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Acheraïou, Amar . "Colonial Encounters
and Cultural Contests: Confrontation of Orientalist and Occidentalist
Discourses in 'Karain: A Memory'".
Conradiana. 2007 (39/2/Sum) 153-167.
"Conrad in this tale espouses an aristocratic vision of colonialism
that sets the European colonizing nations in a strict hierarchical order."
Albano, Giuseppe . "Kipling's Pastoral
(A)Version". Kipling Journal. 2007 (81/322/Jun) 10-20.
"Kipling's . . . self-immersion in soldiers' 'canteen talk' . . .
gave him particular insight into the ways soldiers talked, drank, and
thought."
Allen, Emily . "A Shock to the System:
'Richard Feverel' and the Actress in the House". Victorian Literature
and Culture [Refereed]. 2007 (35/1/Mar) 81-101.
"The fear that animates 'Richard Feverel' is the fear of the promiscuous
woman. . .not only because she is sexually indiscriminate, but also because
her very character is. . .diverse."
Amir, Zubair S . "So Delightful a Plot':
Lies, Gossip, and the Narration of Social Advancement in 'The Eustace
Diamonds'". Victorian Literature and Culture. 2008 (36/1/Mar)
187-204.
"Trollope's assignment of sociocultural agency to such traditionally
marginalized . . . forms of discourse ultimately. . .expos[es] the limits
of nineteenth-century realism's capacity to. . .represent plots of upward
mobility."
Archibald, Diana C . "Recent Dickens Studies-2005".
Dickens Studies Annual. 2007 (38) 143-203.
"This review essay examines over 100 books and articles published
in 2005."
Ayers, Roger . "Kipling's Pastoral (a)Version".
Kipling Journal. 2007 (81/324/Dec) 62-63.
An editorial note on Kipling's early "Poem, 'The Shut-Eye Sentry'
as 'an intoxicated officer on a sentry duty'."
Banham, Christopher . "England and America
Against the World': Empire and the USA in Edwin J. Brett's 'Boys of England',
1866-1899". Victorian Periodicals Review [Refereed]. 2007
(40/2/Sum) 151-171.
"'Boys of England', prompted by the misgivings of its working-class
readership, was subtly unsupportive, and sometimes even critical, of British
imperial policy."
Barr, Alan P . "Mourning Becomes David:
Loss and the Victorian Restoration of Young Copperfield". Dickens
Quarterly [Refereed]. 2007 (24/2/Jun) 63-77.
"The determining, overarching loss that David experiences and mourns
is the world of innocence, a loss he confronts repeatedly and that is
periodically refracted in other figures."
Barr, Alan P . "Matters of Class and the
Middle-Class Artist in 'David Copperfield'". Dickens Studies Annual.
2007 (38) 55-67.
"David's encounters with the diverse British classes . . . involve
a substantial criticism of . . . recognized middle-class virtues."
Barton, Anna Jane . "Nursery Poetics: An
Examination of Lyric Representations of the Child in Tennyson's 'The Princess'".
Victorian Literature and Culture [Refereed]. 2007 (35/2/Sep) 489-500.
"The story of the child in 'The Princess' is laden with aesthetic,
cultural and professional anxiety that not only stimulates its composition
but also creates a desire to destroy, hide or lose that stimulus."
Beaumont, Matthew . "A Little Political
World of My Own': The New Woman, the New Life, and 'New Amazonia'".
Victorian Literature and Culture [Refereed]. 2007 (35/1/Mar)
215-232.
"Elizabeth Corbett's 'New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future'. .
.exemplifies. . . .the isolation of the middle-class feminist forced.
. .into a reliance on imaginary experience."
Bedford, Kristina . "Patrick Bronte's Lost
Landlords". Bronte Studies [Refereed]. 2008 (33/1/Mar)
54-57.
On the Bedford family, with whom Patrick Bronte lived at Thornbush (Lousy
Thorn) Farm from 1811-1812.
Ben-Yishai, Ayelet . "The Fact of a Rumor:
Anthony Trollope's 'The Eustace Diamonds'". Nineteenth-Century
Literature [Refereed]. 2007 (62/1/June) 88-120 .
"Close scrutiny of Anthony Trollope's The Eustace Diamonds. . . reveals
several different processes of fact-making: legal ones as well as nonlegal
communal endeavors such as rumor, gossip, and the regulation of propriety."
Ben-Yishai, Ayelet . "The Fact of a Rumor:
Anthony Trollope's 'The Eustace Diamonds'". Nineteenth-Century
Literature [Refereed]. 2007 (61/2/Jun) 88-120.
"The realist novel's reflection on its own epistemological conventions
is dramatized with particular force in 'The Eustace Diamonds'."
Bertman, Stephen . "Dante's Role in the
Genesis of Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol'". Dickens Quarterly
[Refereed]. 2007 (24/3/Sep) 167-175.
"Deliberately dedicated to religious themes, both stories encourage
us to rise above selfishness in order that we may lead a Christian life
and thereby attain personal salvation."
Bezrucka, Yvonne . "The Well-Beloved':
Thomas Hardy's Manifesto of 'Regional Aesthetics'". Victorian
Literature and Culture [Refereed]. 2008 (36/1/Mar) 227-245.
"The novel dramatizes and revives a conflict. . .between what [Hardy]
called 'beauty of the accepted kind' and its opponent and counterpoint,
'sublimity'."
Bock, Martin . "The Power of Suggestion:
Conrad, Professor Grasset, and French Medical Occultism". Conradiana.
2007 (39/2/Sum) 97-112.
On the influence of Joseph Grasset, French physician, on Conrad's later
novels including 'The Secret Agent'.
Boes, Tobias . "Beyond the Bildungsroman:
Character Development and Communal Legitimation in the Early Fiction of
Joseph Conrad". Conradiana. 2007 (39/2/Sum) 113-134.
Compares the Bildungsroman model of "mediat[ion] between the individual
and his community" to 'Lord Jim' and 'The Nigger of the 'Narcissus''."
Bolus-Reichert, Christine . "Aestheticism
in the Late Romances of William Morris". English Literature in
Transition [Refereed]. 2007 (50/1) 73-95.
"Morris adopts the romance form not in order to escape from the world,
but rather to reform it from within an ethos of absolute idealism."
Brantlinger, Patrick . "Kipling's 'The
White Man's Burden' and Its Afterlives". English Literature in
Transition [Refereed]. 2007 (50/2) 172-191.
"'The White Man's Burden' . . . has served as a lightning rod for
both the supporters and the opponents of imperialism, as well as of racism
and white supremacy."
Buckland, Adelene . "The Poetry of Science':
Charles Dickens, Geology, and Visual and Material Culture in Victorian
London". Victorian Literature and Culture [Refereed]. 2007
(35/2/Sep) 679-694.
"Dickens seeks objective, scientific, and accurate observation of
the natural world, but equally attempts to retain the pleasures of superstition
and spectacle through a poetic vision of geological Science."
Burgoyne, Mary, ed & comp . "Conrad
Among the Anarchists: Documents on Martial Bourdin and the Greenwich Bombing".
Conradian. 2007 (32/1/Spr) 147-185.
The bombing of the Royal Greenwich Observatory by Bourdin Martial in 1894.
Butterworth, Robert D . "If This Be All'
and the Poetry of Statement". Bronte Studies [Refereed]. 2007
(32/Pt.2/Jul) 125-131.
In her poetry, "Anne [Bronte] comes to portray herself as someone
who feels she has a lot to offer the world but is denied the opportunity
to do so."
Byrne, Katherine . "Consuming the Family
Economy: Tuberculosis and Capitalism in Charles Dickens' 'Dombey and Son'".
Nineteenth-Century Contexts [Refereed]. 2007 (29/1/Mar) 1-16.
"Consumption has a complicated and important relationship with the
world of business. . . .not only a symbol of the destructive power of
capitalism but also a means of resisting and disrupting its progress."
Castillo, Larisa T . "Natural Authority
in Charles Dickens' 'Martin Chuzzlewit' and the Copyright Act of 1842".
Nineteenth-Century Literature. 2008 (62/4/Mar) 435-464.
"In accounting for the paradoxical logic of natural right . . . 'Martin
Chuzzlewit''s narrator offers the most nuanced account of the problems
of intellectual property that emerged in mid-nineteenth-century Britain."
Chavez, Julia M . "Wandering Readers and
the Pedagogical Potential of 'Temple Bar'". Victorian Periodicals
Review [Refereed]. 2007 (40/2/Sum) 126-150.
In 'The Doctor's Wife', first published in the periodical Temple Bar,
"Braddon suggest[s] that novels . . . could be a valuable component
of a woman's self-education."
Colella, Silvana . "Gifts and Interests:
'John Halifax, Gentleman' and the Purity of Business". Victorian
Literature and Culture [Refereed]. 2007 (35/2/Sep) 397-415.
Dinah Mulock Craik's novel "'John Halifax' promotes a vision of disinterested
generosity as much as it affirms the benefits of self-interest."
Colon, Christine . "Beginning Where Charlotte
Left Off: Visions of Community in Anne Bronte's 'The Tenant of Wildfell
Hall'". Bronte Studies. 2008 (33/1/Mar) 20-29.
"Through the character of Helen and the influence she has on her
friends' lives, Anne proposes that society will only begin to change when
individuals break out of their isolation and begin to help their neighbours."
Corbett, Mary Jean . "Husband, Wife, and
Sister: Making and Remaking the Early Victorian Family". Victorian
Literature and Culture [Refereed]. 2007 (35/1/Mar) 1-19.
On "the long nineteenth-century debate about marriage with a dead
wife's sister" in Victorian history and fiction.
Cox, Arthur J . "The 'Drood' Remains Revisited:
The Sapsea Fragment". Dickens Quarterly [Refereed]. 2007 (24/2/Jun)
86-102.
"The Fragment is of interest not only for the circumstances of its
discovery but also for its curious character as a composition."
Daniel, Clay . "Jane Eyre's Paradise Lost".
Dickens Studies Annual. 2007 (38) 93-114.
"Jane's feminist myth locates the primary model of Christian love
in a marriage that is based on the notion of a redemptive woman."
Daniggelis, Paul Dean . "Deaths and Entrances".
Bronte Studies [Refereed]. 2007 (32/Pt.2/Jul) 138-144.
On Martha Graham's ballet adaptation of the Brontes' lives and writings,
"in particular Emily Bronte and. . .'Wuthering Heights'."
Deane, Bradley . "Imperial Barbarians:
Primitive Masculinity in Lost World Fiction". Victorian Literature
and Culture. 2008 (36/1/Mar) 205-225.
"In . . .l ost world romances, the representation of a fundamental
human barbarism is not an indication of pessimistic relativism but an
ideological bulwark of the New Imperialism's aggressive militarism."
DeWitt, Anne . "The Actual Sky is a Horror':
Thomas Hardy and the Arnoldian Conception of Science". Nineteenth-Century
Literature [Refereed]. 2007 (61/4/Mar) 479-506.
"In the course of writing 'Two on a Tower' Hardy realized that what
science does is reveal a universe remote from ordinary human experience."
DiSanto, Michael . "Matthew Arnold Under
Conrad's Eyes: 'Lord Jim' as Literary Criticism". Nineteenth-Century
Prose. 2007 (34/1-2/Spr-Fall) 237-255.
"'Lord Jim' is a reconsideration of Arnold's ideas; Conrad explores
the complexities of Arnold's thought through the art of his novel."
Drew, John M.L . "Pictures From the Daily
News: Context, Correspondents, and Correlations". Dickens Quarterly.
2007 (24/4/Dec) 230-246.
"This essay . . . examines Pictures from Italy as a series
of high-profile columns in The Daily News, a paper funded by commercial
backers . . . and by Dickens's publishers, Bradbury and Evans."
Duckett, Bob . "Where Did the Brontës
Get Their Books? [Brontë Conference Proceedings, 2006] ". Bronte
Studies. 2007 (32/3/Nov) 193-206p.
Discusses libraries other than the Keighley Mechanics' Institute from
which the Brontes may have borrowed books.
Edgren-Bindas, Tonya . "The Cloistering
of Lucy Snowe: An Element of Catholicism in Charlotte Brontë's 'Villette'
". Bronte Studies. 2007 (32/3/Nov) 253-259.
"Despite her overtly negative feelings toward Catholicism, Lucy figuratively
assumes the position of a nun, and. . .M. Paul. . .takes on many Christ-like
attributes."
Editor . "A Drawing of a Tiger's Head".
Kipling Journal. 2007 (81/324/Dec) 47-48.
A probable Kipling drawing of a tiger's head, which appeared in the Strand
Magazine, 1906.
Eltis, Sos . "The Fallen Woman in Edwardian
Feminist Drama: Suffrage, Sex and the Single Girl". English Literature
in Transition [Refereed]. 2007 (50/1) 27-49.
"Feminist playwrights sought to disrupt the narrative of women's
sexual subjection with the disturbing possibility of female agency."
Emberson, Ian Emberson, Catherine . "A
Missing Link: The Brontes, the Sowdens, and the Listers". Bronte
Studies [Refereed]. 2007 (32/Pt.2/Jul) 116-124.
On Samuel Sowden (1779-1863) and his sons Sutcliffe (1816-1861) and George
(1822-1899), friends of the Bronte and Lister families.
Emberson, Ian M. . "The Likeness of a Kingly
Crown': John Milton's Influence on Charlotte Brontë [Brontë
Conference Proceedings, 2006]". Bronte Studies. 2007 (32/3/Nov)
207-216p .
Discusses how Milton's use of "the exile and return myth" in
his poetry influenced Charlotte's fiction.
Engelhardt, Molly . "Seeds of Discontent:
Dancing Manias and Medical Inquiry in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
and Culture". Victorian Literature and Culture [Refereed].
2007 (35/1/Mar) 135-156.
"While the dance of death is a metaphor . . . Victorian writers of
fiction routinely slipped the dance component out of the metaphoric frame
to make dancing itself the expression. . .of death."
Epstein, Josh . "Neutral Physiognomy':
The Unreadable Faces of Middlemarch". Victorian Literature
and Culture. 2008 (36/1/Mar) 131-148.
"By consistently emphasizing the illegibility of faces and bodies,
Eliot deconstructs Lavater's premise that a readable face signifies an
essential and fixed set of traits."
Esty, Jed . "The Colonial Bildungsroman:
The Story of an African Farm and The Ghost of Goethe".
Victorian Studies. 2007 (49/3/Spr) 407-430.
"Schreiner?s novel, which is nothing if not 'sui generis', can profitably
be re-read in relation to the history of an as yet unmentioned genre,
the bildungsroman."
Farina, Jonathan V . "Characterizing
the Factory System: Factory Subjectivity in Household Words".
Victorian Literature and Culture [Refereed]. 2007 (35/1/Mar) 41-56.
"Martineau's articles suggest that like the novel the factory system
enriched the individuality of its operatives, consumers, and guests."
Federico, Annette . "Thomas Hardy's 'The
Well-Beloved': Love's Descent". English Literature in Transition
1880-1920. 2007 (50/3) 269-290.
"Both love and beauty in 'The Well-Beloved' are imagined as a means
to connection or unity with a nonrepresentable source of perfection outside
of the experiential world."
Felber, Lynette . "The Literary Portrait
as Centerfold: Fetishism in Mary Elizabeth 'Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret'".
Victorian Literature and Culture. 2007 (35/2/Sep) 471-488.
"Braddon's literary portrait . . . . reveals the secret of Lucy's
assumed identity to her first husband at the same time it also exposes
a more abstract image of the way women's identities were formulated by
Victorian society."
Ferguson, Christine . "Eugenics and the
Afterlife: Lombroso, Doyle, and the Spiritualist Purification of the Race".
Journal of Victorian Culture. 2007 (12/1/Spr) 64-85.
"Arthur Conan Doyle and Cesare Lombroso . . . were . . . long before
their public advocacy of spiritualism, two of the late century's most
important and visible interpreters of criminal deviance in their respective
domains of popular fiction and science."
Fiske, Shanyn . "Between Nowhere and Home:
The Odyssey of Lucy Snowe". Bronte Studies [Refereed]. 2007
(32/Pt.1/Mar) 11-20.
"The resonance of certain images and ideas in 'Villette' with passages
from Homer familiar to Charlotte goes some way to deciphering Lucy's as
well as her author's ambiguous motives."
Freeman, Nick . "Edward Thomas, Swinburne,
and Richard Jefferies: 'The Dead Oak Tree Bough'". English Literature
in Transition. 2008 (51/2) 164-183.
In his WWI-era poetry, "Thomas was . . . conducting a peace conference
with his Victorian forebears, and trying to prevent damaging cultural
fissures from widening even further."
Furneaux, Holly . "Charles Dickens's Families
of Choice: Elective Affinities, Sibling Substitution, and Homoerotic Desire".
Nineteenth Century Literature. 2007 (62/2/Sep) 153-192.
"Focusing on Dickens's early career ('The Pickwick Papers', 'Nicholas
Nickleby', 'Martin Chuzzlewi't), the essay suggests that explorations
of in-lawing reflect and contribute to wider contemporary literary and
biographical discourses about how Victorian families could accommodate
same-sex desire."
Garrison, Laurie . "The Seduction of Seeing
in M.E. Braddon's 'Eleanor's Victory': Visual Technology, Sexuality, and
the Evocative Publishing Context of 'Once a Week'". Victorian
Literature and Culture. 2008 (36/1/Mar) 111-130.
"'Eleanor's Victory' presents multiple forms of sexuality that are
achieved through the representation of visual stimulation among characters
in the novel."
Glancy, Ruth F . "Dickens's Christmas Books,
Christmas Stories, and Other Short Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography,
Supplement I: 1985-2006". Dickens Studies Annual. 2007 (38)
299-483.
"This supplement offers a reasonably complete survey of criticism
and studies published between 1985 and 2006."
Gomel, Elana . "Spirits in the Material
World': Spiritualism and Identity in the Fin de Siecle". Victorian
Literature and Culture [Refereed]. 2007 (35/1/Mar) 189-213.
On the phenomenon of automatic writing. Includes discussion of Arthur
Conan Doyle's reply to Hester Travers-Smith's 'Oscar Wilde: Messages From
Purgatory.'
Goodin, George . "The Uses and Usages of
Muddle (Part One)". Dickens Quarterly. 2007 (24/3/Sep) 135-144.
"Muddle is often accidental and involuntary, but just as often it
is chosen and serves as a rhetorical strategy."
Goodwin, George . "The Uses and Usages
of Muddle (Part Two)". Dickens Quarterly. 2007 (24/4/Dec)
201-210.
"Discusses the use of malapropism and examines instances that can
cause confusion among the readers of and the characters in the literature."
Examines 'Nicholas Nickleby', 'The Pickwick Papers', and 'Our Mutual Friend'.
Gray, F. Elizabeth . "Catholicism and Ideal
Womanhood in 'Fin-de-Siecle' Women's Poetry". English Literature
in Transition [Refereed]. 2007 (50/1) 50-72.
"The Catholic Literary Reviva l. . . centered in literal and symbolic
ways on womanhood . . . . [and] challenges our assumptions about the role
of Christian religion within fin-de-siecle literature."
Gurfinkel, Helena . "The Intercourse Between
the Squire and His Son': The Father-Son Marriage Plot and the Creation
of the English Gentleman in Anthony Trollope's 'Doctor Thorne'".
Victorian Literature and Culture [Refereed]. 2007 (35/2/Sep) 451-469.
"Squire Gresham . . . and his son Frank . . . fit into the . . .
class-related definition of gentleness by virtue of their noble birth;
however, their position in the novel's socioeconomic and romantic exchanges
and their very characterization make them gentle in another sense as well."
Publishing iHamilton, Eamonn . "Rudyard
Kipling and n India". Kipling Journal. 2007 (81/322/Jun) 21-32.
Discusses Kipling's work as an assistant editor for the Civil and Military
Gazette and the publication of his earliest books.
Hannah, Daniel . "Under a Cloud': Silence,
Identity, and Interpretation in 'Lord Jim'". Conradiana. 2008
(40/1/Spr) 39-59.
"Conrad's interrogation of silence, identity, and interpretation
stresses both the instability and durability of the bonds between self
and other, between author and reader."
Herz, Judith Scherer . "Leonard Woolf's
'I': Reading the Autobiographies". English Literature in Transition
[Refereed]. 2007 (50/2) 158-171.
"To some degree autobiography inhabited Leonard Woolf's writing from
the very beginning . . . and one can argue . . . that the . . . indirect,
characterizes the five volumes of the "real" autobiography as
well."
Hoddinott, Alison . "Reading Books and
Looking at Pictures in the Novels of Charlotte Bronte". Bronte
Studies [Refereed]. 2007 (32/Pt.1/Mar) 1-10.
"[Charlotte Bronte's] characters are frequently placed morally or
temperamentally by reference to their taste in literature or art and the
ways in which it corresponds with or differs from her own."
Holt, Shari Hodges . "Dickens From a Postmodern
Perspective: Alfonso Cuaron's 'Great Expectations' for Generation X".
Dickens Studies Annual. 2007 (38) 69-92.
"Alfonso Cuaron's 1998 film 'Great Expectations' . . . demonstrates
the particular relevance of Dickens' Victorian narrative for postmodern
generations."
Hornback, Bert . "The
Book of Jasper". Dickens Quarterly [Refereed]. 2007 (24/2/Jun)
78-85.
"We should have been thinking about Jasper as 'The Mystery of Edwin
Drood's' first-person narrator all along. Doing so helps us to understand
the novel better."
Hughes, Linda . "A Club of Their Own: The
'Literary Ladies', New Women Writers, and Fin-de-Siecle Authorship".
Victorian Literature and Culture [Refereed]. 2007 (35/1/Mar) 233-260.
On "the founding of the Literary Ladies, a women writers' dining
club, in 1889 . . . . [and the] virulent response from male authors in
the Scots Observer. . .and in Punch."
Hughes, Linda K . "What the Wellesley Index
Left Out: Why Poetry Matters to Periodical Studies". Victorian
Periodicals Review [Refereed]. 2007 (40/2/Sum) 91-125.
On "the sheer extent of poems first published in Victorian periodicals
that are now deemed canonical", including works by Kipling, Thackeray,
Hardy, Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot.
Hunt, Aeron . "Open Accounts: Harriet Martineau
and the Problem of Privacy in Early Victorian Culture". Nineteenth-Century
Literature [Refereed]. 2007 (61/2/Jun) 1-28.
Deerbrook' can "be read as a struggle to reconcile the claims of
privacy with Martineau's intellectual, social, and political commitments
to free circulation."
Ivory, Yvonne . "Wilde's Renaissance: Poison,
Passion, and Personality". Victorian Literature and Culture
[Refereed]. 2007 (35/2/Sep) 517-536.
"Wilde's works of the late 1880s and early 1890s. . .illustrate the
centrality of ideas about Renaissance individualism to [his] rehabilitation
of same-sex desire."
John, Juliet . "A Body Without a Head':
The Idea of Mass Culture in Dickens's 'American Notes' (1842)". Journal
of Victorian Culture. 2007 (12/2/Aut) 173-202.
Dickens, probably missed the tension between commodity culture and popular
culture at his 'Boston dinner' (1842) speech in America. "He rightly
assumed that a statement of belief in a model of culture that was both
capitalist and communal would meet with approval in nineteenth-century
America."
Jolly, Roslyn . "Piracy, Slavery, and the
Imagination of Empire in Stevenson's Pacific Fiction". Victorian
Literature and Culture [Refereed]. 2007 (35/1/Mar) 157-173.
"'The Beach of Falesa'. . . and 'The Ebb-Tide' . . . depict the shadow
empire created by traders and missionaries operating outside imperial
boundaries."
Joshi, Priti . "Mutiny Echoes: India, Britons,
and Charles Dickens's 'A Tale of Two Cities'". Nineteenth-Century
Literature. 2007 (62/1/June) 48-87 .
" A Tale of Two Cities is [not] an Indian 'Mutiny' novel, but . .
. it is a novel about the 'Making of Britons,' an important endeavor for
an author who was intensely dissatisfied with the Britain that he saw
around him."
Jung, Sandro . "Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane
Eyre', the Female Detective, and the 'Crime' of Female Selfhood".
Bronte Studies [Refereed]. 2007 (32/Pt.1/Mar) 21-30.
On "the progress of Jane as a governess-detective at Thornfield [and]
her detective curiosity to pursue her inquiry into the secrets of Thornfield."
Kipling, Rudyard . Page, David, ed "The
Legs of Sister Ursula". Kipling Journal. 2007 (81/321/Mar)
8-15.
A story "first published in The Idler and the San Francisco Examiner
(June 1893) and in McClure's Magazine (1894)."
Klaver, Claudia C . "Imperial Economics:
Harriet Martineau's 'Illustrations of Political Economy' and the Narration
of Empire". Victorian Literature and Culture [Refereed]. 2007
(35/1/Mar) 21-40.
"Martineau's goal in writing the 'Illustrations '. . . Is . . . constructing
an argument for the universal relevance of classical political economy."
Krishnan, Lakshmi . "It Has Devoured My
Existence': The Power of the Will and Illness in 'The Bride of Lammermoor'
and 'Wuthering Heights'". Bronte Studies [Refereed]. 2007
(32/Pt.1/Mar) 31-40.
"Emily Bronte . . . manipulates pervasive nineteenth-century theories
by presenting characters whose powerful wills, paradoxically, generate
their illnesses."
Kwon, Young Hee . "The Buddhist Sub-Text
and the Imperial Soul-Making in 'Kim'". Victorian Newsletter.
2007 (111/Spr) 20-28.
Assesses "why Kipling's 'Kim' . . . Strangely vacillates between
disbanding and reinvoking racial hierarchies." Proposes that "the
Tibetan lama and his Buddhist discourse as an alternative venue to further
speculate on this still bewildering ambivalence."
Latane, David E, Jr . "Charles Molloy Westmacott
and the Spirit of 'The Age'". Victorian Periodicals Review
[Refereed]. 2007 (40/1/Spr) 44-72.
Westmacott (c. 1787-1868), British satirical journalist. "The juvenility
of the depictions. . .have a kinship with the forms of celebrity from
these years that find their way into the Brontë children's imaginary
worlds."
Law, Jules . "Transparency and Epistemology
in George Eliot's 'Daniel Deronda'". Nineteenth Century Literature.
2007 (62/2/Sep) 250-277.
"This essay examines the figurative schematics and the epistemology
by which George Eliot's politics are elaborated in her writing, focusing
in particular on the figure of transparency and the thematics of political
vocation, and culminating in the figure of the spectral Jew."
Lawler, Traugott . "'Charade': A New Verse
Note by Kipling From 1892". Kipling Journal. 2007 (81/322/Jun)
34-40.
"A letter in verse sent by Rudyard Kipling to Le Baron Russell Briggs
of the Harvard English Department on about 8 March 1892."
Leaver, Elizabeth . "Why Anne Brontë
Wrote as She Did [Brontë Conference Proceedings, 2006]". Bronte
Studies. 2007 (32/3/Nov) 227-243p.
"'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' . . . offers a robust enquiry into
middle-class female experience in mid-Victorian England. . . .[that] finds
powerful resonance in the non-fictional writings of Florence Nightingale."
Ledger, Sally . "Wilde Women and 'The Yellow
Book': The Sexual Politics of Aestheticism and Decadence". English
Literature in Transition [Refereed]. 2007 (50/1) 5-26.
"'The Yellow Book' was in the vanguard of cultural debate, and at
its centre were New Women and aesthetic women, as well as male aesthetes
and Decadents."
Lee, Julia Sun-Joo . "The Return of the
'Unnative': The Transnational Politics of Elizabeth Gaskell's 'North and
South'". Nineteenth-Century Literature [Refereed]. 2007 (61/4/Mar)
449-478.
"Frederick's metonymic connection to slavery expresses itself in
his narrative's generic proximity to the American slave narrative."
Levin, Yael . "The Moral Ambiguity of Conrad?s
Poetics: Transgressive Secret Sharing in 'Lord Jim' and 'Under Western
Eyes'". Conradiana. 2007 (39/3/Fall) 211-228.
"The narrator?s words resonate with readers of Conrad, as a certain
voyeurism clearly lies at the heart of his secret- sharing novel or short
story."
Lewis, Lisa A.F . "The Cat That Walked
With the Daemon". Kipling Journal. 2007 (81/321/Mar) 16-28.
"How one of the most famous cat stories in the English language,
'The Cat That Walked by Himself', came to be written by a man who did
not even like cats."
Lewis, Lisa A.F . "'References', 'Cross-References',
and Notions of History in Kipling's 'Puck of Pook's Hill' and 'Rewards
and Fairies'". English Literature in Transition [Refereed].
2007 (50/2) 192-209.
"Close reading reveals how subtly Kipling insinuates opinions that
are much more complex than those usually attributed to him as 'bard of
empire' and glorifier of war."
Lipka, Jennifer . "The Horror! The Horror!':
Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' as a Gothic Novel". Conradiana.
2008 (40/1/Spr) 25-37.
"To examine 'Heart of Darkness' as Gothic genre piece, it is. . .constructive
to show how the issue of race opens up one area of psychological interpretations
of the novel, that being how we relate to the Other."
Louttit, Chris . "Lowell Revisited: Dickens
and the Working Girl". Dickens Quarterly [Refereed]. 2007
(24/1/Mar) 27-36.
In 'American Notes', "the factory workers in Lowell are working women.
. . .mill girls [who] maintain markers of femininity."
Lutz, John . "A Rage for Order: Fetishism,
Self-Betrayal, and Exploitation in 'The Secret Agent'". Conradiana.
2008 (40/1/Spr) 1-24.
"Far from providing for the security and well-being of each of its
citizens, the society depicted in the novel is characterized by hidden
forms of socioeconomic domination that deprive individuals of the ability
to develop themselves."
Malachuk, Daniel S . "Romola' and Victorian
Liberalism". Victorian Literature and Culture. 2008 (36/1/Mar)
41-57.
"I present Eliot's 'Romola' as part of a larger Victorian liberal
conversation about the role of virtue in polities otherwise dedicated
to the fullest realization of individual autonomy."
Matus, Jill L . "Historicizing Trauma:
The Genealogy of Psychic Shock in 'Daniel Deronda'". Victorian
Literature and Culture. 2008 (36/1/Mar) 59-78.
"While George Eliot shows Gwendolen's suffering from overwhelming
emotional shock, the shock and horror is more about discovering what transgressions
we may commit; less about what is inflicted upon us from without."
McAllister, David . "Subject to the Sceptre
of Imagination': Sleep, Dreams, and Unconsciousness in 'Oliver Twist'".
Dickens Studies Annual. 2007 (38) 1-17.
"Oliver's frequent lapses into unconsciousness function . . . to
protect him from the taint of criminal guilt . . . and as a means of escape."
McCann, Andrew . "Rosa Praed and the Vampire
Aesthete". Victorian Literature and Culture [Refereed]. 2007
(35/1/Mar) 175-187.
"Praed's . . . ambiguous sexuality invites us to read her novels
. . . as yet more evidence for . . . the way in which the vampire functions
as both an evocation and a denunciation of queer identity."
McKelvy, William R . "'The Woman in White'
and Graphic Sex". Victorian Literature and Culture [Refereed].
2007 (35/1/Mar) 287-308.
"The path to the book's libidinal core. . .is a reckoning with the
mid-century's come-hither economy of desire as far as it spoke to the
wandering eye of Victorian consumers."
McNees, Eleanor . "Reluctant Source: Murray's
Handbooks and 'Pictures From Italy'". Dickens Quarterly. 2007
(24/4/Dec) 211-229.
"In . . . 'Pictures From Italy' . . . Dickens deliberately set out
to write a travel book against the guidebook genre . . . . for an audience
more willing to be entertained than precisely informed."
McNees, Eleanor . "Reluctant Source: Murray's
'Handbooks' and 'Pictures From Italy'". Dickens Quarterly.
2007 (24/4/Dec) 211-229.
A critical literary discussion of Dickens's 'Pictures From Italy' with
a comparison to John Murray's 'Handbooks for Travellers' is presented
here.
Miele, Kathryn . "Do Unto Others: Learning
Empathy in 'Agnes Grey'". Bronte Studies. 2008 (33/1/Mar)
9-19.
"In 'Agnes Grey', Anne Brontë explores the importance of empathy
to the humane development of the moral person, as well as the wider social
implications of learning to consider the feelings of others."
Mitchell, Sally . "Frances Power Cobbe's
'Life' and the Rules for Women's Autobiography". English Literature
in Transition [Refereed]. 2007 (50/2) 131-157.
Cobbe's autobiography "demonstrates the slippage between public and
private that was under increasing pressure in the transition between Victorian
and twentieth-century lives."
Moore, Gene M . "Who Are the Alfuros?".
Conradiana. 2007 (39/3/Fall) 198-210.
The Alfuros, mentioned in 'Victory', are "non-Islamic peoples living
in eastern parts of the Malay Archipelago".
Moore, Gene M . "Who Are the Alfuros?".
Conradiana. 2007 (39/3/Fall) 199-210.
"How much Conrad actually knew about the Alfuros is uncertain, but
their appearance in the margins of 'Victory' provided him with a useful
marker of degrees of cultural prejudice"
Oda, Yukari . "Wuthering Heights' and the
Waverley Novels: Sir Walter Scott's Influence on Emily Brontë [Brontë
Conference Proceedings, 2006] ". Bronte Studies. 2007 (32/3/Nov)
217-226.
"In the kinds of ambiguity Emily's writing . . . shares with Scott,
we can consider how Emily received and adopted her predecessors' novels
and their relations with society."
Ogden, James . "A Bronte Reading List".
Bronte Studies [Refereed]. 2007 (32/Pt.2/Jul) 157-164.
"A selective annotated bibliography reporting and describing articles
on the Brontes in scholarly and critical journals, 2000-2005."
Panagopoulos, Nic . "Nic. Victory and Romeo
and Juliet: Eros and Thanatos". Conradiana. 2007 (39/2/Sum)
135-151.
A Freudian reading of "the conventional juxtaposition of love and
death" in Shakespeare and Conrad, "signifying the ambivalence
of human drives and desires."
Phillips, James . "The Two Faces of Love
in 'Wuthering Heights'". Bronte Studies [Refereed]. 2007 (32/Pt.2/Jul)
96-105.
"'Wuthering Heights' is an analysis of love . . . . as the contingent
and empirical are played off against the necessary and . . . transcendental."
Philpotts, Trey . "Dickens, Invention,
and Literary Property in the 1850s". Dickens Quarterly [Refereed].
2007 (24/1/Mar) 18-26.
"Dickens would have resisted any facile association between copyrights
and patents because. . .it would have rhetorically aligned him with those
whom he opposed, the critics of copyright reform."
Pinney, Thomas . "An Unfamiliar Kipling
Story". Kipling Journal. 2007 (81/324/Dec) 42-44.
David Allan Richards, the Kipling bibliographer "tells us, in describing
the contents of 'Under the Deodars', that 'The Hill of Illusion' is there
reprinted from 'The Week's News' and that another, earlier, story of the
same title appeared in the ['Civil and Military Gazette'] and has never
been reprinted."
Pionke, Albert D . "I Do Swear': Oath-Taking
Among the Elite Public in Victorian England". Victorian Studies.
2007 (49/4/Sum) 611-633.
Includes discussions of literary representations of oath-taking and public
ritual in works by Dickens and Trollope.
Pionke, Albert D . "Degrees of Secrecy
in Dickens's Historical Fiction". Dickens Studies Annual.
2007 (38) 35-53.
In Dickens' novels, "readers are encouraged . . . to approve of secrecy
as privacy while condemning secrecy as conspiracy."
Pittard, Christopher . "Cheap, Healthful
Literature': The Strand Magazine, Fictions of Crime, and Purified Reading
Communities". Victorian Periodicals Review [Refereed]. 2007
(40/1/Spr) 1-23.
"'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' . . . actually seek to suppress
sensational elements, in order to provide healthy reading and to purify
the crime narrative."
Pollack-Pelzner, Daniel . "Dickens' 'Hamlet'
Burlesque". Dickens Quarterly [Refereed]. 2007 (24/2/Jun)
103-110.
Reads the "spectacularly bad production of 'Hamlet'" in 'Great
Expectations' as "a burlesque, with 'Hamlet' as much its target as
Wopsle."
Pollak, Oliver B . "Rudyard Kipling - Mass
Marketing Miniatures: The Little Leather Library and Little Blue Books".
Kipling Journal. 2007 (81/321/Mar) 39-47.
"Between 1916 and 1920 a new breed of publishers marketed books by
mail order to readers who did not normally patronize bookstores or libraries."
Includes lists of Kipling's books published in these formats.
Powers, Wendy Anne . "Emily Bronte and
Emily Dickinson: Parallel Lives on Opposing Shores". Bronte Studies
[Refereed]. 2007 (32/Pt.2/Jul) 145-150.
"The lives of the two Emilies, so uncannily similar - and in nothing
more so than our lack of knowledge about them - are paradigms of the unique
problem and responsibility facing the biographer of the unique life."
Rappoport, Jill . "Conservation of Sympathy
in 'Cranford'". Victorian Literature and Culture. 2008 (36/1/Mar)
95-110.
"'Cranford' is among a number of mid-century works that treat sympathetic
exchange in a sustained manner and on an expanded scale, writing women's
charity in terms of sympathy and sisterhood rather than coin."
Gaskell, Elizabeth - Cranford
Recchio, Thomas . "Toward a Theory of Narrative
Sympathy: Character, Story, and the Body in 'The Mill on the Floss'".
Dickens Studies Annual. 2007 (38) 115-142.
"One of the things Maggie refuses to do . . . is to allow herself
to be defined by a social order . . . that would sever her sense of self
from her bodily experience."
Reed, John R . "Dickens and Personification".
Dickens Quarterly [Refereed]. 2007 (24/1/Mar) 3-17.
"Dickens combines personification and de-animation as companion devices
to emphasize the way in which human existence may be perceived as hyper
real, hence constituting an implied resistance to the realist movement."
Reid, S.W Trogdon, Robert W . "The Secret
Sharer': A Further Note on the Dates of Its Composition". Conradiana.
2007 (39/2/Sum) 169-173.
Examines the manuscript dates of 'Under Western Eyes' to argue for a December
1909 date for the writing of 'The Secret Sharer'.
Rockefeller, Laura Selene . "Shirley' and
the Politics of Personal Faith". Bronte Studies [Refereed].
2007 (32/Pt.2/Jul) 106-115.
"In 'Shirley', Charlotte Bronte recognizes . . . a social problem
with the rapid growth of extreme poverty and . . . goes on to explore
the ways that the different religious groups of the period proposed to
address it."
Salmon, Richard . "Professions of Labour:
'David Copperfield' and the 'Dignity of Literature'". Nineteenth-Century
Contexts [Refereed]. 2007 (29/1/Mar) 35-52.
"Dickens's. . .'David Copperfield'. . .may. . .be read as a negotiation
of the process by which the 'poet' is converted to the function of 'wage-labour'
within modern culture."
Salter, Polly . "Exciting Recent Acquisitions
at the Bronte Parsonage Museum: Letters Bought by the Bronte Society on
4 July 2006". Bronte Studies [Refereed]. 2007 (32/Pt.2/Jul)
151-154.
Includes two letters by Patrick Bronte; and one by Charlotte to William
Smith Williams.
Smithies, James . "Return Migration and
the Mechanical Age: Samuel Butler in New Zealand 1860-1864". Journal
of Victorian Culture. 2007 (12/2/Aut) 203-224.
"Butler represents an excellent example of return migration [and]
demographic trend that is often underestimated in narratives of colonization,
but was instrumental in the colonization of both New Zealand and the wider
empire."
Solinger, Fred . "'Absurd be - Exploded!':
Re-Membering Experience Through Liminality in Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness'".
Conradiana. 2008 (40/1/Spr) 61-70.
"In telling his tale to his fellow sailors, Marlow attempts to bridge
the 'psychological abyss between cultures'; his narration . . . attests
to the difficulty of such an undertaking."
Stern, Kimberly J . "A Common Fund: George
Eliot and the Gender Politics of Criticism". Prose Studies.
2008 (30/1/Apr) 45-62.
"In her early essays, Eliot describes the woman writer as not only
a vital contributor to literary culture but as the originator and guardian
of periodical criticism itself."
Stetz, Margaret D . "Can Anyone Picture
My Agony?' Visualizing Gender, Imperialism, and Gothic Horror in the Wide
World Magazine of 1898". Victorian Periodicals Review [Refereed].
2007 (40/1/Spr) 24-43.
Attempts "to employ the rhetoric of Gothic romance and the exciting
visual tropes common to illustrations for sensational fiction within a
magazine purporting to provide only 'true' narratives was. . .a decision
with grave political consequences."
Straley, Jessica . "Of Beasts and Boys:
Kingsley, Spencer, and the Theory of Recapitulation". Victorian
Studies. 2007 (49/4/Sum) 583-609.
In 'The Water Babies', "Kingsley's adaptation of Spencer's recapitulative
pedagogy paradoxically admits and ultimately exalts literary and moral
instruction within the child's miniaturized ascent from beast to boy."
Summers, Mary . "Mary Taylor's Response
to the 'Journal et Lettres' of Eugenie de Guerin". Bronte Studies.
2008 (33/1/Mar) 1-8.
Eugenie de Guerin (1805-1848), French writer. Taylor's 1866 review of
Guerin's journals reveal similarities between Guerin and Charlotte Bronte.
Swearingen, Roger G . "Recent Studies in
Robert Louis Stevenson: Survey of Biographical Works and Checklist of
Criticism-1970-2005". Dickens Studies Annual. 2007 (38) 205-298.
"The present essay covers biography, in detail, and includes a list
of works cited."
Talley, Lee A . "The Case for Anne Bronte's
Marginalia in the Author's Own of 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'".
Bronte Studies [Refereed]. 2007 (32/Pt.2/Jul) 132-137.
"The marginalia make Helen . . . appear to be an even stronger heroine,
as well as illuminating Anne Bronte's writing habits and her belief in
the central importance of the diary to the novel."
Tange, Andrea Kaston . "Redesigning Femininity:
Miss Marjoribanks' Drawing-Room of Opportunity". Victorian Literature
and Culture. 2008 (36/1/Mar) 163-186.
"Oliphant's novel, like her heroine, operates within the 'prejudices
of society' while simultaneously offering a means to exploit those prejudices."
Tharaud, Barry . "Form as Process in 'The
Pickwick Paper's: The Structure of Ethical Discovery". Dickens
Quarterly. 2007 (24/3/Sep) 145-158.
"By portraying reasonably good people whose well-meant actions produce
unpleasant, unintended results, Dickens sets up his novel to examine the
nature of moral behavior, . . . the nature of friendship and the limits
of human perception."
Thiele, David . "That There Brutus': Elite
Culture and Knowledge Diffusion in the Industrial Novels of Elizabeth
Gaskell". Victorian Literature and Culture [Refereed]. 2007
(35/1/Mar) 263-285.
"What emerged from [Gaskell's] novels is. . .an elite-led middle-class
society that continued to associate fit leadership with liberal education,
and that cast the energetic industrialist in a supporting if not dubious
role."
Thomas, Sue . "Christianity and the State
of Slavery in 'Jane Eyre'". Victorian Literature and Culture
[Refereed]. 2007 (35/1/Mar) 57-79.
"Jane's growth of religious feeling is . . . grounded in her consciousness
of the tensions between slavery and Christianity as they are played out.
. .at a particular historical moment."
Toker, Leona . "Nicholas Nickleby' and the
Discourse of Lent". Dickens Studies Annual. 2007 (38) 19-33.
Demonstrates "a number of parallels between 'Nicholas Nickleby' and
concentration camp novels", especially in their use of "hunger
and fasting".
Tonussi, Paola . "From 'Werther' to 'Wuthering
Heights': Possible Convergences". Bronte Studies. 2008 (33/1/Mar)
30-43.
Discusses the influence of Goethe's 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' and
James MacPherson's 'Ossian' poetry on Emily's poetry and prose.
Tourchon, Patrick . "Polyphony in 'Lord
Jim': On Ubermensch". Conradiana. 2008 (40/1/Spr) 71-88.
A Nietzschean reading of the differing opinions of Jim expressed by Jewel
and Marlow.
Tracy, Robert . "W.C. Macready in 'The
Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby'". Dickens Quarterly.
2007 (24/3/Sep) 159-166.
"Dickens's dedication to Macready testifies to his 'admiration and
regard' for . . . a close and valued friend . . . and at the same time
recognizes the theatrical content of 'Nicholas Nickleby'."
Turner, Jennifer . "The 'Passion of Paternity'
- Fathers and Daughters in the Works of Joseph Conrad". Conradiana.
2007 (39/3/Fall) 229-247.
"For the most part, the unfortunate Conradian daughter remains a
psychologically crippled victim of, and warning against, extreme paternal
attachment."
Tytler, Graeme . "The Role of Religion in
'Wuthering Heights'". Bronte Studies [Refereed]. 2007 (32/Pt.1/Mar)
41-55.
"Emily Bronte is by no means disposed . . . to reject Christianity
out of hand but, rather, to indicate in what ways Christians themselves
have failed to live up to some of its basic tenets."
Tytler, Graeme . "Masters and Servants
in 'Wuthering Heights'". Bronte Studies. 2008 (33/1/Mar) 44-53.
"Although masters (and mistresses) ultimately have the upper hand
of their servants, it is noteworthy how much power servants exercise within
the sphere of domination to which they are subject."
Vaninskaya, Anna . "The Late-Victorian
Romance Revival: A Generic Excursus". English Literature in Transition.
2008 (51/1) 57-79.
On the difficulty of defining 'romance' and its related terms in late
19th-century literature; includes discussion of Haggard, MacDonald, and
Morris.
Vrettos, Athena . "Displaced Memories in
Victorian Fiction and Psychology". Victorian Studies. 2007
(49/2/Win) 199-207.
"Examining . . . writings by Thomas Hardy, Arthur Conan Doyle, George
Henry Lewes, Samuel Butler, and F.W.H. Myers, this essay argues that these
works provide a distinctive set of narratives about the potential displacement
and uncertain ownership of memory."
Wagner, Tamara S . "Speculators at Home
in the Victorian Novel: Making Stock-Market Villains and New Paper Fictions".
Victorian Literature and Culture. 2008 (36/1/Mar) 21-40.
"The divergent ways [financial novels] shaped the novel genre at
the mid-century compels us to rethink the fascinatingly productive functions
of money and the hypocrisy with which desire for it was regarded."
Walker, Michael . "J.B. Leyland: Sculptor
and Friend of Branwell Bronte". Bronte Studies [Refereed].
2007 (32/Pt.1/Mar) 57-70.
Joseph Bentley Leyland (1811-1851), British sculptor, befriended Branwell
Bronte in 1839.
Walker, Stanwood S . "Backwards and Backwards
Ever': Charles Kingsley's Racial-Historical Allegory and the Liberal Anglican
Revisioning of Britain". Nineteenth-Century Literature. 2007
(62/3/Dec) 339-379.
Discusses the influence of "the theocentric and thoroughly racialized
historicism of the Liberal Anglicans . . . in particular the form given
it by Christian Socialist leading light F.D. Maurice", on Kingsley's
novels.
Waters, Catherine . "Fashion in Undress':
Clothing and Commodity Culture in 'Household Words'". Journal
of Victorian Culture. 2007 (12/1/Spr) 26-41.
"The recurring discussion of dress . . . illustrates a more general
preoccupation with the changing relationship between people and things
as part of an attempt to come to terms with the development of urban commodity
culture at mid century."
Whitehead, Stephen . "The Haworth the Brontës
Knew [Brontë Conference Proceedings, 2006]". Bronte Studies.
2007 (32/3/Nov) 181-192p.
"The Haworth that we see today is very different from the Haworth
that the Bronte sisters knew; it is the product of 150 years of selective
development."
Whittaker, Eve M . "Amy Foster and the
Blindfolded Woman". Conradiana. 2007 (39/3/Fall) 249-272.
Conrad's 'Amy Foster' is "seen as autobiographical, telling the story
not only of Yanko, but of Conrad himself, recording his supposed disappointment
with his wife and his agonies as an immigrant."
Wilks, Brian . "A Bishop, Bed and Breakfast,
a Mystery Dessert, and a Poignant Letter: Material Found Among the Papers
of Dr. Charles Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury". Bronte Studies
[Refereed]. 2007 (32/Pt.2/Jul) 91-95.
Longley's letters include accounts of Charlotte Bronte's marriage to Arthur
Bell Nicholls, her relationship to her father, and public responses to
her books.
Wilson, Alastair . "Emanuel Pyecroft, Second-Class
Petty Officer". Kipling Journal. 2007 (81/322/Jun) 44-49.
On "the [six] stories in which Petty Officer Pyecroft is the main
character. . . .published between August 1903 and December 1904, and.
. .October 1910."
Winnifrith, Tom . "The Church Census and
the Brontës [Brontë Conference Proceedings, 2006] ". Bronte
Studies. 2007 (32/3/Nov) 245-251p.
"The Brontes . . . . and their characters appear neglectful of religious
services . . . . [yet] the Brontes' novels are full of religious imagery
and Biblical references."
Yeow, Agnes . "Here Comes the Nazarene':
Conrad?s Treatment of the Serani and the Racial Politics of Empire".
Conradiana. 2007 (39/3/Fall) 273-290.
"This essay explores Joseph Conrad?s portrayal of the Serani or Eurasian
in the context of colonialism and unveils a complex picture which is typically
ambivalent and uncertain of itself."
Zoli, Corri . "Black Holes' of Calcutta
and London: Internal Colonies in 'Vanity Fair'". Victorian Literature
and Culture [Refereed]. 2007 (35/2/Sep) 417-449.
"In a novel that notoriously breaks with Victorian conventions of
the deepest kind. . .Thackeray offers a notion of 'culture' that gains
its power and definition from international, not national coordinates."
Zoli, Corri . "'Black Holes' of Calcutta
and London: Internal Colonies in 'Vanity Fair'". Victorian Literature
and Culture. 2007 (35/2/Sep) 417-449.
"If Thackeray's bluntness about 'race' and empire in . . . [Vanity
Fair] has the effect of highlighting the historical specificity of Englishness,
it also reveals a Victorian cultural identity and aesthetic whose defining
characteristic is both hybridity and universalism."
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