Contents: Current & Back Issues
38:1 (2012)
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Forum: Global Victorians
Elyssa Warkentin
An Unexpected Resonance: Teaching Florence Nightingale in Qatar
Tara MacDonald
Teaching Dracula in the Netherlands
Shu-chuan Yan
Cranford Ladies and Lizzie Leigh: Teaching Cranford in Taiwan
Julia Kuehn
One Colonialism, Two Colonialisms: Teaching Heart of Darkness in Hong Kong
Emma Sdegno
Teaching Ruskin in Venice
Shanta Dutta
Teaching Tess of D’Urbervilles in Kolkata
Articles
Hamilton Essay Prize
Lucy Sheehan
Trials of Embodiment: Being a Gothic Body in Mary Barton
Sarah Bull
A Purveyor of Garbage? Charles Carrington and the Marketing of Sexual Science in Late-Victorian Britain
Keridiana Chez
“You Can’t Trust Wolves No More Nor Women”: Canines, Women, and Deceptive Docility in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Ian Hesketh
Behold the (Anonymous) Man: J.R. Seeley and the Publishing of Ecce Homo
Patricia Comitini
The Strange Case of Addiction in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Lara Karpenko
“A Nasty Thumping at the Top of Your Head”: Muscularity, Masculinity, and Physical Reading in The Moonstone
Kimberly J. Stern
“A Want of Taste”: Carnivorous Desire and Sexual Politics in The Pickwick Papers
Susan Zlotnick
Passing for Real: Class and Mimicry in Miss Marjoriebanks
Heather Miner
Reforming Spaces: The Architectural Imaginary of Middlemarch
Book Reviews
Sarah McNeely
The Dispossessed State: Narratives of Ownership in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland, by Sara L. Maurer
Dara Rossman Regaignon
Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England, by Mary Wilson Carpenter
Anne Clendinning
Stewards of the Nation’s Art: Contested Cultural Authority 1890–1939, by Andrea Geddes Poole
Julie Codell
Jewellery in the Age of Queen Victoria: A Mirror to the World, by Charlotte Gere and Judy Rudoe
Deanna K. Kreisel
Ghost-Seers, Detectives, and Spiritualists: Theories of Vision in Victorian Literature and Science, by
Srdjan Smajic
Charles LaPorte
The Historical Jesus and the Literary Imagination, 1860–1920, by Jennifer Stevens
Elsie B. Michie
Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830–1880, by Isobel Armstrong
Linda H. Peterson
Literary Celebrity, Gender, and Victorian Authorship, 1850–1914, by Alexis Easley
Peter W. Sinnema
A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians, by Timothy Larsen
Julie-Marie Strange
Literary Remains: Representations of Death and Burial in Victorian England, by Mary Elizabeth Hotz
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain, by Samuel J.M.M. Alberti
Lana L. Dalley
Romances of Free Trade: British Literature, Laissez-Faire, and the Global Nineteenth Century, by Ayse Celikkol
Kellie Holzer
Law and the Brontës, by Ian Ward
Georgina Downey
The Poetic Home: Designing the 19th-Century Domestic Interior, by Stefan Muthesius
37:2 (2011)
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Forum: Chapter and Verse
Tony Ballantyne
Genesis 1:28 and the Languages of Colonial Improvement in Victorian New Zealand
Clinton Bennett
Retribution in Islam (Qur’an 2: 178): Fact and Fiction in Victorian Literature
Miriam Elizabeth Burstein
Protestants, Convents, and Seduction by Matthew 10:37
J.Jeffrey Franklin
The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism in Victorian England, 1870–1900
Emma Mason
“Hear My Voice”: Rhythmic Forgiveness and Psalm 130
Ron Geaves
Correcting English Versions of the Qur’an: The Throne (‘arsh) and the Footstool (Kursi) Controversy in 1902
Timothy Larsen
The Book of Acts and the Origin of the Races in Evangelical Thought
Articles: Religion and Sexuality
Edited by Joy Dixon and Naomi Hetherington
Joy Dixon
Introduction
Naomi Hetherington
Feminism, Freethought, and the Sexual Subject in Colonial New Woman Fiction: Olive Schreiner and Kathleen Mannington Caffyn
Ann Heilmann
Sex, Religion, and the New Woman in China: A Comparative Reading of Sarah Grand and Alicia Little
Jane Jordan
“Our Modern Code of Morals”: Public Responses to the 1890 O’Shea v. O’Shea Divorce Case
Jenny Daggers
Transforming Christian Womanhood: Female Sexuality and Church Missionary Society Encounters in the Niger Mission, Onitsha
Daniel J.R. Grey
Gender, Religion, and Infanticide in Colonial India, 1870–1906
Meri-Jane Rochelson
Masters and Messiahs: Religion, Sex, and Home in Two Works by Israel Zangwill
Jo-Ann Wallace
“How Wonderful to Die For What You Love”: Mrs. Havelock Ellis’s Love-Acre (1914) as Spiritual
Autobiography
Book Reviews
Emily Doucet
Epic: Britain’s Heroic Muse, 1790–1910, by Herbert F. Tucker
David E. Latané, Jr.
Conflicted Life: William Jerdan, 1782–1869; London Editor, Author and Critic, by Susan Matoff
Sarah Posman
George Eliot’s Intellectual Life, by Avrom Fleishman
Joanne Shattock
The Punch Brotherhood: Table Talk and Print Culture in Mid-Victorian London, by Patrick Leary
Karen Steele
X Marks the Spot: Women Writers Map the Empire for British Children, 1790–1895, by Megan A. Norcia
Marianne Van Remoortel
The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry, by Linda K. Hughes
Jon Whitzman
The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News, by Matthew Rubery
37:1 (2011)
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Forum: Eminent Victorians
Catherine J. Golden
Rowland Hill (1795–1879)
Nanette Thrush
Samuel Luke Pratt (1805–78)
Krista Lysack
Frances Ridley Havergal (1836–79)
Oliver Lovesey
Ellice Hopkins (1836–1904)
Anne Helmreich
Marcus Huish (1843–1921)
Constance M. Fulmer & Margaret E. Barfield
Edith J. Simcox (1844–1901)
Daniel P. Shea
Richard Jefferies (1848–87)
Constance Crompton
Eugen Sandow (1867–1925)
Articles
Hamilton Prize Winner
Natalie Huffels
Tracing Traumatic Memory in The Woman in White: Psychic Shock, Victorian Science, and the Narrative Strategy of the Shadow-Bildungsroman
Michele Martinez
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Perils of Portraiture
Laura Faulkner
"That's convenient, not to say odd": Coincidence, Causality, and Hardy's Inconsistent Inconsistency
Christie Peterson
"The Level of the Beasts that Perish": Animalized Text in Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna's Helen Fleetwood
Teresa Huffman Traver
Losing a Family, Gaining a Church: Catholic Conversion and English Domesticity
Sarah Bilston
"They Congregate in Towns and Suburbs": The Shape of Middle-Class Life in John Claudius Loudon's The Suburban Gardener
Paisley Mann
Memory as "Shifting Sand": The Subversive Power of Illustration in George Du Maurier's Peter Ibbetson
Janice Schroeder
Village Voices: Sonic Fidelity and the Acousmatic in Adam Bede
Reviews
June Sturrock
Susan Walton, Imagining Soldiers and Fathers in the Mid- Victorian Period: Charlotte Yonge's Models of Manliness
Ann-Barbara Graff
Duncan Bell, The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860–1900
Julie F. Codell
Rachel Teukolsky, The Literate Eye: Victorian Art Writing and Modernist Aesthetics
Beth E. Torgerson
Tabitha Sparks, The Doctor in the Victorian Novel: Family Practices
Tyson Stolte
Lillian Nayder, The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth
Piers J. Hale
Ian Hesketh, Of Apes and Ancestors: Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate
Johanna Amos
Juliette Atkinson, Victorian Biography Reconsidered: A Study of Nineteenth-Century "Hidden" Lives
Anne Frey
Matthew Rowlinson, Real Money and Romanticism
Julie M. Barst
Jeanette Hoorn, Reframing Darwin: Evolution and Art in Australia
Gregory Vargo
Mike Sanders, The Poetry of Chartism: Aesthetics, Politics, History
Kayla Kreuger
John Plotz, Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move
Kellie Holzer
Kelly Hager, Dickens and the Rise of Divorce: The Failed- Marriage Plot and the Novel Tradition
36:2 (2010)
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Special Issue: Natural Environments
Guest Editor: Dennis Denisoff
Introduction: Dennis Denisoff
Fluid Margins: Natural Environments in Victorian Culture
Forum: Victorian Ecosystems
Barbara T. Gates
Greening Victorian Studies
Regenia Gagnier
Twenty-First-Century and Victorian Ecosystems: Nature and Culture in the Developmental Niche
Cannon Schmitt
On the Sea
Marion Thain
The Beehive
Russell A. Potter
Icebergs at Vauxhall
Kathy Alexis Psomiades
Polygenist Ecosystems: Robert Knox’s The Races of Man (1850)
Ann C. Colley
Class Pollution in the Alps
Amy M. King
Tide Pools
Bernard Lightman
The Microscopic World
Articles
Chris Danta
The Metaphysical Cut: Darwin and Stevenson on Vivisection
Susan Hamilton
Reading and the Popular Critique of Science in the Victorian Anti-Vivisection Press: Frances Power Cobbe’s Writing for the Victoria Street Society
Linda H. Peterson
Writing Nature at the Fin de Siècle: Grant Allen, Alice Meynell, and the Split Legacy of Gilbert White
Laura Dassow Walls
Greening Darwin’s Century: Humboldt, Thoreau, and the Politics of Hope
Alicia Carroll
The Greening of Mary de Morgan: The Cultivating Woman and the Ecological Imaginary in "The Seeds of Love"
Danielle Coriale
Charlotte Bronte’s Shirley and the Consolations of Natural History
Reviews
Christine Ferguson
Bernard Lightman, Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences;
Aileen Fyfe and Bernard Lightman, eds. Science in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences
Michael Charlesworth
Alan Crossley et al., eds., William Morris’s Kelmscott: Landscape and History
Margaret Linley
Russell A. Potter, Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818–1875
Irena G. Malakhova
Martin J.S. Rudwick, Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of
Reform
Joselyn M. Almeida
Cannon Schmitt, Darwin and the Memory of the Human: Evolution, Savages, and South America
36:1 (2010)
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Forum: Beyond Britain
James M. Brophy
Hanover & Göttingen, 1837
Elizabeth Vibert
Cape Breton Island, 1843
Douglas M. Haynes
Freetown and London, 1847
Anne Murphy
Lahore, 1849
H.G. Cocks
Sodom and Gomorrah, 1851
May Caroline Chan
Canton, 1857
John Sutton Lutz
Victoria, 1862
John R. Reed
Simla, 1879
Jeffrey M. Pilcher
Mexico City, 1891
Ross G. Forman
Hong Kong, 1898
Greg Hise & William Deverell
Los Angeles, 1900
Articles
Hamilton Price Essay
Tyson Stolte
“What Is Natural in Me”: David Copperfield, Faculty Psychology, and the Association of Ideas
Bianca Tredennick
Some Collections of Mortality: Dickens, the Paris Morgue, and the Material Corpse
Michael D. Lewis
Mutiny in the Public Sphere: Debating Naval Power in Parliament, the Press, and Gaskell’s North and South
Heather McAlpine
“Would Not Open Lip from Lip”: Sacred Orality and the Christian Grotesque in Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”
Alexandra Wettlaufer
The Politics and Poetics of Sisterhood: Anna Mary Howitt’s The Sisters in Art
Craig Clinton
Cora Urquhart Potter’s “Perilous Public Experiment”: The 1889 Antony and Cleopatra
Carol Hanbery MacKay
Tradition, Convergence, and Innovation: The Literary Legacy of Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Pamela Gerrish Nunn
The Cottage Paradise
Cheryl Blake Price
Poison, Sensation, and Secrets in The Lifted Veil
Matthew Beaumont
Socialism and Occultism at the Fin de Siècle: Elective Affinities
Reviews
Paul Delany
Nancy Henry and Cannon Schmitt, Victorian Investments: New Perspectives on Finance and Culture
Stefan Muthesius
James Stevens Curl, Victorian Architecture: Diversity and Invention
Patrick R. O’Malley
Maureen Moran, Catholic Sensationalism and Victorian Literature
Richard Kelly
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, The Rectory Magazine
Heather McAlpine
Suzanne M. Waldman, The Demon and the Damozel: Dynamics of Desire in the Works of Christina Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Tamara Wagner
Cora Kaplan, Victoriana: Histories, Fictions, Criticism
Tess O’Toole
Mary Jean Corbett, Family Likeness: Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf
Sharon Aronofsky Weltman
Margot K. Louis, Persephone Rises, 1860–1927: Mythography, Gender, and the Creation of a New Spirituality
35:2 (2009)
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Special Issue: Victorian Disability
Forum: Victorian Prostheses
Genie Babb
The Prosthetic Body
Gregory Brophy
The Sphygmograph
Fiona Coll
The Victorian Automaton as Imaginary Prosthetic
Nadja Durbach
Baby Incubators and the Prosthetic Womb
Anna Henchman
The Telescope
Tamara Ketabgian
Calculating Divinity: Babbage’s Engine, Spiritual Intelligence, and the Senses
Ivan Kreilkamp
Anthroprosthesis, or Prosthetic Dogs
Don Randall
The Imperial Boy as Prosthesis
Articles
Guest Editors: Christopher Keep and Jennifer Esmail
Esmail & Keep
Victorian Disability: Introduction
Martha Stoddard Holmes
“Happy and Yet Pitying Tears”: Deafness and Affective Disjuncture in Dickens’s “Doctor Marigold”
Neil Pemberton
Deafness and Holiness: Home Missions, Deaf Congregations, and Natural Language 1860–1890
Vanessa Warne
“To invest a cripple with peculiar interest”: Artificial Legs and Upper-Class Amputees at Mid-Century
Tamara S. Wagner
Home Work: The Ambiguous Valorization of “Affliction” in Charlotte Yonge’s The Pillars of the House
Karen Bourrier
“The Spirit of a Man and the Limbs of a Cripple”: Sentimentality, Disability, and Masculinity in Charlotte Yonge’s The Heir of Redclyffe
Eitan Bar-Yosef
The “Deaf Traveller,” the “Blind Traveller,” and Constructions of Disability in Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing
Reviews
Stefan Berger
Robert J. C. Young, The Idea of English Ethnicity
Gordon Bigelow
Julia M. Wright, Ireland, India, and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Irish Literature
Julie Codell
Lara Kriegel, Grand Designs: Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture
June Sturrock
Antonia Losano, The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature
Joy Dixon
Joanna Dean, Religious Experience and the New Woman: The Life of Lily Dougall
Vicki Macknight
Dinah Birch, Our Victorian Education
Lana Dalley
Krista Lysack, Come Buy, Come Buy: Shopping and the Culture of Consumption in Victorian Women’s Writing
35:1 (2009)
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Keynotes: Key Victorian Texts
Margaret Linley
Early Victorian Annual (1822–1857)
Andrew Elfenbein
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, On the Constitution of the Church and State (1829)
Len Findlay
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei/The Communist Manifesto (1848)
Jason Camlot
Alfred Tennyson, “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (1854)
Grace Kehler
Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859)
Kirstie Blair
Teaching Victorian Poetry and the Body: Forming Affect
Dallas Liddle
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (1859–60)
Florence Boos
Janet Hamilton, “A Plea for the Doric” (1870)
Kate Flint
Gilbert Scott, the Albert Memorial (1872)
Suzy Anger
Thomas Huxley, “On the Hypothesis that Animals are Automata” (1874)
Stephen Arata
Henry James, “The Art of Fiction” (1884)
Brigid Lowe
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891)
Amy Woodson-Boulton
John Ruskin, Letters to James Allanson Picton; the Ruskin Society in Manchester (1880s)
Christine Ferguson
Oscar Wilde, “The Critic as Artist” (1891)
Bennett Zon
C. Hubert H. Parry, The Evolution of the Art of Music (1893/96)
Joy Dixon
Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds, Sexual Inversion (1897)
Articles
Hamilton Prize Essay
Philip Steer
Greater Britain and the Imperial Outpost: The Australasian Origins of The Riddle of the Sands (1903)
Sandy Feinstein
Dracula and Chloral: Chemistry Matters
Rob Breton
The Thrill of the Trill: Political and Aesthetic Discourse in George Eliot’s Armgart
Janis Dawson
“Write a little bit every day”: L.T. Meade, Self- Representation, and the Professional Woman Writer
Katharina Boehm
“A Place for More than the Healing of Bodily Sickness”: Charles Dickens, the Social Mission of Nineteenth- Century Pediatrics, and the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children
Ann-Barbara Graff
“England in the East”: Metonymies of Absence in Charles Dilke’s Greater Britain
John Paul Kanwit
“Mere Outward Appearances”? Household Taste and Social Perception in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South
Tamara Wagner
Stretching the "Sensational Sixties": Genre and Sensationalism in Domestic Fiction by Victorian Women Writers
Patricia Murphy
In “The Sumptuous Rank of the Signifier”: The Gendered Tattoo in Mr. Meeson’s Will
Reviews
Dennis Denisoff
Gerry Beegan, The Mass Image: A Social History of Photomechanical Reproduction in Victorian London, and Lynda Nead, The Haunted Gallery: Painting, Photography, Film c. 1900
Bernard Lightman
Laura J. Snyder, Reforming Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on Science and Society
Goldie Morgentaler
Rosemarie Bodenheimer, Knowing Dickens
David McLean
Pamela K. Gilbert, Cholera and Nation: Doctoring the Social Body in Victorian England
Heidi Kaufman
Nadia Valman, The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Katherine Newey
Hazel Waters, Racism on the Victorian Stage: Representation of Slavery and the Black Character
Heather Worthington
Paul Fox and Koray Melikoglu, Formal Investigations: Aesthetic Style in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Detective Fiction
Richard Olson
Ralph O’Connor, The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802–1856
Deborah Epstein Nord
David L. Pike, Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworld of Modern Urban Culture, 1800–2001
34:2 (2008)
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Teaching the Victorians
Kirstie Blair
Teaching Victorian Poetry and the Body: Forming Affect
Donald E. Hall
Teaching Victorian Pornography: Hermeneutics and Sexuality
Gail Turley Houston
Using Performance in the Classroom
Jennifer Green-Lewis
Teaching Victorian Literature in the Context of Photography
Lorraine Janzen Kooistra
Teaching Victorian Illustrated Poetry: Hands-On Material Culture
Julianne Smith
A Victorian Study-Abroad Course for Undergraduates
Special Focus: Victorian Literature and Classical Myth
Catherine Maxwell
Introduction
D. M. R. Bentley
“Of Venus and of Cupid,— Strange Old Tales” in the Work of D. G. Rossetti
Elizabeth Prettejohn
Solomon, Swinburne, Sappho
Yisrael Levin
The Terror of Divine Revelation and Apollo’s Incorporation into Song: Swinburne’s Apollonian Myth
Roslyn Jolly
Nympholepsy, Mythopoesis, and John Addington Symonds
Meilee Bridges
The Eros of Homeros: The Pleasures of Greek Epic in Victorian Literature and Archaeology
J. Michael Walton
Dionysus: The Victorian Outcast
Stefano Evangelista
A Revolting Mistake: Walter Pater’s Iconography of Dionysus
Patricia Pulham
From Pygmalion to Persephone: Love, Art, Myth in Thomas Hardy’s The Well-Beloved
Book Reviews
Barbara Leckie
Carolyn Lesjak, Working Fictions: A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel
Susan P. Casteras
Gregory Nosan et al., Objects of Desire: Victorian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago; David B. Elliott, A Pre- Raphaelite Marriage: The Lives And Works of Marie Spartali Stillman and William James Stillman
Samantha Matthews
Patrizia Di Bello, Women’s Albums and Photography in Victorian England: Ladies, Mothers and Flirts
Leslie Butler
Amanda Claybaugh, The Novel of Purpose: Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World
Amber K. Regis
James O’Rourke, Sex, Lies and Autobiography: The Ethics of Confession
Pascal Richet
Martin J. S. Rudwick, Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution
John McBratney
John Kucich, Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class
34:1 (2008)
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Victorian Things: A Forum on Material Obects
Elaine Freedgood
Preface
Katharine Anderson
Coral Jewellery
Jennifer Blair
Fire Escape
Jim Cheshire
Stained Glass
Michael T. Clarke
Andrometer
Anne Clendenning
Gas Cooker
Colette Colligan
Stereograph
Christopher Kent
Gentleman's Coat
Lara Kriegel
Lace
Samantha Matthews
Album
John Picker
Atlantic Cable
Julie Rugg
Cemetery
Talia Schaffer
Berlin Wool
Stephanie Snow
Anaesthetic Inhaler
Vanessa Warne
Artificial Leg
Articles
Kevin A. Morrison (Hamilton Prize Essay)
“The Mother Tongue of Our Imagination”: George Eliot, Landscape-Shaped Subjectivity, and the Possibility of Social Inclusion
Judith Johnston
Sarah Austin and the Politics of Translation in the 1830s
John Miller
Adventures in the Volcano’s Throat: Tropical Landscape and Bodily Horror in R. M. Ballantyne’s Blown to Bits
Daniel Martin
Railway Fatigue and the Coming-of-Age Narrative in Lady Audley’s Secret
Anthony Cummins
From L’Assommoir to ‘Let’s ha’ some more’: Émile Zola’s Early Circulation on the Late-Victorian Stage
Book Reviews
Tess Cosslett
Martha Vicinus, Intimate Friends: Women Who Love Women, 1778–1928 and Sharon Marcus, Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England
Linda Dryden
Diane Simmons, The Narcissism of Empire: Loss, Rage and Revenge in Thomas De Quincey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Isak Dinesen
Janice Schroeder
Steven King, Women, Welfare and Local Politics 1880–1920
William Baker
Jenny Bourne Taylor, The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins
Katherine Frank
Richard Doyle, Dick Doyle’s Journal
Taylor Kennamer
Ouida, Moths, edited by Natalie Schroeder
Carol A. Martin
K.K. Collins, Identifying the Remains: George Eliot’s Death in the London Religious Press
William Byers
Daniel J. Cohen, Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith
Emma Mason
William R. McKelvy, The English Cult of Literature: Devoted Readers 1774–1880
33:2 (2007)
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Special Issue: Elizabeth Barrett Browning: History, Politics, and Culture
Guest Edited by Michele Martinez
Michele Martinez
Introduction
Articles
Simon Avery
Mapping Political History: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Nineteenth-Century Historiography
Marjorie Stone
Constructing the Archive and the Nation in "Italy! world's Italy!", "My Last Duchess," Aurora Leigh, and an Unpublished Manuscript by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Beverly Taylor
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Transnationalism: People Diplomacy in "A Fair-going World"
Eric Eisner
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Energies of Fandom
Julia Miele Rodas
Misappropriations: Hugh Stuart Boyd and the Blindness of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Karen Manarin
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Canon Formation, and the North American Literary Curriculum
Book Reviews
Julia Thomas
Artist of Wonderland: The Life, Political Cartoons, and Illustrations of Tenniel, by Frankie Morris
David Andrews
The Natural Origins of Economics, by Margaret Schabas
Bruce J. Hunt
Predicting the Weather: Victorians and the Science of Meteorology, by Katherine Anderson
Dorothy Barenscott
Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth Century Paris, by Mary Gluck
Matt Cook
Sodom on the Thames: Sex, Love and Scandal in Wilde Times, by Morris B. Kaplan
Lauren Gillingham
Pulling the Devil's Kingdom Down: The Salvation Army in Victorian Britain, by Pamela J. Walker
Paul Nurse
The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World, by Dane Kennedy, and The Sad Story of Burton, Speke, And the Nile; Or, Was John Hanning Speke a Cad? Looking at the Evidence, by W.B. Carnochan
Kathryn Holland
Ford Madox Ford and the Regiment of Women: Violet Hunt, Jean Rhys, Stella Bowen, Janice Biala, by Joseph Wiesenfarth
Jan Marsh
The Letters of Christina Rossetti: Volume 4 1887–1894, edited by Antony H. Harrison
Catherine R. Harland
Victorian Interpretation, by Suzy Anger
John Picker
Voice and the Victorian Storyteller, by Ivan Kreilkamp
33:1 (2007)
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Special Forum: Victorian Studies and Interdisciplinarity
Nancy Armstrong
Professing Disciplinarity
Julie F. Codell
Interdisciplinarity and Historians of Victorian Art
Nicholas Daly
Interdisciplinarity and Cultural Studies
Marysa Demoor
The Day Victorian Poetry Became Cool: An Interdisciplinary Approach in the Teaching of Tennyson and His Contemporaries
Dennis Denisoff
Interdisciplinary Fluidity and the Refreshing Links of Hypermedia
Donald E. Hall
Pied Studies
Linda K. Hughes
The Institutional Limits and Possibilities of Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies
Judith Johnston
Interdisciplinary, or Merely Undisciplined? The Teaching/ Research Nexus
Christopher Keep
Institutional Memory: History, Disciplinarity, and Victorian Studies
Claudia Nelson
Interdisciplinarity and Evolution: Victorian Studies as Ancestor
Francis O’Gorman
Victorianists and the Politics of Interdisciplinarity in the Academy
Linda Peterson
The Concept of “Literature” and the Practice of “Interdisciplinarity”
Matthew Rowlinson
Interdisciplinarity, Estrangement, and Method in Victorian Studies
Joanne Shattock
What Do We Mean by Interdisciplinarity?
Peter Sinnema
Interdisciplinary Studies and the Myth of Disciplinary Capaciousness
Marjorie Stone
Back to the Future: Disciplinary Hauntings and Victorian Studies
Jenny Bourne Taylor
Interdisciplinarity, Institutional Politics and Cultural Studies
Articles
Graham Law
“A Vile Way of Publishing”: Gissing and Serials
Monica Flegel
“Facts and their Meaning”: Child Protection, Intervention, and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in Late Nineteenth-Century England
Rachel Heinrichs
Critical Masculinities in Lady Audley’s Secret
Anna Lepine
“Virgin Solitude”: Envisioning a Textual Space for Spinsters in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley
Book Reviews
James Eli Adams
Language, Science, and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin de Siecle: The Brutal Tongue, by Christine Ferguson
Dave Russell
Music Hall and Modernity: the Late Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture, by Barry J. Faulk
Daniel Martin
Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity, by Amy G. Richter
Sally Mitchell
The Woman Who Did, by Grant Allen, edited by Nicholas Ruddick; Wormwood: A Drama of Paris, by Marie Corelli, edited by Kirsten MacLeod; The Story of a Modern Woman, by Ella Hepworth Dixon, edited by Steve Farmer; The Girl Behind the Keys, by Tom Gallon, edited by Arlene Young
Val Shepherd
Behind Her Times: Transition England in the Novels of Mary Arnold Ward, by Judith Wilt
Maria Frawley
Reading the Brontë Body: Disease, Desire, and the Constraints of Culture, by Beth Torgerson
Christine Ferguson
The Language of the Eyes: Science, Sexuality, and Female Vision in English Literature and Culture, 1690-1927, by Daryl Ogden
Charn Jagpal
The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination, by Gautum Chakravarty
James Najarian
John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion, by Frank M. Turner
Margot K. Louis
The Life of Richard Waldo Sibthorp: Evangelical, Catholic and Ritual Revivalism in the Nineteenth-Century Church by Michael Trott
32:2 (2006)
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Articles
Kit Dobson
"An Insuperable Repugnance to Hearing Vice Called by Its Proper Name": Englishness, Gender and the Performed Identities of Rebecca and Amelia in Thackeray's Vanity Fair
Jill Felicity Durey
An Eye for An Eye: Trollope's Warning for Future Relations between England and Ireland
Vanessa Warne
"What foreign scenes can be": The Ruin of India in Letitia Landon's Scrapbook Poems
Kathryn Ferguson
Parliament of Whores: The Mystery of the Mace
Reviews
Benedict Fullalove
Julie F Codell. The Victorian Artist: Artists' Lifewritings in Britain, ca. 1870-1910.
Vanessa Warne
Maria H. Frawley. Invalidism and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Martha Stoddard Holmes. Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture.
Vicky Simpson
Andrew Maunder and Grace Moore, eds. Victorian Crime, Madness, and Sensation.
32:1 (2006)
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Articles
Jannie Uhre Mogesen
Fading into Innocence: Death, Sexuality, and Moral Restoration in Henry Peach Robinson's Fading Away
Sally Palmer
Projecting the Gaze: The Magic Lantern, Cultural Discipline, and Villette
Mary Patricia Kane
The Uncanny Mother in Vernon Lee's "Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady"
Lauren Gillingham
The Novel of Fashion Redressed: Bulwer-Lytton's Pelham in a 19th-Century Context
Reviews
Lisa Brocklebank
Christine Alexander and Juliet McMaster, eds. The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf
Andrew Burke
John Glavin, ed. Dickens on Screen
31.2 (2005)
Articles
Andrew Smith
Introduction: Literature and Money
Mary Poovey
Discriminating Reading
Andrew Smith
Dickens's Ghosts: Invisible Economies and Christmas
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Victorian Sensational Shoppers: Representing Transgressive Femininity in Wilkie Collins's No Name
T. Silvia Wagner
The Miser's New Notes and the Victorian Sensation Novel: Plotting the Magic of Paper Money
Dagni Bredesen
“What's a Woman to Do?”: Managing Money and Manipulating Fictions in Trollope's Can You Forgive Her? and The Eustace Diamonds
Reviews
Mark Simpson
Beryl Satter, Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement
Michael John DiSanto
Brian Crick, Love Confounded: Revaluing the Great Tradition
Francesca Benatti
Michael de Nie, The Eternal Paddy: Irish Identiry and the British Press, 1798-1882
Anthea Trodd
Andrew Maunder, Varieties of Womens Sensation Fiction: 1855-1890, 6 vols.
31.1 (2005)
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Articles
Ann Heilmann
Introduction
Agnieszka Žabicka
Female Gothic Motifs in Mona Caird's The Wing of Azrael
Ann Heilmann
Medea at the Fin de Siècle: Revisionist Uses of Classical Myth in Mona Caird's The Daughters of Danaus
Maria DiCenzo
Justifying Their Modern Sisters: History Writing and the British Suffrage Movement
Reviews
Juliet McMaster
Roni Natov, The Poetics of Childhood
Christine Ferguson
Alex Owen, The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern
Peter Bailey
John M. Picker, Victorian Soundscapes
Michèle Mendelssohn
Nicola Brown, Carolyn Burdett, Pamela Thurschwell, eds. The Victorian Supernatural
Volume 30.2 (2004)
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Articles
Beth Torgerson
Ailing Women in the Age of Cholera: Illness in Shirley
Bruce Wyse
Mesmeric Machinery, Textual Production and Simulacra in Bulwer-Lytton's “The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain”
Nadya Chishty-Mujahid
Scarred and Healed Identities: Fallenness, Morality, and the Issue of Personal Autonomy in Adam Bede and Ruth
Albert D. Pionke
Reframing the Luddites: Materialist and Idealist Models of Self in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley
Reviews
Janice Schroeder
Hilary Fraser, Stephanie Green, and Judith Johnston, Gender and the Victorian Periodical
Marjorie Stone
Martin Garrett, ed. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning: Interviews and Recollections
Katherine Binhammer
Martha Vicinus, Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928
Alison Halsall
Éva Péteri, Victorian Approaches to Religion as Reflected in the Arts of the Pre-Raphaelites
Volume 30.1 (2004)
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Articles
Francis O'Gorman
Tennyson's “The Lotus-Eaters” and the Politics of the 1830s
D. M. R. Bentley
The Principal Pre-Raphaelite Pictures of James Collinson
Susan R. Bauman
In the Market for Fame: The Victorian Publication History of the Brontë Poems
Patricia Varas
Pre-Raphaelite Female Imagery in Spanish American Poetry
Reviews
George Levine
Martin Fichman, An Elusive Victorian: The Evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace
Kirsten MacLeod
Jad Adams, Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson, Poet and Decadent
James Najarian
Cynthia Scheinberg, Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England: Jewish Identity and Christian Culture
J. Russell Perkin
Nancy Henry, George Eliot and the British Empire
Natalie Neill
Susan K. Harris, The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hostess: Annie Adams Fields and Mary Gladstone Drew
Robert Breton
John O. Jordan, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens
Robert Brazeau
Gordon Bigelow, Fiction, Famine, and the Rise of Economics in Victorian Britian and Ireland
Volume 29.2 (2003)
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Articles
Mary Ellen Kappler
Playing “Theayter”: Dramatic Performance in the Late-Victorian Fictional Slum
Marty Gould
Anticipation, Transformation, Accommodation: The Great Exhibition on the London Stage
Robert Aguirre
Exhibiting Degeneracy: The Aztec Children and the Ruins of Race
Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor
“Who Acts John Bull?”: Speculating on English National Character and Modern Morality
Reviews
Christopher Kent
Paul Delany, Literature, Money and the Market. From Trollope to Amis
Joe McLaughlin
Felix Driver, Geography Militant: Cultures of Exploration and Empire
Jo-Ann Wallace
Ann L. Ardis, Modernism and Cultural Conflict 1880-1922
Michael Rupert Taylor
Kelly Boyd, Manliness and the Boys' Story Paper in Britain. A Cultural History, 1855-1940
Volume 29.1 (2003)
Articles
Neil Davie
A “Criminal Type” in all but Name: British Prison Medical Officers and the “Anthropological” Approach to the Study of Crime (c. 1865-1895)
Ann Heilmann
Emma Bovary's Sisters: Infectious Desire and Female Reading Appetites in Mary Braddon and George Moore
Barbara Ryerse
Browning's Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day: Formal Verse Satire and the Donnean Influence
Chris Willis
From Voyeurism to Feminism: Victorian and Edwardian London's Streetfighting Slum Viragoes
Reviews
Lisa Brocklebank
Anna Krugovoy Silver, Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body
Ian Munro
Richard Schoch, Not Shakespeare: Bardolatry and Burlesque in the Nineteenth Century
Jennifer Shepherd
Angelique Richardson and Chris Willis, eds. The New Woman in Fiction and in Fact: Fin de Siècle Feminisms
Marjorie Stone
Yopie Prins, Victorian Sappho
Michael Wheeler
Dinah Birch and Francis O'Gorman, eds. Ruskin and Gender
Tim Youngs
Marjorie Margan, National Identities and Travel in Victorian Britain
Volume 28.2 (2002)
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Articles
Cynthia Huff
Victorian Exhibitionism and Eugenics: The Case of Francis Galton and the 1899 Crystal Palace Dog Show
Kathryn Ledbetter
“The Copper and Steel Manufactory” of Charles Heath
Collette Colligan
“Esoteric Pornography”: Sir Richard Burton's Arabian Nights and the Origins of Pornography
Shannon L. Rogers
“The Past is a Dream”: The Neo-Feudalism of Disraeli
Reviews
Elicia Clements
Paula Gillett, Musical Women in England, 1870-1914: “Encroaching on All Man's Privileges”
John Considine
Lynda Mugglestone, Lexicography and the OED: Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest
Andreea Hibbard
Peter F. Hoffenberg, An Empire on Display: English, Indian, and Australian Exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War
Margaret Linley
Alison Chapman, The Afterlife of Christina Rossetti
Krista Lysak
Erica Rappaport, Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End
Roger Sales
John Marriot, Masaie Matsumura and Judith Walkowitz, eds. Unknown London: Early Modernist Visions of the Metropolis, 1815-1845
Janice Shroeder
Barbara Onslow, Women of the Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Volume 28.1 (2002)
Articles
Laura Struve
Expert Witnesses: Women and Publicity in Mary Barton and Felix Holt
Lawrence J. Starzyk
Tristram and Iseult: Arnold's Ekphrastic Experiment
Sailaja Krishnamurth
Reading bBtween the Lines: Geography and Hybridity in Rudyard Kipling's Kim
Eric Levy
Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone and the Problem of Pain in Life
Reviews
Anne Dymond
Heather McPheson, The Modern Portrait in Nineteenth-Century France
Keith Denny
Mark Jackson, The Borderland of Imbecility: Medicine, Society and the Fabrication of the Feeble Mind in Late-Victorian and Edwardian England
Michelle Faubert
Neil McCaw, George Eliot and Victorian Historiography: Imagining the National Past
Monica Flegel
Goldie Morgentaler, Dickens and Heredity: When Like Begets Like
Rob Wilson
Gerald Sweeney, “Fighting for the Good Cause”: Reflections on Francis Galton's Legacy to American Hereditarian Psychology
Volume 27.2 (2001)
Articles
Andrew Stephenson
Anxious Performances: Aestheticism, The Art Gallery and the Ambulatory Geographies of Late Nineteenth-Century London
George Griffith
The Face as Legible Text: Gazing at the Portraits of George Eliot
Robert Dingley
The Unreliable Camera: Photography as Evidence in Mid-Victorian Fiction
Sylvia Pamboukian
“Looking Radiant”: Science Photography and the X-ray Craze of 1896
Review Essay
Teresa Zackodnik
Audrey Fisch, American Slaves in Victorian England: Abolitionist Politics in Popular Literature and Culture and Marcus Wood, Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America, 1780-1865.
Reviews
Peter Bailey
John Plotz, The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics
Donald E. Hall
Andrew Bradstock, Sean Gill, Anne Hogan and Sue Morgan, eds., Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture
J. Russell Perkin
Linda H. Peterson, Traditions of Victorian Women's Autobiography: The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing
Julie Murray
Laura Peters, Orphan Texts: Victorian Orphans, Culture and Empire
Lauren Gillingham
Elaine Freedgood, Victorian Writing about Risk: Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World
Rosemary T. VanArsdel
Joanne Shattock, ed., The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature Volume 4, 1800-1900
Volume 27.1 (2001)
Articles
Julie F. Codell
Artists' Biographies and the Anxieties of National Culture
Ann B. Murphy
Becoming Part of History: Retrieving the Lives of Emily Davies and Victorian Feminists
Rosemary T. Van Arsdel
Anna B. Kingsford, M.D: Catholic Convert, Yea or Nay?
Maire ni Fhlathuin
“That Solitary Englishman”: W.H. Sleeman and the Biography of British India
Susan McPherson
Opening the Open Secret: The Stowe-Byron Controvery
Cynthia J. Davis
Concerning Children: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mothering, and Biography
Reviews
Richard D. Fulton
Peter W. Sinnema, Dynamics of the Printed Page: Representing the Nation in the Illustrated London News
Christopher M. Keirstead
Maura O'Connor, The Romance of Italy and the English Political Imagination
Hao Li
Ann C. Colley, Nostalgia and Recollection in Victorian Culture
Kirsten MacLeod
Annette R. Frederico, Idol of Suburbia: Marie Corelli and Late-Victorian Literary Culture
Volume 26.2 (2000)
Articles
Cecily Devereux
“The Maiden Tribute” and the Rise of the White Slave in the Nineteenth Century: The Making of an Imperial Construct
Piper Murray
Brontë's Lunatic Ball: Constituting “A Very Safe Asylum” in Villette
Andrew Maunder
“Alone into the wide, wide world”: Trollope's Miss Mackenzie and the Mid-Victorian Etiquette Manual
Patricia Rigg
Augusta Webster: The Social Politics of Monodrama
Review Forum
Jill Matus, Marion Shaw & Daphne Read
Elaine Showalter, A Literature of Their Own
Reviews
Don Randall
Ian Baucom, Out of Place: Englishness, Empire and the Locations of Identity
Suzanne le-May Sheffield
Barbara T. Gates, Kindred Nature: Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World
Jill Newton Ainsley
Judith Knelman, Twisting in the Wind: The Murderess and The English Press
Maria H. Frawley
Rohan Amanda Maitzen, Gender, Genre, and Victorian Historical Writing
Peter Bailey
Jonathan Schneer, London 1990: The Imperial Metropolis
Andrea L. Broomfield
Diane Nicola Thompson, ed. Victorian Woman Writers and the Woman Question
Volume 26.1 (2000)
Articles
Martin Willis
Introduction: Weird Science
Louise Henson
“Phantoms Arising from the Scenes of Our Too-Long Neglect”: Charles Dickens, Victorian Chemistry, and the Folklore of the Ghost
Elisabeth Wadge
The Scientific Spirit and the Spiritualist Scientist: Moving in the Right Circles
Catherine Wynne
Mesmeric Exorcism, Idolatrous Beliefs, and Bloody Rituals: Mesmerism, Catholicism, and Second Sight in Bram Stoker’s Fiction
Lyssa Randolph
The Child and the “Genius”: New Science in Sarah Grand’s The Beth Book
Jed Mayer
Germinating Memory: Hardy and Evolutionary Biology
Jenny Bourne Taylor
Fallacies of Memory in Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Henry Holland, William Carpenter, and Frances Power Cobbe
Volume 25.2 (2000)
Articles
Bernard Lightman
The Story of Nature: Victorian Populizers and Scientific Narrative
Peter Sinnema
Anxiously Managing Mourning: Wellington’s Funeral and the Press
Patrick Leary
A Victorian Virtual Community
Janice Fiamengo
Forms of Suffering in Charlotte Yonge’s The Clever Woman of the Family
Reviews
Joanna Devereux
Edward Neill, Trial by Ordeal: Thomas Hardy and the Critics
Jane Thomas, Thomas Hardy, Femininity and Dissent: Reassessing the “Minor” Novels
Chris Willis
Peter Bailey, Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City
Beth Harris
Jeremy Maas, Pamela White Trimpe, and Charlotte Gere, Victorian Fairy Painting
Carole G. Silver, Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
Rhonda Batchelor
Laurie Longbauer, Novels of Everyday Life: The Series in English Fiction. 1850-1930.
Karin Kellogg
Joss Marsh, Word Crimes: Blasphemy, Culture, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century England
Clarissa Suranyi
Victor Bailey, “This Rash Act”: Suicide Across the Life Cycle in the Victorian City