. Newman by Odile Boucher-Rivalain

“…The architectural criticism of the early Victorian period bears the marks of the passionate debate around the Catholic revival in England in the 1830s and 1840s. …”
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Early Swimming Clubs: A Question of Class by Win Hayes

“…The early swimming clubs during the Victorian period met the varying needs of a range of different groups within society at the time. …”
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Gothic Sounds and the Foreshadowing of Victorian Soundscapes by Lucie Ratail

“…Gothic’s gloomy atmosphere tends to be associated with the Victorian period despite its being embedded in another time span, showing the impact of gothic sublimity as a key concern of the nineteenth century. …”
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Images de l’étrange : Punch ou la re-présentation du paradigme bourgeois by Françoise Baillet

“…In the mid-Victorian period, at a time when the forces of respectability were rapidly transforming the British society, Punch, formerly famous for its biting pictorial comment on contemporary events, chose to champion the cause of the increasingly powerful middle-class. …”
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Repression and Expression of S exuality in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles: the Paradox and Virtue of Censorship by Thierry Goater

“…If there was censorship in literature during the Victorian period, it was mainly more the effect of pervading Puritanism, voiced by leagues of virtue or carried out by editors and publishers, than the result of legal machinery. …”
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