Romantic and Victorian Studies

Research in Nineteenth-Century literature and culture

About the Romantic and Victorian Studies research group

The Romantic and Victorian Studies research group was launched in October 2013, and is directed by Professor Daniel Karlin. The research group is designed to build on and foreground the enormous range of interest and expertise in nineteenth-century history, politics, and culture across the Faculty of Arts, in the Departments of Drama, French, Russian, German, History, Classics, History of Art, and English.

Current research includes projects on the following areas:

  • popular stage performance and celebrity performers in the long nineteenth-century,
  • journalism in late-nineteenth-century France,
  • nineteenth- and early-twentieth century visual cultures in France,
  • the reception of British and French Romanticism,
  • nineteenth-century Russian literature,
  • Victorian political debate and propaganda,
  • classical myth in Romantic and Victorian writing,
  • and nineteenth-century landscape gardening and garden history.

In the Department of English, individuals have recently published on many of the major British authors, including Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron, Leigh Hunt, Tennyson, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Dickens, Kipling, the Rossettis, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, the pre-Raphaelites, and others. Scholars' research covers the literature of place, ekphrasis, the figure of the singer, the gothic tradition, Dante in nineteenth-century English culture, album verse, writing and handwriting, authorship and reception, Romantic and Victorian afterlives, and other topics.

For further information, please contact Professor Daniel Karlin.

 

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