Yearbook of English Studies back issues from January 2004:
Nineteenth-century travel writing: an introduction.(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The analysis of travel writing has now moved well beyond a 'transparent' discussion that blurs the distinction between physical movement and its written record. As Sara Mills has shown in her classic study Discourses of Difference (1991), travel texts follow a number of discursive ...
Colonialism and gender in the east: representations of the harem in the writings of women travellers.
Jan 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT Edward Said's analysis of the Orientalist discourse constructs a position of enunciation more questionable when the Western observer is female. Women were generally recipients of, rather than active participants in, colonialist projects. They accessed the Orient from a ...
Negotiating the landscape: travel, transaction, and the mapping of colonial India.
Jan 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT This paper examines the journals and records of surveyors who participated in the Great Arc survey of India in the early nineteenth century, reading these texts as a form of specialized, supplementary travelogue. Reviewing postcolonial studies of colonial cartography, ...
'Isn't it your own country?' The stranger in nineteenth-century Irish literature.(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT This essay examines the nineteenth-century British obsession with travel in Ireland, and the representation of the stranger in three novels soon after the Union: Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl, Edgeworth's The Absentee, and Banim's The Anglo-Irish of the Nineteenth ...
Shelley in Italy.(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT Shelley's time in Italy, between 1818 and 1822, divides into two periods. During the first, he and his family moved from place to place, visiting all the sights of the Grand Tour. During the second, they settled in and around Pisa. In the process, Shelley turned from a ...
Black Books and Southern Tours: tone and perspective in the travel writing of Mrs Anne Royall.(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT Between 1826 and 1831 Anne Royall published nine volumes of travel writing, together with a volume of letters written while she was living and touring in Alabama. Frequently repetitious, often limited in their scope, and highly opinionated, these books provide an ...
The Glory of Motion: De Quincey, travel, and romanticism.(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT Thomas De Quincey's essay, 'The English Mail-Coach', is a unique and richly-textured meditation on the means and meanings of travel in the early nineteenth century. The opposition it sets up between pre-industrial and industrial forms of transport is inherently ...
The Winning of the West: Washington Irving's A Tour on the Prairies.(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT This article provides a historicist reading of Washington Irving's A Tour on the Prairies. It explores his representation of the American West within a context established by historical and literary figures, including Andrew Jackson and Frederick Jackson Turner. Key ...
'The best of nations'? Race and imperial destinies in Emerson's English Traits.(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT This articles analyses Ralph Waldo Emerson's English Traits, with particular emphasis on Emerson's ideas on race and national identity. It begins with a discussion of the transatlantic critical reception of Emerson's text and goes on to discuss the structure of English ...
Round the world without a man: feminism and decadence in Sara Jeannette Duncan's A Social Departure.(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT In 1888 the Canadian writer Sara Jeanette Duncan travelled around the world with only another single woman as a companion: an extremely unconventional proceeding. Her fictionalized account of her travels, A Social Departure: How Orthodocia and I Went Round the World by ...
'The wrong side of the tapestry': Hawthorne's English travel writing.(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT Hawthorne's period in England as American Consul at Liverpool brought him into contact with British and American eccentrics and enabled him to ramble the old towns and significant places he had known through reading, and the churchyards to which he seemed inexorably ...
Tramps and tourists: Europe in Mark Twain's A Tramp Abroad.(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT This is a re-reading of Mark Twain's neglected travel book, A Tramp Abroad (1880) which explores the title pun, paying particular attention to Twain's highly ambivalent attitude to tramps as represented back home in America. The essay also examines the book's ...
Touring the metropolis: the shifting subjects of Dickens's London sketches.(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT In his London sketches Dickens engages in a kind of local tourism where he invites the reader to accompany him to unfamiliar but near locations. These tours or visits focus on ignored or suppressed groups of the city's population. Taking bearings from contemporaries ...
Grotesque encounters in the travel writing of Henry James.(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT This essay examines the question of why Henry James was so addicted to the use of the word 'picturesque', especially in Italian Hours, at a time when elsewhere it was regarded as an overworked, commercial mode of conceptualization. James exploited, it is argued, the ...
'While I waggled my small feet': Henry James's return to Paris.(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT Paris is crucial to the sense of place, response, and record spanning Henry James's career over America, England, and 'Europe'. The early essays Parisian Sketches and A Little Tour in France reach towards The American Scene and A Small Boy and Others in exploring 'the ...
Levels of disclosure: voices and people in Henry James's Italian Hours.(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT The formal subject matter of James's Italian Hours encompasses the great names of art and history and the details of a familiar topography. But the reflective voice which emerges within the text identifies living faces in a crowd, individuals observed, friends ...
From Cornhill to Cairo: Thackeray as travel-writer.
Jan 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT This essay examines Thackeray's travel-writing through close attention to his book Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Cairo (1846). It approaches it through Thackeray's other extended piece of travel-writing, The Irish Sketch Book (1843), and through W. A. Kinglake's ...
Constructing the Englishman in Rudyard Kipling's Letters of Marque.(Critical Essay)
Jan 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT Rudyard Kipling's Letters of Marque, subsequently published in From Sea to Sea (1900), were first published anonymously in Allahabad Pioneer from December 1887 to February 1888, and described his travels in the Native States of Rajputana. These letters, a professional ...
'Home is the sailor, home from sea': Robert Louis Stevenson and the end of wandering.
Jan 01, 2004; ... ABSTRACT This essay considers Stevenson's travel writings in relation to his Gothic imagination. In the early essays, An Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, a process of authorial self-construction is at work that anticipates the modern self of his Gothic ...
Truth and Consequences: Intentions, Conventions, and the New Thematics.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Truth and Consequences: Intentions, Conventions, and the New Thematics. By REED WAY DASENBROCK. (Literature and Philosophy) University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2001. xvii + 330 pp. $65 (pbk $25). ISBN: 0-271-02040-7 (pbk 0-271-02041-5). This is a serious and ...
Writing the Bodies of Christ: the Church from Carlyle to Derrida.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Writing the Bodies of Christ: The Church from Carlyle to Derrida. Ed. by JOHN SCHAD. Aldershot, Burlington, VT, and Singapore: Ashgate. 2001. xiii + 180 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-7546-0538-8. Many readers will be well aware of the rich avenues of thought that continue ...
Poetic Exhibitions: Romantic Aesthetics and the Pleasures of the British Museum.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Poetic Exhibitions: Romantic Aesthetics and the Pleasures of the British Museum. By ERIC GIDAL. Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 284 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-8387-5493-7. Poetic Exhibitions offers a reading of 'the ...
Mimesis and its Romantic Reflections.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Mimesis and its Romantic Reflections. By FREDERICK BURWICK. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2001. viii + 203 pp. $35. ISBN: 0-271-02037-7. Frederick Burwick's erudite book should be commended first and foremost for its lucidity of argument and elegance of ...
Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature. By ONNO OERLEMANS. Toronto, Buffalo, NY, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2002. vii + 253 pp. $45; 28 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-8020-4863-3. Given the title and the topic of this book, the assertion that 'romanticism is an ...
Poetic Castles in Spain: British Romanticism and Figurations of Iberia.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Poetic Castles in Spain: British Romanticism and Figurations of Iberia. By DIEGO SAGLIA. (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft) Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. 2000. 355 pp. 55 [euro]; $52. ISBN: 90-420-0428-2. The book under ...
Romantic Generations: Essays in Honor of Robert F. Gleckner.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Romantic Generations: Essays in Honor of Robert F. Gleckner. Ed. by GHISLAINE MCDAYTER, GUINN BATTEN, and BARRY MILLIGAN. Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 301 pp. 38 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-8387-5470-8. If there is a ...
Ghostwriting Modernism.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Ghostwriting Modernism. By HELEN SWORD. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 2002. xiii + 212 pp. 28.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk 12.95 [pounds sterling]). ISBN: 0-8014-3699-0 (pbk 0-8014-8775-7). Observing that the Victorian fascination with popular spiritualism ...
Literary Impressionism and Modernist Aesthetics.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Literary Impressionism and Modernist Aesthetics. By JESSE MATZ. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2001. ix + 278 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-521-80352-7. This is an impressive, complex, difficult, and wide-ranging book. It covers seven authors ...
Material Modernism: the Politics of the Page.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Material Modernism: The Politics of the Page. By GEORGE BORNSTEIN. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2001. xii + 185 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $54.95. ISBN: 0-521-66154-4. Or, the instability of the page; or, the variousness of the page. Both would ...
Mosaic Modernism: Anarchism, Pragmatism, Culture.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Mosaic Modernism: Anarchism, Pragmatism, Culture. By DAVID KADLEC. (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History). Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2000. 331 pp. 33 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-8018-6438-0. Scholarly reformulations of ...
Solitude and its Ambiguities in Modernist Fiction.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Solitude and its Ambiguities in Modernist Fiction. By EDWARD ENGELBERG. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2001. 223 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-312-23947-5. Edward Engelberg's recent book offers an overview of the development of the theme of solitude in fiction from ...
Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial: 1890-1920.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial: 1890-1920. Resistance in Interaction. By ELLEKE BOEHMER. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. ix + 239 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-19-818446-8. This formidably well-researched and carefully documented book ...
'A Truthful Impression of the Country': British and American Travel Writing in China, 1880-1949.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... 'A Truthful Impression of the Country': British and American Travel Writing in China, 1880-1949. By NICHOLAS R. CLIFFORD. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2001. xxi + 231 pp. $39.50; 25 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-472-11197-3. A Truthful Impression of the Country presents ...
Postwar Academic Fiction: Satire, Ethics, Community.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Postwar Academic Fiction: Satire, Ethics, Community. By KENNETH WOMACK. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. viii + 207 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-333-91882-7. This study examines the satirical representations of campus life in texts by Kingsley Amis, Nabokov, Joyce ...
Postcolonial Imaginings: Fictions of a New World Order.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Postcolonial Imaginings: Fictions of a New World Order. By DAVID PUNTER. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2000. viii + 238 pp. 15.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-7486-0856-7. 'In place of writing as production or as representation what we [ ...] have is a "continuous show of ...
The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English. By JAHAN RAMAZANI. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2001. x + 223 pp. $17.50; 11.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-226-70343-6. Jahan Ramazani asks at the beginning of The Hybrid Muse why postcolonial poetry is so much ...
The Unravelling of the Postmodern Mind.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The Unravelling of the Postmodern Mind. By CRISTOPHER NASH. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2001. x + 310 pp. 15.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-7486-1215-7. In a plethora of texts and works about postmodernism, The Unravelling of the Postmodern Mind remains unique ....
The Culture of the Body: Genealogies of Modernity.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The Culture of the Body: Genealogies of Modernity. By DALIA JUDOVITZ. (The Body in Theory) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2001. 235 pp. $59.50; 37 [pounds sterling] (pbk $19.95; 12.50 [pounds sterling]). ISBN: 0-472-09742-3 (pbk 0-472-06742-7). This book challenges us ...
Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature. By ROBERTA SEELINGER TRITES. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. 2000. xv + 189 pp. 25.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-8774-5732-8. Roberta Trites's book is interested in elaborating an allegedly ...
Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media. By MARIE-LAURE RYAN. (Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society) Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2001. xiii + 399 pp. 31 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-8018-6487-9. ...
Literature, Identity and the English Channel: Narrow Seas Expanded.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Literature, Identity and the English Channel: Narrow Seas Expanded. By DOMINIC RAINSFORD. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. vii + 191 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-333-77389-6. This is a work of the new cultural geography. It draws initial inspiration from Franco ...
Lost in the American City: Dickens, James, Kafka.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Lost in the American City : Dickens, James, Kafka. By JEREMY TAMBLING. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2001. xvii + 229 pp. 32.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-312-23840-1. One of the most pleasing aspects of this very interesting study is attributable to Jeremy Tambling ...
Dooble Tongue: Scots, Burns, Contradiction.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Dooble Tongue: Scots, Burns, Contradiction. By JEFFREY SKOBLOW. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 268 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-87413-728-4. Dooble Tongue self-consciously departs from traditional forms of academic ...
England through Colonial Eyes in Twentieth-Century Fiction.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... England through Colonial Eyes in Twentieth-Century Fiction. By ANN BLAKE, LEELA GHANDI, and SUE THOMAS. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2001. x + 207 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-333-73744-x. Stuart Hall, in a recent radio interview, lamented the irony of cultural ...
Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction. By SUZANNE KEEN. Toronto, Buffalo, NY, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2001. x + 288 pp. $60; 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-8020-3589-2. Suzanne Keen sets out her stall in an excellent introduction in which she ...
Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Ed. by ALISON DONNELL. London and New York: Routledge. 2002. xxvi + 356 pp. 75 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-4151-6989-5. Alison Donnell's companion bears witness to the diversity of Black British Cultural Studies, a field long ...
Romantic Shakespeare: From Stage to Page.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Romantic Shakespeare: From Stage to Page. By YOUNGLIM HAN. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 252 pp. 34 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-8386-3873-2. This book begins by tracing through the eighteenth and early nineteenth ...
British Discovery Literature and the Rise of Global Commerce.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... British Discovery Literature and the Rise of Global Commerce. By ANNA NEILL. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. x + 229 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-97374-7. Whilst eighteenth-century literature of discovery and travel has undergone a renaissance recently, critics ...
Preserving the Self in the South Seas: 1680-1840.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Preserving the Self in the South Seas: 1680-1840. By JONATHAN LAMB. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2001. xii + 345 pp. $52 (pbk $18). ISBN: 0-226-46848-8 (pbk 0-226-46849-6). The physical hardship and encounter with the unknown characteristic of voyages of ...
The Ideological Origins of the British Empire.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The Ideological Origins of the British Empire. By DAVID ARMITAGE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2001. xii + 239 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; $54 [pounds sterling] (pbk 13.95 [pounds sterling]; $21). ISBN: 0-521-59081-7 (pbk 0-521-78978-8). It is a measure of David ...
Private Interests: Women, Portraiture, and the Visual Culture of the English Novel, 1709-1791.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Private Interests: Women, Portraiture, and the Visual Culture of the English Novel, 1709-1791. By ALISON CONWAY. Toronto, Buffalo, NY, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2001. xii + 293 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. $65. ISBN: 0-8020-3526-4. A recent exhibition at the ...
Mary Wollstonecraft's Social and Aesthetic Philosophy: 'An Eve to Please Me'.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Mary Wollstonecraft's Social and Aesthetic Philosophy: 'An Eve to Please Me'. By SABA BAHAr. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. viii + 220 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-97390-9. At the beginning of this study Saba Bahar notes that some critics might wonder 'Why ...
Mary Wollstonecraft and the Accent of the Feminine.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Mary Wollstonecraft and the Accent of the Feminine. By ASHLEY TAUCHERT. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2001. ix + 169 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-333-96346-6. This dogmatic book will appeal to critics who read Mary Wollstonecraft's work as an example of 'an ...
Burke to Byron, Barbauld to Baillie, 1790-1830.(Byron and Newstead: The Aristocrat and the Abbey)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Burke to Byron, Barbauld to Baillie, 1790-1830. By JANE STABLER. (transitions) Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2001. xiii + 322 pp. 13.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-69625-5. Byron and Newstead: The Aristocrat and the Abbey. By JOHN BECKETT with SHEILA ALEY. Cranbury, NJ: ...
The Literary Relationship of Lord Byron & Thomas Moore.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The Literary Relationship of Lord Byron & Thomas Moore. By JEFFERY W. VAIL. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2001. xi + 251 pp. 33 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-8018-6500-x. This is the first substantive account of the interrelationship of Byron and Moore ...
Mary Shelley in Her Times.(The Mental Anatomies of William Godwin and Mary Shelley)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Mary Shelley in Her Times. Ed. by BETTY T. BENNETT and STUART CURRAN. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2000. xiii + 311 pp. 33 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-80186-334-1. The Mental Anatomies of William Godwin and Mary Shelley. By WILLIAM D. BREWER ....
Literary Magazines and British Romanticism.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Literary Magazines and British Romanticism. By MARK PARKER. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 45) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2000. xiii + 213 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $54.95. ISBN: 0-521-78192-2. Literary magazines 'should be an object of ...
Women and Literature in Britain, 1800-1900.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Women and Literature in Britain, 1800-1900. Ed. by JOANNE SHATTOCK. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2001. xxii + 311 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $59.95. ISBN: 0-521-65055-0. Women and Literature in Britain, 1800-1900 is stimulating and eminently ...
Disorderly Sisters: Sibling Relations and Sororal Resistance in Nineteenth-Century British Literature.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Disorderly Sisters: Sibling Relations and Sororal Resistance in Nineteenth-Century British Literature. By LEILA SILVANA MAY. Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 276 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-8387-5459-7. This book has an ...
Solitary Travelers: Nineteenth-Century Women's Travel Narratives and the Scientific Vocation.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Solitary Travelers: Nineteenth-Century Women's Travel Narratives and the Scientific Vocation. By LILA MARZ HARPER. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 277 pp. 38 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-8386-3860-0. Lila Marz Harper ...
Victorian Afterlives: The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Victorian Afterlives: The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature. By ROBERT DOUGLAS-FAIRHURST. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. xi + 372 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-19-818727-0. Influence in all its many shapes and forms--literary, ...
The Victorian Governess Novel.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The Victorian Governess Novel. By CECILIA WADSO LECAROS. (Lund Studies in English) Lund: Lund University Press. 2001. 308 pp. 280 SKr. ISBN: 91-7966-577-2. The Victorian governess, as Cecilia Wadso Lecaros demonstrates, was a figure uniquely positioned to provoke some of the ...
The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine. By DEBORAH WYNNE. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2001. x + 202 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-333-77666-6. Over the past two decades there has been increasing scholarly interest in the impact of periodical publishing ...
Unequal Partners: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian Authorship.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... Unequal Partners: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian Authorship. By LILLIAN NAYDER. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 2001. xiv + 221 pp. 23.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN: 0-8014-3925-6. When, in 1873, Frederick Chapman asked Wilkie Collins to identify ...
The Breviary of the Decadence: J.-K. Huysmans's 'A Rebours' and English Literature.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2004; ... The Breviary of the Decadence: J.-K. Huysmans's 'A Rebours' and English Literature. By G. A. CEVASCO. New York: AMS Press. 2002. xiv + 227 pp. $64.50. ISBN: 0-404-64455-4. Very few works have the impact that A Rebours had. Published in Paris in 1884, its continued fame has made ...