Issue 4 (April 2007)

Rethinking Victorian Sentimentality

Spencer Roddam Spencer Stanhope, Robins of Modern Times, Oil on Canvas, Private Collection, c.1860.

Guest edited by Nicola Bown

Contributors: Emma Mason, Kirstie Blair, Sally Ledger, Heather Tilley,

Sonia Solicari and Marie Banfield

 

This issue of 19 explores:

	Introduction Nicola Bown read more...				Feeling Dickensian feeling Emma Mason   read more...
	‘Thousands of throbbing hearts' Sentimentality and community in popular Victorian poetry: Longfellow's Evangeline and Tennyson's Enoch Arden . Kirstie Blair read more...				"Don't be so melodramatic!" Dickens and the affective mode   Sally Ledger read more...
	Sentiment and Vision in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth Heather Tilley read more...				Selling Sentiment: The Commodification of Emotion in Victorian Visual Culture Sonia Solicari read more...
	From Sentiment to Sentimentality: A Nineteenth Century Lexicographical Search Marie Banfield read more...

Also in this issue

Linking to the nineteenth century Take a peek at Queen Victoria's unmentionables, send an electronic Victorian holiday card, perfect your calling card etiquette, plan a Victorian-style wedding and discover works by lesser known nineteenth-century artists. We've trawled the web and found some of the best, most interesting and downright weird materials from and about the long nineteenth century. In each issue we will be adding to our archive of links. Check them out here...