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Professor Valerie Sanders' Outputs (45)

‘To novels and plays not inclined’: Patrick and Maria Brontë and the Arts (2024)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V. (2024). ‘To novels and plays not inclined’: Patrick and Maria Brontë and the Arts. In A. K. Regis, & D. Wynne (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to the Brontës and the Arts (89-101). Edinburgh University Press

The Brontë family produced and consumed art across a range of media and genres. Haworth Parsonage and the local region proved a crucible of inspiration not only for Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne, but also for their parents. Here were fostered t... Read More about ‘To novels and plays not inclined’: Patrick and Maria Brontë and the Arts.

'All-sufficient to one another'? Charlotte Yonge and the family chronicle (2024)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V. (2024). 'All-sufficient to one another'? Charlotte Yonge and the family chronicle. In K. Boardman, & S. Jones (Eds.), Popular Victorian Women Writers (90-110). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526185617.00010

Charlotte Yonge had an immature mind, an undistinguished style, and the values of a pious schoolgirl', Robert Liddell complained, as long ago as 1947. If Yonge herself ever thought of her life as 'starved' or limited, it was in the area of childhood... Read More about 'All-sufficient to one another'? Charlotte Yonge and the family chronicle.

‘What I Can Myself Remember’: Charlotte M. Yonge’s Life Writing (2022)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V. (2022). ‘What I Can Myself Remember’: Charlotte M. Yonge’s Life Writing. In C. Walker Gore, C. Schultze, & J. Courtney (Eds.), Charlotte Mary Yonge: Writing the Victorian Age (25-43). Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10672-9_2

Yonge’s childhood autobiography is well known to scholars as a record of her parents’ influence and companionship with her cousins, but she also scattered autobiographical memories through a variety of formats throughout her life. Contextualising dis... Read More about ‘What I Can Myself Remember’: Charlotte M. Yonge’s Life Writing.

From Ballet Shoes to Polyjuice Potion : performing girl heroes from 1936-2007 (2022)
Thesis
Morris, R. E. From Ballet Shoes to Polyjuice Potion : performing girl heroes from 1936-2007. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4320670

This thesis examines girl protagonists who demonstrate heroism through various types of performance beginning with Noel Streatfeild’s Ballet Shoes (1936) and concluding with J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series (1997-2007).
According to Seth Lerer, ‘... Read More about From Ballet Shoes to Polyjuice Potion : performing girl heroes from 1936-2007.

Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth Century. Volume 1: Life Writing (2021)
Book
(2021). J. Shattock, J. Wilkes, K. Newey, & V. Sanders (Eds.), Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth Century. Volume 1: Life Writing. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003199861

This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century. Volume I of four explores the subjects of life-writing, including biography, autobiography, diaries and letters. This volume will be of gre... Read More about Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth Century. Volume 1: Life Writing.

Making Space: Key Popular Women Writers Then and Now (2021)
Journal Article
Hatter, J., Ifill, H., Bloom, A. B., Costantini, M., Lambert, C., Pope, C., & Sanders, V. (2021). Making Space: Key Popular Women Writers Then and Now. Victorian popular fictions journal, 3(1), 4--32. https://doi.org/10.46911/tfsa1481

Reclaiming lost or forgotten (Victorian) popular women writers and their works is still an important, ongoing aim of literary and gender studies. In this article, we take the Key Popular Women Writers series, published by Edward Everett Root Publishe... Read More about Making Space: Key Popular Women Writers Then and Now.

Repositioning Roald Dahl : morality and fantasy in Dahl’s life and writing for children (2021)
Thesis
Pojana Maneeyingsakul. Repositioning Roald Dahl : morality and fantasy in Dahl’s life and writing for children. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223113

This thesis aims to reposition Roald Dahl and his children’s fiction in the evolution of the morality debate in other popular children’s writers. His works for children, which were written during the last three decades of his life, have been frequent... Read More about Repositioning Roald Dahl : morality and fantasy in Dahl’s life and writing for children.

“Mediocrity in the sensations”: Charlotte Brontë and the Yorkshire Marriage (2020)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V. (2020). “Mediocrity in the sensations”: Charlotte Brontë and the Yorkshire Marriage. In J. Pizzo, & E. Houghton (Eds.), Charlotte Bronte, Embodiment and the Natural World (75-94). Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34855-7_4

In a letter of 1840 to her friend Ellen Nussey, Charlotte Brontë ironically advises that “mediocrity in the sensations is superlative wisdom,” especially in the context of the “Yorkshire marriage” based on wealth, rather than the mutual affinity she... Read More about “Mediocrity in the sensations”: Charlotte Brontë and the Yorkshire Marriage.

Margaret Oliphant (2020)
Book
Sanders, V. (2020). Margaret Oliphant. Edward Everett Root Publishers

This concise new book provides close readings of both canonical and less familiar novels and articles by the novelist Margaret Oliphant (1828-97). They show how she maintained a spirited dialogue with her age, confronting its ingrained prejudices, wh... Read More about Margaret Oliphant.

Mrs. Oliphant's Shopping: The Pleasures and Perils of Consumerism in Margaret Oliphant's Major Fiction (2019)
Journal Article
Sanders, V. (2019). Mrs. Oliphant's Shopping: The Pleasures and Perils of Consumerism in Margaret Oliphant's Major Fiction. Yearbook of English Studies, 49, 48-66. https://doi.org/10.5699/yearenglstud.49.2019.0048

Margaret Oliphant’s novels make frequent reference to the consumer culture of the period, ranging from shopping in department stores to the purchase of art works by private collectors. Both female and male shoppers feature in her novels, and the good... Read More about Mrs. Oliphant's Shopping: The Pleasures and Perils of Consumerism in Margaret Oliphant's Major Fiction.

Charles Kingsley's Anthropology of the Generations (2019)
Journal Article
Sanders, V. (2019). Charles Kingsley's Anthropology of the Generations. Journal of Victorian Culture, 24(3), 316-322. https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcz019

In 1852, Charles Kingsley (1819-75) declared his wish to ‘put the anthropology of men of my own generation on as sound a footing as I can,’ so that they would have clear religious and moral principles with which to face the challenges ahead of them.... Read More about Charles Kingsley's Anthropology of the Generations.

By the Fireside: Margaret Oliphant's Armchair Commentaries (2019)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V. (2019). By the Fireside: Margaret Oliphant's Armchair Commentaries. In A. Easley, C. Gill, & B. Rodgers (Eds.), Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s-1900s: The Victorian Period (379-392). Edinburgh University Press

Coal, correspondence, and nineteenth century poetry : Joseph Skipsey and the problems of social class (2018)
Thesis
Tait, G. J. Coal, correspondence, and nineteenth century poetry : Joseph Skipsey and the problems of social class. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4306375

This thesis explores the life and work of the poet and coal miner Joseph Skipsey (1832-1903) by examining his correspondence with some of the most notable cultural figures of the late-Victorian period. This work is, as far as I am aware, the first mo... Read More about Coal, correspondence, and nineteenth century poetry : Joseph Skipsey and the problems of social class.

‘Things pressing to be said’: Harriet Martineau’s mission to inform (2018)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V. (2018). ‘Things pressing to be said’: Harriet Martineau’s mission to inform. In M. D. Hurley, & M. Waithe (Eds.), Thinking through style: Non-fiction prose of the long Nineteenth Century (118-134). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198737827.003.0008

Unlike many of the other authors discussed in this collection, Martineau has rarely been read for pleasure in the artistry of her wordplay. When she mentions her writing it is with a sense, declared in her Autobiography, that ‘Things were pressing to... Read More about ‘Things pressing to be said’: Harriet Martineau’s mission to inform.

“Mortal hostility”: Masculinity and fatherly conflict in the Glass Town and Angrian sagas (2017)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V., & Butcher, E. (2017). “Mortal hostility”: Masculinity and fatherly conflict in the Glass Town and Angrian sagas. In J. E. Pike, & L. Morrison (Eds.), Charlotte Brontë from the Beginnings: New Essays from the Juvenilia to the Major Works (59-71). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315571393

Opening paragraph:
The above extract from the second part of Charlotte Brontë’s story “The Enfant,” which first appeared in Blackwood’s Young Men’s Magazine for June 1829, is a rare example in the juvenilia of the raw instinctive emotions of fatherho... Read More about “Mortal hostility”: Masculinity and fatherly conflict in the Glass Town and Angrian sagas.

Harriet Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines: Nineteenth-Century Intellectual Powerhouse (2016)
Book
Sanders, V., & Weiner, G. (Eds.). (2016). Harriet Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines: Nineteenth-Century Intellectual Powerhouse. Routledge

One of the foremost writers of her time, Harriet Martineau established her reputation by writing a hugely successful series of fictional tales on political economy whose wide readership included the young Queen Victoria. She went on to write fiction... Read More about Harriet Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines: Nineteenth-Century Intellectual Powerhouse.

'I have an all important review to write': Harriet Martineau's journalism (2016)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V. (2016). 'I have an all important review to write': Harriet Martineau's journalism. In V. Sanders, & G. Weiner (Eds.), Harriet Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines : Nineteenth-century intellectual powerhouse (187-200). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315586229

Like many of her contemporaries who wrote non-fictional prose, Martineau is a distinctive stylist. Compared with the key ‘sage’ writers of her day – Ruskin and Carlyle – she may sound understated. As a journalist who felt strongly about the issues sh... Read More about 'I have an all important review to write': Harriet Martineau's journalism.

The selected works of Margaret Oliphant, Part V, Volume 20: Hester (2015)
Book
Sanders, V. (2015). V. Sanders (Ed.), The selected works of Margaret Oliphant, Part V, Volume 20: Hester. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003554141

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and mor... Read More about The selected works of Margaret Oliphant, Part V, Volume 20: Hester.

'Tender and true': morality and masculinity in nineteenth-century women‟s fiction (2015)
Thesis
Turner, K. J. 'Tender and true': morality and masculinity in nineteenth-century women‟s fiction. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223293

In 1883 Eliza Lynn Linton described the men in women‟s fiction as „prigs, ruffians, or curled darlings‟, claiming that women writers cannot portray morally good men in fiction without making them seem unrealistic, unattractive, or both. This thesis a... Read More about 'Tender and true': morality and masculinity in nineteenth-century women‟s fiction.