An innovative exploration of Victorian art and politics that examines how paintings and newspaper illustrations visualized franchise reform.

Could the self-interested pursuit of beauty actually help to establish the moral and political norms that enable democratic society to flourish? In this book, L

"How did Victorians, as creators and viewers of images, visualize the politics of franchise reform? This study of Victorian art and parliamentary politics, spec

The first study of poetry by Victorian scientists, a unique record of the nature and cultures of Victorian science.

The book reveals how Victorians biologized appearance, reimagining imitation, concealment and self-presentation as evolutionary adaptations.