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Coming Out Ahead: The Homosexual Moment in the Academy
The journal Victorian Studies recently invited submissions for a special issue, entitled โVictorian Sexualities.โ โTopics,โ stated the call for papers, โmay include (but certainly are not limited to) Victorian...
Character and Poverty
Poverty And Compassion: The Moral Imagination Of The Late Victorians by gertrude himmelfarb knopf, 475 pages, $30 Gertrude Himmelfarbโs The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age,...
Minding Our Manners and Morals
We begin with the observations of a social critic of cultural conservative leaningsโlet his name, for the moment, remain a mysteryโas he casts his gaze upon the cultural influence...