Norbert Lennartz is Full Professor and Chair of English literature at the University of Vechta, Germany.
Jacqueline F. Kolditz is Doctoral Research Assistant at the University of Vechta, Germany.
Carolin Sternberg is Doctoral Research Assistant at the University of Vechta, Germany.
This book targets a cluster of darknesses in a century that, in the wake of the Romantic euphoria for the nocturnal, preferred to see itself guided by the glaring light of positivism and clear factitiousness. Yet, both canonical and non-canonical texts of the Victorian age prove that the beacons of affirmation and technological progress were persistently drowned out by stentorian voices of darkish doubt and suicidal abandon.
This book targets a cluster of darknesses in a century that, in the wake of the Romantic euphoria for the nocturnal, preferred to see itself guided by the glaring light of positivism and clear factitiousness. Yet, both canonical and non-canonical texts of the Victorian age prove that the beacons of affirmation and technological progress were persistently drowned out by stentorian voices of darkish doubt and suicidal abandon.