Victorian Literature
We are a dynamic team of interdisciplinary researchers whose work explores Victorian literature in intellectual, material, and formal contexts within and beyond the borders of Great Britain.
Our specialisms include:
- industry and the idea of progress
- Empire
- the Anglo-American periodical in high and popular culture
- book history
- slavery and abolitionism
- the travelogue
- the politics of the child and children's literature
- radicalism
- time and ageing
- ecocriticism
- literature and science
- genealogies of feminism and economics
- Victorian poetry
- the Victorian novel
- the visual arts
Nineteenth-century and Victorian archives in Newcastle include the Special Collections in the University's Robinson Library, which has a major nineteenth-Century Novel collection, and the Tyne and Wear Archives. We also work with the Lit and Phil, which has extensive eighteenth and nineteenth-century holdings.
We are part of the School’s Middle Modern Research Group which is for postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers working in the period 1700-1900.