Victorian Studies articles from September 1998

Victorian Studies archives from September 1998

The Indian Woman, the flower Girl, and the Jew: Photojournalism in Edwardian London.
September 22, 1998... I In October 1904, Pearson's Magazine announced a "striking" new series of articles to commence in its pages, entitled "The Heart of Things." It introduced the author of the series as Miss Olive Christian Malvery, "known throughout...

Blood on the Tracks: Sensation Drama, the Railway, and the Dark Face of Modernity.
September 22, 1998... But the breaking of the car stops the train, And poor Carl's struggle is not in vain; But, poor soul, he was found stark dead, Crushed and mangled from foot to head! William McGonagall, "Saving a Train" (73) On 3 October...

Women and the Ends of Art History: Vision and Corporeality in Nineteenth-Century Critical Discourse.(Poem)
September 22, 1998... We two stood simply friend-like side by side, Viewing a twilight country far and wide, Till she at length broke silence. 'How it towers Yonder, the ruin o'er this vale of ours! The West's faint flare behind it so relieves ...

Huxley, the Most Powerful Sage of Them All.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Adrian Desmond's remarkable biography of Thomas Henry Huxley makes clear what has not been sufficiently attended to by mainstream students of Victorian literature, that Huxley must be figured among the most powerful and significant writers of...

Beauty's Body: Femininity and Representation in British Aestheticism.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Beauty's Body: Femininity and Representation in British Aestheticism, by Kathy Alexis Psomiades; pp. 241. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997, $39.50. Situated at the crossroads of feminist accounts of gender formation and Marxist...

Collecting the Pre-Raphaelites: the Anglo-American Enchantment.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Collecting the Pre-Raphaelites: the Anglo-American Enchantment, edited by Margaretta Frederick Watson; pp. vii + 224. Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1997, [pounds]45.00, $76.95. Since 1995 American museum audiences have had...

Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality, by Cannon Schmitt; pp. xii + 219. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997, $34.00. Prior to the publication in 1983 of Benedict Anderson's landmark...

Mapping Men and Empire: A Geography of Adventure.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Mapping Men and Empire: A Geography of Adventure, by Richard Phillips; pp. viii + 208. London and New York: Routledge, 1997, [pounds]45.00, [pounds]14.99 paper, $69.95, $18.95 paper. "Sell Oedipal, buy pre-Oedipal," one prominent feminist...

Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843, by Matthew H. Edney; pp. xv + 458. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997, $35.00, [pounds]27.95. The last few years have seen a remarkable...

King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen: Victorian Britain through African Eyes.(Review)
September 22, 1998... King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen: Victorian Britain through African Eyes, by Neil Parsons; pp. xviii + 322. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998, $50.00, $18.95 paper, [pounds]39.95, [pounds]15.25 paper. ...

The Imperial Experience: From Carlyle to Forster.(Review)
September 22, 1998... The Imperial Experience: From Carlyle to Forster, by C. C. Eldridge; pp. xv + 212. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996, $45.00, [pounds]40.00, [pounds]12.99 paper. As his title suggests, C. C. Eldridge's project is an ambitious one. He...

The Contentious Crown: Public Discussion of the British Monarchy in the Reign of Queen Victoria.(Review)
September 22, 1998... The Contentious Crown: Public Discussion of the British Monarchy in the Reign of Queen Victoria, by Richard Williams; pp. vi + 276. Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1997, [pounds]40.00, $68.95. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert have...

Her Little Majesty: the Life of Queen Victoria.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Her Little Majesty: the Life of Queen Victoria, by Carolly Erickson; pp. 304. London: Robson Books; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997, [pounds]17.99, $23.00. Remaking Queen Victoria, edited by Margaret Homans and Adrienne Munich; pp. xii...

Gladstone 1809-1898.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Gladstone 1809-1898, by H. C. G. Matthew; pp. xii + 692. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, [pounds]17.99 paper, $29.95 paper. On 29 December 1896, his eighty-seventh birthday, William Ewart Gladstone made the final entry in a diary which he...

Education Act Forster: A Political Biography of W. E. Forster (1818-1886).(Review)
September 22, 1998... Education Act Forster: A Political Biography of W. E. Forster (1818-1886), by Patrick Jackson; pp. 375. Madison and Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997, $49.50, [pounds]39.95. Patrick Jackson's political biography of...

Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946, by Anthony Howe; pp. xii + 336. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, [pounds]50.00, $85.00. Anthony Howe sets out with meticulous scholarship, impressive breadth of learning, and a glint of polemical...

Politics, Law & Order in 19th Century Ireland.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Politics, Law & Order in 19th Century Ireland, by Virginia Crossman; pp. vii + 290. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1996, [pounds]35.00. The history and development of local government in Ireland has been a long-neglected subject. Through...

British Naval Policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era, 1866-1880.(Review)
September 22, 1998... British Naval Policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era, 1866-1880 by John F. Beeler; pp. xxiii + 354. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997, $49.50. This monograph is devoted to the subject of British naval policy during the political...

Britain and the German Zollverein, 1848-66.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Britain and the German Zollverein, 1848-66, by John R Davis; pp. x + 238. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997, [pounds]45.00, $69.95. The intended and unintended consequences of Britain's commercial policy with the...

Powers of the Press: Newspapers, Power and the Public in Nineteenth-Century England.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Powers of the Press: Newspapers, Power and the Public in Nineteenth-Century England, by Aled Jones; pp. xii + 231. Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Scolar Press, 1996, [pounds]45.00, $79.95. Print Politics: The Press and Radical Opposition...

The Thames Embankment: Environment, Technology, and Society in Victorian London.(Review)
September 22, 1998... The Thames Embankment: Environment, Technology, and Society in Victorian London, by Dale H. Porter; pp. xvi + 318. Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 1998, $49.95, $24.95 paper. Too many scholars have shied away from the explicitly...

Small and Special: the Development of Hospitals for Children in Victorian Britain.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Small and Special: the Development of Hospitals for Children in Victorian Britain, by Elizabeth M. R. Lomax; pp. vii + 217. London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1996, [pounds]25.00, $38.00. This monograph assesses the...

British Spas from 1815 to the Present: A Social History.(Review)
September 22, 1998... British Spas from 1815 to the Present: A Social History, by Phyllis Hembry, edited by Leonard W. Cowie and Evelyn E. Cowie; pp. iv + 292. Madison and Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997, $48.50, [pounds]50.00. ...

The Power of Knowledge: George Eliot and Education.(Review)
September 22, 1998... The Power of Knowledge: George Eliot and Education, by Linda K Robertson; pp. vii + 191. New York: Peter Lang, 1997, $43.95. The content of education, it is today widely assumed, should always be relevant to the individual learner's...

Women and Victorian Theatre.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Women and Victorian Theatre, by Kerry Powell; pp. xiii + 202. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, $49.95. Scholars of the Victorian stage face many difficulties. Aside from occasional revivals, only Oscar Wilde and George Bernard...

Church and Stage in Victorian England.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Church and Stage in Victorian England, by Richard Foulkes; pp. xiv + 263. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, [pounds]37.50, $59.95. "Church and state," yes; but "Church and stage"? Although not quite a work of ecclesiastical...

Faith and Doubt: Religion and Secularisation in Literature from Wordsworth to Larkin.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Faith and Doubt: Religion and Secularisation in Literature from Wordsworth to Larkin, by R. L. Brett; pp. 261. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1997, $40.00, [pounds]25.00. This is a strange book. At first glance it seems to meet all...

Newman and Conversion.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Newman and Conversion, edited by Ian Ker; pp. 153. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1997, [pounds]17.95 paper, $34.95. In August 1995, an international conference was held at Oriel College, Oxford, to mark the sesquicentennial of John Henry...

The Mid-Victorian Generation 1846-1886.(Review)
September 22, 1998... The Mid-Victorian Generation 1846-1886, by K. Theodore Hoppen; pp. xviii + 787. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, [pounds]30.00, $45.00. It is not unreasonable to suppose that, among the crowds who flocked to the Crystal Palace for the Great...

Becoming Modern in Toronto: The Industrial Exhibition and the Shaping of a Late Victorian Culture.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Becoming Modern in Toronto: The Industrial Exhibition and the Shaping of a Late Victorian Culture, by Keith Walden; pp. xx + 430. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 1997, $55.00, $24.95 paper, [pound]41.00,...

High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture 1889-1939.(Review)
September 22, 1998... High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture 1889-1939, edited by Maria DiBattista and Lucy McDiarmid; pp. x + 259. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, [pounds]37.50, $49.95. High and Low Moderns brings together essays by...

The Maternal Voice in Victorian Fiction: Rewriting the Patriarchal Family.(Review)
September 22, 1998... The Maternal Voice in Victorian Fiction: Rewriting the Patriarchal Family, by Barbara Z. Thaden; pp. viii + 168. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1997, $39.00. In The Maternal Voice in Victorian Fiction, Barbara Z. Thaden...

Reviewing Sex: Gender and the Reception of Victorian Novels.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Reviewing Sex: Gender and the Reception of Victorian Novels, by Nicola Diane Thompson; pp. xii + 164. New York: New York University Press, 1996, $40.00, $17.50 paper, [pounds]42.50, [pounds]11.99 paper. In 1852 the literacy rate in...

Fables Less and Less Fabulous: English Fables and Parables of the Nineteenth Century and Their Illustrations.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Fables Less and Less Fabulous: English Fables and Parables of the Nineteenth Century and Their Illustrations, by Horst Dolvers; pp. 207. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1997, $36.50, [pounds]29.00. The fable has long been...

Lewis Carroll: A Portrait with Background.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Lewis Carroll: A Portrait with Background, by Donald Thomas; pp. xii + 404. London: John Murray, 1996, [pounds]25.00, $35.00. Paradox should have been one of Lewis Carroll's middle names. That's right: Charles Lutwidge Paradox Dodgson....

Wilde's Intentions: The Artist in His Criticism.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Wilde's Intentions: The Artist in His Criticism, by Lawrence Danson; pp. ix + 198. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, [pounds]30.00, $49.95. Lawrence Danson is editing Oscar Wilde's Intentions, Wilde's only volume of criticism, and "The Soul...

Cosmopolitan Criticism: Oscar Wilde's Philosophy of Art.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Cosmopolitan Criticism: Oscar Wilde's Philosophy of Art, by Julia Prewitt Brown; pp. xx + 137. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1997, $30.00, [pounds]23.95. Wilde's Wilde was to himself no less various than the...

Wilde: Salome.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Wilde: Salome, by William Tydeman and Steven Price; pp. viii + 214. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1996, [pounds]32.50, [pounds]11.95 paper, $54.95, $17.95 paper. Sarah Bernhardt wanted to play the leading...

Decadence and Catholicism.(Review)
September 22, 1998... Decadence and Catholicism, by Ellis Hanson; pp. 403. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1997, [pounds]27.95, [pounds]12.50 paper, $45.00, $19.95 paper. Catholicism can be gorgeous. It can be erotic. It can be highly...

The Indian Woman, the flower Girl, and the Jew: Photojournalism in Edwardian London.(Olive Christian Malvery)
September 22, 1998... In October 1904, Pearson's Magazine announced a "striking" new series of articles to commence in its pages, entitled "The Heart of Things." It introduced the author of the series as Miss Olive Christian Malvery, "known throughout Europe and...

Blood on the Tracks: Sensation Drama, the Railway, and the Dark Face of Modernity.(1868 London plays on theme of heroic train rescues)
September 22, 1998... But the breaking of the car stops the train, And poor Carl's struggle is not in vain; But, poor soul, he was found stark dead, Crushed and mangled from foot to head! William McGonagall, "Saving a Train" (73) On 3 October...

Women and the Ends of Art History: Vision and Corporeality in Nineteenth-Century Critical Discourse.(Poem)
September 22, 1998... We two stood simply friend-like side by side, Viewing a twilight country far and wide, Till she at length broke silence. 'How it towers Yonder, the ruin o'er this vale of ours! The West's faint flare behind it so relieves ...

Huxley, the Most Powerful Sage of Them All.(Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest)(Thomas Henry Huxley's Place in Science and Letters: Centenary Essays)
September 22, 1998... The following books are under consideration in this review: Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest, by Adrian Desmond; pp. xx + 750. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997, $37.50. Thomas Henry Huxley's Place in Science...

Beauty's Body: Femininity and Representation in British Aestheticism.
September 22, 1998... Beauty's Body: Femininity and Representation in British Aestheticism, by Kathy Alexis Psomiades; pp. 241. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997, $39.50. Situated at the crossroads of feminist accounts of gender formation and Marxist...

Collecting the Pre-Raphaelites: the Anglo-American Enchantment.
September 22, 1998... Collecting the Pre-Raphaelites: the Anglo-American Enchantment, edited by Margaretta Frederick Watson; pp. vii + 224. Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1997, [pound]45.00, $76.95. Since 1995 American museum audiences have had several...

Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality.
September 22, 1998... Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality, by Cannon Schmitt; pp. xii + 219. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997, $34.00. Prior to the publication in 1983 of Benedict Anderson's landmark...

Mapping Men and Empire: A Geography of Adventure.
September 22, 1998... Mapping Men and Empire: A Geography of Adventure, by Richard Phillips; pp. viii + 208. London and New York: Routledge, 1997, [pound]45.00, [pound]14.99 paper, $69.95, $18.95 paper. "Sell Oedipal, buy pre-Oedipal," one prominent feminist...

King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen: Victorian Britain through African Eyes.
September 22, 1998... King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen: Victorian Britain through African Eyes, by Neil Parsons; pp. xviii + 322. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998, $50.00, $18.95 paper, [pound]39.95, [pound]15.25 paper. ...

The Imperial Experience: From Carlyle to Forster.
September 22, 1998... The Imperial Experience: From Carlyle to Forster, by C. C. Eldridge; pp. xv + 212. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996, $45.00, [pound]40.00, [pound]12.99 paper. As his tide suggests, C. C. Eldridge's project is an ambitious one. He seeks...

The Contentious Crown: Public Discussion of the British Monarchy in the Reign of Queen Victoria.
September 22, 1998... The Contentious Crown: Public Discussion of the British Monarchy in the Reign of Queen Victoria, by Richard Williams; pp. vi + 276. Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1997, [pound]40.00, $68.95. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert have...

Her Little Majesty: the Life of Queen Victoria.(Remaking Queen Victoria)
September 22, 1998... Her Little Majesty: the Life of Queen Victoria, by Carolly Erickson; pp. 304. London: Robson Books; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997, [pound]17.99, $23.00. Remaking Queen Victoria, edited by Margaret Homans and Adrienne Munich; pp. xii +...

Gladstone 1809-1898.
September 22, 1998... Gladstone 1809-1898, by H. C. G. Matthew; pp. xii + 692. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, [pound]17.99 paper, $29.95 paper. On 29 December 1896, his eighty-seventh birthday, William Ewart Gladstone made the final entry in a diary which he...

Education Act Forster: A Political Biography of W. E. Forster (1818-1886).
September 22, 1998... Education Act Forster: A Political Biography of W. E. Forster (1818-1886), by Patrick Jackson; pp. 375. Madison and Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997, $49.50, [pound]39.95. Patrick Jackson's political biography of...

Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946.
September 22, 1998... Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946, by Anthony Howe; pp. xii + 336. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, [pound]50.00, $85.00. Anthony Howe sets out with meticulous scholarship, impressive breadth of learning, and a glint of polemical...

Politics, Law & Order in 19th Century Ireland.
September 22, 1998... Politics, Law & Order in 19th Century Ireland, by Virginia Crossman; pp. vii + 290. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1996, [pound]35.00. The history and development of local government in Ireland has been a long-neglected subject. Through her...

British Naval Policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era, 1866-1880.
September 22, 1998... British Naval Policy in the Gladstone-Disraeli Era, 1866-1880, by John F. Beeler; pp. xxiii + 354. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997, $49.50. This monograph is devoted to the subject of British naval policy during the political...

Powers of the Press: Newspapers, Power and the Public in Nineteenth-Century England.
September 22, 1998... Powers of the Press: Newspapers, Power and the Public in Nineteenth-Century England, by Aled Jones; pp. xii + 231. Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Scolar Press, 1996, [pound]45.00, $79.95. Print Politics: The Press and Radical Opposition in...

The Thames Embankment: Environment, Technology, and Society in Victorian London.
September 22, 1998... The Thames Embankment: Environment, Technology, and Society in Victorian London, by Dale H. Porter; pp. xvi + 318. Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 1998, $49.95, $24.95 paper. Too many scholars have shied away from the explicitly...

Small and Special: the Development of Hospitals for Children in Victorian Britain.
September 22, 1998... Small and Special: the Development of Hospitals for Children in Victorian Britain, by Elizabeth M. R Lomax; pp. vii + 217. London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1996, [pound]25.00, $38.00. This monograph assesses the...

British Spas from 1815 to the Present: A Social History.
September 22, 1998... British Spas from 1815 to the Present: A Social History, by Phyllis Hembry, edited by Leonard W. Cowie and Evelyn E. Cowie; pp. iv + 292. Madison and Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997, $48.50, [pound]50.00. Phyllis...

The Power of Knowledge: George Eliot and Education.
September 22, 1998... The Power of Knowledge: George Eliot and Education, by Linda K. Robertson; pp. vii + 191. New York: Peter Lang, 1997, $43.95. The content of education, it is today widely assumed, should always be relevant to the individual learner's...

Church and Stage in Victorian England.
September 22, 1998... Church and Stage in Victorian England, by Richard Foulkes; pp. xiv + 263. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, [pound]37.50, $59.95. "Church and state," yes; but "Church and stage"? Although not quite a work of ecclesiastical...

Faith and Doubt: Religion and Secularisation in Literature from Wordsworth to Larkin.
September 22, 1998... Faith and Doubt: Religion and Secularisation in Literature from Wordsworth to Larkin, by R. L. Brett; pp. 261. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1997, $40.00, [pound]]25.00. This is a strange book. At first glance it seems to meet all...

The Mid-Victorian Generation 1846-1886.
September 22, 1998... The Mid-Victorian Generation 1846-1886, by K. Theodore Hoppen; pp. xviii + 787. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, [pound]30.00, $45.00. It is not unreasonable to suppose that, among the crowds who flocked to the Crystal Palace for the Great...

Becoming Modern in Toronto: The Industrial Exhibition and the Shaping of a Late Victorian Culture.
September 22, 1998... Becoming Modern in Toronto: The Industrial Exhibition and the Shaping of a Late Victorian Culture, by Keith Walden; pp. xx + 430. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 1997, $55.00, $24.95 paper, [pound]]41.00,...

High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture 1889-1939.
September 22, 1998... High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture 1889-1939, edited by Maria DiBattista and Lucy McDiarmid; pp. x + 259. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, [pound]37.50, $49.95. High and Low Moderns brings together essays by...

The Maternal Voice in Victorian Fiction: Rewriting the Patriarchal Family.
September 22, 1998... The Maternal Voice in Victorian Fiction: Rewriting the Patriarchal Family, by Barbara Z. Thaden; pp. viii + 168. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1997, $39.00. In The Maternal Voice in Victorian Fiction, Barbara Z. Thaden...

Reviewing Sex: Gender and the Reception of Victorian Novels.
September 22, 1998... Reviewing Sex: Gender and the Reception of Victorian Novels, by Nicola Diane Thompson; pp. xii + 164. New York: New York University Press, 1996, $40.00, $17.50 paper, [pound]42.50, [pound]11.99 paper. In 1852 the literacy rate in England...

Fables Less and Less Fabulous: English Fables and Parables of the Nineteenth Century and Their Illustrations.
September 22, 1998... Fables Less and Less Fabulous: English Fables and Parables of the Nineteenth Century and Their Illustrations, by Horst Dolvers; pp. 207. Newark, DE; University of Delaware Press, 1997, $36.50, [pound]29.00. The fable has long been aligned...

Lewis Carroll: A Portrait with Background.
September 22, 1998... Lewis Carroll: A Portrait with Background, by Donald Thomas; pp. xii + 404. London: John Murray, 1996, [pound]25.00, $35.00. Paradox should have been one of Lewis Carroll's middle names. That's right: Charles Lutwidge Paradox Dodgson....

Wilde's Intentions: The Artist in His Criticism.
September 22, 1998... Wilde's Intentions: The Artist in His Criticism, by Lawrence Danson; pp. ix + 198. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, [pound]30.00, $49.95. Lawrence Danson is editing Oscar Wilde's Intentions, Wilde's only volume of criticism, and "The Soul...

Cosmopolitan Criticism: Oscar Wilde's Philosophy of Art.
September 22, 1998... Cosmopolitan Criticism: Oscar Wilde's Philosophy of Art, by Julia Prewitt Brown; pp. xx + 137. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1997, $30.00, [pound]23.95. Wilde's Wilde was to himself no less various than the...

Wilde: Salome.
September 22, 1998... Wilde: Salome, by William Tydeman and Steven Price; pp. viii + 214. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1996, [pound]32.50, [pound]11.95 paper, $54.95, $17.95 paper. Sarah Bernhardt wanted to play the leading...

Decadence and Catholicism.
September 22, 1998... Decadence and Catholicism, by Ellis Hanson; pp. 403. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1997, [pound]27.95, [pound]12.50 paper, $45.00, $19.95 paper. Catholicism can be gorgeous. It can be erotic. It can be highly stylized....