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The journal Victorian Studies recently invited submissions for a special issue, entitled “Victorian Sexualities.” “Topics,” stated the call for papers, “may include (but certainly are not limited to) Victorian...

Poverty And Compassion:The Moral Imagination Of The Late Victorians by Gertrude Himmelfarb Knopf, 475 pages, $30 Gertrude Himmelfarb’s The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age, published...

We begin with the observations of a social critic of cultural conservative leanings—let his name, for the moment, remain a mystery—as he casts his gaze upon the cultural influence...