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The Victorian period was a time of tremendous poetic experiment. Browning and Tennyson are credited with inventing the dramatic monologue, and innovations in the verse novel and the epic by Barrett ...

In 2004, BYU English professor Leslee Thorne-Murphy spearheaded the Victorian Short Fiction Project, a research venture to get her British literature undergrads more involved in exploring the ...

Victorian Poetry examines the poetry of the Victorian Period (1830-1914) from a broad range of theoretical/critical angles, including but not confined to new historicism, feminism, and social/cultural ...

Not many periods in history are as at odds with themselves as England’s Victorian era, when contradiction was the norm, and—were you a poet—the basis of a heady challenge. In a time of prosperity and ...

Part of Emily Dickinson’s traditional mystique derives from her supposed isolation from the world. The image persists of her as a reclusive genius, living in her big house in the sleepy little western ...

It's a handle Algernon Charles Swinburne would probably relish. He loved to push opposites to the point where they would meet--where pain becomes pleasure, where love becomes hate. But it's been ...

During the spring semester at the University of Richmond’s business school, 10 accounting majors sat in a loose circle, deep in conversation, every Wednesday afternoon. They weren’t discussing complex ...

Natalie M. Houston, Ph.D. Natalie M. Houston’s current book project, "Distant Reading Nineteenth-Century Poetry," applies machine learning to uncover the stylistic conventions that structured the ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person in possession of a good brain must be in want of a book. From Jane Austen to the Brontë sisters, 19th century literature churned out some powerful ...