Many people throughout the world" inhabit" imaginary worlds communally and persistently,
parsing Harry Potter and exploring online universes. These activities might seem …

This book explores how a group of Victorian liberal writers that included George Eliot, Walter
Pater, and Matthew Arnold became attracted to new theories of religion as a function of race …

Aggressive policy, enthusiastic news coverage and sensational novelistic style combined to
create a distinctive image of Britain's Empire in late-Victorian print media. The New …

This paper surveys a selection of criticism of H. Rider Haggard, late Victorian British writer of
imperial romances known for King Solomon's Mines (1885) and She (1887). In a period …

For many students of Victorian fiction, the term “three-volume novel” conjures up the image
of bulky and expensive books native only to the British Isles and the overly wordy and …

Drawing on previously unseen archival material, The Beginnings of University English
explores the innovative and scholarly ways in which English literature was taught to …

When the ill-fated Arthur Gordon Pym, hero of Edgar Allen Poe's 1838 text The Narrative of
Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, sails from the temperate Antarctic island of Tsalal into the …

The founders of cryptozoology in the 1950s implied that their objects of investigation,
animals elsewhere presumed mythical or extinct, were beyond respectable science. Back in …

What if the modern person were defined not by reason or sentiment, as Enlightenment
thinkers hoped, but by will? Western modernity rests on the notion of the autonomous …

INTRODUCTION: LOCATING THE LESBIAN WRITER, OR “WE INSIDE US DO NOT CHANGE”
1. Gertrude Stein, “Portraits and Repetition, Page 1 NOTES INTRODUCTION: LOCATING THE …