In 2004, BYU English professor Leslee Thorne-Murphy spearheaded the Victorian Short Fiction Project, a research venture to get her British literature undergrads more involved in exploring the ...

If the three ages were to be judged by their literature alone, the Victorian era would certainly be distinguished for purity of thought, for chastity of feeling, and for largeness of ideals.

As Aaron Shapiro, one of our students, put it, “Victorian literature is not easy reading, and the average accounting or business student would be intimidated or hesitant to take a Victorian ...

And Victorian literature featured its fair share of eroticism. One particularly famous book was , which was filled with a man’s vivid accounts of his sexual adventures.

McCarthy hopes literary connections like these, so persuasively laid out in “The Blue Period,” will give scholars and students new approaches to Black writers of the 1950s and 1960s.