Faculty and Research Students in the Centre are drawn from the Departments of English, Drama and Theatre, History, Modern Languages, Geography and Music: members’ research interests include the bachelor in the nineteenth century, nineteenth-century Conservatism, the Victorian Theatre,  the stage coach, shipwrecks, maritime widows, slavery, literature and sculpture, Dickens, Victorian sentimentality, nineteenth-century radicalism and socialism, utopian literature, imperialism and the British empire, hidden histories of exploration, literature and the Risorgimento, literature and sculpture, Anglo-Italian cultural relations, French realism and naturalism, the fin de siècle, Aestheticism, the music of Chopin.

The Centre will host an inaugural Victorian Studies Centres UK: First Summit Meeting on 3rd – 4th April 2009; other upcoming events include a conference on Sculpture and Literature in the Nineteenth Century on 25th April 2009 and London Dickens Day at the Institute of English Studies on 10th October 2009.

Reading Material for the 19th Century Reading Group Meeting, 28th January 2010 4pm-5pm WIN0-05

The reading material for this meeting can be downloaded here.

Reading Material for the 19th Century Reading Group Meeting, 19th November 2009

The reading material for this meeting can be downloaded here.