By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Here’s a seemingly uncontroversial statement: in 1847, a novel called Jane Eyre was published; the author was Charlotte Brontë. One of the most famous things about Jane Eyre is that the male love interest, Mr Rochester, has locked his first wife, Bertha Mason, in […]
Tag: Victorian literature
A Summary and Analysis of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) There is a famous anecdote about Lewis Carroll and Queen Victoria: Victoria enjoyed Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) so much that she requested a first edition of Carroll’s next book. Carroll duly sent her a copy of the next book he published – a […]
A Summary and Analysis of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde’s one novel, published originally in 1890 (as a serial) and then in book form the following year. The novel is at once an example of late Victorian Gothic horror and, in some ways, the greatest English-language […]
A Short Analysis of Tennyson’s ‘Dark House, by Which Once More I Stand’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Dark House, by Which Once More I Stand’ is one canto (the seventh) from a much longer work of poetry, In Memoriam A. H. H. by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-92). The poem shows Tennyson revisiting the home of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, whose […]
A Short Analysis of Tennyson’s ‘Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White’
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The Princess, a long narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson published in 1847, is not much read or studied now. In the vast editions of Tennyson’s collected works, it languishes unread alongside his plays about Thomas Becket and his various ‘sequel’ poems (‘Mariana in […]