In her volume Inside the Victorian Home (2003), Judith Flanders scrutinizes the space of home and domesticity as a microcosm of the ideal society of the nineteenth century. Considering Flanders’ ideas as a point of departure, ...

Much has been written on Victorian Spiritualism and the spiritualist medium, who was, in general terms, female with some notable exceptions like Daniel D Home, for example. Since the 1980s feminist historians like Alex ...

The purpose of this dissertation is to study literary representations of Eastern Europe in the works of celebrated and less-known American authors, who visited and narrated the region between the mid-1960s and early 2000s. ...

En la época victoriana, las lecturas médicas y escritos sobre el cuerpo femenino se superponía fusionaban con otros discursos. En la actualidad se da también este caso, y las investigaciones medicalizadas sobre las mujeres, ...

Jane Harris’s The Observations (2007) narrates the story of Bessy Buckley, an Irish girl who searches for work and finds it in Castle Haivers, employed by Arabella. While learning how to become a maid-of-all work, she is ...

Este estudio profundiza en la interrelación entre paisaje y emociones en la obra de Ian McEwan, aportando un enfoque interdisciplinar que combina literatura y geografía emocional. A través del análisis de Atonement y On ...

This PhD thesis examines a selection of postcolonial neo-Victorian novels in the context of oceanic migration during the nineteenth century. The Victorian period (1837-1901) in Britain features today as a fulcrum point for ...

This doctoral thesis offers a study of the notion of vulnerability as an ambivalent concept in the context of contemporary literary studies. Given the attention that the notion of vulnerability has received in multiple ...

In this roundtable we focused on the spatial significance of ‘orientation’, implying movement, and process, for Victorian women, engaging with the mobility turn, or “the mobility paradigm” in the study of women’s liminal ...