Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Victorian Britian

Unenglish and unmanly: Anglo-Catholicism and homosexuality.

ESPITE THE TRADITIONAL teaching of the Christian Church that homosexual behaviour is always sinful, there are grounds for believing that Anglo-Catholic religion within the Church of England has offered emotional and aesthetic satisfactions that have been particularly attractive to members of a stigmatised sexual minority. This apparent connection between Anglo-Catholicism and the male homosexua...

Catholics, science and civic culture in Victorian Belfast.

The connections between science and civic culture in the Victorian period have been extensively, and intensively, investigated over the past several decades. Limited attention, however, has been paid to Irish urban contexts. Roman Catholic attitudes towards science in the nineteenth century have also been neglected beyond a rather restricted set of thinkers and topics. This paper is offered as ...

The Place of the rubaiyat in victorian Poetry

A Comparative Perspective on Changing Household and Family Structure in Mid-victorian Hertfordshire

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Imperial boyhood: piracy and the play ethic.

Representations of perpetual boyhood came to fascinate the late Victorians, partly because such images could naturalize a new spirit of imperial aggression and new policies of preserving power. This article traces the emergence of this fantasy through a series of stories about the relationship of the boy and the pirate, figures whose opposition in mid-Victorian literature was used to articulate...