Victorian Studies articles from June 1998

Victorian Studies archives from June 1998

Somatic Wisdom: Refiguring Bodies in The Ring and the Book.(Critical Essay)
June 22, 1998... Only by approximation are we able to refer back to a time whereof we can truly exhibit sufficient critical accounts and documentation. Yet, if we then ask what at a given time the most broadly acknowledged contents of the New Testament were,...

Centripetal Textuality.
June 22, 1998... The advent of electronic media, particularly in its most interactive incarnations, the Internet and World Wide Web, has been widely pronounced a crucial turning point in our relationship to text. Such claims may perhaps be most dramatically...

Textual Scholarship, Textual Theory, and the Uses of Electronic Tools: A Brief Report on Current Undertakings.
June 22, 1998... Like many other professional observers, P. Aaron Potter worries that scholarly editing and textual scholarship face a clear and present danger from electronic instruments. He focuses on my work because he sees it as exemplifying general...

Households of the Soul.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Households of the Soul, by Vincent P. Pecora; pp. xi + 337. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, $49.95, [pounds]41.50. Strange Gourmets: Sophistication, Theory, and the Novel, by Joseph Litvak; pp. xi + 181....

George Eliot: A Life.(Review)
June 22, 1998... George Eliot: A Life, by Rosemary Ashton; pp. xiv + 465. London and New York: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1996, $32.95. Students, friends, and colleagues in other disciplines, who have read some of George Eliot's fiction and want to...

George Eliot and Europe.(Review)
June 22, 1998... George Eliot and Europe, edited by John Rignall; pp. xii + 239. Aldershot: Scolar Press; Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1997, [pounds]35.00, $59.95. Over the hut half-century, English has become so thoroughly the academy's...

Writing and Victorianism.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Writing and Victorianism, edited by J. B. Bullen; pp. viii + 346. London and New York: Longman, 1997, [pounds]46.00, [pounds]17.99 paper, $54.95, $22.95 paper. On the whole this fast-track book is a dismaying production, in itself and...

The New Woman: Fiction and Feminism at the Fin de Si[grave{e}]cle.(Review)
June 22, 1998... The New Woman: Fiction and Feminism at the Fin de Si[grave{e}]cle, by Sally Ledger; pp. vii + 216. Manchester University Press, 1997, [pounds]35.00, [pounds]12.99 paper, $59.95, $19.95 paper. Posthumously, the New Woman owes quite a debt...

Eve's Renegades: Victorian Anti-Feminist Women Novelists.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Eve's Renegades: Victorian Anti-Feminist Women Novelists, by Valerie Sanders; pp. ix + 249. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996, $39.95. With the burgeoning scholarly interest in Victorian women that began thirty years ago, an interest...

Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination, by Ruth Vanita; pp. vii + 289. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996, $17.50 paper. In Anglo-American culture, it is generally and uncritically accepted...

A. C. Swinburne: A Poet's Life.(Review)
June 22, 1998... A. C. Swinburne: A Poet's Life, by Rikky Rooksby pp. xii + 322. Aldershot: Scolar Press; Brookfield: VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1997, [pounds]29.95, $68.95. The connection between Algernon Charles Swinburne's sensational life and...

Crises of Realism: Representing Experience in the British Novel, 1816-1910.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Crises of Realism: Representing Experience in the British Novel, 1816-1910, by Tom Lloyd; pp. 237. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1997, $37.50. Tom Lloyd's book charts what he calls the "middle space" of nineteenth-century...

Literary Impressionism in Jean Rhys, Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Conrad, and Charlotte Bronte.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Literary Impressionism in Jean Rhys, Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Conrad, and Charlotte Bront[ddot{e}], by Todd K. Bender; pp. xiv + 166. New York and London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1997, $45.00. In his 1980 review of H. Peter Stowell's...

Dickens and Thackeray: Punishment and Forgiveness.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Dickens and Thackeray: Punishment and Forgiveness, by John R. Reed; pp. xvi + 504. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1995, $29.95 paper. "THACKERAY and DICKENS, Dickens and Thackeray -- the two names now almost necessarily go together,"...

Thomas Hardy: A Textual Study of the Short Stories.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Thomas Hardy: A Textual Study of the Short Stories, by Martin Ray; pp. xiv + 357. Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 1997, [pounds]39.95, $76.95. For many years the reputation of Thomas Hardy was based firmly on...

Opening the Nursery Door: Reading, Writing and Childhood, 1600-1900.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Opening the Nursery Door: Reading, Writing and Childhood, 1600-1900, edited by Mary Hilton, Morag Styles, and Victor Watson; pp. x + 242. London and New York: Routledge, 1997, [pounds]40.00, [pounds]13.99 paper, $19.95 paper. Reading...

Interpreting Nightingales: Gender, Class and Histories.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Interpreting Nightingales: Gender, Class and Histories, by Jeni Williams; pp. 299. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997, [pounds]30.00, $49.50. The pervasive figure of the nightingale in English poetry has received consistent...

Uncrowned King: The Life of Prince Albert.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Uncrowned King: The Life of Prince Albert, by Stanley Weintraub; pp. xvii + 478. New York and London: The Free Press, 1997, $27.50. Following his Victoria: Biography of a Queen (1987), Stanley Weintraub turns his attention to her "beloved...

The Social and Political Thought of Bertrand Russell: The Development of an Aristocratic Liberalism.(Brief Article)
June 22, 1998... To the end of his days, Bertrand Russell remained an unrepentant Victorian. Proud of his lineage in one of Britain's most distinguished aristocratic families, he was equally boastful of his nearly thirty years as a subject of the grim-faced...

Freedom and Religion in the Nineteenth Century.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Freedom and Religion in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Richard Helmstadter; pp. viii + 446. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997, $55.00. Freedom and Religion in the Nineteenth Century is a formidable, learned, and diverse study...

Geology and Religious Sentiment: The Effect of Geological Discoveries on English Society and Literature between 1829 and 1859.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Geology and Religious Sentiment: The Effect of Geological Discoveries on English Society and Literature between 1829 and 1859, by J. M. I. Klaver; pp. xvi + 215. Leiden: Brill, 1997, Nlg. 133.00, $83.25. If the late-nineteenth-century,...

Justus von Liebig: The Chemical Gatekeeper.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Justus von Liebig: The Chemical Gatekeeper, by William H. Brock; pp. xiv + 374. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1997, [pounds]50.00, $79.95. This book on Justus von Liebig (1803-73) should appeal to a...

Victorian Urban Settings: Essays on the Nineteenth-Century City and Its Contexts.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Victorian Urban Settings: Essays on the Nineteenth-Century City and Its Contexts, edited by Debra N. Mancoff and D. J. Trela; pp. xvi + 247. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1996, $40.00. Nineteenth-century London was Janus-faced....

Pre-Raphaelite Birmingham.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Pre-Raphaelite Birmingham, by Roy Hartnell; pp. viii + 124. Studley, Warwickshire: Brewin Books, 1996, [pounds]11.95 paper. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their influence on British art continue to provide a rich source for scholarly...

The Fail and Rise of the Stately Home.(Review)
June 22, 1998... The Fail and Rise of the Stately Home, by Peter Mandler; pp. viii + 523. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997, $45.00, [pounds]19.95. Preserving the Past: The Rise of Heritage in Modern Britain, edited by Michael Hunter; pp....

Land and Society in Britain, 1700-1914: Essays in Honour of F. M. L. Thompson.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Land and Society in Britain, 1700-1914: Essays in Honour of F. M. L. Thompson, edited by Negley Harte and Roland Quinault; pp. xvi + 255. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1996, [pounds]45.00, $79.95. Overseas...

Bright Paradise: Victorian Scientific Travellers.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Bright Paradise: Victorian Scientific Travellers, by Peter Raby; pp. xi + 276. Princeton: Princeton University Press; London: Chatto and Windus, 1996, $14.95 paper, [pounds]20.00. In Bright Paradise Peter Raby, Professor of English...

The Platypus and the Mermaid and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination.(Review)
June 22, 1998... The Platypus and the Mermaid and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination, by Harriet Ritvo; pp. xiv + 288. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1997, $29.95. Imagine being the first Westerner to witness a kangaroo or...

Disraeli and the Rise of a New Imperialism.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Disraeli and the Rise of a New Imperialism, by C. C. Eldridge; pp. viii + 116. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1996, [pounds]7.95 paper, $45.00. Historiographical problems cluster round the term imperialism as well as around the...

Peasants and Monks in British India.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Peasants and Monks in British India, by William R. Pinch; pp. xi + 242. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1996, $55.00, $22.00 paper, [pounds]40.00, [pounds]15.95 paper. The vast unwieldy categories of caste in South...

Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World, edited by Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler; pp. xii + 470. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1997, $55.00, $19.95 paper, [pounds]40.00, [pounds]15.95 paper....

Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation, by Declan Kiberd; pp. xi + 719. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995, $18.95 paper. A book this long may be one that many will cite, but no one will much read, and that would...

Gothic Images of Race in Nineteenth-Century Britain.(Review)
June 22, 1998... Gothic Images of Race in Nineteenth-Century Britain, by H. L Malchow; pp. xii + 335. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996, $55.00, $18.95 paper. Victorian racism is of great topical interest, and a subject that is both politically...