ABSTRACT
“History/Historicism” describes the important contributions made by the partnership between historians and critics to our understanding of Victorian literature. It looks at the history of the interdisciplinary project from the founding of the field of Victorian studies in the 1940s and 1950s, to the introduction of Marxism and feminism in the 1960s and 1970s, the addition of cultural studies and new historicism in the 1980s, the appearance of postcolonial analysis in the 1990s, and the rise of ecocriticism in the last two decades.
