Includes background, reference, and essays covering “major topics, the novel, plays, poetry, and global Victorian studies” and “articles on themes such as cosmopolitanism, journalism, race, sexuality, and reading.”
Accessible introduction to works, authors, and context of the period. Includes essays from key scholars in the field and "for further reading" section.
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Accessible introduction to works, authors, and context of the period. Includes essays from key scholars in the field and "for further reading" section.
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Indexes/Bibliographies
Sources that collect and organize citations to other relevant primary and secondary sources, primary. Some sources listed may also include full-text content.
Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on the literature of the Victorian period, which encompasses the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. Bibliographies are browsable by subject area and keyword searchable.
Oxford Bibliographies in British and Irish Literature is a reliable, selective, and authoritative guide to recommended literature, organized by the themes and topics in British and Irish literature. Each article is written by a scholar in the field and provides an overview of the topic, a narrative, bibliographic essay listing the recommended resources for that topic, each with a detailed description.
Directs to primary and secondary texts (including scholarly book reviews) in British Victorian economics, literature, philosophy, political and social history, and more.
eJournals
Browse or search for specific journals in this field of study using the eJournal search.
Key literary works from British Library collections illustrate the historical, political and cultural contexts of the period. Articles by scholars, poets, novelists and journalists accompany the crisp digitized images.
"Discover historical sources and articles written by experts that reveal the everyday reality of living in Victorian Britain. The Victorian period in Britain was one of huge industrial and technological change, shocking divisions between rich and poor, sensational crimes, spectacular entertainments for the masses, and grand attempts to combat squalor and disease."
Comprised of four separate sections: Spiritualism, Sensation and Magic, Circuses, Sideshows and Freaks, Music Hall, Theatre and Popular Entertainment, and Moving Pictures, Optical Entertainments and the Advent of Cinema.
Sourced from the New York Public Library’s Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of Victorian Manuscripts and contains many unique manuscripts are unavailable in any medium elsewhere.
Christina Rossetti has come to be considered one of the major poets of the Victorian era. Incorporates the complete text of the four-volume print edition. All 2124 letters may be read in chronological order or searched by full text or recipient. In addition, indexes from the print volumes have been consolidated into a single online index.
Rotunda was created by the University of Virginia Press for the publication of original digital scholarship along with newly digitized critical and documentary editions in the humanities and social sciences. The collection combines the originality, intellectual rigor, and scholarly value of traditional peer-reviewed university press publishing with thoughtful technological innovation designed for scholars and students.