Volume 20 (2006)
Feature Articles
Claudia Nelson The “Child-Woman” and the Victorian Novel (1–12)
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)
Kevin A. Morrison The Politics of Pain in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley
Andrew Burkett Victorian Tocopobia: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh
Anu King Dudley The Role of the Obstetrical Supporter in the Medicalization of Childbirth
Dan Bivona Poverty, Pity, and Community: Urban Poverty and the Threat to Social Bonds in the Victorian Age
Wendy Katz Fancy Painting, Street Children, and the Fast Men of the Pavé
Christine L. Krueger Vox Populi, Vox Vulagri: Pro Se Representation in Victorian Popular Culture
Shawn Malley Theatre/Archaeology: Performing Material History in Charles Kean’s Sardanapalus
Marian Wilson Kimber Mr. Riddle’s Readings: Music and Elocution in Nineteenth-Century Concert Life
James A. Davis All Sounds of Life and Rage: Musical Imagery in the Writings of Civil War Soldiers
Jean Gregorek The Odd Man: Masculinity and the Modern Intellectual in George Gissing’s Born in Exile
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
Volume 21 (forthcoming, 2007)
Feature Articles
Jane Stabler Jane Austen and Caricature