Victorian Studies articles from June 2007

Victorian Studies archives from June 2007

Of beasts and boys: Kingsley, Spencer, and the theory of recapitulation.(Charles Kingsley's Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby, Herbert Spencer)
June 22, 2007... In the early 1860s, Victorians were introduced to a part of their bodies most never knew existed. An acrimonious debate between anatomist Richard Owen and T. H. Huxley sensationalized the "hippocampus minor," a small fold in the human brain....

"I do swear": oath taking among the Elite public in Victorian England.
June 22, 2007... ABSTRACT: This essay examines the widespread practice of oath-taking among England's professional classes and the anxieties such ritual performances provoked. In instances like the Tolpuddle Martyr trials, unauthorized oath-taking proved...

The subject of money: late-Victorian melodrama's crisis of masculinity.
June 22, 2007... ABSTRACT: This article focuses on the relationship between male suffering and economics in two late-Victorian melodramas, Henry Arthur Jones's The Silver King and Arthur Wing Pinero's Sweet Lavender. Both plays express contemporary anxieties...

The first strawberries in India: cultural portability in Victorian Greater Britain.
June 22, 2007... ABSTRACT: This article examines a deep-seated Victorian preoccupation with the ways that portable property becomes the vector for the transplantation of national culture and individual identity. It argues that England's empire, the territory...

The Most Secret Quintessence of Life: Sex, Glands, and Hormones, 1850-1950.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Most Secret Quintessence of Life: Sex, Glands, and Hormones, 1850-1950, by Chandak Sengoopta; pp. vi + 354. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006, $45.00, 128.50 [pounds sterling]. Testicular extract was, according...

Sex in Mind: The Gendered Brain in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Mental Sciences.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Sex in Mind: The Gendered Brain in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Mental Sciences, by Rachel Malane; pp. xiv + 229. Studies in Nineteenth-Century British Literature No. 22. New York and London: Peter Lang, 2005, $67.95, 37.00 [pounds...

In Science's Shadow: Literary Constructions of Late Victorian Women.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... In Science's Shadow: Literary Constructions of Late Victorian Women, by Patricia Murphy; pp. ix + 239. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2006, $39.95, 27.95[pounds sterling]. Patricia Murphy's In Science's Shadow has a...

Robert Louis Stevenson, Science, and the Fin de Siecle.(Robert Louis Stevenson: Writer of Boundaries)(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Robert Louis Stevenson, Science, and the Fin de Siecle, by Julia Reid; pp. ix + 241. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, 47.00, $65.00 [pounds sterling]. Robert Louis Stevenson: Writer of Boundaries, edited by Richard...

George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country, by Michael Davis; pp. vii + 216. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2006, 50.00 [pounds sterling], $99.95. The striking cover design of Michael Davis's study,...

George Eliot in Germany, 1854-55: "Cherished Memories".(142 Strand: A Radical Address in Victorian London)(Book review)
June 22, 2007... George Eliot in Germany, 1854-55: "Cherished Memories", by Gerlinde Roder-Bolton; pp. xiii + 180. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2006, 45.00 [pounds sterling], $89.95. 142 Strand: A Radical Address in Victorian London, by Rosemary...

The Thames.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Thames, by Jonathan Schneer; pp. viii + 330. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005, $35.00, 18.99 [pounds sterling]. The river Thames drowns any single historian. Its dark waters, rich banks, and fabled onlookers readily...

British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, 1870-1900: Beauty for the People.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, 1870-1900: Beauty for the People, by Diana Maltz; pp. vii + 290. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, 52.00 [pounds sterling], $75.00. While several scholars have examined...

George Gissing: Voices of the Unclassed, edited by Martin Ryle and Jenny Bourne.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... George Gissing: Voices of the Unclassed, edited by Martin Ryle and Jenny Bourne Taylor; pp. 174. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2005, 45.00 [pounds sterling], $89.95. George Gissing: Voices of the Unclassed is the third collection of...

George Gissing, the Working Woman, and Urban Culture.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... George Gissing, the Working Woman, and Urban Culture, by Emma Liggins; pp. xxxii + 193. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2006, 45.00 [pounds sterling], $89.95. Feminist readers have had a troubled relationship with George Gissing,...

New Woman and Colonial Adventure Fiction in Victorian Britain: Gender, Genre, and Empire.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... New Woman and Colonial Adventure Fiction in Victorian Britain: Gender, Genre, and Empire, by LeeAnne M. Richardson; pp. vii + 181. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006, $59.95. LeeAnne M. Richardson's New Woman and Colonial...

In Their Own Words: British Women Writers and India 1740-1857.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... In Their Own Words: British Women Writers and India 1740-1857, by Rosemary Raza; pp. xxxi + 289. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, 09.99,$35.00. Rosemary Raza, formerly a member of the British Diplomatic Service and now...

Between Colonialism and Diaspora: Sikh Formations in an Imperial World.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Between Colonialism and Diaspora: Sikh Formations in an Imperial World, by Tony Ballantyne; pp. xvii + 229. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006, $74.95, $21.95 paper, 50.00 [pounds sterling], 12.99 [pounds sterling] paper. As...

Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape and Science, 1800-1856.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape and Science, 1800-1856, by David Arnold; pp. 298. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006, $50.00. An eminently readable book, Tropics and the Traveling Gaze unravels the mysteries...

Charles Darwin, Geologist.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Charles Darwin, Geologist, by Sandra Herbert; pp. xx + 485. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005, $39.95, 24.95 [pounds sterling]. Today, Charles Darwin is world famous (and, for some, infamous), but not for his...

Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture, by Jonathan Smith; pp. xxiii + 349. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 60.00 [pounds sterling], $100.00. Illustration is a tricky business. Literally meaning to bring to...

Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science, by Jennifer Tucker; pp. vii + 294. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, $55.00, 36.50 [pounds sterling]. At the beginning of the nineteenth century,...

The Making of English Photography: Allegories.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Making of English Photography: Allegories, by Steve Edwards; pp. x + 356. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006, $85.00. How was making a photograph different from operating a carding machine at the dawn of...

Doves and Dreams: The Art of Frances Macdonald and J. Herbert McNair.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Doves and Dreams: The Art of Frances Macdonald and J. Herbert McNair, edited by Pamela Robertson; pp. 191. Aldershot and Burlington: Lund Humphries, 2006, 40.00 [pounds sterling], $80.00. Doves and Dreams: The Art of Frances Macdonald and...

Household Gods: The British and their Possessions.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Household Gods: The British and their Possessions, by Deborah Cohen; pp. xvii + 296. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006, $40.00, 25.00 [pounds sterling]. Of all the trite assumptions made about the national character none...

The Natural Origins of Economics.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Natural Origins of Economics, by Margaret Schabas; pp. ix + 208. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005, $40.00, 25.50 [pounds sterling]. In tracing the secularization and denaturalization of economics during the...

Liberty and Authority in Victorian Britain.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Liberty and Authority in Victorian Britain, edited by Peter Mandler; pp. viii + 254. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, 155.00, $99.00. Political liberty and religious freedom depend upon the power of the state,...

Gladstone and Women.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Gladstone and Women, by Anne Isba; pp. xv+ 253. London and New York: Hambledon Continuum, 2006, 19.99 [pounds sterling], 10.18 [pounds sterling] paper, $34.95, $19.95 paper. As its title suggests, Gladstone and Women sets out to describe...

Wild and Fearless: The Life of Margaret Fountaine.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Wild and Fearless: The Life of Margaret Fountaine, by Natascha Scott-Stokes; pp. 295. London: Peter Owen, 2006, 19.95 [pounds sterling], $47.95. Natascha Scott-Stokes's Wild and Fearless: The Life of Margaret Fountaine is the first...

Anny: A Life of Anne Thackeray Ritchie.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Anny: A Life of Anne Thackeray Ritchie, by Henrietta Garnett; pp. xi + 322. London: Chatto & Windus, 2004, 18.99 [pounds sterling]; Pimlico, 2006, 14.99 [pounds sterling] paper. The literary heritage of novelist-essayist Anne Thackeray...

The Ivy Leaf: The Parnells Remembered.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... The Ivy Leaf: The Parnells Remembered, by Donal McCartney and Pauric Travers; pp. xiv + 204. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2006, 39.95 [pounds sterling], 17.95 [pounds sterling] paper, $79.95, $39.95 paper. The Ivy Leaf is a...

John Stuart Blackie: Scottish Scholar and Patriot.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... John Stuart Blackie: Scottish Scholar and Patriot, by Stuart Wallace; pp. x + 342. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006, 25.00 [pounds sterling], $75.00. John Stuart Blackie's eccentricity provides a challenge and an opportunity...

Charles Knight: Educator, Publisher, Writer.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Charles Knight: Educator, Publisher, Writer, by Valerie Gray; pp. xxii + 233. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2006, $99.95, 55.00 [pounds sterling]. To write a compact biography of a subject as productive and wide-ranging as Charles...

British Universities Past and Present.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... British Universities Past and Present, by Robert Anderson; pp. x + 241. London and New York: Hambledon Continuum, 2006, 40.00 [pounds sterling], $80.00. The Victorian era was decisive for British higher education both as a culmination of...

Teacher Training at Cambridge: The Initiatives of Oscar Browning and Elizabeth Hughes.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Teacher Training at Cambridge: The Initiatives of Oscar Browning and Elizabeth Hughes, by Pam Hirsch and Mark McBeth; pp. ix + 254, London and Portland, OR: Woburn Press, 2004, 28.99 [pounds sterling] paper, $51.95 paper. With the...

Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913, by Sean Brady; pp. viii + 265. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 55.00 [pounds sterling], $85.00. Since the publication of Jeffrey Weeks's groundbreaking study...

Thomas Hardy on Screen.(Seeing Hardy: Film and Television Adaptations of the Fiction of Thomas Hardy)(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Thomas Hardy on Screen, edited by T. R. Wright; pp. xiv + 216. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 45.00 [pounds sterling], 17.99 [pounds sterling] paper, $75.00, $29.99 paper. Seeing Hardy: Film and Television...

Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s, by Sarah Meer; pp. viii + 332. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005, $54.95, $24.95 paper. "Tom-Mania" was the phrase coined by The Spectator to describe...

Transatlantic Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Transatlantic Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture, edited by Denise Kohn, Sarah Meer, and Emily B. Todd; pp. xxxi + 258. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006, $39.95. Transatlantic Stowe contributes to a growing body of...

Altered States: Sex, Nation, Drugs, and Self-Transformation in Victorian Spiritualism.(Possessed Victorians: Extra Spheres in Nineteenth-Century Mystical Writings)(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Altered States: Sex, Nation, Drugs, and Self-Transformation in Victorian Spiritualism, by Marlene Tromp; pp. xi + 225. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006, $65.00, $24.95 paper. Possessed Victorians: Extra Spheres in...

Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre, edited by Kimberly Harrison and Richard Fantina; pp. vii + 278. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2006, $45.95. In their introduction to Victorian Sensations, Kimberly Harrison...

Allegories of One's Own Mind: Melancholy in Victorian Poetry.(Book review)
June 22, 2007... Allegories of One's Own Mind: Melancholy in Victorian Poetry, by David G. Riede; pp. ix + 226. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2005, $41.95, $9.95 audio CD. In the acknowledgements for Allegories of One's Own Mind: Melancholy...