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In recent decades, there has been a growing recognition of the significance of the supernatural in a Victorian context. Studies of nineteenth-century spirituali

By drawing attention to the wide range of gruesome, bloody and confronting amusements patronised by ordinary Londoners this book challenges our understanding of

Victorian Murderesses investigates the politics of female violence in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891), George Eliot’s Adam Bede (1859), Ma

The history of modern crime control is usually presented as a narrative of how the state wrested control over the governance of crime from the civilian public.

What did reading mean to the Victorians? This question is the key point of departure for Reading and the Victorians, an examination of the era when reading unde