“Now don’t say a word if you’ve read it… I owe everyone a grudge who tells me the plot of a story that I’m interested in” (The Heavenly Twins 1893, 527) While making my way through New Woman novels this year, I’ve been musing on the New Woman and the problem of heredity. I’ll save [...]
Posts Tagged ‘sensations’
The Mystery of Life and the Science of Heredity in The Heavenly Twins
Posted in Constance Crompton, tagged masculinity, reading, science, sensations on June 11, 2009 | 6 Comments »
On Railways and the Aesthetics of Floating
Posted in Daniel Martin, tagged bodies, Dickens, mobility, railways, sensations on June 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I was very pleased when we first decided to call this blog “The Floating Academy” because I’ve been interested in the metaphorics of floating for a few years now. The Victorians were fascinated, as well as irritated, by floating things.
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