...Andrea Henderson Ultimately, then, this book not only marks points of connection between realist fiction and mathematical probability but shows that the Victorian novel actually developed “in tandem with” the hard sciences (166). Each spoke to the other: “The referential indistinction...

...Stuart Sillars [email protected] The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare: Bardology in the Nineteenth Century . By Charles LaPorte . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2021 . xii + 213 pp. Copyright © 2022 by University of Washington 2022 Given the upsurge...

...Timothy Larsen Abstract This article explores the current state of biblical and theological literacy in the discipline of Victorian studies. It observes the ordinarily strong, careful, and impressive work done in recent decades, especially since some scholars have become interested in a postsecular...

...Winter Jade Werner; Mimi Winick Abstract Recent developments in the field of Victorian studies include its increasingly “global” or “transnational” scope as well as its “religious turn,” with a proliferation of scholarship on religion from Christian sects to new religious movements...

...Carolyn Betensky [email protected] Vagrancy in the Victorian Age: Representing the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture . By Alistair Robinson . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2022 . xi + 254 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington...

..., Notework is an engaging reimagining of the Victorian information landscape and an important reconsideration of how literary studies treats ephemera in the nineteenth century and beyond. Indeed, while Notework ’s primary case studies are the writer’s notebooks of the nineteenth century, Reader’s methods...

...Zarena Aslami [email protected] Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction . By Schaffer Talia . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2021 . xvii + 274 pp. Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 In the early phases of the pandemic...

...Elisha Cohn References Coombs David Sweeney . 2019 . Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science . Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press . Ward Megan . 2018 . Seeming Human: Artificial Intelligence and Victorian Realist Character . Columbus...

.... MATTHEWROWLI NSON Dartmoulh College Affairs of the Hearth: Victorian Poetry and Domestic Narrative. By ROD EDMOND. London and New York: Routledge, 1988. ix + 262 pp. $39.00. It has long been the practice of social historians to advert to literary texts to illustrate or indeed to “prove...

... University of J I/idingt on Victorian Prelude: a History of English Manners, 1770-1830. Ey Maurice J. Quinlan. New York: Columbia Press, 1941. Pp. 301. $3.00. Not long ago a writer in the TLS used Professor John W. Dodds’ Thackeray: a Critical Portrait as the occasion for one...

... 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...

....” Carlyle’s calls to duty, Tractarian reserve, Sydney Carton’s language of self-sacrifice, and Paterian “secrets” are all seen as complex “strategies” and “logics” that center ultimately on the anxious site of Victorian masculinity. One of Adams’s central tasks is to show that tradi- tional...

...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...

...Eleni Coundouriotis The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic: Realism, Sovereignty, and Transnational Experience . By Goodlad Lauren M. E. . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 . 353 pp. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 Resisting recent inclinations toward...