The Strange World of Victorian Literature

"Such Real, Breathing Men and Women”: George Eliot, 'Middlemarch' and the Realistic Novel (Part One)

“Such Real, Breathing Men and Women”: George Eliot, 'Middlemarch' and the Realistic Novel (Part Two)

“In This Great Metropolis”: Charles Dickens and the Absurd (Part One)

“In This Great Metropolis”: Charles Dickens and the Absurd (Part Two)

“The Golden Age of Childhood”: The Subversive Comedy of Edward Lear (Part One)

“The Golden Age of Childhood”: The Subversive Comedy of Edward Lear (Part Two)

“An Eerie Feeling”: Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling and Colonialism (Part One)

“An Eerie Feeling”: Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling and Colonialism (Part Two)

“No Friend Like a Sister”: The Poetry of Christina Rossetti and Emily Dickinson (Part One)

“No Friend Like a Sister”: The Poetry of Christina Rossetti and Emily Dickinson (Part Two)

“Ideal and Real”: The Novels of Thomas Hardy and Henry James (Part One)

“Ideal and Real”: The Novels of Thomas Hardy and Henry James (Part Two)