Examining the works of such Victorian writers as the Brontes, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy, this study discusses codes and taboos about the female body and explores how female sexuality was represented in Victorian literary and non-literary ...

Part biography, part detective novel, part love story, and part meditation on archival research, Love Among the Archives is the story of two literary critics' attempts to track down Sir George Scharf, the founding director of the National ...

This book looks at how differences among women have been textually represented at a variety of historical moments and in a variety of cultural contexts, including Victorian mainstream fiction, African-American mulatto novels, late twentieth ...

Using letters and diaries of 61 real-life honeymooning couples, as well as novels from Frankenstein to Middlemarch that feature honeymoon scenarios, Michie explores the cultural meanings of the honeymoon, arguing that, with its emphasis on ...

A cultural history of the honeymoon in Victorian culture, private accounts, and fiction.

The book breaks new ground in its analysis of gender, health, and reproduction.

In the most obvious sense, the book is a story about Sir George Scharf- Victorian antiquarian, man-about- London and founding director of the National Portrait Gallery- and his loving relationships with male friends.