Victorian Studies articles from January 2010

Victorian Studies archives from January 2010

Soul-mates: David Copperfield's Angelic Bigamy.
January 1, 2010... For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. Matthew 22:30 Many Victorians could not imagine a paradise without marriage or family. Clerics, novelists, and authors of...

Work, lack, and longing: Rossetti's "The Blessed Damozel" and the Working Men's College.(Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
January 1, 2010... During the summer of 1858, Dante Gabriel Rossetti visited Ford Madox Brown's studio to see a large modern subject on which Brown had already been working for six years. Work (185265), which would in the end take him more than ten years to...

Questions of archive and method in transatlantic studies.
January 1, 2010... In Kate Flint's capacious book, The Transatlantic Indian, 1776-1930, Britons and native North Americans do quite a lot of ocean-crossing, seeing and being seen. Englishmen head to Montana to hunt game, while their missionary brethren head to...

Rethinking nineteenth-century transatlantic worlds: with and through "Indian Eyes".(BOOK REVIEW FORUM)
January 1, 2010... The 1903 photograph on the front cover of Kate Flint's The Transatlantic Indian features members of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. A central grouping of three male Native participants catches the reader's eye: staring at the camera, these...

Indians in theory and in practice.(BOOK REVIEW FORUM)(Book review)
January 1, 2010... Kate Flint's book sets itself two primary tasks, and it succeeds splendidly at both. The first of these, as Flint says at the outset (and I might pause here to note that the book's clarity of purpose, organization, and argumentation is a great...

Transatlantic studies and The Transatlantic Indian.(BOOK REVIEW FORUM: RESPONSE)
January 1, 2010... It has been a real privilege to read three such engaged and thoughtful responses to The Transatlantic Indian, and to be invited to reflect, with hindsight, upon both my own arguments and emphases and my methodological choices. The latter, in...

Excavating Victorians.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... Excavating Victorians, by Virginia Zimmerman; pp. x + 231. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007, $65.00, $21.95 paper. "A Roman bracelet discovered in the mudflats of the Thames," Virginia Zimmerman writes in her introduction to...

Victorian Fetishism: Intellectuals and Primitives.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... Victorian Fetishism: Intellectuals and Primitives, by Peter Melville Logan; pp. xi + 206. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009, $55.00, 39.25 [pounds sterling]. In his stimulating new book, Peter Melville Logan (author of Nerves...

The Bourgeois Interior: How the Middle Class Imagines Itself in Literature and Film.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... The Bourgeois Interior: How the Middle Class Imagines Itself in Literature and Film, by Julia Prewitt Brown; pp. xiv + 188. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2008, $30.00, 26.95 [pounds sterling]. Julia Prewitt Brown's...

The Cosmopolitan Interior: Liberalism and the British Home, 1870-1914.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... The Cosmopolitan Interior: Liberalism and the British Home, 1870-1914, by Judith A. Neiswander; pp. 216. New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2008, $75.00, 35.00 [pounds sterling]. ...

Philanthropy in British and American Fiction: Dickens, Hawthorne, Eliot and Howells.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... Philanthropy in British and American Fiction: Dickens, Hawthorne, Eliot and Howells, by Frank Christianson; pp. viii + 211. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007, 50.00 [pounds sterling], $90.00. Misrepresentations of philanthropy in...

'Ethos' and the Oxford Movement: At the Heart of Tractarianism.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... 'Ethos' and the Oxford Movement: At the Heart of Tractarianism, by James Pereiro; pp. viii + 271. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, 69.00 [pounds sterling], $150.00. James Pereiro, the author of a fine intellectual biography...

The Invention of Altruism: Making Moral Meanings in Victorian Britain.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... The Invention of Altruism: Making Moral Meanings in Victorian Britain, by Thomas Dixon; pp. xiv + 420. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, 65.00 [pounds sterling], $80.00. Subtle, broad-ranging, and elegant, Thomas Dixon's The...

J.S. Mill Revisited: Biographical and Political Explorations.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... J.S. Mill Revisited: Biographical and Political Explorations, by Bruce L. Kinzer; pp. ix + 248. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 42.50 [pounds sterling], $80.00. Bruce Kinzer's J.S. Mill Revisited is aptly subtitled...

State and Market in Victorian Britain: War, Welfare, and Capitalism.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... State and Market in Victorian Britain: War, Welfare, and Capitalism, by Martin Daunton; pp. ix + 341. Woodbridge and Rochester: Boydell & Brewer, 2008, 55.00 [pounds sterling], $95.00. This book brings together Martin Daunton's previously...

Land and Nation in England: Patriotism, National Identity, and the Politics of Land, 1880-1914.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... Land and Nation in England: Patriotism, National Identity, and the Politics of Land, 1880-1914, by Paul Readman; pp. x + 242. Woodbridge and Rochester: The Boydell Press, 2008, 50.00 [pounds sterling], $95.00. At least since Martin Wiener's...

The Glory of Being Britons: Civic Unionism in Nineteenth-Century Belfast.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... The Glory of Being Britons: Civic Unionism in Nineteenth-Century Belfast, by John Bew; pp. xvii + 269. Dublin and Portland: Irish Academic Press, 2009, 45.00 [pounds sterling], $59.95. In her influential 1992 book, Britons, Linda Colley...

Dark Victorians.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... Dark Victorians, by Vanessa D. Dickerson; pp. vii + 163. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008, $35.00, 18.99 [pounds sterling]. "For the first time in my life," wrote Harriet Jacobs of her 1845 visit to England with her...

Robert Knight: Reforming Editor in Victorian India.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... Robert Knight: Reforming Editor in Victorian India, by Edwin Hirschmann; pp. xi + 272. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, 21.99 [pounds sterling], $50.00. The history of the imperial press is enjoying a healthy popularity,...

Florence Nightingale: The Making of an Icon.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... Florence Nightingale: The Making of an Icon, by Mark Bostridge; pp. xxiii + 647. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008, $35.00. Roughly two-thirds of the way through Florence Nightingale: The Making of an Icon, biographer Mark Bostridge...

Mobility and Modernity in Women's Novels, 1850s-1930s: Women Moving Dangerously.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... Mobility and Modernity in Women's Novels, 1850s-1930s: Women Moving Dangerously, by Wendy Parkins; pp. vi + 198. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 50.00 [pounds sterling], $80.00. James Tissot's painting of an independent...

Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siecle.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siecle, by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller; pp. v + 284. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008, $75.00, $27.95 paper, 62.95 [pounds sterling], 24.50 [pounds sterling] paper. ...

Aristocratic Women and the Literary Nation, 1832-1867.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... Aristocratic Women and the Literary Nation, 1832-1867, by Muireann O'Cinneide; pp. vii + 241. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 45.00 [pounds sterling], $80.00. Although recovering forgotten women writers has always been a...

The January-May Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Culture.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... The January-May Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Culture, by Esther Godfrey; pp. xii + 256. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 45.00 [pounds sterling], $90.00. In her discussion of intergenerational marriages in...

The Tragi-Comedy of Victorian Fatherhood.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... The Tragi-Comedy of Victorian Fatherhood, by Valerie Sanders; pp. xii + 246. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009, 50.00 [pounds sterling], $90.00. When Virginia Woolf sought to illustrate the workings of the "infantile...

Family Likeness: Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... Family Likeness: Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf, by Mary Jean Corbett; pp. xiv + 264. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2008, $39.95, 26.95 [pounds sterling]. Historians often cite the fact that the...

The Secret Vice: Masturbation in Victorian Fiction and Medical Culture.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... The Secret Vice: Masturbation in Victorian Fiction and Medical Culture, by Diane Mason; pp. viii + 184. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2008, 55.00 [pounds sterling], $79.00. In his 1929 essay "Pornography and...

Electric Meters: Victorian Physiological Poetics.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... Electric Meters: Victorian Physiological Poetics, by Jason R. Rudy; pp. xiii + 232. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009, $44.95, 40.50 [pounds sterling]. Literal-minded readers might carp at the title: Electric Meters is not just about...

Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900, edited by Corey Keller; pp. 215. New Haven and London: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Yale University Press, 2008, $50.00, 35.00 [pounds sterling]. The Victorian Eye: A...

Masking the Text: Essays on Literature & Mediation in the 1890s.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... Masking the Text: Essays on Literature & Mediation in the 1890s, by Nicholas Frankel; pp. 300. High Wycombe: Rivendale Press, 2009, 40.00 [pounds sterling], $65.00. This book collects four essays on Oscar Wilde and six more about Michael...

Music and the Making of Middle-Class Culture: A Comparative History of Nineteenth-Century Leipzig and Birmingham.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... Music and the Making of Middle-Class Culture: A Comparative History of Nineteenth-Century Leipzig and Birmingham, by Antje Pieper; pp. xix + 214. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 50.00 [pounds sterling], $80.00. Thomas...

Ruskin, the Theatre and Victorian Visual Culture.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... Ruskin, the Theatre and Victorian Visual Culture, edited by Anselm Heinrich, Katherine Newey, and Jeffrey Richards; pp. xiii + 242. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 50.00 [pounds sterling], $90.00. Ruskin, the Theatre and...

H. G. Wells: Interdisciplinary Essays.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... H. G. Wells: Interdisciplinary Essays, edited by Steven McLean; pp. xii + 184. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, 29.99 [pounds sterling], 19.99 [pounds sterling] paper, $59.99, $29.99 paper. H.G. Wells, Modernity and the Movies,...

Contemporary Dickens.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... Contemporary Dickens, edited by Eileen Gillooly and Deirdre David; pp. xi + 315. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2009, $49.95, $9.95 CD-ROM. It may not be entirely right, but it's certainly not wrong to argue that, like Caesar's...

Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend.(Book review)
January 1, 2010... Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend, edited by Joseph Bristow; pp. xlii + 355. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009, $59.95, $28.95 paper, 53.95 [pounds sterling], 26.50 [pounds sterling] paper. Joseph Bristow's Oscar Wilde...

How to Read the Victorian Novel.('How to Read the Victorian Novel' & 'Why Victorian Literature Still Matters')(Book review)
January 1, 2010... How to Read the Victorian Novel, by George Levine; pp. 200. Oxford and Maiden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007, 55.00 [pounds sterling], 14.99 [pounds sterling] paper, $94.95, $27.95 paper. Why Victorian Literature Still Matters, by Philip Davis;...