...G. B. TENNYSON ALLAN DALE PETER. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1977. 295 pp. $13.50. Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 G. B. TENNYSON 3 15 The Victorian Critic and the Idea of History: Carlyle, Arnold...

... since Geoffrey Tillotson, the distinguished English scholar, died in the midst of his work on the Victorian volume of the Oxford History of English Literature. The partial manuscripts in the hands of Ox- ford University Press at the time have here been edited by Tillotson’s equally...

... about it ; some less ambitious- ly professional and scientific approach might work better. JAMES T. HILLHOUSE University of Minnesota “The Athemum”-A Mirror of Victorian Culture. By LESLTEA. MARCHAND.Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina...

... “Lohenstein’s Protagonists,”4 has done himself a disservice with this book. DAVIDBRONSEN Washington University Their Proper Sphere: A Study of the Bronte Sisters as Early-Victorian Female Novelists. By INCA-STINAEWBANK. Cambridge: Harvard...

... that have been current. Perhaps the earliest popular definition of the Victorian frame of mind was the phrase that Chesterton supplied in his little book in 1912‘the age of compromise.” Houghton reveals that it was much more an age of tension and dilemma, often of intolerant-nd, above all...

.... The discussion of these problems in relation to poetic form is interesting and often vital. s. K. WENTHER University of Washington Charles Reude: A Study in Victorian Authorshib. By WAYNEBURNS. New York: Bookman Associates, 1961. Pp. 360...

...Kingsbury Badger Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 CHRISTIANITY AND VICTORIAN RELIGIOUS CONFESSIONS By KINGSBURYBADGER “On the 6th of October, 1845,” Ernest Renan tells us, in his Recol- lections...

... The Victorian Poets: A Guide to Research. Edited by FREDERICE. FAVERTY. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1956. Pp. 292. $5.00. Graduate students, particularly, will welcome this sequel to The Romantic Poets: A Review of Research, which also originated in the counsel of the Modern...

... of the Puritan metaphysic.” Diderik Roll-Hansen, a Norwegian scholar, has given in short space in this monograph one of the most penetrating and perceptive studies of a Victorian journal that has been produced in English. Viewing it against the background of the periodical history of the era...

... and Macready: A Chronicle of the Early Victorian Theatre. Edited by CHARLESH. SHATTUCK.Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1958. Pp. 278. $5.75. Ejrpertise 011 the plays of Bulwer-Lytton has never been common, but still it was generous of the editor of MLQ to overlook my ignorance and let...

...Charles LaPorte Victorian Interpretation. By Suzy Anger. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. xii + 207 pp. © 2008 by University of Washington 2008 Charles LaPorte is assistant professor of English at the University of Washington. His most recent article, “The Bard...

... The London Muse: Victorian Poelic Responses to the City. By WILLIAMB. THES- ING. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1982. xviii + 230 pp. $20.00. Of the unearthing of “traditions” and “themes” in the literature of earlier periods there is no end. To his credit, William Thesing in The London...

... MOODY University of Washington The Presence of the Present: T@ks of the Day in the Victorian Novel. By RICHARD D. &TICK. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1991. Viii + 854 pp. $45.00. How good to witness a celebration of mimesis, so theoretically incorrect. In response...

...Steve Dillon Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 The Archaeology of Victorian Literature Steve Dillon It could be argued, and in part will be, that the Victorian period is the on4 literary period. Foucault’s Archaeology of Knowledge so thor- oughly obliterates our...

...Andrew Elfenbein Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Byro&m and the Work of Homosed Performance in Early Victorian England Andrew Elfenbein ve Kosofsky Sedgwick has argued that “issues of modern homo/ heterosexual definition are structured...

... in progress includes a study of the literary culture of early-nineteenth-century Edinburgh. me Momtone, the Victorian Novel, and Imperialist Panic Ian Duncan Novel and Empire Wilkie Collins’s Moonstone (1868) is the sole mid-Victorian novel of the first rank that makes England’s...

...Steven Dillon Victorian Sappho . By Yopie Prins. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. 256 pp. $55.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.2-05Reviews.ak 5/26/00 5:16 PM Page 415 Reviews The Ruins of Allegory...

...Alan Fischler © 2001 University of Washington 2001 MLQ 62.1-03 Fischler 2/9/01 2:06 PM Page 43 Guano and Poetry: Payment for Playwriting in Victorian England Alan Fischler n 1857 Dion Boucicault scored a great success with The Poor...

...Steve Dillon © 2001 University of Washington 2001 MLQ 62.2-01 Dillon 4/24/01 10:39 AM Page 83 Victorian Interior Steve Dillon London, Capital of the Nineteenth Century Paris Houses very tall and white...

.... His essay “Of Monuments and Moments: Spacetime in Nineteenth-Century Poetry” appeared in the September 1997 issue of MLQ . His website, For Better for Verse, offers an interactive scansion tutorial to all comers: prosody.lib.virginia.edu . Victorian Poetry, Europe, and the Challenge...