This book uses the figure of the Victorian heroine as a lens through which to examine Jane Austen’s presence in Victorian critical and popular writings.  Aimed at Victorianist readers and scholars, the book focuses on the ways in which Austen was constructed in fiction, criticism, and biography over the course of the nineteenth century.  For the Victorians, Austen became a kind of cultural shorthand, representing a distant, yet not too-distant, historical past that the Victorians both drew on and defined themselves against with regard to such topics as gender, literature, and national identity. 

Placing the popular genre of neo-Victorian fiction within the context of the contemporary cultural fascination with the Victorians, this book argues that these novels are distinguished by a commitment to historical specificity and understands them within their contemporary context and the context of Victorian historical and literary narratives.

The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Tennyson

This is the first comprehensive guide to Tennyson, containing concise, informative entries on his poetry, his life and the cultural context of his work. Tennyson, the major poet of the Victorian age, lived through most of the nineteenth century, addressed key issues in science, religion, philosophy, politics and aesthetics and knew most of the great Victorians.
This user-friendly reference work, designed both for academics and for the general reader, addresses all aspects of his life and times.

The Vile Victorians (BBC Radio Collection: Horrible Histories)

One of the "Horrible Histories" series, revealing the vile truth about the Victorian era - including when the first public loo was flushed, who had a gruesome glass eye for every occasion as well as a gruesome guide to causes of death during this era. 

 

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Disreputable Pleasures - Less Virtuous Victorians at Play

Many historians have claimed that respectability was the sharpest line of social division in Victorian society, even that the line between the 'respectable' and 'unrespectable' was more significant than between rich and poor. This irreverent and revisionist collection argues that they have over-polarised Victorian attitudes and challenges the conventional view that middle-class Victorian leisure had a respectable and serious purpose and approach.