Recently added articles from Victorian Newsletter:
Greetings from the editor.(Slave trade)(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2008; Logan, Deborah ... The Victorian Newsletter #114 introduces a number of innovative features, from the articles' unusual topics to the addition of book reviews. Fin de siecle Peking (Beijing) provides the setting for Jacqueline Young's "Rewriting the Boxer Rebellion: The Imaginative Creations of Putnam Weale, ...
Rewriting the boxer rebellion: the imaginative creations of Putnam Weale, Edmund Backhouse and Charles Welsh Mason.
Sep 22, 2008; Young, Jacqueline ... It may be that he provides some new historical insights, while [ ...] demonstrating the lengths to which perfidy, impudence, immorality, and poltroonery may be stretched in the enforced pursuit of fame, riches, and above all, survival.--George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman and the Dragon ...
Hiram Power's Greek Slave.(Special Section: Abolition of Slave-Trade 1808-2008)(Poem)
Sep 22, 2008; Browning, Elizabeth Barrett ... <Pre> Hiram Power's Greek Slave They say I deal beauty cannot enter The house of anguish. On the threshold stands An alien Image with enshackled hands, Called the Greek Slave! as if the artist meant her (That passionless perfection which he lent her, Shadowed not ...
Alien image, ideal beauty: the orientalist vision of American Slavery in Hiram Power's The Greek Slave.
Sep 22, 2008; Hackenberg, Sara ... In June 1845, a neoclassical marble statue depicting a nude woman with chained hands was publicly displayed, to great acclaim, in Graves' Pall Mall print-shop, London. Six years later, the sculpture, titled The Greek Slave, was given a place of honor in the American Rooms of the Great ...
Sight, sound, and silence: representations of the slave body in Barrett Browning, Hawkshaws, and Douglass.
Sep 22, 2008; Bark, Debbie ... Enslavement is literally--and literarily--written on the slave body. Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century anti-slavery propaganda and abolitionist tracts made their case for abolition through descriptions of the brutal physicality and inhumane conditions of the Middle Passage ....
Charlotte Bronte's "Pain Pressed" Pilgrimage and its Critical Reception.
Sep 22, 2008; Banerjee, Jacqueline ... Recent biographers have overturned the way we regard the Brontes, noting that Haworth was a busy, lively town, well-supplied with social and material amenities. Despite the early loss of their mother and two eldest siblings, the children led a more cheerful and stimulating life than ...
Norman H. MacKenzie, Excursions in Hopkins.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; Harmon, William ... Norman H. MacKenzie, Excursions in Hopkins (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph's UP, 2008), pp. x + 393, $37 cb; Cary H. Plotkin, Soundings: Essays in Memory of Norman Hugh MacKenzie, 1915-2004 (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph's UP, 2007), pp. xxi + 194, $37 cb; James I. Wimsatt, Hopkins' s Poetics of ...
Antonio Melechi, Servants of the Supernatural: The Night Side of Victorian Nature.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; Good, Joseph ... Antonio Melechi, Servants of the Supernatural: The Night Side of Victorian Nature. London: William Heinemann, 2008, pp. xii + 290, 20.00 [pounds sterling]. Servants of the Supernatural is the latest book by British historian Antonio Melechi, whose first book, The Fugitive Mind, ...
Books received.(Bibliography)
Sep 22, 2008 ... Baskerville, Peter. A Silent Revolution? Gender and Wealth in English Canada 1860-1930. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's UP, 2008. Baskerville's book "explores how urban women managed wealth in the period from 1860 to 1930--a time when they were thought to have little ...
Announcements.
Sep 22, 2008 ... A note on recent George Gissing Scholarship: The editor of The Victorian Newsletter, on behalf of Professor Andrew Radford, author of "Unmanned by Marriage and the Metropolis in Gidding's The Whirlpool," published in The Victorian Newsletter #110, Fall 2006, wishes to ...
