Victorian Studies articles from June 2001

Victorian Studies archives from June 2001

Writing the Victorian City: Discourses of risk, connection, and inevitability.
June 22, 2001... An essayist writing in the 1860 All the Year Round reflected that "it concerns a man more to know his risks of the fifty illnesses that may throw him on his back, than the possible date of the one death that must come" ("Registration of...

"Making the working man like me": Charity, pastorship, and middle-class identity in nineteenth-century Britain; Thomas Chalmers and Dr. James Phillips Kay.
June 22, 2001... Charity once extended an invisible chain of sympathy between the higher and lower ranks of society, which has been destroyed by the luckless pseudo-philanthropy of the [Old Poor Law]. Few aged or decrepid [sic] pensioners now gratefully...

Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Political Thought and Practice. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Political Thought and Practice, by Uday Singh Mehta; pp. xii + 237. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1999, $45.00, $17.00 paper, [pounds sterling]28.50, [pounds sterling]13.60...

The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display, by Jeffrey A. Auerbach; pp. vii + 280. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999, $40.00. The Great Exhibition, by John R. Davis; pp. xvii + 238. Phoenix Mill: Sutton, 1999, [pounds...

Protection and Politics: Conservative Economic Discourse. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... Protection and Politics: Conservative Economic Discourse, 1815-1852, by Anna Gambles; pp. xi + 291. Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press (for the Royal Historical Society), 1999, [pounds sterling]40.00, $75.00. Historians of...

Labour History and the Labour Movement in Britain & Thomas Burt, Miners' MF 1837 - 1922: The Great Conciliator. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... Labour History and the Labour Movement in Britain, by Sidney Pollard; pp. vi + 313. Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1999, [pounds sterling]57.50, $105.95. Thomas Burt, Miners' MF 1837 - 1922: The Great Conciliator, by Lowell J....

Policing Provincial England 1829 - 1856: The Politics of Reform & English Criminal Justice in the Nineteenth Century. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... Policing Provincial England 1829 - 1856: The Politics of Reform, by David Philips and Robert D. Storch; pp. vi + 342. London and New York: Leicester University Press, 1999, [pounds sterling]55.00, $75.00. English Criminal Justice in the...

Politicians in the Pulpit: Christian Radicalism in Britain from the Fall of the Bastille to the Disintegration of Chartism & Search for a New Eden: James Pierrepont Greaves (1777-1842): The Sacred Socialist and His Followers.
June 22, 2001... Politicians in the Pulpit: Christian Radicalism in Britain from the Fall of the Bastille to the Disintegration of Chartism, by Eileen Groth Lyon; pp. x + 280. Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1999, [pounds sterling]47.50, $84.95. ...

Lord John Russell: A Biography. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... Lord John Russell: A Biography, by Paul Scherer; pp. 427. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1999, $57.50, [pound sterling]42.50. It is hard to recapture the stature in his time of "our...

Matthew Arnold: The Critical Legacy. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... Matthew Arnold: The Critical Legacy, by Laurence W. Mazzeno; pp. xvi + 170. Rochester, NY Camden House, 1999, $55.00, [pound sterling]35.00. After reading Laurence Mazzeno's helpful if rather tendentious book, one cannot easily shake the...

Place in Literature: Regions, Cultures, Communities. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... Place in Literature: Regions, Cultures, Communities, by Roberto M. Dainotto: pp. viii + 178. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2000, $35.00, [pound sterling]26.50. With the end of the Cold War and the subsequent (if not...

The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy, edited by Dale Kramer; pp. xxvi + 231. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999, [pound sterling]38.84, [pound sterling]13.95 paper, $54.95, $19.95 paper. The Cambridge companion...

Herkomer: A Victorian Artist. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... Herkomer: A Victorian Artist, by Lee MacCormick Edwards; pp. 159. Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1999, $59.95, [pound sterling]35.00. This thoroughly researched and illustrated book on Hubert von Herkomer is a much-needed volume...

Ballads, Songs and Snatches: The Appropriation of Folk Song and Popular Culture in British Nineteenth-Century Realist Prose. (Books Reviews).
June 22, 2001... Ballads, Songs and Snatches: The Appropriation of Folk Song and Popular Culture in British Nineteenth-Century Realist Prose, by C. M. Jackson-Houlston; pp. 221. Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1999, [pound]42.50, S74.95. Probably...

Dublin Slums, 1800-1925: A Study in Urban Geography. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... Dublin Slums, 1800-1925: A Study in Urban Geography, by Jacinta Prunty; pp. xvii + 366. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1998, [pounds sterling]22.50. The author of Dublin Slums is both a practising historical geographer and a sister in a...

The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order, by Margot Gayle Backus; pp. ix + 291. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1999, $17.95, [POUNDS STERLING]14.36. The Gothic Family...

Ventures into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... Ventures into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity, by U. C. Knoepflmacher; pp. xxi + 444. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998, $35.00, [POUNDS STERLING]27.95. In the years since U. C. Knoepflmacher shifted...

In the Shadow of the Dreamchild: A New Understanding of Lewis Carroll. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... In the Shadow of the Dreamchild: A New Understanding of Lewis Carroll, by Karoline Leach; pp. 294. London: Peter Owen; Chester Springs, PA: Dufour Editions, 1999, [pound sterling]19.95, $35.95. As a piece of biographical scholarship,...

The Making of the Alice Books: Lewis Carroll's use of Earlier Children's Literature. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... The Making of the Alice Books: Lewis Carroll's Use of Earlier Children's Literature, by Ronald Reichertz; pp. 251. Montreal, QC and Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997, Can$70.00, CanS36.00 paper, $65.00, $24.95 paper. ...

The Politics of Focus: Women, Children and Nineteenth-Century Photography. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... The Politics of Focus: Women, Children and Nineteenth-Century Photography, by Lindsay Smith; pp. 136. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1998, [pounds sterling]63.96, [pounds sterling]23.96 paper, $79.95, $29.95 paper. ...

A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England, by John Tosh; pp. xii + 252. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1999, $30.00, [pounds sterling]28.00. The notion of Victorian Britain as a world of...

Plotting Women: Gender and Narration in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novel. (Books Reviews).
June 22, 2001... Plotting Women: Gender and Narration in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novel, by Alison A. Case; pp. x + 223. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 1999, $37.50, [pounds sterling]31.95. Alison Case's...

Women's Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900 & Victorian Women Poets (Dictionary of Literary Biography: Volume 199). (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... Women's Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain; pp. xviii + 408. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999, [pounds sterling]50.00, $69.95. ...

Autobiography: Narrative of Transformation & Traditions of Victorian Women's Autobiography: The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... Autobiography: Narrative of Transformation, by Carolyn A. Barros; pp. vii + 248. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, 1998, $42.50, [pounds sterling]30.00. Traditions of Victorian Women's Autobiography: The Poetics and Politics of Life...

Scenes of Sympathy: Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... Scenes of Sympathy: Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction, by Audrey Jaffe; pp. vii + 184. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2000, $39.95, [pounds sterling]24.95. Sympathy has regularly been understood as the...

Reading Alcoholisms: Theorizing Character and Narrative in Selected Novels of Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf & George Eliot and Intoxication: Dangerous Drugs and the Condition of England. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... Reading Alcoholisms: Theorizing Character and Narrative in Selected Novels of Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf, by Jane Lilienfeld; pp. xii + 292. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999, $49.95. George Eliot and Intoxication:...

After Dickens: Reading, Adaptation and Performance. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... After Dickens: Reading, Adaptation and Performance, by John Glavin; pp. xiii + 226. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999, [pounds sterling]39.19, $54.95. John Glavin's challenging and rewarding After Dickens is a...

The Victorian Comic Spirit: New Perspectives. (Book Review).
June 22, 2001... The Victorian Comic Spirit: New Perspectives, edited by jennifer Wagner-Lawlor; pp. xx + 252. Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 2000, [pounds]49.50, $86.95. "If you promise me faithfully not to mention it to a single person, not...

A Dream of Spires: Benjamin Mountfort and the Gothic Revival. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... A Dream of Spires: Benjamin Mountfort and the Gothic Revival, by Ian Lochhead; pp. ix + 364. Christehureb, New Zealand: Canterbury University Press, 1999, NZ$ 79.95. Benjamin Woolfield Mountfort (1825-1898) ranks as New Zealand's most...

Regaining Paradise: Englishness and the Early Garden City Movement. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... Regaining Paradise: Englishness and the Early Garden City Movement, by Standish Meacham; pp. viii + 210. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1999, $35.00, [pounds sterling]25.00. Standish Meacham's elegantly written monograph...

London 1900: The Imperial Metropolis. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... London 1900: The Imperial Metropolis, by jonathan Schneer; pp. 336. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999, $29.95. In his Introduction ("London in 1900") ,Jonathan Schneer asserts that despite historians' awareness of the importance...

Oriental Panorama: British Travellers in 19th Century Turkey. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... Oriental Panorama: British Travellers in 19th Century Turkey, by Reinhold Schiffer; pp. viii + 445. Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA.: Rodopi, 1999, $36.00. How did British travelers experience and describe Turkey during the nineteenth century?...

Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs, by Dennis R. Dean; pp. xix + 290. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999, [pounds sterling]55.96, $69.95. In the history of geology, Gideon Algernon Mantell (1790-1852)...

What a Blessing She Had Chloroform: The Medical and Social Response to the Pain of Childbirth from 1800 to the Present. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... What a Blessing She Had Chloroform: The Medical and Social Response to the Pain of Childbirth from 1800 to the Present, by Donald Caton; pp. ix + 288. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1999, $35.00, [pounds sterling]30.00. ...

A Time to Heal: The Diffusion of Listerism in Victorian Britain. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... A Time to Heal: The Diffusion of Listerism in Victorian Britain. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, by Jerry L. Gaw; pp. xii + 173. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1999, $25.00. Amongst the useful features...

Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel & The Friendship of Florence Nightingale and Mary Care Moore & Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel, by Hugh Small pp. xi + 221. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998, $35.00. The Friendship of Florence Nightingale and Mary Care Moore, edited by Mary C. Sullivan; pp. xii + 226. Philadelphia: University...

Golden Cables of Sympathy: The Transatlantic Sources of Nineteenth-Century Feminism. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... Golden Cables of Sympathy: The Transatlantic Sources of Nineteenth-Century Feminism, by Margaret H. McFadden, pp. xiv + 270. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999, $29.95. The concept of a "transatlantic world" has become...

Congregational Missions and the Making of an Imperial Culture in Nineteenth-Century England & Good Citizens: British Missionaries and Imperial States, 1780-1918. (Book Reviews).
June 22, 2001... Congregational Missions and the Making of an Imperial Culture in Nineteenth-Century England, by Susan Thorne; pp. ix + 247. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999, $51.00. Good Citizens: British Missionaries and Imperial States,...

Victorian bibliography for 1999: Introduction.
June 22, 2001... This sixty-eighth annual bibliography has been prepared by a committee of the Victorian Division of the Modern Language Association of America: Edward H. Cohen, chair, Rollins College; Andrea Broomfield, Johnson County Community College;...

Victorian bibliography for 1999: I. Bibliographical material.(Bibliography)
June 22, 2001... (See also IIIec, Gray; IIIed, Morrish; IIIp, Smith; IIIsc, C. N. Smith; IV, Holland, James, A. Robinson, Thomas; V, Carpenter, Easley, Erickson, Murphy; VI, BRADDON: Bandish; C. BRONTE: Collier; BUCHANAN: Nash; CLARE: Colclough; CLIVE:...

Victorian bibliography for 1999: II. History, historiography, and historical documents.(Bibliography)
June 22, 2001... (See also I, Freeman, Graham, Grant, Woods; IIIp, Cheffins.) Alborn, Timothy L. "Age and Empire in the Indian Census, 1871-1931." JIH 30:61-89. Anderson, M. British Population History.... See YB 1997, 695. Rev. by M. Dobson in...

Victorian bibliography for 1999: III. Economics, education, politics, religion, science, and social environment.(Bibliography)
June 22, 2001... ECONOMICS (See also I, Collett, French; II, Gwyn, Wollard; IIIp, Croll, Revill, Rodgers; IIIso, Bonnett, Dube; VI, MILL: Soule.) Alborn, T. Conceiving Companies.... See VB 1998, 735. Rev. by S. Toms in BusH 41, 2:124-25; by W....

Victorian bibliography: IV. Architecture, fine arts, household arts, performing arts, and city planning.(Bibliography)
June 22, 2001... (See also I, Gascoigne, McEvansoneya, Phillips, Walkowitz; IIIed, Chalmers, Cox; IIIsc, Swinney; IIIso, Jones; V, Helsinger, Schwarz, Staryk; VI, WILDE: Van Capelleveen.) Addonizio, Shari. "Portraits of Madwomen: Another Look at Dr. Hugh...

Victorian bibliography: V. Literary history, literary forms, literary ideas.(Bibliography)
June 22, 2001... (See also I, Adams, Albinski, Bock, Curran, Gorlach, James, Law, Mazzeno, McDonald, Treglown; II, Lee; IIIr, Larson; IIIso, Edmond, Joshi; IV, Bell-Villada, Byerly, Clark, Reilly, J. Smith.) Ackland, Michael. "Beyond the Wattle: Recent...

Victorian biography: VI. Individual authors.(Bibliography)
June 22, 2001... ABBOTT Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. Intro. Alan Lightman. London: Penguin, 1998. 118 pp. Coonen, Martin. "Edwin Abbott Abbott: Primary and Secondary Checklists with Partial Annotations." BB 56:247-55. ACTON ...