The Victorian Governess Novel

How to Not Read a Victorian Novel

Novel market inefficiencies from early Victorian times

A previously unknown pricing anomaly existed for a few years in the late 1840s in the British government bond market, in which the larger and more liquid of two very large bonds was underpriced. None of the published mechanisms explains this phenomenon. It may be related to another pricing anomaly that existed for much of the 19th century in which terminable annuities were significantly underpr...

The presentation of madness in the Victorian novel

mentally ill with the creation of purpose-built asylums throughout the country. The Victorians were ambivalent in their reaction to the mentally dis turbed. Whilst they sought to segregate the insane from the rest of the population, they were also terri fied by the prospect of the wrongful confinement of sane people.2 The trial of Daniel McNaughton in 1843for the assassination of Sir Robert Pee...

wuthering heights and the concept of marality/a sociological study of the novel

to discuss my point, i have collected quite a number of articles, anthologies, and books about "wuthering heights" applying various ideas and theories to this fantastic story. hence, i have come to believe that gadamer and jauss are rightful when they claim that "the individaul human mind is the center and origin of all meaning," 3 that reading literature is a reader-oriented activity, that it ...

The Place of the rubaiyat in victorian Poetry