7 Contemporary Novels About the Victorian Era

It’s a truism that historical fiction reveals more about its own age it than the one it portrays. We can’t escape or even perceive our own biases, the reasoning goes, so we end up helplessly projecting them onto a past where they don’t belong. But the past is not a museum, and contemporary perspectives don’t […] The post 7 Contemporary Novels About the Victorian Era appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

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