VOLUME 1 (1987)
Feature Articles
Robert F. Gleckner Gambling and Byron’s Poetics (1–12)
John Glavin Deadly Earnest and Earnest Revived: Wilde’s Four-Act Play (13–24)
Robert M. Craig The Garden of Ease (Yi Yuan), Suzhou: Designed Diversions, Picture Views, and Objects of Contemplation in a Nineteenth-Century Chinese Garden (25–48)
Melinda B. Parsons Theatrical Productions, Symphonic Music, and the Rise of “Musical Painting” in the Late Nineteenth Century (49–72)
John D. Wilson Art and Life Reconciled: Goethe in Venice (73–79)
Joy Sperling Worthington Whittredge’s Landscape with Haywain and the American National School of Painting (80–89)
William Burgan Dickens and Kevin Lynch: Making Cities Make Sense (19–26)
Susan Casteras Rossetti’s Embowered Females in Art, or Love Enthroned and “The Lamp’s Shrine” (27–52)
Barbara T. Allen Poetry and Machinery in Shelley’s “Letter to Maria Gisborne” (53–62)
William A. Poe Conservative Nonconformists: Religious Leaders and the Liberal Party in Yorkshire/Lancashire (63–72)
John C. Hawley, S.J. Mary Barton: The Inside View from Without (23–30)
Andre Spies Lohengrin Takes on the Third Republic: Wagner and Wagnerisme in Belle-Epoque Paris (31–36)
Barbara Schapiro The Rebirth of Catherine Earnshaw: Splitting and Reintegration of Self in Wuthering Heights (37–52)
Frances Smith Foster Between the Sides: Afro-American Women Writers as Mediators (53–64)
Barbara T. Allen Deirdre David, Intellectual Women and Victorian Patriarchy: Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot; Betty T. Bennett, ed., The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (80–84)
Michael Cohen Susan Casteras, Images of Victorian Womanhood in English Art (85–88)
David Bradshaw Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde (89–91)
David Latane Culture and Society in Victorian Britain: A 1988 NEH Summer Institute at Yale University (92–97)
Suzanne Edwards Classics in Context: The Victorians. Louisville’s Festival of the Arts and Culture (98–107)
Janet A. Headley The (Non) Literary Sculpture of Hiram Powers (23–40)
Kathleen McCormack The Saccharissa Essays: George Eliot’s Only Woman Persona (41–60)
John R. Reed Victorians in Bed (61–92)
Robert E. Burkholder Emerson and the West: Concord, The Historical Discourse, and Beyond (93–104)
Jadviga da Costa Nunes O.G. Rejlander’s Photographs of Ragged Children: Reflections on the Idea of Urban Poverty in Mid-Victorian Society (105–36)
Gayla McGlamery Richard Stein, Victoria’s Year: English Literature and Culture (144–49)
William Scheuerle Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century (150–52)
Walter L. Reed Prometheus Unglued: An Olympian View of Romantic Myth (19–28)
John L. Greenway Penetrating Surfaces: X-rays, Strindberg and The Ghost Sonata (29–46)
Hartley S. Spratt Tennyson’s Poetry: The Figuration of Death (47–64)
David A. Stewart Is a Myth a Lie? A Victorian Answer in the Paintings of George Frederic Watts (66–78)
Jeffrey D. Parker William St. Clair, The Godwins and the Shelleys: A Biography of a Family (80–83)
Douglas Robinson David Leverenz, Manhood and the American Renaissance (83–89)
Willa Z. Silverman Debora L. Silverman, Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siècle France: Politics, Psychology and Style (90–94)
Carol Shiner Wilson Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850; Elaine S. Abelson, When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store (95–100)
F. S. Schwarzbach Jerome McGann, ed., Victorian Connections (100–105)
Kristin Flieger Samuelian Lost Mothers: The Challenge to Paternalism in Mary Barton (19–36)
Adelia V. Williams Cézanne, Manet, and the Genesis of Zola’s L’oeuvre (37–50)
John Paul Tassoni Redburn’s Kunstlerroman: Nineteenth-Century Linguistics and Melville’s Signification of Delusion (51–60)
Jerome H. Buckley The Myth of the Poet (61–72)
Regina Hewitt Anne L. Rylestone, Prophetic Memory in Wordsworth’s Ecclesiastical Sonnets (78–81)
Michael Cohen Joseph A. Kestner, Mythology and Misogyny: The Social Discourse of Nineteenth-Century British Classical-Subject Painting (82–85)
Jadviga da Costa Nunes Philip C. Beam, et. al., Winslow Homer in the 1890s: Prout’s Neck Observed; Bruce Robertson, Reckoning with Winslow Homer: His Late Paintings and Their Influence (86–93)
Garry M. Leonard Reginia Gagnier, Idylls of the Marketplace: Oscar Wilde and the Victorian Public (94–102)
John F. Roche Louis Sullivan’s Architectural Principles and the Organicist Aesthetic of Friedrich Schelling and S.T. Coleridge (29–56)
Carole Stone George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda: “The Case History of Gwendolen H.” (57–68)
Stanley Tick Positives and Negatives: Henry James vs. Photography (69–102)
David Stewart Linda Nochlin, The Politics of Vision: Essays on Nineteenth-Century Art and Society (116–18)
Louis J. Hinkel, Jr. Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (118–22)
Heather Kirk Thomas Dana Brand, The Spectator and the City in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (122–24)
Margaret D. Stetz Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund, The Victorian Serial (125–27)
Srilekha Bell Lucille B. Ritvo, Darwin’s Influence on Freud: A Tale of Two Sciences (127–30)
Paul Grootkerk Estill Curtis Pennington, Downriver: Currents of Style in Louisiana Painting, 1800–1950 (130–32)
Edward H. Cohen Henley among the Nightingales (23–44)
Robert M. Craig Art Nouveau and the Rejection of Revivalism (45–74)
William R. Hunter Do Not Be Conformed Unto This World: An Analysis of Religious Experience in the Nineteenth Century African-American Spiritual Narrative (75–88)
Rosemary Jann Animal Analogies in the Construction of Class (89–104)
Andre Spies Robert Graves, trans., A Winter in Majorca by George Sand (121–22)
Barbara Cooper Rachel M. Brownstein, Tragic Muse: Rachel of the Comedie-Française (122–24)
Heather McPherson Patricia Mainardi, The End of the Salon: Art and the State in the Early Third Republic (124–26)
Kyle Grimes Jerome Christensen, Lord Byron’s Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society (126–28)
Margaret D. Stetz Jessica R. Feldman, Gender on the Divide: The Dandy in Modernist Literature (128–29)
Carol Abromaitis Deborah Kaplan, Jane Austen among Women (130–31)
Martin Danahay Marta Braun, Picturing Time: The Work of Etienne-Jules Marey (131–32)
Valery Cerny John Minahan, Word Like a Bell: John Keats, Music and the Romantic Poet (133–34)
Maureen Egan Michael Kammen, Meadows of Memory: Images of Time and Tradition in American Art and Culture (135–37)
David Bradshaw Herbert F. Tucker, ed., Critical Essays on Alfred Lord Tennyson (137–39)
Heather McPherson Une “Allegorie Reelle”: Courbet’s 1859 Frontispiece for Champfleury’s Les Amis de la nature (31–54)
Gregory G. Kelley The Fond Believing Lyre: Keats’s “Ode to Psyche” and the Dialectic of Enlightenment (55–64)
Dianne Armstrong Twain’s Jim: Uncle Remus Redux (65–84)
Elizabeth Winston Revising Miss Marjoribanks (85–98)
Timothy P. Duffy Martin A. Danahay, A Community of One: Masculine Autobiography and Autonomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain (129–31)
Carol Shiner Wilson Stuart Curran, ed., The Poems of Charlotte Smith (131–33)
D. J. Trela Elizabeth M. Vida, Romantic Affinities: German Authors and Carlyle—A Study in the History of Ideas (133–35)
Thomas L. Cooksey William J. Scheick, The Ethos of Romance at the Turn of the Century (135–37)
Jeffrey D. Parker David Simpson, Romanticism, Naturalism, and the Revolt Against Theory (137–40)
Daniel Joseph Nadenicek Civilization by Design: Emerson and Landscape Architecture (33–48)
Amelia A. Rutledge Darwin Contra Wagner? Science, Morality, and Music Criticism (49–68)
Katherine J. Haldane “No Human Foot Comes Here”: Victorian Tourists and the Isle of Skye (69–92)
William Collins Watterson “Chips off the Old Block”: Birching, Social Class, and the English Public Schools (93–110)
Thomas L. Cooksey Jonathan Smith, Fact and Feeling: Baconian Science and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (136–38)
Suzanne Ozment Carol T. Christ and John O. Jordan, eds., Victorian Literature and the Victorian Visual Imagination (138–40)
Heather Kirk Thomas Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (141–42)
Linda Gertner Zatlin Mark Samuels Lasner, A Selective Checklist of the Published Work of Aubrey Beardsley (143–44)
Heather McPherson Kenneth McConkey, Impressionism in Britain (144–46)
Marcia Robertson Nina Baym, American Women Writers and the Work of History (146–48)
Annette Federico Literary Celebrity and Photographic Realism: Marie Corelli and Late-Victorian “Picture Popularity” (27–50)
Gonzalo J. Sánchez Hephaistos in the New Athens: Design-Art Industries in Republican France, between Politics and the Museum, 1871–1894 (51–70)
Steven Conn Rescuing the Homestead of the Nation: The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association and the Preservation of Mount Vernon (71–94)
Tamar Heller “No Longer Innocent”: Sensationalism, Sexuality, and the Allegory of the Woman Writer in Margaret Oliphant’s Salem Chapel (95–108)
George Levine The Cartesian Hardy: I Think Therefore I’m Doomed (109–30)
Joe Amato No Wasted Words: Whitman’s Original Energy (37–63)
Ronald D. Morrison Humanity towards Man, Woman, and the Lower Animals: Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure and the Victorian Humane Movement (64–83)
Kathleen Spies Figuring the Neurasthenic: Thomas Eakins, Nervous Illness, and Gender in Victorian America (84–110)
Lee Jenkins “The Black O’Connell”: Frederick Douglass and Ireland (22–47)
Sarah E. Chinn A Show of Hands: Establishing Identity in Mark Twain’s The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson (48–82)
Ruth Mayer “Arousing the Slumbering Woman’s Nature”: Poetry, Pornography, and Other Nineteenth-Century Writing on Female Passion (83–101)
David L. Pike Underground Theater: Subterranean Spaces on the London Stage (103–38)
Rebecca Stern “Personation” and “Good Marking-Ink”: Sanity, Performativity, and Biology in Victorian Sensation Fiction (35–62)
Judy Bullington Henry Bacon’s Imaging of Transatlantic Travel in the Gilded Age (65–92)
Vincent A. Lankewish Victorian Architectures of Masculine Desire (93–120)
Sheila Sullivan Dickens’s Newgate Vision: Oliver Twist, Moral Statistics, and the Construction of Progressive History (121–48)
Pamela K. Gilbert “Scarcely to Be Described”: Urban Extremes as Real Spaces
and Mythic Places in the London Cholera Epidemic of 1854 (149–72)
Barri J. Gold Reproducing Empire: Moreau and Others (173–98)
Scott Hess The Wedding Guest as Reader: “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere” as a Dramatization of Print Circulation and the Construction of the Authorial Self (19–36)
Mary Elizabeth Hotz A Grave with No Name: Representations of Death in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton (37–56)
Chad Rohman What Is Man? Mark Twain’s Unresolved Attempt to Know (57–72)
Jerome Hamilton Buckley Foreword (75–76)
John Maynard The Dialectical Temper (77–81)
Norman Kelvin The View from Here: How the Nineteenth Century Looks to the Twenty-first (81–85)
Leona W. Fisher The Victorian Temper: A Guide through the Desert (85–88)
Lawrence Woof Introduction to the Reviews (133–34)
Claire Wildsmith The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824–1900, on CD-ROM (134–35)
Julia Flanders Nineteenth-Century Masterfile (Poole’s Plus) (135–37)
Christine Kenyon Jones “Some World’s-Wonder in Chapel or Crypt”: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Disability (21–35)
Jan Marsh From Slave Cabin to Windsor Castle: Josiah Henson and “Uncle Tom” in Britain (37–50)
Hsuan Hsu War, Ekphrasis, and Elliptical Form in Melville’s Battle-Pieces (51–71)
Thomas Grey Wagner the Degenerate: Fin de Siècle Cultural “Pathology” and the Anxiety of Modernism (73–92)
Sally Hubbard Mexico: From Empire to Revolution (184–87)
Lawrence Woof Digital Audio Tours (187–89)
Sarah C. Williams Victorian Religion: A Matter of Class or Culture? (13–17)
Jane Garnett Where Their Treasure Was: Victorian Christianity and Money (19–23)
Thomas Dixon Looking Beyond “The Rumpus about Moses and Monkeys”: Religion and the Sciences in the Nineteenth Century (25–33)
Nadia Valman “A Fresh-Made Garment of Citizenship”: Representing Jewish Identities in Victorian Britain (35–45)
David Jasper Cultural Studies and the Nineteenth Century: Theology and Literature (47–51)
Maria LaMonaca “Her Director, Her Priest, ... Her God”: Victorian Women Writers on Confession (73–90)
Christopher M. Keirstead Going Postal: Mail and Mass Culture in Bleak House (91–106)
Bridget Heneghan The Pot Calling the Kettle: White Goods and the Construction of Race in Antebellum America (107–32)
Alexandra K. Wettlaufer Dibutades and Her Daughters: The Female Artist in Postrevolutionary France (9–38)
Zahi Zalloua Power and Identity in Stendhal’s Le Rouge et le noir (39–58)
Mary A. Armstrong Multiplicities of Longing: The Queer Desires of Bleak House and Little Dorrit (59–79)
Sarah Annes Brown The Double Taboo: Lesbian Incest in the Nineteenth Century (81–98)
Antonia Losano East Lynne, The Turn of the Screw, and the Female Doppelgänger in Governess Fiction (99–116)
Roberta Montemorra Marvin Commercial Intrigue, National Identity, and the Italian Premiere of Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle (117–38)
Wendell V. Harris A Handlist of Nineteenth-Century London Art Societies and Their Predecessors (139–62)
Elizabeth H. Chang “Eyes of the Proper Almond-Shape”: Blue-and-White China in the British Imaginary, 1823–1883 (17–34)
Micki Archuleta Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: A Fugitive Slave on Individual Rights and Community Responsibilities (35–45)
Brian Bonhomme Nested Interests: Assessing Britain’s Wild-Bird-Protection Laws (47–68)
Suzanne Daly Indiscreet Jewels: The Eustace Diamonds (69–81)
Francis O’Gorman Ruskin, Venice, and the Endurance of Authorship (83–97)
Simon Featherstone Vestal Flirtations: The Performance of the Feminine in Late-Nineteenth-Century British Music Hall (99–112)
S. R. Palmer The Elusive Correlation: Dialogic Medical Politics in The Wings of the Dove (113–33)
Erin Hazard “Realized Day-dreams”: Excursions to Nineteenth-Century Authors’ Homes (13–33)
Dan Guernsey Rousseau’s Emile and Social Palingenesis in Courbet’s The Painter’s Studio (35–60)
Yaël Schlick Spatial Literacy and the Female Traveler: The Sexual Politics of Map-reading in Flaubert and Sand (61–78)
Jane Wood A Culture of Improvement: Knowledge, Aesthetic Consciousness, and the Conversazione (79–97)
Deborah Mutch “A Working-Class Tragedy”: The Fiction of Henry Mayers Hyndman (99–112)
Ioanna Chatzidimitriou Against Memory: Remodeling the Past in Huysmans’s A Rebours (113–27)
Val Morgan Huysmans’s Gilles de Rais: Crossing Thresholds, Reaching Limits (129–45)
Andrew Maunder Making Heritage and History: The 1894 Illustrated Pride and Predjudice (147–69)
Richard Dellamora Female Adolescence in May Sinclair’s Mary Olivier and the Construction of a Dialectic Between Victorian and Modern (171–82)
VOLUME 2 (1988)
Feature Articles
Anne K. Mellor Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience: A Feminist Perspective (1–18)
VOLUME 3 (1989)
Feature Articles
Ashton Nichols Silencing the Other: The Discourse of Domination in Nineteenth-Century Exploration Narratives (1–22)
ESSAY REVIEW
Paul Holleran Gary F. Langer, The Coming of Age of Political Economy, 1815–1825; James Walvin, Victorian Values (65–75)
REVIEWS
Kevin Lewis Bernard Lightman, The Origins of Agnosticism: Victorian Unbelief and the Limits of Knowledge (77–79)
VOLUME 4 (1990)
Feature Articles
Anthony S. Wohl The 1880s: A New Generation? (1–22)
REVIEWS
William T. Slayton David A. Kent, ed., The Achievement of Christina Rossetti; Antony H. Harrison, Christina Rossetti in Context (137–43)
VOLUME 5 (1991)
Feature Articles
John Pfordresher D.G. Rossetti’s Venus: Astarte Syriaca (1–18)
REVIEWS
David S. Shields David Kunzle, The History of the Comic Strip: The Nineteenth Century (79–80)
VOLUME 6 (1992)
Feature Articles
Marian Wilson Mendelssohn’s Wife: Love, Art, and Romantic Biography (1–18)
REVIEWS
Bonnie J. Robinson Linda Gertner Zatlin, Aubrey Beardsley and Victorian Sexual Politics (73–77)
VOLUME 7 (1993)
Feature Articles
Joseph A. Kestner The Representations of Armour and the Construction of Masculinity in Victorian Painting (1–28)
Exhibitions Review
Jadviga M. da Costa Nunes Reflections on a Bountiful Season for American Art (103–12)William Harnett (1848-1892) Retrospective; Just Gathered (still life paintings owned by Stuart
and Sue K. Feld); “Up River!”: The Hudson River School; Hudson River Landscapes; The American
Landscape: From Cole to Blakelock; American Painting from the Century Association; Adirondack State Park Centennial; Edward Mitchell Bannister
(1828–1901); Masterworks of American Impressionism from the Pfeil Collection
Reviews
Nancy Fix Anderson Neil J. Smelser, Social Paralysis and Social Change: British Working-Class Education in the Nineteenth Century (113–16)
VOLUME 8 (1994)
Feature Articles
Laura Otis Organic Memory: History, Bodies, and Texts in Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1–22)
Exhibitions Review
Jadviga M. da Costa Nunes The Other French Impressionists (105–18)Frédéric Bazille: Prophet of Impressionism; Alfred Sisley (1839–1899); The
Impressionist and the City: Pissarro’s Series Paintings
Reviews
John Reed James Buzard, The Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature, and the Ways to “Culture” 1800–1918 (119–21)
VOLUME 9 (1995)
Feature Articles
Laura Green “At Once Narrow and Promiscuous”: Emily Davies, George Eliot, and Middlemarch (1–30)
Exhibitions Review
Jadviga M. da Costa Nunes Exploring Less Charted Visual Terrains (99–126)The Golden Age of Danish Art; From Caspar David Friedrich to Ferdinand Hodler: A Romantic Tradition,
Nineteenth-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Oskar Reinhart Foundation, Winterthur; Along the
Royal Road: Berlin and Potsdam in KPM Porcelain and Painting, 1815–1848; Toil and Plenty: Images of
the Agricultural Landscape in England, 1780–1890; A Struggle for Fame: Victorian Women Artists and
Authors; Goya: Truth and Fantasy, the Small Paintings; Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams
Reviews
Peter A. Mailloux Robert Keily, Reverse Tradition: Postmodern Fictions and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (127–29)
VOLUME 10 (1996)
Feature Articles
Cyndy Hendershot The Animal Without: Masculinity and Imperialism in The Island of Dr. Moreau and “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” (1–32)
Exhibitions Review
Jadviga M. da Costa Nunes Impressionism Redux (111–33)Origins of Impressionism; Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven; Impressionism in Britain; James
McNeill Whistler; Prints of James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries; In Pursuit of the Butterfly:
Portraits of James McNeill Whistler; Whistler and Japan; Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art
from the Birmingham Collection, England; Thomas Cole: Landscape into History; Eakins and the
Photograph
Reviews
Barbara T. Cooper Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, Paris as Revolution: Writing the Nineteenth-Century City (135–36)
INDEX VOLUMES 1–10 (149–55)
VOLUME 11 (1997)
Feature Articles
Meredith Veldman Dutiful Daughter Versus All-Boy: Jesus, Gender, and the Secularization of Victorian Society (1–26)
Essay Reviews
Anthony Wohl Will the Real Benjamin Disraeli Please Stand Up? Or the Importance of Being Earnest (133–56)David Feldman, Englishmen and Jews: Social Relations, and Political Culture; Michael Ragussis,
Figures of Conversion: “The Jewish Question” and English National Identity; Jane Ridley, Young Disraeli:
1804–1846; Paul Smith, Disraeli: A Brief Life; Stanley Weintraub, Disraeli: A Biography
Alan Rauch Cultivating Literature: Science, Knowledge, Education, and Readers (159–70)Ann B. Shteir, Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora’s Daughters and Botany in England, 1760–1860;
Alan Richardson, Literature, Education, and Romanticism: Reading as Social Practice, 1780–1832
Exhibitions Review
Jadviga M. da Costa Nunes Grand Retrospectives (173–201)Winslow Homer; Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture; The Art of Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Beauty
Reconfigured; Pugin: A Gothic Passion; Edvard Munch and Harald Sohlberg: Landscapes of the Mind;
Toulouse-Lautrec; Cézanne
Electronic Resources Review
Ashton Nichols Electronic
Resources for Nineteenth-Century Studies: A Provisional Appraisal (203–14)
VOLUME 12 (1998)
Feature Articles
Kathleen Kendrick “The Things Down Stairs”: Containing Horror in the Nineteenth-Century Wax Museum (1–36)
Essay Reviews
Elizabeth Mansfield Facing Modernism (111–26)David Carrier, High Art: Charles Baudelaire and the Origins of Modern Painting; Bradford R. Collins, ed.,
Twelve Views of Manet’s Bar; Michael Fried, Manet’s Modernism; Alan Krell, Manet and the Painters of
Contemporary Life
John P. McCarthy Seen but Not Read: Archaeological Perspectives on the Lives and Deaths of Nineteenth-Century American Working People (127–34)Stephen A. Mrozowski, Grace H. Ziesing, and Mary C. Beaudry, Living on the Boott: Historical Archaeology
at the Boott Mills Boardinghouses, Lowell, Massachusetts; Leslie M. Rankin-Hill, A Biohistory of Nineteenth-Century
Afro-Americans: The Burial Remains of a Philadelphia Cemetery; Paul A. Shackel, Culture Change and the
New Technology: An Archaeology of the Early American Industrial Era
David Nash Stability in a Distracted Age? The Recent Historiography of the Victorian Monarchy (135–52)Richard Hough, Victoria and Albert; William Kuhn, Democratic Royalism: The Transformation of the British
Monarchy; Adrienne Munich, Queen Victoria’s Secrets; Jerold M. Packard, Farewell in Splendor: The Passing
of Queen Victoria and Her Age; D. M. Potts and W. T. W. Potts, Queen Victoria’s Gene: Haemophilia and the
Royal Family; James Vernon, ed., Re-reading the Constitution: New Narratives in the Political History of
England’s Long Nineteenth Century; Stanley Weintraub, Uncrowned King: The Life of Prince Albert;
Stanley Weintraub, Victoria; Richard Williams, The Contentious Crown: Public Discussion of the British
Monarchy in the Reign of Queen Victoria
Margaret D. Stetz New Women Writers and the Feminist Readers Who Love Them (153–63)Mildred Davis Harding, Air-Bird in the Water: The Life and Works of Pearl Craigie (John Oliver Hobbs);
Carolyn Christenson Nelson, British Women Fiction Writers of the 1890s; P. B. Harris, His Arms Are Full of
Broken Things
Exhibitions Review
Jadviga M. da Costa Nunes In Pursuit of Plein Air Pleasures (164–88)In the Light of Italy: Corot and Early Open-Air Painting; Corot; Impressionists on the Seine: A Celebration
of Renoir’s “Luncheon of the Boating Party”; Adolph Menzel (1815–1905): Between Romanticism and
Impressionism; The Victorians: British Painting 1837–1901; Rodin and Michelangelo: A Study in Artistic
Inspiration; The Peale Family: Creation of an American Legacy, 1770–1870
Electronic Resources Review
Phylis Floyd Electronic Resources for the Visual Arts (189–98)
VOLUME 13 (1999)
Feature Articles
Lori Loeb British Patent Medicines: “Injurious Rubbish”? (1–21)
Essay Reviews
Sarah Lea Burns Thomas Eakins Exposed (139–52)Doreen Bolger and Sarah Cash, eds., Thomas Eakins and the Swimming Picture; Helen A. Cooper, Thomas
Eakins: The Rowing Pictures; Kathleen A. Foster, Thomas Eakins Rediscovered: Charles Bregler’s Thomas
Eakins Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Rohan McWilliam The Licensed Stare: Melodrama and the Culture of Spectacle (153–76)Michael R. Booth and Joel H. Kaplan, eds., The Edwardian Theatre: Essays on Performance and Stage;
Jacky Bratton, Jim Cook, and Christine Gledhill, eds., Melodrama: Stage, Picture, Screen; Leo Charney and
Vanessa R. Schwartz, eds., Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life; Elaine Hadley, Melodramatic Tactics:
Theatricalized Dissent in the English Marketplace, 1800–1885; Michael Hays and Anastasia Nickolopoulou, eds., Melodrama: The Cultural Emergence of a Genre; Vanessa R. Schwartz, Spectacular Realities: Early
Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Paris
Thomas Prasch Rethinking Victorian Photography (177–94)Carol Armstrong, Scenes in a Library: Reading the Photograph in the Book, 1843–1875; Julian Cox, et al.,
In Focus: Julia Margaret Cameron, Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum; Jennifer Green-Lewis,
Faming the Victorians: Photography and the Culture of Realism; Violet Hamilton, Annals of My Glass House:
Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron; Michael Haworth-Booth, Photography, an Independent Art:
Photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum 1839–1996; Mark Haworth-Booth and Anne McCauley, The
Museum and the Photograph: Collecting Photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum 1853–1900;
Therese Mulligan, et al., For My Best Beloved Sister Mia: An Album of Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron;
Sylvia Wolf, et al., Julia Margaret Cameron’s Women
Lee Glazer Aestheticism in Anglo-American Culture (195–202)Mary Warner Blanchard, Oscar Wilde’s America: Counterculture in the Gilded Age; Linda Dowling, The
Vulgarization of Art: The Victorians and Aesthetic Democracy
Jonathan Rose The Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution (203–12)Erik Baark, Lightning Wires: The Telegraph and China’s Technological Modernization, 1860–1890; Alistair
Black, A New History of the English Public Library: Social and Intellectual Contexts, 1850–1914; C. A. Bayly,
Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780–1870; Peter Fritzsche,
Reading Berlin 1900; Louise McReynolds, The News under Russia’s Old Regime: The Development of a Mass
Circulation Press; Silvana Patriarca, Numbers and Nationhood: Writing Statistics in Nineteenth-Century Italy;
Abigail A. Van Slyck, Free To All: Carnegie Libraries and American Culture 1890–1920
VOLUME 14 (2000)
Feature Articles
Susie L. Steinbach The Melodramatic Contract: Breach of Promise and the Performance of Virtue (1–34)
Essay Reviews
Johanna M. Smith Victorian Embodiments (199–214)Alison Bashford, Purity and Pollution: Gender, Embodiment, and Victorian Medicine; Barbara T. Gates, Kindred
Nature: Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World; Laura Otis, Membranes: Metaphors of
Invasion in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Science, and Politics; James R. Ryan, Picturing Empire: Photography
and the Visualization of the British Empire; Alison Winter, Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain
Joyce Henri Robinson How Sweet It Was: Bidding Adieu to the Nineteenth Century (215–34)Sarah Burns, Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America; Michelle Facos, Nationalism
and the Nordic Imagination: Swedish Art of the 1890s; Carol Zemel, Van Gogh’s Progress: Utopia, Modernity,
and Late Nineteenth-Century Art
Exhibitions Review
Jadviga M. da Costa Nunes Inspired Eclectics (235–60)Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch; Gustave Moreau: Between Epic and Dream; Edward Burne-Jones:
Victorian Artist-Dreamer; John Singer Sargent
In Memoriam: Jerome Beaty (1924–2000) (261)
Volume 15 (2001)
Feature Articles
Suzanne Thurman The Seat of Sin, the Site of Salvation: The Shaker Body and the Nineteenth-Century American Imagination (1–18)
Forum: Jerome Hamilton Buckley’s The Victorian Temper and the Shaping of Victorian Studies
Edited by Margaret D. Stetz
Margaret D. Stetz Introduction (73–75)
Essay Review
Roberta Montemorra Marvin Verdi Scholarship at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century (89–97)Julian Budden, The Operas of Verdi; Julian Budden, Verdi; Markus Engelhardt, Verdi und Andere: “Un giorno di regno,” “Ernani,” “Attila,”
“Il corsaro,” in Mehrfachvertonungen; Knud Jürgensen, The Verdi Ballets; Roger Parker, “Arpa d’or dei fatidici vati”: The Verdian Patriotic
Chorus in the 1840s; Marco Beghelli, Atti performativi nella dramaturgia; Dino Rizzo, Verdi filarmonico e maestro dei Filarmonici bussetani; Roberta Montemorra Marvin, Verdi the Student—Verdi the Teacher; Olga Jesurum, Le scenografie verdiane tra due secoli: “Ieri e oggi”; Damien Colas, Verdi et le rhythme de la langue française des Vêpres siciliennes à
Don Carlos; Martin Chusid, ed., Verdi’s Middle Period (1849–1859): Source Studies, Analysis, and Performance Practice; Pierluigi Petrobelli and Fabrizio Della Seta, eds., La realizzazione scenica dello spettacolo verdiano;
Roger Parker, Leonora’s Last Act: Essays in Verdian Discourse; Studi verdiani; Verdi Newsletter; Philip Gossett, gen. ed., The Works of Giuseppe Verdi; Giuseppe Verdi: Gli autografi del Museo Teatrale alla Scala;
Fabrizio Della Seta, ed., Giuseppe Verdi, “La traviata”: Autograph Sketches and Drafts; Carteggio Verdi-Ricordi; Carteggio Verdi-Boito; Hans Busch, Verdi’s “Aida”: The History of an Opera in Letters and Documents; Hans Busch, Verdi’s “Otello” and “Simon Boccanegra” (Revised Version) in Letters and Documents; Hans Busch, Verdi’s “Falstaff” in Letters and Contemporary Reviews; Linda and Michael Hutcheon, Opera: Desire, Disease,
Death; Linda and Michael Hutcheon, Bodily Charm: Living Opera; Peter Brooks, The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode
of Excess; Gilles de Van, Verdi’s Theater: Creating Drama through Music
Exhibitions Reviews
Jadviga M. da Costa Nunes 1900 and Looking Back (99–120)Daumier; Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception; Overcoming All Obstacles: The Women of the
Académie Julian; 1900: Art at the Crossroads
Cynthia J. Gamble Disproving Ruskin’s Advice: “Don’t Go to Exhibitions” (121–30)Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites
Electronic Resources Reviews: Future Directions for Scholarly Electronic Resources in Nineteenth-Century Studies
Edited by Lawrence Woof
Lawrence Woof Text, Music, and Image as Digital Artifact (131–33)
Volume 16 (2002)
Feature Articles
Gina Marlene Dorré Handling the “Iron Horse”: Dickens, Travel, and Derailed Masculinity in The Pickwick Papers (1–19)
Essay Reviews
Tracy C. Davis Theater, but Wherefore Politics? (93–102)Betsy Bolton, Women, Nationalism, and the Romantic Stage: Theatre and Politics in Britain; Catherine
Burroughs, ed., Women in British Romantic Theatre: Drama, Performance, and Society, 1790–1840; Jane
Moody, Illegitimate Theatre in London, 1770–1840; George Taylor, The French Revolution and the London
Stage, 1789–1805
Elizabeth Winston Remapping and Reframing the Victorian Novel (103–13)Deirdre David, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel; Robert Mighall, A Geography of
Victorian Gothic Fiction: Mapping History’s Nightmares; Nancy Armstrong, Fiction in the Age of Photography:
The Legacy of British Realism; Marlene Tromp, The Private Rod: Marital Violence, Sensation, and the Law in
Victorian Britain
Eleanor Courtemanche Bread, Roses, and Reason; or, Can Victorian Cultural Criticism Reform Political Economy? (115–25)Regenia Gagnier, The Insatiability of Human Wants: Economics and Aesthetics in Market Society; Mary
Poovey, A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society;
Lori Merish, Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American
Literature; Cathy Shuman, Pedagogical Economies: The Examination and the Victorian Literary Man;
Victoria E. Thompson, The Virtuous Marketplace: Women and Men, Money and Politics in Paris, 1830–1870;
J.W. Burrow, The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848–1914
Susan P. Casteras Forging Identities in Nineteenth-Century Art (127–36)Christopher Wood, Victorian Painting; Paul Barlow and Colin Trodd, eds., Governing Cultures: Art Institutions
in Victorian London; John Marriott, Masaie Matsumara, and Judith Walkowitz, eds., Unknown London: Early
Modernist Visions of the Metropolis, 1815–45; Lynda Nead, Victorian Babylon: People, Streets, and Images in
Nineteenth-Century London; Susan Sidlauskas, Body, Place, and Self in Nineteenth-Century Painting; Martin
A. Berger, Man Made: Thomas Eakins and the Construction of Gilded Age Manhood
Suzanne M. Donahue Making Faces: Changing Modes of Representation in Nineteenth-Century Portraiture (137–48)Heather McPherson, The Modern Portrait in Nineteenth-Century France; Morton D. Paley, Portraits of Coleridge; Carrie Rebora Barratt, Queen Victoria and Thomas Sully; Liana De Girolami Cheney, Alicia Craig Faxon, and
Kathleen Lucey Russo, Self-Portraits by Women Painters
Julie English Early Putting Women in Their (Rightful) Place (149–55)Barbara Onslow, Women of the Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain; Paula Gillett, Musical Women in England,
1870–1914: “Encroaching on All Man’s Privileges”; Talia Schaffer, The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary
Culture in Late-Victorian England; Angelique Richardson and Chris Willis, eds., The New Woman in Fiction
and in Fact: Fin-de-Siècle Feminisms; Carolyn Christenson Nelson, ed., A New Woman Reader: Fiction, Articles,
and Drama in the 1890’s
Exhibitions Review
Jadviga M. da Costa Nunes Visionaries, Realists, and Reformers: Exploring the Creative Impulse in Nineteenth-Century Art (157–79)William Blake; Impression: Painting Quickly in France, 1860–1890; Art Nouveau, 1890–1914
Electronic Resources Reviews: Digitization and the Museum: New Developments
Edited by Lawrence Woof
Stephen Hebron Putting Museum Collections On-Line: A Case Study (181–84)
Volume 17 (2003)
Special Section:
Religion and Culture
Edited by Elisabeth Jay
Elisabeth Jay Introduction: The Return of the Culturally Repressed—Religion and Women (1–12)
Feature Articles
Silvana Colella Monetary Patriotism: The Letters of Malachi Malagrowther, The Antiquary, and the Currency Question (53–71)
Essay Reviews
Chris Walsh The Shaping of Religious Identity in the Nineteenth Century: Some Recent Perspectives (133–36)John Corrigan, Business of the Heart: Religion and Emotion in the Nineteenth Century; Cynthia Scheinberg, Women’s Poetry and Religion in Victorian England: Jewish Identity and Christian Culture; Andrew Bradstock, Sean Gill, Anne Hogan, and Sue Morgan, eds., Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture
Kathy Alexis Psomiades Scientific Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century (137–45)Barbara M. Benedict, Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry; “Cluster on Science in the Nineteenth Century,” PMLA (May 2002); Christopher Herbert, Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery; Simon J. Knell, The Culture of English Geology, 1815–1851: A Science Revealed through Its Collecting; Roy MacLeod, ed., Nature and Empire: Science and the Colonial Enterprise; Alan Rauch, Useful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect; James A. Secord, Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of “Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation”; James E. Strick, Sparks of Life: Darwinism and the Victorian Debates over Spontaneous Generation
Christine Roth De-Ciphering the Victorian Child: Childhood, Gender, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Studies (147–53)Laura C. Berry, The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel; Catherine Robson, Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman; Valerie Sanders, The Brother-Sister Culture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: From Austen to Woolf; Valerie Sanders, ed., Records of Girlhood: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Childhoods; Don Randall, Kipling’s Imperial Boy: Adolescence and Cultural Hybridity; Wendy S. Jacobson, ed., Dickens and the Children of Empire
Exhibitions Review
Jadviga M. da Costa Nunes and Suzanne Donahue The World as They Saw It: Embracing, Escaping, Embellishing (155–81)Thomas Eakins: American Realist; Exposed: The Victorian Nude; Signac, 1863–1935
Volume 18 (2004)
Feature Articles
Dennis Denisoff and Marlene Tromp Introduction: Men’s Needs, Women’s Desires, and the Arts (1–8)
Essay Reviews
Nancy Fix Anderson Threading Lives: Work, Art, and Pleasure in the Worlds of Nineteenth-Century Women (163–69)Lynn M. Alexander, Women, Work, and Representation: Needlewomen in Victorian Art and Literature; Amelia Peck and Carol Irish, Candace Wheeler: The Art and Enterprise of American Design, 1875–1900; Patricia Cox Crews, ed., A Flowering of Quilts; Catriona M. Parratt, “More Than Mere Amusement”: Working-Class Women’s Leisure in England, 1750–1914
Sharon Aronofsky Weltman Women, Creativity, and the Künstlerroman (171–73)Linda M. Lewis, Germaine de Staël, George Sand, and the Victorian Woman Artist; Evy Varsamopoulou, The Poetics of the “Künstlerinroman” and the Aesthetics of the Sublime; Carol Hanbery MacKay, Creative Negativity: Four Victorian Exemplars of the Female Quest
Carole Kruger Border Crossings: Recent Scholarship on French Literature and the Visual Arts (175–81)Alexandra K. Wettlaufer, Pen vs. Paintbrush: Girodet, Balzac, and the Myth of Pygmalion in Postrevolutionary France; Marie Lathers, Bodies of Art: French Literary Realism and the Artist’s Model; Maria Rubins, Crossroad of Arts, Crossroad of Cultures: Ecphrasis in Russian and French Poetry
Lee Orr Writing the Muse: George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Music (183–96)Delia da Sousa Correa, George Eliot, Music, and Victorian Culture; Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Angelic Airs, Subversive Songs: Music as Social Discourse in the Victorian Novel; John Hughes, “Ecstatic Sound”: Music and Individuality in the Work of Thomas Hardy
Suzanne M. Donahue Modern Men: Inventing/Resisting the Modern in Nineteenth-Century French Visual Culture (197–205)Nina Maria Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Cézanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture; Arden Reed, Manet, Flaubert, and the Emergence of Modernism: Blurring Genre Boundaries; Carol Armstrong, Manet Manette; Jennifer R. Gross, ed. Edgar Degas: Defining the Modernist Edge; Gabriel P. Weisberg, Against the Modern: Dagnan-Bouveret and the Transformation of the Academic Tradition
Exhibitions Review
Jadviga M. da Costa Nunes Revolution/Evolution: How the French Became Modern (207–36)Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism; Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting
Volume 19 (2005)
Feature Articles
Christopher R. Clason “O Appetit, dein Name ist Kater!” Food, Instinct, and Chaos in E. T. A. Hoffman’s Kater Murr (1–16)
Essay Reviews
Christine Roth Food for Thought (135–38)Timothy Morton, ed., Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite: Eating Romanticism; Denise Gigante, Taste: A Literary History
Regina Hewitt Reconciling Opposites: Nature and Culture, Animals and Humans, in Romantic-Era Ecocriticism (139–49)Onno Oerlemans, Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature; David Perkins, Romanticism and Animal Rights; Christine Kenyon-Jones, Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic Period Writing
Phylis Floyd Orientalism Redux (151–58)Joan DelPlato, Multiple Wives, Multiple Pleasures: Representing the Harem, 1800–1875; Madeleine Dobie, Foreign Bodies: Gender, Language, and Culture in French Orientalism; Roger Benjamin, Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880–1930; Edward Ziter, The Orient on the Victorian Stage; Frederick N. Bohrer, Orientalism and Visual Culture: Imagining Mesopotamia in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Dennis Denisoff Theater, Burlesque, and Performance in the Nineteenth Century (159–63)Margaret D. Stetz, Gender and the London Theatre, 1880–1920; Barry J. Faulk, Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture; Richard W. Schoch, Not Shakespeare: Bardolatry and Burlesque in the Nineteenth Century; Kerry Powell, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre; Lynn M. Voskuil, Acting Naturally: Victorian Theatricality and Authenticity; Penny Gay, Jane Austen and the Theatre
Janice Simon The Natural Painter: Art, Science, and Spirit in Nineteenth-Century Landscape Painting (165–72)James Hamilton, ed., Fields of Influence: Conjunctions of Artists and Scientists, 1815–1860; Carl Gustav Carus, Nine Letters on Landscape Painting, Written in the Years, 1815–1824, translated by David Britt, with an introduction by Oskar Bätschmann; Rebecca Bedell, The Anatomy of Nature: Geology and American Landscape Painting, 1825–1875
Exhibition Review
Jadviga M. da Costa Nunes By the Sea, by the Beautiful Sea: Turner and Venice (173–85)Turner and Venice
Volume 20
Feature Articles
Claudia Nelson The “Child-Woman” and the Victorian Novel (1–12)
Essay Reviews
Laureen Tedesco Models of Girlhood (183–89)Sarah Bilston, The Awkward Age in Women’s Popular Fiction, 1850–1900: Girls and the Transition to Womanhood; Rebecca Rogers, From the Salon to the Schoolroom: Educating Bourgeois Girls in Nineteenth-Century France; Alison Booth, How to Make It as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present
Hsuan Hsu “Presciently Postmodern” Geographies: Rescaling American Literary History (191–99)Amy Kaplan, The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture; Stephanie LeMenager, Manifest and Other Destinies: Territorial Fictions of the Nineteenth-Century United States; Anna Brickhouse, Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth Century Public Sphere; Helena Michie and Ronald R. Thomas, eds., Nineteenth-Century Geographies: The Transformation of Space from the Victorian Age to the American Century; David Kazanjian, The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America
Jeanne Dubino Travel and Identity (201–209)Marjorie Morgan, National Identities and Travel in Victorian Britain; Julie F. Codell, Imperial Co-Histories: National Identities and the British and Colonial Press; Mary Roussou-Sinclair, Victorian Travellers in Cyprus: A Garden of Their Own; Anna Johnston, Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800–1860; Cheryl J. Fish, Black and White Women’s Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations; Nigel Leask, Curiousity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing, 1770–1840: “From an Antique Land”; Rita C. Severis, ed., The Diaries of Lorenzo Warriner Pease, 1834–1839: An American Missionary in Cyprus and His Travels in the Holy Land, Asia Minor, and Greece; John Hayman, ed., Sir Richard Burton’s Travels in Arabia and Africa: Four Lectures from a Huntington Library Manuscript; Barbara Harlow and Mia Carter, eds., Archives of Empire. Vol. 1, From the East India Company to the Suez Canal. Vol. 2, The Scramble for Africa