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• "Dabbling in Delicate Drugs": Aristocracy, Darwinism, and Substance Abuse in M. P. Shiel's The Purple Cloud.

  Author:Abigail BoucherFrom:Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature (Issue 142)

  Winter 20227,938 words Article M. P. Shiel's post-apocalyptic novel, The Purple Cloud (1901), offers Darwinian commentary on the suitability of upper-class socio-political rule, depicting the aristocracy's struggles for basic survival despite their...

• Eliza Lynn Linton and the Irish Question.

  Author:Julie DonovanFrom:Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature (Issue 142)

  Winter 20229,698 words Article This essay extends current scholarship on Eliza Lynn Linton by focusing on an under-examined aspect of her work--her Irish writings, in particular About Ireland (1890) and About Ulster (1892). These writings reflect the...

• Illusion, Disillusion: Theater Space and Public Performances of Bourgeois Femininity in Charlotte Bronte's Villette.

  Author:Ashley NadeauFrom:Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature (Issue 142)

  Winter 20229,157 words Article This analysis situates Charlotte Bronte's narrative representation of performance venues and stagecraft in Villette (1853) within the architectural and social histories of nineteenth-century British theater. Emphasis on...

• Dracula--the Route to Canonization and After.

  Author:William DonaldsonFrom:Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature (Issue 142)

  Winter 20226,745 words Article This analysis considers the process by which a novel long associated with popular culture was accepted into the canon and the extraordinarily mixed critical results that followed. The process of establishing Bram...

• "We Are All Getting Liberal Now": The Cosmopolitan Critique of British Liberalism in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone.

  Author:John Mc BratneyFrom:Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature (Issue 142)

  Winter 20229,134 words Article This analysis examines the critique of the British narrative of liberal progress by "situational cosmopolitans" in Collins's The Moonstone. The novel offers two intertwined versions of this narrative: a historical one...

• Violence and Masculinity in Arthur Morrison's Tales of Mean Streets.

  Author:Rob BretonFrom:Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature (Issue 142)

  Winter 20226,754 words Article This analysis examines Arthur Morrison's Tales of Mean Streets (1894) through the lens of what is now popularly termed "toxic masculinity." Morrison values a hard, violent masculinity, expressly understood as a...

• Greetings from the Editor.

  Author:Deborah A. LoganFrom:Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature (Issue 142)

  Winter 2022603 words Editorial Victorians. A Journal of Culture and Literature #142, Winter 2022 offers provocative insights on what constitutes representative Victorian culture, particularly in terms of literary realism. A central theme linking these...