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 ...

With his pipe, deerstalker hat and formidable "methods," Sherlock Holmes may be the most recognizable face of the Victorian mystery story. But how does he stack up against Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste ...

During the spring semester at the University of Richmond’s business school, 10 accounting majors sat in a loose circle, deep in conversation, every Wednesday afternoon. They weren’t discussing complex ...

All those episodes of “Masterpiece Theater” have left an indelible image of the Victorian era as a time of civility and restraint. People of that time may have been hypocrites, but at least they were ...

Victorians were enamored of the new science of statistics, so it seems fitting that these pioneering data hounds are now the subject of an unusual experiment in statistical analysis. The titles of ...

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The Hugo Awards are given to the best science fiction or fantasy works of the previous year. Unfortunately, they’ve only been awarded since 1953. That’s where this column comes in — Jess Nevins will ...

Of All Sorts and Conditions: Transcoding Class in late-Victorian and Edwardian Fiction. (Book proposal of collected essays) As Patricia Ingham illustrates in The language of gender and class: ...

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In the fall of 1895, thousands of Brits were wracked by a painful and embarrassing affliction: rejection slips. Britain, it seems, was a nation of cracked Kiplings and ham-handed Hardys. “The number ...