Victorian Studies articles from September 2000

Victorian Studies archives from September 2000

Women's Work: The English Experience 1650-1914.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Women's Work: The English Experience 1650-1914, edited by Pamela Sharpe; pp. xii + 368. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, $70.00, $19.95 paper. The nature of women's work, its value, remuneration, and ability to command authority...

Glorious Battle: The Cultural Politics of Victorian Anglo-Catholicism.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Glorious Battle: The Cultural Politics of Victorian Anglo-Catholicism, by John Shelton Reed; pp. xxiv + 357. Nashville, TN and London: Vanderbilt University Press, 1996, S34.95, [pound]24.96. Tractarianism, or the Oxford Movement, has...

The English Plainchant Revival & The Contribution of Cambridge Ecclesiologists to the Revival of Anglican Choral Worship, 1832-62.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The English Plainchant Revival, by Bennett Zon; pp. xxii + 410. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, [pound]55.00, $95.00. The Contribution of Cambridge Ecclesiologists to the Revival of Anglican Choral Worship, 1832-62,...

The Transforming Power of the Nuns: Women, Religion, and Cultural Change in Ireland & Stolen Daughters, Virgin Mothers: Anglican Sisterhoods in Victorian Britain.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Transforming Power of the Nuns: Women, Religion, and Cultural Change in Ireland, 1750-1900, by Mary Peckham Magray; pp. x + 182. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, [pound]32.00, $45.00. Stolen Daughters, Virgin...

Women of Faith in Victorian Culture: Reassessing the Angel in the House & Women's Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Transfiguring the Faith of Their Fathers.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Women of Faith in Victorian Culture: Reassessing the Angel in the House, edited by Anne Hogan and Andrew Bradstock; pp. xv + 230. St. Martin's Press, 1998, $49.95. Women's Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Transfiguring the Faith...

Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain, by K. D. Reynolds; pp. viii + 260. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, [pound]35.00, $65.00. In 1984, M. Jeanne Peterson challenged the prevailing view that the "angel in the...

Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture, by Jennifer DeVere Brody; pp. xii + 257. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1999, $49.95, $17.95 paper, [pound]34.00, [pound]11.95 paper. Like fusion food,...

From Author to Text: Re-reading George Eliot's Romola.(Review)
September 22, 2000... From Author to Text: Re-reading George Eliot's Romola, edited by Caroline Levine and Mark W. Turner; pp. x + 217. Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1998, [pound]47.50, $76.95. George Eliot and Italy: Literary, Cultural and Political...

Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre, by Deborah Vlock; pp. xii + 226. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, [pound]35.00, $54.95. Objecting to Foucault's "unexamined belief in the interiority of...

British Imperial Literature, 1870-1940.(Review)
September 22, 2000... British Imperial Literature, 1870-1940, by Daniel Bivona; pp. 237. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, [pound]40.00, $59.95. Feeling both "exalted" and "abashed" by his attraction to the Church of Rome, John Henry Newman...

Orientalism Transposed: The Impact of the Colonies on British Culture.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Orientalism Transposed: The Impact of the Colonies on British Culture, edited by Julie F. Codell and Dianne Sachko Macleod; pp. v + 249. Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1998, [pound]49.50, $84.95. In 1841, the British artist Sir...

Colonialism and the Object: Empire, Material Culture and the Museum.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Colonialism and the Object: Empire, Material Culture and the Museum, edited by Tim Barringer and Tom Flynn; pp. xi + 223. London and New York: Routledge, 1998, [pound]55.00, [pound]16.99 paper, $80.00, $24.95 paper. These essays,...

Nationalism and Classicism: The Classical Body as National Symbol in Nineteenth-Century England and France.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Nationalism and Classicism: The Classical Body as National Symbol in Nineteenth-Century England and France, by Athena S. Leoussi; pp. xxiii + 260. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998, $65.00. Athena S. Leoussi's Nationalism and Classicism:...

The English Pig: A History.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The English Pig: A History, by Robert Malcolmson and Stephanos Mastoris; pp. xvi + 160. Rio Grande, Ohio and London: Hambledon, 1998, $45.00, [pound]17.95. The relationship of domesticated swine to their human proprietors has tended to...

The Regional Novel in Britain and Ireland, 1800-1990.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Regional Novel in Britain and Ireland, 1800-1990, edited by K. D. M. Snell; pp. x + 300. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, [pound]45.00, $69.95. "It is hard to conceive of a subject that has been more...

The Anglo-Irish Novel and the Big House.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Anglo-Irish Novel and the Big House, by Vera Kreilkamp; pp.289. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1998, $44.95. The wealth of recent scholarship on internal colonialism has taught us to forego a habit of using "imperialism" as...

The Bulkies: Police and Crime in Belfast, 1800-1865.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Bulkies: Police and Crime in Belfast, 1800-1865, by Brian Griffin; pp. xi + 166. Dublin and Portland, OR: Irish Academic Press, 1998, [pound]32.50, $42.50. Few books concerned with the history of policing are likely to have as many...

Irish Home Rule.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Irish Home Rule, 1867-1921, by Alan O'Day; pp. lxiii + 346. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1998, [pound]57.10, [pound]17.82 paper, $79.95, $24.95 paper. (All history ought to begin with "Once upon a time," and this...

Visual Politics: The Representation of Ireland, 1750-1930.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Visual Politics: The Representation of Ireland, 1750-1930, by Fintan Cullen; pp. xii + 228. Cork: Cork University Press, 1997, [pound]25.00. The quest for iconic, symbolic, or allegorical images of Ireland has a long history and shows no...

Images of Chartism.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Images of Chartism, by Stephen Roberts and Dorothy Thompson; pp. vi + 110. Woodbridge: Merlin, 1998, [pound]12.95. If, in 1983, Gareth Stedman Jones turned Chartist studies on its head with the deceptively simple statement that any...

Morality and the Market in Victorian Britain.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Morality and the Market in Victorian Britain, by G. R. Searle; pp. xii + 300. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, $85.00. This is a self-consciously timely book about "the conflicting demands of morality and economic freedom," as...

Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain, by Alison Winter; pp. xiv + 464. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998, $30.00, [pound]23.95. Alison Winter's Mesmerized is a tour de force which not only establishes the...

The Shape of Fear: Horror and the Fin de Siecle Culture of Decadence.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Shape of Fear: Horror and the Fin de Siecle Culture of Decadence, by Susan J. Nayarette; pp. xii + 314. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998, $37.95. The perception that the horror fiction of the Victorian fin de siecle...

J. M. Robertson: Rationalist and Literary Critic.(Review)
September 22, 2000... J. M. Robertson: Rationalist and Literary Critic, by Odin Dekkers; pp. x + 281. Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1998, [pound]47.50, $76.95. John Mackinnon Robertson (1856-1933) was a considerable figure in his day: a prolific...

The Cambridge Companion to Henry James & Henry James and the Culture of Publicity.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Cambridge Companion to Henry James, edited by Jonathan Freedman; pp. xix + 256. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, [pound]37.50, [pound]13.95 paper, $54.95, $17.95 paper. Henry James and the Culture of...

Nostalgia and Recollection in Victorian Culture.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Nostalgia and Recollection in Victorian Culture, by Ann C. Colley; pp. x + 218. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998, $59.95. Throughout most of the nineteenth century, the word "nostalgia" referred to a disease -- depression or melancholia...

Secret Selves: Confession and Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Secret Selves: Confession and Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography, by Oliver S. Buckton; pp. x + 270. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1998, $49.95, $18.95 paper, [pound]39.95, [pound]15.50 paper. Secret...

The Culture of Secrecy: Britain, 1832-1998.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Culture of Secrecy: Britain, 1832-1998, by David Vincent; pp. xii + 364. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, [pound]30.00, $45.00. Bliss was it in the dawn of New Labour in May 1997 to be a campaigner for more open...

Friends of the Family: The English Home and Its Guardians, 1850-1940.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Friends of the Family: The English Home and Its Guardians, 1850-1940, by George Behlmer; pp. x + 455. Stanford, GA: Stanford University Press, 1998, $55.00. Perhaps the most attractive and novel quality of George Behlmer's scholarship is...

Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900, by Annmarie Adams; pp. xii + 227. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996, CAN $49.95, $44.95. That the history of Victorian feminism embraces a number of...

Unwilling Idlers: The Urban Unemployed and Their Families in Late Victorian Canada.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Unwilling Idlers: The Urban Unemployed and Their Families in Late Victorian Canada, by Peter Baskerville and Eric W. Sager; pp. xiv + 294. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998, $55.00, $24.95 paper, [pounds]35.00, [pounds]16.50 paper....

Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick: Britain, 1800-1854.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick: Britain, 1800-1854, by Christopher Hamlin; pp. vii + 368. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, [pound]40.00, $64.95. Revisionist histories of nineteenth-century...

The Presence of Persons: Essays on Literature, Science and Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Presence of Persons: Essays on Literature, Science and Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century, by William Myers; pp. 246. Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1998, [pound]47.50, $76.95. This is an unexpected kind of book. It is both...

The Self-Fashioning of Disraeli, 1818-1851.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Self-Fashioning of Disraeli, 1818-1851, edited by Charles Richmond and Paul Smith; pp. ix + 212. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, $49.95, [pound]30.00. The editors lay their cards on the table in their first...

The Letters of Matthew Arnold: Volume III, 1866-1870.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Letters of Matthew Arnold: Volume III, 1866-1870, edited by Cecil Y. Lang; pp. xxi + 483. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1998, $60.00, [pound]47.95. The third of a projected six volumes, this handsome and...

Matthew Arnold: A Literary Life.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Matthew Arnold: A Literary Life, by Clinton Machann; pp. xii + 177. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998, $35.00. Clinton Machann's study is a succinct and well-articulated exposition of Matthew Arnold's intellectual and literary concerns,...

The Journals of George Eliot.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Journals of George Eliot, edited by Margaret Harris and Judith Johnston; pp. xxv + 447. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, [pound]55.00, $95.00. This well-edited collection of the extant George Eliot journals...

Two Ways Not To Be a Solipsist: Art and Science, Pater and Pearson.(Walter Pater, Karl Pearson)
September 22, 2000... Despite the sad spectacle of the current science wars, the tensions between science and culture have not always taken this unpleasantly hostile and even contemptuous turn, nor has "science" always been so unequivocally aligned against an...

The Temptations of Aggrandized Agency: Feminist Histories and the Horizon of Modernity.
September 22, 2000... In the 1980s, feminist cultural history of the Victorian period manifested a decisive shift toward asserting the centrality of gender to the ideological advent of modernity. In her influential essay, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical...

Replicas and Originality: Picturing Agency in Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Victorian Manchester.(Manchester, England)
September 22, 2000... The modern ideal of originality reflects a distinctively modern predicament of agency. Originality implies a consummate participation in tradition even as it also implies, more obviously, a radical break from precedent. This divided emphasis...