Victorian Studies articles from March 2004

Victorian Studies archives from March 2004

Impression Henry Irving: the performance in the portrait by Jules Bastien-Lepage.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... As star actor and manager of the Lyceum Theatre, Henry Irving was among the most dominant theatrical figures of his time. His command of the Lyceum, its repertoire, company constituency, and artistic presentation was, in the tradition of the...

Love at first sight: the velocity of Victorian heterosexuality.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... In mainstream twentieth-century culture, the phenomenon of love at first sight--as romantic trope, Hollywood staple, biochemical wonder--has resided squarely in the realm of what we might call a feminine epistemology. In his 1955 study of the...

"A School-Boy's Story": writing the Victorian public schoolboy subject.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... A consensus exists among educational historians and literary critics that two mid-Victorian literary works, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley's Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D. D. (1844) and Thomas Hughes's Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857),...

Was capitalism good for Victorian literature?(Review Essay)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2004... A few years ago, in a Rod Serling-esque mood, I ventured a prediction: in the not-distant future, when Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault and Jacques Lacan have gone the way of the New Criticism, "the truly hot literary theorist of the day...

The Invention of Telepathy, 1870-1901.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Invention of Telepathy, 1870-1901, by Roger Luckhurst; pp. vi + 324. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, [pounds sterling]40.00, $49.95. The word "telepathy" was coined in an 1882 article in the Proceedings of the...

Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture, by Jay Clayton; pp. vii + 258. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003, [pounds sterling]25.00, $35.00. In his highly original and...

Recoveries: Neglected Episodes in Irish Cultural History, 1860-1912.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Recoveries: Neglected Episodes in Irish Cultural History, 1860-1912, by John Wilson Foster; pp. ix + 158. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2002, [euro]30.00, $39.95. This collection of three distinct essays by John Wilson Foster...

Darwin's Mentor: John Stevens Henslow, 1796-1861.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Darwin's Mentor: John Stevens Henslow, 1796-1861, by S. M. Walters and E. A. Stow; pp. 338. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001, [pounds sterling]42.50, $65.00. Poor John Stevens Henslow--relegated to the subtitle of...

Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel, by Amy M. King; pp. xxiii + 265. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003, [pounds sterling]31.00, $49.95. In Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel, Amy M....

Mill Girls and Strangers: Single Women's Independent Migration in England, Scotland, and the United States, 1850-1881.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Mill Girls and Strangers: Single Women's Independent Migration in England, Scotland, and the United States, 1850-1881, by Wendy M. Gordon; pp. x + 234. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002, $68.50, $22.95 paper. Wendy...

Women, Work, and Representation: Needlewomen in Victorian Art and Literature.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Women, Work, and Representation: Needlewomen in Victorian Art and Literature, by Lynn M. Alexander; pp. vii + 257. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003, $44.95. In the painting Stitch! Stitch! Stitch! (1876), reproduced on the cover of...

Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography, by June Purvis; pp. xvi + 448. London and New York: Routledge, 2002, [pounds sterling]25.00, [pounds sterling]15.99 paper, $78.95, $27.95 paper. The Voice of Harriet Taylor Mill, by Jo Ellen Jacobs; xxviii...

The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hostess: Annie Adams Fields and Mary Gladstone Drew.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hostess: Annie Adams Fields and Mary Gladstone Drew, by Susan K. Harris; pp. x + 192. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, [pounds sterling]40.00, $55.00. In this slim but...

Queen Victoria: First Media Monarch.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Queen Victoria: First Media Monarch, by John Plunkett; pp. x + 256. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003, [pounds sterling]19.99, $29.95. John Plunkett's book provides a fascinating, detailed look at the transformation the...

Private Property and Abuse of Rights in Victorian England: The Story of Edward Pickles and the Bradford Water Supply.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Private Property and Abuse of Rights in Victorian England: The Story of Edward Pickles and the Bradford Water Supply, by Michael Taggart; pp. xxiv + 235. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, [pounds sterling]45.00, $72.00. ...

Whistler's Venice.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Whistler's Venice, by Alastair Grieve; pp. 216. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000, $50.00, [pounds sterling]25.00. Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice, by Margaret MacDonald; pp. 160. Berkeley and Los Angeles:...

Paul Cullen, John Henry Newman, and the Catholic University of Ireland, 1845-1865.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Paul Cullen, John Henry Newman, and the Catholic University of Ireland, 1845-1865, by Colin Barr; pp. xvi + 288. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003, $30.00. The Oxford Movement: A Thematic History of the Tractarians and...

Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture, by Frederick S. Roden; pp. ix + 282. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, [pounds sterling]47.50, $69.95. In Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture, Frederick Roden...

Henry James and the Suspense of Masculinity.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Henry James and the Suspense of Masculinity, by Leland S. Person; pp. vii + 206. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003, $38.50. Henry James's place in the roughhouse of twentieth-century American fiction has always been...

Aubrey Beardsley and British Wagnerism in the 1890s.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Aubrey Beardsley and British Wagnerism in the 1890s, by Emma Sutton. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, [pounds sterling]40.00, $72.00. Aubrey Beardsley's art has long been recognized as a dramatic example of what Walter...

Max Beerbohm: A Kind of a Life.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Max Beerbohm: A Kind of a Life, by N. John Hall; pp. xiv + 284. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002, $26.00, [pounds sterling]16.95. What a pleasure to see a biography of Max Beerbohm ride in on the tail of the centenary...

George Eliot's Pulse.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... George Eliot's Pulse, by Neil Hertz; pp. xii + 168. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003, $18.95. Gwendolen and Grandcourt on the water far off the Genoa quay: the gust of wind, the moving boat, the rope in hand, and Gwendolen's...

Hardy and His Readers.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Hardy and His Readers, by T. R. Wright; pp. x + 241. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, [pounds sterling]47.50, $65.00. Thomas Hardy: Texts and Contexts, edited by Phillip Mallett; pp. xxiv + 203. Basingstoke and New...

Dickens, Melodrama, and the Parodic Imagination.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Dickens, Melodrama, and the Parodic Imagination, by Tore Rem; pp. xii + 239. Brooklyn: AMS Press, 2002, $72.50. Tore Rem's inquiry into the Dickensian uses of parody opens up the study of Boz's works in fruitful directions, successfully...

Theater Figures: The Production of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Theater Figures: The Production of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel, by Emily Allen; pp. viii + 254. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2003, $22.95. Few books that attempt to enact their arguments in their own writing...

Performing Shakespeare in the Age of Empire.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Performing Shakespeare in the Age of Empire, by Richard Foulkes; pp. x + 235. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003, [pounds sterling]45.00, $60.00. Not Shakespeare: Bardolatry and Burlesque in the Nineteenth Century,...

Britain's China Policy and the Opium Crisis: Balancing Drugs, Violence, and National Honour, 1833-1840.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Britain's China Policy and the Opium Crisis: Balancing Drugs, Violence, and National Honour, 1833-1840, by Glenn Melancon; pp. viii + 158. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2003, [pounds sterling]37.50, $64.95. Though for Western...

The Boer War.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Boer War, by Denis Judd and Keith Surridge; pp. xvi + 352. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, [pounds sterling]22.50, $29.95. The centenary of the war fought in South Africa between 1899 and 1902 has passed without...