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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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