Fabienne Moine. Women Poets in the Victorian Era: Cultural Practices and Nature Poetry by Sophie Laniel-Musitelli

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Susan Walton, Imagining Soldiers and Fathers in the Mid-Victorian Era : Charlotte Yonge’s Models of Manliness by Thierry Goater

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Illustrating Victorian Poetry: The Dynamics of Photographic Tableaux Vivants by Gwendoline Koudinoff

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The Homosexual Exception? The Case of the Labouchère Amendment by William Fize

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Clash of Past and Present: Production of Historical and Representational Spaces in Oscar Wilde’s Poetry by Emre Çakar

“…Wilde is one of the important literary and cultural figures of the Victorian era. He criticized the traditional moral codes and values of the Victorian era in which he was born and rejected many Victorian poetic aspects. …”
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Joseph Loxton Rawbon, the "Master Restorer" by Cyndie Lack

“…Joseph Loxton Rawbon arrived in Canada during the intense commercial and industrial growth of the Victorian era.  A colourful character with bombastic flair, his numerous enterprises, however limited in their success, exemplify the boundless optimism of the Industrial Age and open a small window onto the history of Toronto's early cultural development through to the Second World War.  …”
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The sequoia files : L’arbre merveilleux by François Brunet

“…Centering on the sequoia as a challenge to representation, this literature tends to describe the logic of exploration in purely rhetorical terms, and thus to translate the otherness of the frontier into a space of language play, which seems typical of the Victorian era.…”
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Quand vieillesse rime avec pauvreté : perceptions et traitement social des travailleurs âgés dans le monde industriel victorien by Bertrand Simonet

“…This postulate of modern sociology explains why the advent of industrial society and the rise of capitalism, in the Victorian era, were bound to affect the perceptions and social treatment of the elderly in England. …”
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British Environmentalism: A Party in Movement? by Brendan Prendiville

“…Protection of the environment in Britain has a long history going back to the Victorian era when the first activists struggled against the damage caused by industrialisation in the large urban centres. …”
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The Atlantic Ocean and the “Mighty Rivers” of the New World: Natural Phenomena and Human Encounters in Frances Trollope’s Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832) by Manuela D’AMORE

“…A best-seller on the eve of the Victorian era, Frances Trollope’s Domestic Manners of the Americans is not just an authentic account of America in the 1820s, but also a courageous book depicting the “Other” from different perspectives. …”
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Victorian and Edwardian Virtual Reality: from Stoker to Forster by Catherine Lanone

“…Fantasies of global transmission haunted the Victorian era, as demonstrated by one of George Du Maurier’s cartoons. …”
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Newman’s Poetry: The Heart of a Victorian Renaissance Project  by Dampi Somoko

“…This paper examines the poetry of John Henry Newman (1801–1890) in the context of the revival movement in the Victorian era. Although poetry does not make up the bulk of his writings, it can still be a vehicle for a return to distant literary sources in the interests of revival. …”
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Tracing Ophelia from Millais to Contemporary Art: Literary, Pictorial and Digital Icons by Laurence Roussillon-Constanty

“…Starting with the emblematic Pre-Raphaelite painting, this article aims to establish a critical dialogue between works of various periods and various media, ranging from the Victorian era to the present day to demonstrate the mutations and persistence of Millais’s icon.…”
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Colour reception(s): The Narrative of the Exhibition “Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion and Design” (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 21 September 2023-18 February 2024) by Charlotte Ribeyrol

“…This article analyses the aesthetics of reception from the angle of XIXth-century colour. Although the Victorian era is often depicted in sombre tones in popular culture, the age of industry in fact brought about a series of scientific and technical innovations in the fields of colour perception and production. …”
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Birds of a Feather: Alexander McQueen’s Victorian Bestiary by Ariane Fennetaux

“…In this essay the Victorian inspiration of his retro-futuristic designs will be studied to illustrate the uncanny persistence of some of the animalistic fantasies of the Victorian era into the contemporary world. McQueen not only played with Victorian sartorial and animal references but also mixed and matched humans, animals and indeed machines and cross-fertilized them into single creatures thus borrowing from the Victorians not only their bestiaries but also, Frankenstein-like, sewed together parts of different animals to create monstrous hybrids, indeed discomforting animals.…”
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Ruskin’s heirs: art, nature and socialism by Charles-François MATHIS

“…At the end of the Victorian era, the great intellectual influence of John Ruskin convinced some young artists, intellectuals and activists like William Morris and Edward Carpenter to tightly link artistic and political commitments. …”
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From Travel to Text: Reverends Wolff and Lansdell’s Missions to Bokhara by Irina Kantarbaeva-Bill

“…Nearly half a century separates the missions to Bokhara, centre of Islamic knowledge and culture in Central Asia, made by the two intrepid travellers and preachers Joseph Wolff (1795–1862) and Henry Lansdell (1841–1919): an important generational and geopolitical gap both in the development of the Victorian era and in the evolution of travel and travel writing. …”
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Freak Shows on the Page: Defining ‘criminanimality’ in Newgate Fiction (1830-1847) by Hubert Malfray

“…The early Victorian era was marked by a specific concern as regards criminality, a concern that was relayed in literature, notably through Newgate novels. …”
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Thomas Henry Huxley et la Bible by Christophe Duvey

“…According to him, a struggle between free thought and supernaturalism was culminating during the Victorian era, hence the need for a “New Reformation” which was heir to the ideals of freedom defended by the humanists of the Renaissance. …”
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Gothic Sounds and the Foreshadowing of Victorian Soundscapes by Lucie Ratail

“…Traditionally ending in 1820 with the publication of Melmoth the Wanderer, the main period of gothic fiction precedes the Victorian Era while foreshadowing its concerns, notably through the questioning of sounds’ impact on people’s movements and mental health. …”
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