The interruptibility of domestic time was a trial for the nineteenth-century household manager.
As the anonymous writer of Home Truths for Home Peace: Or, Muddle Defeated admits in …

This chapter investigates the ways that Yeats and Tagore performed identities as well as the
receptions of these self-fashionings. Beginning with Yeats’ efforts to bring his poetry to the …

This chapter investigates the ways that Yeats and Tagore performed identities as well as the
receptions of these self-fashionings. Beginning with Yeats’ efforts to bring his poetry to the …

Increasing interest in the Victorians' relationships with the material world has led many critics
to turn to periodical publications and, in particular, to process articles and other forms of …

The essay overviews Ann Yearsley’s life, work, and criticism from contemporary reviews to
current scholarship. Biography provides basic details to situate the author relative to her work …

Since Yule and Burnell’s first edition of their glossary of Anglo-Indian English in 1886, the
term ‘Hobson-Jobson’ has been part of the English language. It was already an established …

This paper identifies, assesses and places in historical context many of the primary source
documents found in the University of Victoria’s Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association …

The usage of the term ‘sustainability’in an environmental sense only dates from the 1980s (according
to the OED). In the same decade, the UN’s Report of the World Commission on …

This chapter offers a synchronic look at the practices of syphilis mapping and at the spaces
of its particular condensation. It briefly focuses on the tentative, if increasingly popular, …

The work of JRR Tolkien appears to resemble various aspects from Norse mythology and
the Norse sagas. While many have researched these resemblances, few have done so …