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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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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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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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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Living in the Making of History! Two Victorian Female Travellers’ Representations of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War by Ludmila Ommundsen

“…Set in exotic places and recounting terrifying adventures with strange peoples, travel books enjoyed great popularity in the Victorian era and contributed to the culture of the imperial years. …”
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The Victorian Thumb Bible as Material Object: Charles Tilt’s The Little Picture Testament (1839) by Alyssa J. Currie

“…This article begins by tracing the thumb-Bible genre from its development in the seventeenth century to its immense popularity in the Victorian era. It considers how their physical forms, connected to ‘toy books’, integrate play and religious instruction. …”
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Les quatre éléments dans « Karain » de Joseph Conrad : du mythe au manque by Catherine Delmas

“…The vision of the sea, the sky and the island builds up an orientalist painting full of colours and light, and turns the Malay Archipelago into a mythic space to be opposed to the dreary and foggy representation of the West, an enclosed, corrupt and oppressive space paradoxically paralysed by economic and technological progress at the end of the Victorian era. However Conrad subverts the opposition by casting light on the illusion and artificiality of the representation and deconstructing the orientalist myth. …”
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Dean Farrar’s “Divine Crusade” and Victoria’s “Little Wars” by Stéphanie Prévost

“…The object of this paper is therefore to see in what context Farrar’s call for a crusading spirit developed, how it could clash with or fit in the “Victorian frame of mind” and lastly, to ascertain the impact Dean Farrar’s claim for muscular, armed righteousness had in the late Victorian era.…”
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