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Victorian Studies

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Museum Culture in the Victorian Novel

  • Stephanie Bowry
  • 5 minute read
A review of On View: Museum Culture in the Victorian Novel, by Christa M. Tiernan. The relationship between museums, material…
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Sport & Masculinity in Victorian Popular Culture

  • Matthew L. McDowell
  • 6 minute read
A review of Marked Men: Sport and Masculinity in Victorian Popular Culture, 1866-1904, by Shannon Rose Smith. Shannon Smith’s dissertation…
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Rethinking “Industrial Revolution” in History of Science

  • Chris Renwick
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A review of Machine Past, Machine Future: Technology in British Thought, c.1870-1914 , by Daniel C.S. Wilson. Although historians often…
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Making of Geology in Late-Georgian England

  • Jennifer Ferng
  • 5 minute read
A review of Practical and Economic Interests in the Making of Geology in late Georgian England, by Leucha Veneer. Practical…
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West Riding Lunatic Asylum & Brain Science

  • Stephen T. Casper
  • 5 minute read
A review of The West Riding Lunatic Asylum and the Making of the Modern Brain Sciences in the Nineteenth Century,…
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Photography & Periodicals, 1870-90

  • Casper Andersen
  • 6 minute read
A review of “From a Photograph”: Photography and the Periodical Print Press 1870-90, by Geoffrey Belknap. This dissertation analyzes the…
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Freaks in 19th-century British Media & Medicine

  • Monika Pietrzak-Franger
  • 5 minute read
A review of Freaks in Late Nineteenth-Century British Media and Medicine, by Fiona Yvette Pettit. Fiona Pettit explores the mainstreaming,…
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Milk & Typhoid in Victorian Britain

  • Peter Atkins
  • 4 minute read
A review of The Perfect Food and the Filth Disease: Milk, Typhoid Fever, and the Science of State Medicine in…
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Anthropometric Photography & Questionnaires

  • Efram Sera-Shriar
  • 8 minute read
Anthropometric Photography, Questionnaires and the Victorian Age I am often asked by some of my colleagues whether there is any…
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Ordinary Pathways to Science in the Victorian Era

  • Michal Meyer
  • 5 minute read
A review of Object Lessons: Sensory Science Education, 1830-1870, by Melanie Keene. Historically science popularization was often viewed as a…
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