Digital Humanities has become a “hot” topic in academia over the last few years (as of 2012), primarily in research and scholarship. While many push forward into new realms of using technology to articulate cool findings, others at non research intensive universities are moving forward with engaging their undergraduate students in var ious for…[Read more]

When read straight through as a novel, Miss Cayley’s Adventures (1898-99) appears to reside singularly within the detective genre; this reading limits our understanding of the ways in which Grant Allen challenges the anxieties regarding gender held by the contemporary, conservative readership of The Strand Magazine (1891-1950). Allen integrates m…[Read more]

For a brief period before the rise in popularity of Sherlock Holmes and the serialized short story, The Strand Magazine (1891–1950) published a notable quantity of short stories in translation by authors from across continental Europe. The project of literary editor Herbert Greenhough Smith, these stories ‘from foreign sources’ received a l…[Read more]

Eadweard Muybridge’s Pacific Coast photographs provide an important site for investigating Victorian visual practices and their relationship to imperial control. This essay’s analysis of critical spatiality engages with the familiar temporal dimension of the “long nineteenth century” through discussions of periodicity and the representation of…[Read more]