“Don’t forget to speak scornfully of the Victorian Age, there will be time for meekness when you try to better it.” With that challenging epigraph borrowed from James M. (Peter Pan) Barrie, a ...

In the mid- to late 1800s, insane asylums served as catch-all facilities for violent and difficult women. But were they really criminals? Or even crazy? Or just rebelling against the social ...

For more than half a century, Victorian Studies has been devoted to the study of British culture of the Victorian age. It regularly includes interdisciplinary articles on comparative literature, ...

The British monarchy has twice been rescued by Germans. First, at the start of the 18th century, when the House of Hanover supplied the Protestant succession to the throne, ensuring the banishment of ...

But quite a compelling article in The Atlantic (Robinson Meyer & Ashley Fetters), with the subtitle "A favorite anecdote about the origins of the vibrator is probably a myth." An excerpt: It's among ...

Now, it's not news that some people consider books to be dangerous. They can mean that in a negative way, as when communities try to contain books, get them off the library shelves. They can mean that ...