Informative Websites

http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/victorian/vn/victor10.html

John Henry Cardinal Newman’s definition of the attributes that make up a gentleman. This concept of a gentleman is tied to middle-class norms in Oliver Twist and critiqued in Fingersmith

http://www.fathom.com/course/21701754/session4.html

A reflection on the nature of Oliver Twist as a serialized publication and the, then, current events that it was able to focus on in greater depth due to its serial nature.

www.onlineliterature.com/dickens

Biography about Charles Dickens and his life work as an actor and more importantly an author.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2305597.stm

Jack Finlay reviews Sarah Walters writing and her novel Fingersmith. The go into depth by comparing the novel to Dickens’s Oliver Twist and focusing on the idea of homosexuality in Victorian age.

http://www.michel-foucault.com/concepts/index.html

An explanation of some of the central concepts and ideas that define Foucault’s thought.

http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth03a23o034012634831

Biographical information on the novelist Sarah Waters.

http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/victorians/finals/nature.html

An explanation of the conflicting views Victorian society had towards nature.

http://science.jrank.org/pages/11556/Victorianism-Values-Beliefs.html

A look at some of the beliefs and mores that informed the Victorian worldview.

http://www.victorianweb.org/history/Class.html

A look at the growing class stratification in Victorian Britain.