Literature and Science :  

Ideas for Further Study: Victorians

 

From the British Library:

 

The Victorian Novel 1832-1880

Some great articles on many aspects of the Victorian

novel including George Eliot and the Reform Bill, 

Crime in Oliver Twist, the Gothic in Great Expectations,

or eating and drinking in Alice in Wonderland.

 

Discovering Literature: Technology and Science

Some great articles on many aspects of Victorian science and literature including the role of the railway in Victorian fiction, the role of drugs in Victorian fiction, Darwin and the Victorians and much more.

 

Visions of the Future in Victorian Literature and Culture

Some great articles on everything from social class in H. G Well's The Time Machine to Victorian utopian fiction, Darwin and eugenics, and much more.

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Aestheticism, Decadence and The Fin-de-Siecle: The End of the Victorians and the Beginnings of Modernism. Great article, with original documents from the British Library Collection.