Staines specializes in three particular areas: medieval, Victorian and Canadian literatures, with particular interest in the relationship between literature and its social context.
Unlike Alexander's dwarf-like description, the Disney Fair Folk more closely resemble the contemporary Victorian version of fairies and are depicted as tiny winged beings.
Gemma thinks that stories like it (a popular staple of Victorian literature) about a "poor, timid girl" who is greatly put upon by her wicked peers, before eventually being found to be of noble birth, are "poppycock".
He was a prolific collector of Victorian books and became an expert and well-known author of works on the subject.
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She has published, lectured, and reviewed widely in the fields of Victorian literature, theater, cultural history, and horror fiction and film.
He gained distinction in his Masters Degree in Victorian Literature from the University of Leeds, and moved to the University of Sheffield to study for a PhD with Sally Shuttleworth.
The book also contains many quotes referring to famous pieces of Victorian literature, for example, Alfred Tennyson's The Palace of Art, Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, and the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Of his separate publications, the most important are his lives of Cromwell (1888), William the Silent, (1897), Ruskin (1902), and Chatham (1905); his Meaning of History (1862; enlarged 1894) and Byzantine History in the Early Middle Ages (1900); and his essays on Early Victorian Literature (1896) and The Choice of Books (1886) are remarkable alike for generous admiration and good sense.
The books also contain many quotes referring to famous pieces of Victorian Literature like Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, and the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Alfred Tennyson.
Economist Robin Hanson, inspired by an analysis of Victorian literature by Kruger et.