Victorian Studies articles from March 2002

Victorian Studies archives from March 2002

Victorian Figurative Painting: Domestic Life and the Contemporary Social Scene & Victorian Narrative Painting. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Victorian Figurative Painting: Domestic Life and the Contemporary Social Scene, by Mary Cowling; pp. 208. London: Andreas Papadakis, 2001, [pounds sterling]35.00, [pounds sterling]27.50 paper, $55.00, $45.00 paper. Victorian Narrative...

Professional Women Painters in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Commitment, Friendship, Pleasure. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Professional Women Painters in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Commitment, Friendship, Pleasure, by Janice Helland; pp. xii + 212. Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 2000, [pounds sterling]49.50, $79.95. If a picture is worth a thousand...

The Culture of Christina Rossetti: Female Poetics and Victorian Contexts. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... The Culture of Christina Rossetti: Female Poetics and Victorian Contexts, edited by Mary Arseneau, Antony H. Harrison, and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra; pp. xxii + 351. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1999, $39.95. In 1988 Antony H. Harrison...

Their Fair Share: Women, Power and Criticism in the Athenaeum, From Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Katherine Mansfield, 1870-1920. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Their Fair Share: Women, Power and Criticism in the Athenaeum, From Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Katherine Mansfield, 1870-1920, by Marysa Demoor; pp. x + 163. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2000, [pounds sterling]42.50, $74.95. ...

Women and the People: Authority, Authorship and the Radical Tradition in Nineteenth-Century England. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Women and the People: Authority, Authorship and the Radical Tradition in Nineteenth-Century England. by Helen Rogers; pp. x + 342. Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 2000, [pounds sterling]42.50, $74.95. This book examines the ways...

Gender, Geography and Empire: Victorian Women Travellers in West Africa. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Gender, Geography and Empire: Victorian Women Travellers in West Africa, by Cheryl McEwan; pp. ix + 250. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2000, [pounds sterling]42.50, $74.95. Cheryl McEwan takes as her audience those in her own...

American Slaves in Victorian England: Abolitionist Polities in Popular Literature and Culture. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... American Slaves in Victorian England: Abolitionist Polities in Popular Literature and Culture, by Audrey Fisch; pp. vii + 139. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, [pounds sterling]35.00, $59.95. Audrey Fisch's...

Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and "Improvement" of the World. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and "Improvement" of the World, by Richard Drayton; pp. xxi + 346. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2000, $40.00, [pounds sterling]25.00. This is a remarkable book-elegantly...

The New Crusaders: Images of the Crusades in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... The New Crusaders: Images of the Crusades in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, by Elizabeth Siberry; pp. Xii + 228. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2000, [pounds sterling]47.50, $84.95. That the English nineteenth...

Social Mobility in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Social Mobility in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England, by Andrew Miles; pp. xiv + 262. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999, $65.00. Did capitalism create meritocratic opportunity or deepen inequality? Did it produce social...

Political Economy and Fiction in the Early Works of Harriet Martineau. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Political Economy and Fiction in the Early Works of Harriet Martineau, by Claudia Orazem; pp. 212. Frankfurt am Main and New York: Peter Lang, 1999, $39.95. In a well-produced study of Harriet Martineau's Illustrations of Political...

When I First Began My Life Anew: Middle-Class Widows in Nineteenth-Century Britain. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... When I First Began My Life Anew: Middle-Class Widows in Nineteenth-Century Britain, by Cynthia Curran; pp. iii + 175. Bristol, IN: Wyndham Hall Press, 2000, $32.00. In Can You Forgive Her? (1864), Kate Vavasor, fastidiously perturbed by...

Becoming Victoria & Queen Victoria and Thomas Sully. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Becoming Victoria, by Lynne Vallone; pp. ix + 256. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001, $26.95. Queen Victoria and Thomas Sully, by Carrie Reborn Barratt; pp. vi + 210. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000, $35.00. ...

John Brown: Queen Victoria's Highland Servant. (Book Review).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... John Brown: Queen Victoria's Highland Servant, by Raymond Lamont-Brown; pp. xviii + 198. Stroud: Sutton, 2000, [pounds sterling]19.99, $29.95. Few servants in history have been the focus of more biographies than Victoria's insufferable...

Prince of Swindlers: John Sadleir M.P. 1813-1856. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Prince of Swindlers: John Sadleir M.P. 1813-1856, by James O'Shea; pp. x + 499. Dublin: Geography Publications, 1999, [euro]31.50, $28.00. John Sadleir was found dead on Hampstead Heath on 16 February 1856, having taken prussic acid...

The Great Irish Potato Famine & Famine, Land and Culture in Ireland. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... The Great Irish Potato Famine, by James S. Donnelly, Jr.; pp. xii + 292. Phoenix Mill: Sutton, 2001, [pounds sterling]20.00, $29.95. Famine, Land and Culture in Ireland, edited by Carla King; pp. x + 227. Dublin: University College Dublin...

A Stranger Within the Gates: Charlotte Bronte and Victorian Irishness & The Brontes and Religion. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... A Stranger Within the Gates: Charlotte Bronte and Victorian Irishness, by Kathleen Constable; pp. xvi + 170. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000, $52.00, $32.50 paper. The Brontes and Religion, by Marianne Thormahlen; pp. x +...

Charles Lever: The Lost Victorian. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Charles Lever: The Lost Victorian, by Stephen Haddlesey; pp. 170. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 2000, [pounds sterling]22.50, $45.00. When Charles Lever died in 1872, he left behind a corpus of some thirty novels, five collections of...

Oscar Wilde: Recent Research: A Supplement to Oscar Wilde Revalued & The Man Who Was Dorian Gray. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Oscar Wilde: Recent Research: A Supplement to Oscar Wilde Revalued, by Ian Small; pp. vii + 224. Greensboro, NC: ELT Press, 2000, $40.00. The Man Who Was Dorian Gray, by Jerusha Hull McCormack; pp. xiv + 353. New York: St. Martin's Press,...

Arthur Conan Doyle and the Meaning of Masculinity & Conrad and Masculinity. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Arthur Conan Doyle and the Meaning of Masculinity, by Diana Barsham; pp. viii + 312. Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 2000, [pounds sterling]49.50, $69.95. Conrad and Masculinity, by Andrew Michael Roberts; pp. xi + 250....

Disorderly Sisters: Sibling Relations and Sororal Resistance in Nineteenth-Century British Literature. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Disorderly Sisters: Sibling Relations and Sororal Resistance in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, by Leila Silvana May; pp. 276. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses, 2001, $46.50, [pounds...

Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England, by Louise A. Jackson; pp. ix +209. London and New York: Routledge, 2000, [pounds sterling]60.00, $85.00. Following the lead of historians of women and the working classes, it is now common for...

A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction: Mapping History's Nightmares & Gothic Radicalism: Literature, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis in the Nineteenth Century. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction: Mapping History's Nightmares, by Robert Mighall; pp. xxv + 312. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, [pounds sterling]50.00, $74.00. Gothic Radicalism: Literature, Philosophy, and...

Reading Hardy's Landscapes & The Achievement of Thomas Hardy & Hardy's Early Poetry: Romanticism Through a "Dark Bilberry Eye,". (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Reading Hardy's Landscapes, by Michael Irwin; pp. xi + 171. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000, [pounds]40.00, $55.00. The Achievement of Thomas Hardy, edited by Phillip Mallett; pp. xvii + 192. Basingstoke:...

Thomas Hardy: Imagining Imagination in Hardy's Poetry and Fiction. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Thomas Hardy: Imagining Imagination in Hardy's Poetry and Fiction, by Barbara Hardy; pp. 224. London and New Brunswick, NJ: Athlone Press, 2000, [pounds]14.99, $24.95. This collection aims to provide an introduction to Thomas Hardy's...

Victorian Keats and Romantic Carlyle: The Fusions and Confusions of Literary Periods. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Victorian Keats and Romantic Carlyle: The Fusions and Confusions of Literary Periods, edited by C. C. Barfoot; pp. 356. Atlanta: Riopi, 1999, $31.00. Reading Victorian Keats and Romantic Carlyle is like attending a conference. You hear a...

Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century, edited by John Kucich and Dianne F. Sadoff; pp. xxii + 344. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000, $19.95. This collection of essays, growing Out of a...