Essays on Victorian Era

Matthew Arnold was an English Victorian poet and literary and social critic, noted especially for his classical attacks on the contemporary tastes and manners of the “Barbarians” (the aristocracy), the “Philistines” (the commercial middle class), and the “Populace. ” He became the apostle of “culture”...

Mike Davis’ Late Victorian Holocausts had been a whirlpool from the beginning. Through an economical and agricultural approach, Davis asks the questions that some of us are afraid to address: could the droughts, famines, and other disasters been prevented? Was the government not trying hard...

Anne Bronte’s 19th century The Tenant of Wildfell Hall presents the protagonist Helen Huntingdon as a conflict between the stringent gender roles of the Victorian period which were “more defined than at any time in history” and her repressed desire to emancipate. Upon exploration, I...