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Victorian Studies archives from January 2012
Wild Charges: The Afro-Haitian "Charge of the Light Brigade"
January 1, 2012... "Slightly contemptible." That, in Jerome McGann's apt phrase, was the prevailing critical judgment of "The Charge of the Light Brigade" for much of the twentieth century. Alfred Tennyson's 1854 poem about a disastrous British military advance...
"Outworks of the Citadel of Corruption": The Chartist Press Reports the Empire
January 1, 2012... Over the last decade and a half, a gradual but marked shift has taken place in our understanding of the relationship between Victorian literature and culture and the British empire. The once widespread assumption that support for the colonial...
Charles Kingsley: From Being Green to Green Being
January 1, 2012... I. Introduction On 23 January 1875, Charles Kingsley died, leaving instructions that his grave, in Eversley churchyard, not be bricked up. (1) His dying came at the outset of the cremation controversy. A year earlier, the urological surgeon...
Empire's Discontents: Burton in Retrospect
January 1, 2012... An anthropologist friend was a child immigrant from London's East End to New Zealand just after the Second World War, in an era when the numbers of those leaving the United Kingdom exceeded those arriving. He told me of his haunting memory of...
Islands of Whiteness
January 1, 2012... Astonishingly, empire is still in question. For a few decades now, Antoinette Burton has been making subtle and compelling arguments about our need to make Victorian British history not only inclusive of empire, but to make the empire...
Victorian History: Some Experiments with Syllabi
January 1, 2012... The week that I received copies of these three engaged and thoughtful responses to Empire in Question I was two-thirds of the way through the syllabus for my 400 level course, Victorian Britain, which I teach in the department of History at the...
Modern Spiritualism and the Church of England, 1850-1939
January 1, 2012... Modern Spiritualism and the Church of England, 1850-1939, by Georgina Byrne; pp. xi + 252. Woodbridge and Rochester: The Boydell Press, 2010, 55.00 [pounds sterling], $95.00. Over the past few decades, scholars of Victorian religion have...
Comments & Queries
January 1, 2012... COMMENTS & QUERIES are welcome via e-mail. Our address is victstu@indiana.edu. ON THE COVER is Ary Scheffer's La Tentation du Christ (1854), housed at the Musee de Louvre, Paris. On the back cover is Arie Johannes Lamme's Ary Scheffer au...
