Domesticity and Worldliness in the Victorian Period from the Cultural Studies Perspective

Ana Cristina Mendes and Iolanda Ramos, editors of “‘Victorians Like Us,” a special issue published by Open Cultural Studies in 2017, discuss in their introduction the insights that its various contributions offer on the domestic and public sphere in the Victorian era of the British Empire. A Guest Article by Ana Cristina Mendes and Iolanda Ramos. An increasing interest in the sphere of Victorian domesticity – and its ‘negative,’ the world beyond the confines of the domestic – has resulted in..