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This essay analyses the conflicted notion of authorship and traces the changes in literary life throughout the nineteenth century. It argues that with the cessation of aristocratic patronage and the… <\/p><\/div>\n\n
The nineteenth century was a theatrical century. It may not have been a century of great dramatic writing by conventional literary standards, but it was a century of energetic and… <\/p><\/div>\n\n
This essay outlines some of the features and shifts in British travel writing from 1770\u20131914. It considers the impact of social and technological change on travel and on writing about… <\/p><\/div>\n\n
This essay provides an overview of the development of illustration \u2013 the pictures that accompanied words on the printed page \u2013 into a dominant mode of representation in the nineteenth… <\/p><\/div>\n\n
Life writing flourished in the nineteenth century. Defined here as a personal narrative that meaningfully recounts the events and experiences of an individual life or lives, it was mainly non-fictional,… <\/p><\/div>\n\n
Mediamorphosis \u2013 transformation in the organisation of the media \u2013 defines who we are, what we can communicate and to whom, what we can hear and from whom, and what… <\/p><\/div>\n\n
The vast stream of cheap mass circulation print that flowed through nineteenth-century Britain \u2013 penny issue fiction, religious tracts, magazines, sheet music, and almanacs and the like \u2013 is frequently… <\/p><\/div>\n\n
The early nineteenth century was a formative time for the construction and establishment of racial thinking. Theatre and performance played a crucial part in this, but also at points ironised… <\/p><\/div>\n\n
This essay contextualises the broad increase in literacy and readership across the nineteenth century by considering the changes in educational standards, improvements to printing and communications technology, and legal reforms… <\/p><\/div>\n\n
This essay explores theoretical approaches to popular reception, drawing on discussions in the fields of theatre history, art history, and the history of visual technologies. Across a range of popular… <\/p><\/div>\n\n
This essay traces the social and institutional barriers women artists encountered in the Victorian art world, detailing the challenges stemming from their unequal access to education, particularly their exclusion from… <\/p><\/div>\n\n
This essay canvasses women\u2019s practice over the nineteenth century of the three most prominent creative literary genres: fiction, poetry, and drama. It also discusses more briefly some of the many… <\/p><\/div>\n\n
What would a history of nineteenth-century theatre look like if it were focused on the work of women? We know that women have always been active in the theatre, but… <\/p><\/div>\n\n