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Introduction |
Introduction
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Paper Houses: Originality, posterity, lineage and celebrity in Laurence Stern's marbled page and Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill House by Imelda Dooley Hunter |
Laurence Sterne and Horace Walpole are popularly thought of as two of the great originators of the eighteenth century – Sterne a... |
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The Acquisition of Taste: The replication, reproduction and reception of a classical gem in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centures by Richard Aronowitz |
This article examines the influence that the three-dimensional replication and two-dimensional reproduction of classical gems in... |
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Taming the Goddess: Managing male fear and desire in late Victorian England: Astarte Syriaca (1877) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and She (1887) by H. Rider Haggard by Brian Holland |
Fear and sexual desire have often gone hand in hand, but Victorian men were particularly prone to the affliction. Each of these... |
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Staging Cinderellas: Examining nineteenth-century ideas of the Victorian ballet girl in Miss Clara Webster and Jane Eyre by Fiona Bradbury |
This article examines nineteenth-century ideas of Victorian ballet-girls, exploring these in nineteenth-century art and literature.... |
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Female Self-determination in Victorian Britain: Finding the parellels between Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (1862) and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Proserpine (1874) by Sez Maxted |
The gender history of nineteenth-century Britain can be seen as a gradual but determined female challenge against an overarching... |
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Mrs Rundell and the Milkmaid: Perceptions of female identity in the domestic sphere in eighteenth-century London by Jenny Sylvester |
This article discusses a cookery book, A New System of Domestic Cookery (figure 1), by Maria Eliza Rundell (1745–1828), and Milk... |
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The Other Side: Themes of Swedenborgian-spiritualism in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The Blessed Damozel by Rosanna Hayes |
This article will explore two expressions of Swedenborgian-Spiritualism in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s painting The Blessed Damozel and... |
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The Engine of Change: Exploring the cultural challenges of railway development in early Victorian England by Heather Auton |
The development of rail transport in Victorian England was undertaken at a staggering pace. Between the first passenger train in 1825... |
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A Proverbial Education? Mottos in May Morris's The Homestead and the Forest cot quilt and Mavor's English Spelling Book by Alison Fogg |
This article explores May Morris’s 1890 cot quilt, The Homestead and the Forest, as a personal artefact representing her socialist... |
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Forward to the Past: The Eglinton tournament and chivalry in the Age of Steam by Nigel Hankin |
This article looks at the appeal that a re-imagined medieval past had in early Victorian England, epitomised by the enormous interest... |
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Valuable & Able to Value: A Shakespearean method by Pratibha Rai |
In this article, I analyse Shakespeare’s versatile play on the theme of ‘value’ through his employment of metallurgical coinage as... |
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George Eliot's Microscope by Emelia Hamilton-Russell |
This article explores the links between the nineteenth century microscope and George Eliot’s realist fiction. Focusing on Middlemarch... |
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Salve, festa dies: An examination of the Marian Restoration through the reforms of Reginal Cardinal Pole and a woodcut from John Foxe's Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perilous Days by Christopher Akers |
This essay examines two ‘artefacts’ of the Marian period concerning the restoration of the Catholic Church in England after its nadir... |
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Layers of Meaning: Interpretations of the Cowdray Portrait in the light of Serlio's Obelisk P by Hilary Brash |
This article suggests that one route into deciphering the messages and purpose of the Cowdray Portrait may lie in relating its... |
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By Instruments her Powers Appear': Gender, Intimacy, and Power: The political uses of Music and Miniature Portraits at the court of Queen Elizabetyh I by Elodie Noel |
Queen Elizabeth I had a strong reputation for musicality. She played the lute and the virginals, sang and even claimed to have... |
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Beef and Liberty! A comparison of English and French cuisine and the rise of English national identity in the eighteenth century by Rachel Cairnes |
The rivalry between England and France is undoubtedly one of the greatest themes of the eighteenth century. For the English, the... |
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An End Which Preceded a Beginning: A comparative study into the incorposation of allegory in a posthumouse portrait of Queen Elizabeth I and Aemilia Lanyer's dedicatory poem to Queen Anna of Denmark by Claire Ashwell |
This short study attempts to examine how and why allegory was incorporated into two pieces of material culture that were created c.... |
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Transgressive Wives: Representations of married women in Victorian popular culture by Lauren Magilton |
This article will explore two representations of women as wives from the mid-nineteenth century. Wilkie Collins’ Armadale (1864)... |
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Whirlwinds of Empire: Subversion and the Gothic in William Blake's The Spiritual Form of Pitt Guiding Behemoth by Jonathan Perris |
Between 1782 and 1830, some eighty authors directly referenced William Pitt the Younger in poetic verse. George Canning’s ‘The Pilot... |
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The Power behind the Pearl by Dana MacMillan |
This article will focus on two sixteenth-century portraits of powerful men adorned with pearls, with both works connected by... |
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Say What You Still See: Stasis and pastoral imagery in John Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' (1819) and Leigh Hunt's 'The Calendar of Nature [May]' (1819) by Nicholas Dunn-McAfee |
This paper interrogates similar examples of stasis in pastoral imagery in John Keats’s poem ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ and Leigh Hunt’s... |
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Reading the Vase: Exploring responses to Greek art through an examination of d'Hancarville's interpretation of the Hunt Krater and Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' by Jessica Billington |
This article examines the cultural significance of eighteenth-century collections of Greek vases through an exploration of two... |
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Tipu Sultan's Slippers and Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match: Footwear, identity and violence in eighteenth-century India by Martin Moran |
Following his defeat by the British in 1799, Tipu Sultan’s treasures were plundered and transported back to Britain, including a pair... |
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