Author and professor Grace Lavery could not have picked a catchier and more alluring title than Quaint, Exquisite for her recently released book about Victorian aesthetics and the way Victorian ...

The notion of the Victorian era has historically been one of a formal, well-mannered, civilized and seemingly repressed society. New research challenges this neatly preserved image of Victorianism and ...

The coded language of floriography meant that Victorians could express affection, desire or disdain, allowing a society governed by strict etiquette to show its true feelings. Now the language of ...

His early interest was cemented by Louis James’s 1976 anthology of early Victorian popular culture, Print and the People 1819-1851. “Never had the printed page seemed so exciting,” Maidment recalled. ...

I’ve devoted my career to death. As a scholar of Victorian disease, I think about death nearly every day, but this did not protect me from the sucker punch of loss. Neither did his slow, prolonged ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professor Akim Reinhardt talked about Victorian Era culture in the United States in the last half of the 19th century. He described the societal ...