Jacqueline Banerjee in “Frail Treasures: Child Death and the Victorian Novel” (2007) describes the Victorian novelists’ obsession with death as a means of resolve. Victorian writers would situate an innocent child who slowly accrues self-awareness after a death. This sacrificial death would then create an impetus for character development. Banerjee describes this as a meeting between the Romantic ideal of the innocent child and the Evangelical ‘saved’ [dead] child who then serves as a spiritual guide, as an angel.

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Walter Houghton was said the way to Victorian studies' heart is through its stomach. 

Food consumption, dining, and cooking culture in the Vict. era has proven to demonstrate the intersections between aesthetic procivilites, economics and soical mobility, and literary production. Navigating food can broaden our Victorian frame of mind.