This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest m

Oceania, or the South Pacific, loomed large in the Victorian popular imagination. It was a world that interested the Victorians for many reasons, all of which s

Discusses the cultural and social effect that the railway had on nineteenth century society in Great Britain

This book examines representations of tuberculosis in Victorian fiction, giving insights into how society viewed this disease and its sufferers.

What happens to our understanding of 'orientalism' and imperialism when we consider British-Chinese relations during the nineteenth century, rather than focusin