Paraphernalia! Victorian Objects

This book explores the Victorians through their materiality, and asks how objects were part of being Victorian, and how reading the Victorians through their possessions, can deepen our understanding of Victorian culture. This interdisciplinary collection looks at the historical, cultural and literary debris that makes up the background of Victor

" Paraphernalia! Victorian Objects indicates that the study of nine-teenth-century material culture is by no means exhausted. The essays demonstrate that we need to continue reading this period through its objects in order to under-stand better the relationships between the fabric of the past and its representation."

- Deborah Wynne, University of Chester, Literature & History

Helen Kingstone is Lecturer in Victorian Studies at the University of Glasgow. Her research addresses the relationship between memory and history in the nineteenth century, focusing on how writers in different genres and forms approached contemporary history. Her monograph Victorian Narratives of the Recent Past: Memory, History, Fiction was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017. Other publications include articles on fin-de-siècle utopian fiction in English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920 and in Utopias and Dystopias in the Fiction of H. G. Wells and William Morris , ed. Emelyne Godfrey (Palgrave, 2016), and others on literature and scientific ideas of progress in Nineteenth-Century Contexts and in Historicising Humans ed. Efram Sera-Shriar (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018).

Kate Lister is a graduate of Leeds and Leeds Trinity Universities, and is currently Postdoctoral Research Associate at Leeds Trinity University. She is on the board of the International Sex Work Research Hub, the curator for the online research and archive project ‘Whores of Yore’. Kate has published articles on Victorian sexuality with Routledge, the Oxford Interdisciplinary Press, and Cambridge Scholars. She was the historical consultant for the Rosa Funded ‘Our Voices’ project on sex work in the city of Leeds, and has made numerous radio and television appearances about her research. Kate’s first monograph on nineteenth-century medievalism is forthcoming with the University of Wales Press.