Tracing unexplored connections between nineteenth-century astronomy and literature, The
Starry Sky Within offers a new understanding of literary point of view as essentially multiple …

Throughout its early history, photography's authenticity was contested and challenged: how
true a representation of reality can a photograph provide? Does the reproduction of a …

Victorian Time examines how literature of the era registers the psychological impact of the
onset of a modern, industrialized experience of time as time-saving technologies, such as …

Unlike many of his contemporaries, Thomas Hardy is not generally recognized as an
imperial writer, even though he wrote during a period of major expansion of the British …

This essay argues that Thomas Hardy compares the act of observing another person to the
scientific practice of observing the stars in order to reveal structural obstacles to accessing …

The subject of this chapter is that characteristic nineteenth-century endeavour, the 'Key to all
Mythologies'. As all readers will know, in George Eliot's Middlemarch, the 'Key to all …

The influences of William Wordsworth's writing and evolutionary theory—the nineteenth
century's two defining visions of nature—conflicted in the Victorian period. For Victorians …

Abstract Transits of Venus and Mercury have inspired artistic creation of all kinds. After
having been the first to witness a Venusian transit, in 1639, Jeremiah Horrocks expressed …

In Environmental Legacies of the Copernican Universe, Jean-Marie Kauth shows how
counter-ecological metaphors sprung from the cosmology of the Copernican Revolution …

The fact that Victorians in general were keenly interested in the practices of self-control—
from emotional restraint to diligent work habits—and in the relationships between self …