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 ...

The Victorian era—which emerged during the reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 to 1901—was a time of buttoned-up fashions and rigid social rules, though people still found ways to express ...

Their starting point was an earlier work that focused on the written word as an entry point into the era: Walter E. Houghton’s “Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870,” a landmark book published ...

Paleontologists in Denmark found a once-gloopy, now-hardened mess that they believe was spat up by a Cretaceous-era fish. By Isaac Schultz Published January 29, 2025 Science Biology ...

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.