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Victorians were enamored of the new science of statistics, so it seems fitting that these pioneering data hounds are now the subject of an unusual experiment in statistical analysis. The titles of ...

In 2004, BYU English professor Leslee Thorne-Murphy spearheaded the Victorian Short Fiction Project, a research venture to get her British literature undergrads more involved in exploring the ...

Christina Rossetti's "Spring," "Restive," and "Acme" deserve greater recognition as effective poems lyrically dramatizing three distinct phases of the poet's theme of disillusionment and loss. In ...

David Riede, William B. Thesing, Dorothy Mermin, John Maynard, William W. Morgan, Jerome Bump, Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV, Florence S. Boos, Margot K. Louis and Linda K. Hughes Victorian Poetry ...

The Victorian period was a time of tremendous poetic experiment. Browning and Tennyson are credited with inventing the dramatic monologue, and innovations in the verse novel and the epic by Barrett ...

It's a handle Algernon Charles Swinburne would probably relish. He loved to push opposites to the point where they would meet--where pain becomes pleasure, where love becomes hate. But it's been ...

Natalie M. Houston, Ph.D. Natalie M. Houston’s current book project, "Distant Reading Nineteenth-Century Poetry," applies machine learning to uncover the stylistic conventions that structured the ...