Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Victorian Literary Heritage

The Victorian Literary Heritage project, hosted by the Centre for Studies in Literature (CSL) at the University of Portsmouth, centres on Victorian figures who are of both global significance, and local importance to Portsmouth and/or the Isle of Wight, such as Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. This is an exciting project that supports innovative approaches to traditional writers and topics, and offers access to the extensive collection of Doyle-related books, documents and memorabilia bequeathed to the Portsmouth City Council by the collector Richard Lancelyn Green, and to archival material owned by the Julia Margaret Cameron Trust, Dimbola Lodge, Isle of Wight. Short-term internships at Dimbola Lodge may also be available.Scholars affiliated to this project have published on a wide range of topics including transatlantic decadence, nineteenth-century scientific contexts, aestheticism, literature and the visual arts, detective fiction, gender and sexuality, and neo-Victorian fiction. We welcome proposals on any of the following writers and/or topics:

• Arthur Conan Doyle
• Charles Dickens
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Algernon Charles Swinburne
• The Freshwater Circle
• Victorian Detective Fiction
• Literature and Spiritualism
• Literature and the Visual Arts
• Nature, Science and the Victorians
• Victorian Celebrity Culture
• Neo-Victorian Literature

See also: www.port.ac.uk/research/csl/researchprojects/victorianliteraryheritage