Victorian Studies articles from September 2003

Victorian Studies archives from September 2003

"Let JAS words stand": publishing John Addington Symonds's desires.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... (As if any man really knew aught of my life, Why even I myself I often think know little or nothing of my real life, Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirections I seek for my own use to...

Sadomasochism and the magical group: Kipling's middle-class imperialism.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... There we met with famous men Set in office o'er us; And they beat on us with rods-- Faithfully with many rods-- Daily beat us on with rods, For the love they bore us. ...

David Copperfield and the pursuit of happiness.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... The man who is incapable of his own happiness. One who is always in pursuit of happiness. Result. Where is happiness to be found then. Surely not everywhere? Can that be so, after all? Is this my experience?" (entry 34). In these musing...

Let's post-post-post "Victorientalism": a response to Erin O'Connor.(Critical Response Forum)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... Erin O'Connor's "Preface for a Post-Postcolonial Criticism" is clever, provocative, and, like all good literary satires, fun to read. I'm not sure she meant it to be entirely satirical, but that's how I'd prefer to read it--all in good fun....

She Who Must Be Obeyed: a response to Erin O'Connor.(Critical Response Forum)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... Erin O'Connor's sophisticated call for a reassessment, to be undertaken "as honestly and dispassionately as possible," of "the project of postcolonial criticism as it has been practiced over the last two decades" (240) is welcome and timely....

The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot.(Oxford Reader's Companion to George Eliot)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot, edited by George Levine; pp. xviii + 248. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001, [pounds sterling]45.00, [pounds sterling]15.95 paper, $65.00, $23.00 paper. Oxford Reader's...

The Letters of Charles Dickens, Volume 12: 1868-1870.(The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens.)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... The Letters of Charles Dickens, Volume 12: 1868-1870, edited by Graham Storey; pp. xxvi + 813. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, [pounds sterling]80.00, $125.00. The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens, edited by John...

Rereading Conrad.(Oxford Reader's Companion to Conrad)(Cross-Cultural Encounters in Joseph Conrad's Malay Fiction)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Rereading Conrad, by Daniel R. Schwarz; pp. 194. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2001, $34.95, $19.95 paper, [pounds sterling]26.95, [pounds sterling]12.95 paper. Oxford Reader's Companion to Conrad, edited by Owen...

Dearly Beloved Friends: Henry James's Letters to Younger Men.(Portraying the Lady: Technologies of Gender in the Short Stories of Henry James)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Dearly Beloved Friends: Henry James's Letters to Younger Men, edited by Susan E. Gunter and Steven H. Jobe; pp. xxiii + 249. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001, $29.95. Portraying the Lady: Technologies of Gender in the Short...

James Tissot: Victorian Life/Modern Love.(Seductive Surfaces: The Art of Tissot)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... James Tissot: Victorian Life/Modern Love, by Nancy Rose Marshall and Malcolm Warner; pp. 216. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999, $55.00. Seductive Surfaces: The Art of Tissot, edited by Katharine Lochnan; pp. xvi + 25 color plates +...

Oscar Wilde in the 1990s: The Critic as Creator.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Oscar Wilde in the 1990s: The Critic as Creator, by Melissa Knox; pp. xxiv + 206. Rochester, NY and Woodbridge: Camden House, 2001, $65.00, [pounds sterling]40.00. Melissa Knox summarizes and discusses many of the most important longer...

Hopkins in Ireland.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Hopkins in Ireland, by Norman White; pp. viii + 302. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2002, [euro]52.00, [euro]22.00 paper, $59.95, $24.95 paper. Hopkins in Ireland is a troubled and troubling book. "A form of psychological...

Christina Rossetti's Feminist Theology.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Christina Rossetti's Feminist Theology, by Lynda Palazzo; pp. xiv + 165. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2002, [pounds sterling]47.50, $65.00. Lynda Palazzo's Christina Rossetti's Feminist Theology has great relevance for Rossetti...

The Angel out of the House: Philanthropy and Gender in Nineteenth-Century England.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... The Angel out of the House: Philanthropy and Gender in Nineteenth-Century England, by Dorice Williams Elliot; pp. x + 270. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2002, $35.00, [pounds sterling]25.95. The argument that...

Women Workers and Gender Identities, 1835-1913: The Cotton and Metal Industries in England.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Women Workers and Gender Identities, 1835-1913: The Cotton and Metal Industries in England, by Carol E. Morgan; pp. xii + 224. London and New York: Routledge, 2001, [pounds sterling]60.00, [pounds sterling]18.99 paper, $95.00, $29.95 paper....

Eleanor Marx (1855-1898): Life, Work, Contacts.(Socialist Women: Britain, 1880s to 1920s)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Eleanor Marx (1855-1898): Life, Work, Contacts, edited by John Stokes; pp. xi + 196. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2000. [pounds sterling]47.50, $84.95. Socialist Women: Britain, 1880s to 1920s, edited by June Hannam and Karen...

Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the Reform Act of 1867.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the Reform Act of 1867, edited by Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland, and Jane Rendall; pp. xiii + 303. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, [pounds sterling]47.50,...

Science, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain: The Social Science Association, 1857-1886.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Science, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain: The Social Science Association, 1857-1886, by Lawrence Goldman; pp. xv + 430. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, [pounds sterling]50.00, $70.00. Historians now find the...

The Social Conscience of the Early Victorians.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... The Social Conscience of the Early Victorians, by F. David Roberts; pp. 569. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002, $65.00. The Victorian period has in recent years been subjected to intensive revision. Some scholars have dismissed...

Semi-Detached Idealists: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1854-1945.(The British Peace Movement, 1870-1914)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Semi-Detached Idealists: The British Peace Movement and International Relations, 1854-1945, by Martin Ceadel; pp. viii + 477. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, [pounds sterling]60.00, $90.00. The British Peace Movement, 1870-1914, by...

The New Liberalism: Reconciling Liberty and Community.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... The New Liberalism: Reconciling Liberty and Community, edited by Avital Simhony and D. Weinstein; pp. vii + 246. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001, [pounds sterling]47.50, [pounds sterling]16.95 paper, $65.00, $23.00...

Rule of Sympathy: Sentiment, Race, and Power, 1750-1850.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Rule of Sympathy: Sentiment, Race, and Power, 1750-1850, by Amit S. Rai; pp. xxi + 225. New York: Palgrave, 2002, $65.00. In Rule of Sympathy, Amit S. Rai offers "a social and historical critique of sympathy in British discourse in the...

Imperial Bodies: The Physical Experience of the Raj, c. 1800-1947.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Imperial Bodies: The Physical Experience of the Raj, c. 1800-1947, by E.M. Collingham; pp. xii + 213. Cambridge: Polity, 2001, [pounds sterling]50.00, [pounds sterling]15.99 paper, $72.95, $33.95 paper. E. M. Collingham's book rests on...

Sciences of the Flesh: Representing Body and Subject in Psychoanalysis.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Sciences of the Flesh: Representing Body and Subject in Psychoanalysis, by Dianne F. Sadoff; pp. xiii + 343. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998, $60.00, $21.94 paper. "Psycho-analysis," Sigmund Freud famously noted in 1923, "did...

Anglican Evangelicals: Protestant Secessions from the Via Media, c. 1800-1850.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Anglican Evangelicals: Protestant Secessions from the Via Media, c. 1800-1850, by Grayson Carter; pp. xvi + 470. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, [pounds sterling]65.00, $120.50. Grayson Carter's enormously interesting...

Trusting Leviathan: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799-1914.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Trusting Leviathan: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799-1914, by Martin Daunton; pp. xiii + 438. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001, [pounds sterling]40.00, $60.00. Martin Daunton has written both a...

The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel, by Jonathan H. Grossman; pp. xii + 202. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002, $39.95. Sometimes a thesis seems so rooted in common sense, so widely accepted, that it almost...

Pedagogical Economies: The Examination and the Victorian Literary Man.(Educating Women: Cultural Conflict and Victorian Lit)(The Victorian Governess Novel)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Pedagogical Economies: The Examination and the Victorian Literary Man, by Cathy Shuman; pp. i + 255. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000, $49.50. Educating Women: Cultural Conflict and Victorian Literature, by Laura Morgan Green;...

Domesticity, Imperialism, and Emigration in the Victorian Novel.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Domesticity, Imperialism, and Emigration in the Victorian Novel, by Diana G. Archibald; pp. xiv + 214. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002, $39.95. Was Victorian domesticity too fragile for export? A provocative vision of...

Reflecting the Audience: London theatregoing, 1840-1880.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Reflecting the Audience: London Theatregoing, 1840-1880, by Jim Davis and Victor Emeljanow; pp. xiv + 299. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2001, $49.95. Reflecting the Audience is a database with an attitude. Jim Davis and...

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, by Jonathan Rose; pp. ix + 534. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001, $39.95, $20.00 paper, [pounds sterling]29.95, [pounds sterling]12.99 paper. In the early years of...

Knowing the Past: Victorian Literature and Culture.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Knowing the Past: Victorian Literature and Culture, edited by Suzy Anger; pp. ix + 279. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001, $49.95, $19.95 paper, [pounds sterling]33.50, [pounds sterling]13.50 paper. It appears that...