Victorian Studies articles from September 2001

Victorian Studies archives from September 2001

Editor's introduction.(Editorial)
September 22, 2001... Andrew H. Miller Historically committed to the best interdisciplinary writing on the Victorian period, Victorian Studies has been equally committed to adventuresome work that forecasts new directions for scholarship. Two features of the...

Rethinking Delaroche/Recovering Leighton. (Book Forum).(Review)
September 22, 2001... When I first saw it a little more than a decade ago, Frederic Leighton's Lachrymae (c. 1895; fig. 1) was hanging in the remotest and most dimly lit room in the Metropolitan Museum's nineteenth-century painting galleries. (1) This compelling...

Sex and the city: Metropolitan modernities in English history. (Book Forum).(Spaces of Modernity: London's Geographies 1680-1780)
September 22, 2001... Despite the enduring popular identification of Victorianism with sexual prudery, a cloying domesticity, and adherence to rigid social conventions, late-nineteenth-century British culture now boasts an impressive (and increasing) association...

Adorno now. (Book Forum).(Review)
September 22, 2001... It's a bit of a stretch, in the context of this forum, to choose Theodor Adorno's Notes to Literature. The two volumes of Shierry Weber Nicholsen's translation were published in 1991 and 1992 respectively--just barely fitting into the...

George Eliot and the precious mettle of trust. (Essays).
September 22, 2001... Trust is the root of all money. The soundness of any currency--whether comprised of metal disks, paper rectangles, or some other medium of exchange--depends on the extent to which each of its users trusts that others will view it as valuable....

Buying brains: Trollope, Oliphant, and Vulgar Victorian Commerce. (Essays).
September 22, 2001... 'Poverty is the desire of ascetics, and this is not an ascetic age.' --Anthony Trollope, Phoebe Junior (174) Grant Allen's 1894 description of the shift from "the old asceticism [which] said, 'Be virtuous, and you will be happy'...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game That Must Be Lost.
September 22, 2001... Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game That Must Be Lost, by Jerome McCann; pp. xvi + 188. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2000, $30.00, [pounds sterling]25.00. The title of Jerome McGann's important new study of Dante...

Divining Desire: Tennyson and the Poetics of Transcendence.
September 22, 2001... Divining Desire: Tennyson and the Poetics of Transcendence, by James W. Hood; pp. xi + 209. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2000, [pounds sterling]45.00, $79.95. The title of James Hood's new book, Divining Desire: Tennyson and...

Providence and Love: Studies in Wordsworth, Channing, Myers, George Eliot, and Ruskin.
September 22, 2001... Providence and Love: Studies in Wordsworth, Channing, Myers, George Eliot, and Ruskin, by John Beer; pp. viii+335. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, [pounds sterling]45.00, $85.00. Known for his many fine books on...

Reproductive Urges: Popular Novel Reading, Sexuality, and the English Nation.
September 22, 2001... Reproductive Urges: Popular Novel Reading, Sexuality, and the English Nation, by Anita Levy; pp. 210. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999, S37.50. Reproductive Urges: Popular Novel Reading, Sexuality, and the English...

Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, Volume V.
September 22, 2001... Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud, Volume V, by Peter Gay; pp. vii + 324. New York: Norton, 1998, $29.95. The attempt at a monumental five-volume history of the nineteenth-century "bourgeois experience" by the...

Culture and Adultery: The Novel, the Newspaper, and the Law, 1857-1914 & Promising Language: Betrothal in Victorian Law and Fiction.
September 22, 2001... Culture and Adultery: The Novel, the Newspaper, and the Law, 1857-1914, by Barbara Leckie; pp. viii + 300. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999, $37.50. Promising Language: Betrothal in Victorian Law and Fiction, by...

Trollope and the Magazines: Gendered Issues in Mid-Victorian Britain.
September 22, 2001... Trollope and the Magazines: Gendered Issues in Mid-Victorian Britain, by Mark W. Turner; pp. xi + 271. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, [pounds sterling]43.30, $55.00. Mark Turner's exploration of Anthony Trollope's...

Metaphors of Change in the Language of Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Scott, Gaskell, and Kingsley & Darwinism and the Linguistic Image: Language, Race, and Natural Theology in the Nineteenth Century.
September 22, 2001... Metaphors of Change in the Language of Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Scott, Gaskell, and Kingsley, by Megan Perigoe Stitt pp. 210. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, [pounds sterling]35.00, $65.00. Darwinism and the...

A Victorian Scientist and Engineer: Fleeming Jenkin and the Birth of Electrical Engineering.
September 22, 2001... A Victorian Scientist and Engineer: Fleeming Jenkin and the Birth of Electrical Engineering, by Gillian Cookson and Colin A. Hempstead; pp. xii + 217. Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 2000, [pounds sterling]45.00, $99.94. Fleeming...

Early Trade Unionism: Fraternity, Skill and the Politics of Labour.
September 22, 2001... Early Trade Unionism: Fraternity, Skill and the Politics of Labour, by Malcolm Chase; pp. v + 286. Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 2000, [pounds sterling]45.00, $79.95. Contrary to recent pronouncements of its demise, labour...

Lord Acton.
September 22, 2001... Lord Acton, by Roland Hill; pp. xxiv + 548. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2000, $39.95, [pounds sterling]31.45. In the vast literature about Lord Acton, there has never been a true biography of the man. Archbishop David...

The Diocesan Revival in the Church of England c. 1800-1870.
September 22, 2001... The Diocesan Revival in the Church of England c. 1800-1870, by Arthur Burns; pp. xiv + 344. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, [pounds sterling]48.00, $85.00. Arthur Burns's book will make a valuable addition to the shelf...

Christmas: A Social History.
September 22, 2001... Christmas: A Social History, by Mark Connelly; pp. ix + 264. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1999, [pounds sterling]25.00, $39.50. Throughout the nineteenth century, as Mark Connelly reminds us, Christmas was considered to be getting...

Dickens and the Spirit of the Age & Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit.
September 22, 2001... Dickens and the Spirit of the Age, by Andrew Sanders; pp. v + 198. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, [pounds sterling]35.00, $60.00. Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit, by John Bowen; pp. vii + 232. Oxford and New...

Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism.
September 22, 2001... Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism, by Nancy Armstrong; pp. xiii + 338. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000, $29.95. In her remarkable new book, Nancy Armstrong argues that Victorian realist...

The Haunted Mind: The Supernatural in Victorian Literature.
September 22, 2001... The Haunted mind: The Supernatural in Victorian literature, edited by Elton E. Smith and Robert Haas; pp. xiv+ 139. Lanham, MD and London: Scarecrow Press, 1999, $39.50, [pounds sterling]33.25. Critical readings of supernatural fictions...

Cooking with Mud: The Idea of Mess in Nineteenth-Century Art and Fiction.
September 22, 2001... Cooking with Mud: The Idea of Mess in Nineteenth-Century Art and Fiction, by David Trotter; pp. 340. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, [pounds sterling]35.00, $60.00. Literary critics and humanities scholars more...

Art and the Academy in the Nineteenth Century.
September 22, 2001... Art and the Academy in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Rafael Cardoso Denis and Colin Trodd; pp. ix + 288. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000, $58.00, $26.00 paper. The study of institutions as significant agents in the...

The Secular Furniture of E. W. Godwin & E. W. Godwin: Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer.
September 22, 2001... The Secular Furniture of E. W. Godwin, by Susan Weber Soros; pp. 300. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000, $90.00. E. W. Godwin: Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer, edited by Susan Weber Soros; pp. 432. New Haven, CT: Yale...

Oscar Wilde's Decorated Books.
September 22, 2001... Oscar Wilde's Decorated Books, by Nicholas Frankel; pp. 222. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000, $47.50. Ours is an age where the enigmatic personality of Oscar Wilde--controversial in his own time--dominates Wilde studies,...

Oscar Wilde: The Critic as Humanist.
September 22, 2001... Oscar Wilde: The Critic as Humanist, by Bruce Bashford; pp. ix + 197. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1999, $36.00. In his Introduction to Oscar Wilde The Critic as Humanist, Bruce Bashford describes how when he came to write...

Biographical Passages: Essays on Victorian and Modernist Biography: Honoring Mary M. Lago.
September 22, 2001... Biographical Passages: Essays on Victorian and Modernist Biography: Honoring Mary M. Lago, edited by Joe Law and Linda K. Hughes; pp. xii + 208. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2000, $34.95, [pounds sterling]27.95. In...

George Moore: 1852-1933.
September 22, 2001... George Moore: 1852-1933, by Adrian Frazier; pp. xii + 604. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2000, $35.00, [pounds sterling]29.95. More than ten years ago, Adrian Frazier took on the task of writing a biography of a man...

The Letters of Wilkie Collins: Volume One, 1838-1865 & The Letters of Wilkie Collins: Volume Two, 1874-1881.
September 22, 2001... The Letters of Wilkie Collins: Volume One, 1838-1865, edited by William Baker and William M. Clarke; pp. xli + 267. London: Macmillan, 1999, [pounds sterling]52.50, $55.00. The Letters of Wilkie Collins: Volume Two, 1874-1881, edited by...

Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters.
September 22, 2001... Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters, by Linda Hunt Beckman; pp. xiii + 331. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000, $24.95. Amy Levy (1861-1889) is no longer known best for her essays and novellas such as "The Jew in Fiction" (1886) or Reuben...

Idol of Suburbia: Marie Corelli and Late-Victorian Literary Culture & The Mysterious Miss Marie Corelli: Queen of Victorian Bestsellers.
September 22, 2001... Idol of Suburbia: Marie Corelli and Late-Victorian Literary Culture, by Annette R. Federico; pp. 201. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2000, $30.00, [pounds sterling]22.50. The Mysterious Miss Marie Corelli: Queen...

Ambivalence in Hardy: A Study of His Attitude to Women.
September 22, 2001... Ambivalence in Hardy: A Study of His Attitude to Women, by Shanta Dutta; pp. xi + 256. Basingstoke and New York: Macmillan, 2000, [pound sterling]47.96, $59.95. In recent years much feminist criticism of Thomas Hardy has moved on from...

The Foreign Woman in British Literature: Exotics, Aliens, and Outsiders.
September 22, 2001... The Foreign Woman in British Literature: Exotics, Aliens, and Outsiders, edited by Marilyn Demarest Button and Toni Reed; pp. xix + 201. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999, $57.95. In recent years, the study of minority cultures in Britain has...

Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness & Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance.
September 22, 2001... Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness, by Peter Edgerly Firchow; pp. xvi + 258. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2000, $34.95. Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance, by Linda Dryden; pp. xii +...

Modern Subjects/Colonial Texts: Hugh Clifford & the Discipline of English Literature in the Straits Settlements and Malaya 1895-1907.
September 22, 2001... Modern Subjects/Colonial Texts: Hugh Clifford & the Discipline of English Literature in the Straits Settlements and Malaya 1895-1907, by Philip Holden; pp. viii + 192. Greenboro, NC: ELT, 2000, $17.95. Hugh Clifford's writings, quite...

The Savage Empire: Forgotten Wars of the Nineteenth Century.
September 22, 2001... The Savage Empire: Forgotten Wars of the Nineteenth Century, by Ian Hernon; PP. vii + 208. Phoenix Mill and New York: Sutton, 2000, [pounds sterling]19.99, $34.95. Titles are curious things. On the one hand, they are meant to tell us a...

The Crimean War 1853-1856.
September 22, 2001... The Crimean War 1853-1856, by Winfried Baumgart; pp. xi + 244. London and New York: Arnold and Oxford University Press, 1999, [pounds sterling]45.00, [pounds sterling]16.99 paper, $74.00, $24.95 paper. The Crimean War is badly named and...

The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume III: The Nineteenth Century & The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume V: Historiography.
September 22, 2001... The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume III: The Nineteenth Century, edited by Andrew N. Porter; pp. 774. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, [pounds sterling]30.00, [pounds sterling]14.99 paper, $49.95, $19.95 paper....