Nineteenth-Century Centre

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Embracing a capacious definition of the long nineteenth century, the Nineteenth-Century Centre at the University of Birmingham provides a collaborative network for scholars working across traditional disciplinary, national, and temporal boundaries.

Three major themes run throughout the Centre's work. The first is the concept of authorship, considering how writers in the nineteenth century saw their own role as authors. The second is the relationship between literature and the visual arts. Work at this interface within the department runs from the eighteenth century to the present. In the nineteenth century it centres in particular on the Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic movements, looking at their poetry and art criticism alongside their paintings, sculpture and design. The third strand is research into the relationship between literature and science. This includes work on literary and scientific institutions, from museums to the periodical press, on literary forms including poetry and science fiction, and on scientific theories, including Darwinian and non-Darwinian theories of evolution.

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University of Birmingham
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