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‘I’m no Medievalist’: George Gilbert Scott and the Interpretation of the Gothic Revival in Remarks on Secular and Domestic Architecture: Present and Future (1857)

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2022
In 1857, George Gilbert Scott gathered a number of writings and reflections in Remarks and presented himself as a staunch defender of Gothic in the then raging battle of styles.
Isabelle Cases
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Une anomalie culturelle : Mary Shelley et le statut de l’auteure

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2004
Unlike most women writers of the 19th century, who had to overcome many social obstacles, Mary Shelley was very learned and strongly encouraged to write by her family circle. Yet she was caught in a web of conflicting duties : she had to be worthy of her
Caroline Varenne
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Masonic Ritual and the Display of Empire in 19th-Century India and Beyond

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2021
This article aims at exploring the role played by Freemasonry in displaying, promoting and celebrating the British Empire. It argues that Masonic lodges held centre stage in the Indian colonial public sphere.
Simon Deschamps
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The Palpable Legacy of Mid-Victorian Sensation Fiction: Sarah Waters’s Fingersmith (2002) and its Dialogue with Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White (1860)

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
This article first sketches out the legacy of The Woman in White and the sensation novel of the 1860s from the late-Victorian period to the present day.
Catherine Delyfer
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‘I am the Prophet of the Light, Dumb When the Sun is Dark’: Solar Agency, Temporality and Early Photochemical Images

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
In his essay ‘On a Sun-Dial’, published in the New Monthly Magazine in October 1827, William Hazlitt announces the ancient ‘mode of counting time’ as ‘perhaps the most apposite and striking, if not the most convenient or comprehensive’. Hazlitt prefers a
Lindsay Smith
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À quel(s) public(s) s’adresse Darwin ? L’Origine des Espèces, entre ouvrage scientifique, œuvre littéraire, et texte de vulgarisation

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2010
The aim of this paper is to analyse some of the rhetorical strategies used by Darwin to persuade his reader of the validity of evolution theory in The Origin of Species.
Camille Debras
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Alma-Tadema et le détournement de la culture savante

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2010
Alma-Tadema’s recreations of Antiquity were informed by his vast archaeological and literary knowledge of Roman and Greek culture, but at the same time, he dealt with themes that were easily readable by middle-class or popular publics. This paper aims at
Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada
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Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), from Unitarianism to Agnosticism

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2012
Harriet Martineau is best known for her journalistic contributions on a vast number of controversial issues that agitated the early and mid-Victorian period. Her many radical stances on such issues as education, women’s rights or the abolition of slavery,
Odile Boucher-Rivalain
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Elizabeth von Arnim’s Garden Memoirs: Cultivating Feminism?

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2013
As Elizabeth von Arnim (1866–1944) becomes a self-taught woman gardener, she also learns how to depict her treasure garden and the thoughts it arouses in two short books, Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898) and The Solitary Summer (1899).
Fabienne Moine
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Aux sources du sensationnel : Wilkie Collins lecteur de l’abbé Prévost ?

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2007
This study offers a new hypothesis about the « fact » upon which Wilkie Collins’s Basil is supposed to be founded and reads this first sensational novel not as an alleged biography but as a meticulous rewriting of an 18th-century newspaper anecdote ...
Shelly Charles
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