Studies of Victorian governance have been profoundly influenced by Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault's groundbreaking genealogy of modern power. Yet, accor

The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel traces the the story of victimized childhood to its origins in nineteenth-century Britain. Almost as soon as "chil

How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table

A study of alliances between prostitutes and femminists and their clashes with medical authorities and police.

Victorian Negatives examines the intersection between Victorian photography and literary culture, and argues that the development of the photographic negative p