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Victorian
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Deborah A. Logan, Editor
Western Kentucky University
Tables of Contents, #118 (2010) through #1 (1952)
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 118
Fall 2010
Contents
Page
Whose Child is it? Paternalism, Parenting, and Political
Ambiguity in Frances Trollope’s Factory Novel
by Galia Benziman
7
Charlotte Brooke’s ―Maon‖ and the Construction of
Anglo-Irish Identity
by Lucy Cogan
30
Freud’s Uncanny: The Role of the Double in Jane Eyre and
Wuthering Heights
by Morteza Jafari
43
Republicanism, Regicide and ―The Musgrave Ritual‖
by Richard Jacobs
54
From the Erotic Blush to the Petrifying Medusa Gaze in
George Eliot’s Novels
by Gillian M. E. Alban
67
Book Review: Lesley Higgins, ed. Oxford Essays and Notes,
Vol. IV of The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins
by Jerome Bump
87
Book Review: Matthew Hofer and Gary Scharnhorst, eds.
Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews
by Nikolai Endres
93
Books Received
99
Contributors
100
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 117
Spring 2010
Contents
Page
The Market(place) and the Muse: Tennyson, Lincolnshire,
and the Nineteenth-Century Idea of the Book
by Patrick Scott
5
Tennyson’s False Women: Vivien, Guinevere, and the Challenge
to Victorian Domestic Ideology
by Ingrid Ranum
39
The Mysteries of Origin and the Need for a Happy Ending:
George Meredith’s Evan Harrington: He Could be a Gentleman
by Shu-Fang Lai
58
Tennyson and the Poetics of Alterity
by Aaron Worth
75
―The weight of all the hopes of half the world‖: Tennyson’s
The Princess and Maurice’s Eustace Conway
by Leslie Haynsworth
90
Film Review: Dickens with a Twist: Jacob Tierney Queers Dickens 107
by Joseph Good
Book Review: Jason R. Rudy, Electric Meters: Victorian
111
Physiological Poetics and Sally Bushell, Text as Process: Creative
Composition in Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Dickinson
by Veronica Alfano
Books Received
119
Contributors
122
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 116
Fall 2009
Contents
Page
Becoming a ―Mere Appendix‖: The Rehabilitated Masculinity
of Sherlock Holmes
by Tom Bragg
3
Redeeming the ―City of the Dead‖: Metaphysical Fiction,
Touristic Fantasy, and the Historical Other in Bulwer’s
The Last Days of Pompeii
by Stanwood S. Walker
27
―Impenetrable Dooms‖: Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s
The Question and Explanatory Sonnets
by D.M.R. Bentley
53
Irregular and Not Proven: The Problem of Scottish Law in the
Novels of Wilkie Collins
by Mary M. Husemann
66
Book Review: John Plotz, Portable Property: Victorian Culture
on the Move
by Jessica Kuskey
90
Book Review: Rosemarie Bodenheimer, Knowing Dickens
by Karen Laird
92
Book Review: Joseph Bristow, ed. Oscar Wilde and Modern
Culture: The Making of a Legend
by Nikolai Endres
95
Book Review: Maureen Martin, The Mighty Scot: Nation, Gender, 100
and the Nineteenth-Century Mystique of Scottish Masculinity
by Brooke McLaughlin Mitchell
Books Received
105
Contributors
109
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 115
Spring 2009
Contents
Page
Introducing a ―Lost‖ Victorian Novel:
The Elusive William North and The City of the Jugglers (1850)
by Patrick Scott
7
North’s The City of the Jugglers (1850) and the European
Revolutions of 1848
by Lanya Lamouria
16
The (After) Life of William North among the New York Bohemians 29
by Edward Whitley and Robert Weidman
The City of the Jugglers and the Limits of Victorian Fiction
by Rebecca Stern
46
North versus North: William North (1825-1854) in Light of
New Documentation
by Allan Life and Page Life
55
A Preliminary Checklist of Writings by and about
William North (1825-1854)
by Page Life, Patrick Scott, and Allan Life
95
Book Review: Marlene Tromp, ed. Victorian Freaks: The Social
Context of Freakery in Britain
by John Miller
116
Book Review: Andrew Miller, The Burdens of Perfection:
On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
by Susan E. Colón
119
Books Received
122
Contributors
123
Announcements/Acknowledgements
124
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 114
Fall 2008
Contents
Page
Rewriting the Boxer Rebellion: The Imaginative Creations of
Putnam Weale, Edmund Backhouse, and Charles Welsh Mason
by Jacqueline Young
7
Alien Image, Ideal Beauty: The Orientalist Vision of American
Slavery in Hiram Powers’s The Greek Slave
by Sara Hackenberg
30
Sight, Sound, and Silence: Representations of the Slave Body in
Barrett Browning, Hawkshaw, and Douglass
by Debbie Bark
51
Charlotte Brontë’s ―Pain Pressed‖ Pilgrimage and its Critical
Reception
by Jacqueline Banerjee
69
Review Essay: Norman H. MacKenzie, Excursions in Hopkins;
Cary H. Plotkin, Soundings: Essays in Memory of Norman Hugh
MacKenzie; James I. Wimsatt, Hopkins Poetics of Speech Sound:
Sprung Rhythm, Lettering, Inscape
by William Harmon
93
Book Review: Antonio Melechi, Servants of the Supernatural:
The Night Side of Victorian Nature
by Joseph Good
101
Books Received
104
Announcements
106
Contributors
107
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 113
Spring 2008
Contents
Page
Secret Ciphers, Secret Knowledge: the Classics in British
India, ca. 1800-1900
by Chris Hagerman
3
The Disclosure of Secrets: Reflection and Growth in Jane Eyre
and Middlemarch
by Kathleen Conway
22
―The Boy Was a Girl‖: Reconstructing Gender and Class to
Deconstruct Difference in Sarah Grand’s The Heavenly Twins
by Audrey Fessler
38
The Other Serpents: Deviance and Contagion in ―The Speckled
Band‖
by Stella Pratt-Smith
54
Caliban upon the Demiurge: Gnosticism on the Island in
―Caliban upon Setebos‖
by Carrol L. Fry
67
Science, Technology, and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life:
H.G. Wells’s response to John Ruskin and William Morris in
A Modern Utopia
by Kevin Swafford
77
Domestic Imperialism in Several Victorian Texts: Contact Zones
at Home
by Mary Rosner
88
Contributors
107
Books Received
108
Announcements
110
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 112
Fall 2007
Contents
Page
Translating Authority: Romola’s Disruption of the Gendered
Narrative
by Lesa Scholl
6
The Anarchist and the Detective: The Science of Detection
and the Subversion of Generic Convention in H.G. Wells’s
―The Thumbmark‖
by Nils Clausson
19
Class Consciousness, Critter Collecting, and the Climatic
Conditions: Post-Victorian Existentialism in the ―Morphing‖
Victorian Scientist
by Jill E. Wagner
32
There is Something Wilde about Mary: The Eccles Bequest
by Nikolai Endres
51
Against ―All that rowdy lot‖: Trollope’s Grudge Against Disraeli
by Karen Kurt Teal
55
Sensational Bodies: Lady Audley and the Pre-Raphaelite Portrait
by Brian Donnelly
69
John Opie’s Lectures to the Royal Academy and Little Dorrit
by Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
91
Contributors
101
Books Received
102
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 111
Spring 2007
Contents
Carlyle's Influence on Shakespeare
by Robert Sawyer
Page
1
Imagining Ophelia in Christina Rossetti's ''Sleeping at Last''
by Mary Faraci
8
The Poison Within: Robert Browning' s ''The Laboratory''
by David Sonstroem
10
''Her life was in her books'': Jean lngelow in the Literary
Marketplace
by Maura Ives
The Buddhist Sub-Text and the Imperial Soul-Making in Kim
by Young Hee Kwon
12
20
''Gliding'': A Note On the Exquisite Delicacy of the Religious
Glissade Motif in Hopkins's ''The Windhover''
by Nathan Cervo
29
Coming in The Victorian Newsletter
29
Books Received
30
Notice
32
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 110
Fall 2006
Contents
Page
Reading Hodge: Preserving Rural Epistemologies in Hardy's
Far from the Madding Crowd
by Eric G. Lorentzen
1
Unmanned by Marriage and the Metropolis in Gissing's
The Whirlpool
by Andrew Radford
10
Anthony Trollope's Lady Anna and Shakespeare's Othello
by Maurice Hunt
18
The Romantic and the Familiar: Third-Person Narrative in
Chapter 11 of Bleak House
by David Paroissien
23
Tennyson's In Memoriam, Section 123, and the Submarine
Forest on the Lincolnshire Coast
by Patrick Scott
28
Coming in Victorian Newsletter
30
Books Received
31
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 109
Spring 2006
Contents
Page
Scandalous Sensations: The Woman In White on
the Victorian Stage
by Maria K. Bachman
1
Nostalgia to Amnesia: Charles Dickens, Marcus
Clarke and Narratives of Australia’s Convict Origins
by Beth A. Boehm
9
The Epigraph to Henley’s In Hospital
by Edward H. Cohen
14
Emily Bronte’s Pedagogy of Desire in Wuthering
Heights
by Amy Carol Reeves
16
Kate Field and Anthony Trollope: The Gaps in the
Record
by Gary Scharnhorst
21
Metaphoric Mules: Dickens’s Tom Gradgrind and
Dante’s Vanni Fucci
by Ernest Fontana
24
A Husband’s Tragedy: The Relationship between Art
and Life in Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband
by Carol Schnitzer
25
Coming In Victorian Newsletter
29
Books Received
30
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 108
Fall 2005
Contents
Page
Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Ambivalent Pre-Raphaelite
Ekphrasis
by Sophia Andres
1
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Anglo-Dutch Emblem
Tradition
by D. M. R. Bentley
6
Browning's ''Childe Roland'': The Visionary Poetic
by Lawrence J. Starzyk
14
Myths of Castration: Freud's ''Eternal Feminine''
and Rider Haggard's She
by Shannon Young
21
Coming in Victorian Newsletter
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Books Received
31
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 107
Spring 2005
Contents
Page
The Haunted Self: Vision of the Ghost and the Woman
at the Fin de Siecle
by Hilary Grimes
1
The Case of the Anomalous Narrative: Gothic ''Surmise''
and Trigonometric ''Proof '' in Arthur Conan Doyle's ''The
Musgrave Ritual''
by Nils Clausson
5
Browning's ―Childe Roland‖: The Visionary Poetic
by Lawrence J. Starzyk
11
The Picture of Dorian Gray, or, The Embarrassing Orthodoxy
of Oscar Wilde
by Michael Buma
18
Dickens, Hunt and the Waiter in Somebody 's Luggage
by Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
25
Three Victorian ''Medieval'' Poems: ―Dover Beach,‖ ―The
Windhover,‖ and "The Higher Pantheism‖
by Nathan Cervo
28
Books Received
29
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 106
Fall 2004
Contents
Page
―Eternal honour to his name‖: Tennyson' s Ode on the Death
of the Duke of Wellington and Victorian Memorial Aesthetics
by Anna Jane Barton
1
Deviance in The Law and the Lady: The Uneasy Positioning
of Mr. Dexter
by Mary Rosner
9
Sympathy and Discipline in Mary Barton
by Melissa Schaub
15
Victorian Sisterhoods and Female Religious Vocation in
Margaret Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford
by Oliver Lovesey
21
Catharis in George Meredith's Essay on Comedy
by Jacob Korg
28
Books Received
30
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 105
Spring 2004
Contents
Page
Italian Counterpoint: Henry James and John Ruskin
in Florence
by Kevin Swafford
1
The Aesthetics of Adventure: The Dark Sublime and
the Rise of the Colonial Anti-Hero
by Andrew Libby
7
Rehearsing Nicholas Nickelby: Dickens, Macready, and
the Pantomime of Life
by Greg Hecimovich
16
Lady Audley as Sacrifice: Curing Female Disadvantage
in Lady Audley's Secret
by Nicole P. Fisk
24
Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson and the South Sea Idols
by Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
27
Hood's ―Craniology‖ and the Head of Christopher Casby
in Little Dorrit
by Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
28
Coming in The Victorian Newsletter
29
Books Received
30
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 104
Fall 2003
Contents
Page
Christian Manliness and Fatherhood in Charles
Kingsley's Writings
by Laura Fasick
1
Jane Eyre, Eros and Evangelicalism
by Laura Haigwood
4
The Professional Adrift in the Victorian Novel:
(1) Agnes Grey
by Robert D. Butterworth
13
The Professional Adrift in the Victorian Novel
(2) New Grub Street
by Robert D. Butterworth
17
Fairies and Feminism: Recurrent Patterns in Chaucer's
''The Wife of Bath's Tale'' and Bronte's Jane Eyre
by Warren Edminster
22
Rhetorical Punctuation in Vanity Fair?
by Daniel P. Deneau
29
Thomas Meyrick, Jesuit Madness, and Hopkins
by Ernest Fontana
31
Books Received
34
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 103
Spring 2003
Contents
Page
The Max Nordau Pre-Raphaelite Gallery
by Nathan Cervo
1
Christina Rossetti’s Last Poem: ―Sleep at Last‖ or
―Heaven Overarches‖?
by Diane D’Amico
11
―Attached to life again‖: the ―Queer Beauty‖ of
Convalescence in Bleak House
by Natalie Bell Cole
17
The Adventure of Geography: Women Writers un-Map
and Re-Map Imperialism
by Megan A. Norcia
20
Coming in The Victorian Newsletter
28
Books Received
29
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 102
Fall 2002
Contents
Page
―Ut Pictura Poesis‖: The Nineteenth-Century Perspective
by Lawrence Starzyk
1
Flowers on a Dunghill in The Nether World
by Constance Harsh
9
Who Is Heathcliff? The Shadow Knows
by Marilyn Hume
15
Arnold's ''The Function of Criticism at the Present
Time'': ―Finally, there is the systematic judgment . . . the
most worthless of all.''
by Nilli Diengott
Monkeys, Microcephalus Idiots, and the Barbarous Races
of Mankind: Darwin's Dangerous Victorianism
by Leila S. May
18
20
Allusion in Robert Browning's ''A Death in the Desert''
by Robert lnglesfield
27
Rossetti's Belated and Disturbed Walk Poems
by Ernest Fontana
29
Coming in Victorian Newsletter
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Books Received
34
Group News
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 101
Spring 2002
Contents
Page
Mr. Sludge and Mrs. Oliphant: Victorian Negotiations
with the Dead
by June Sturrock
1
Image and Text in Jane Eyre's Avian Vignettes and
Bewick's History of British Birds
by Susan B. Taylor
5
One Man Is an Island: Natural Landscape Imagery in
Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island
by Brian Gibson
12
A Hundred Daily Comedies: Anne Thackerary Ritchie's
Comic Identity in Old Kensington
by George Scott Christian
21
''Escaping the Body's Gaol'': The Poetry of Anne Bronte
by Alexandra Leach
27
The Fall of the House of Usher and Little Dorrit
by Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
32
A Note on ''Jack, Joke'' in Hopkins's ''That Nature is a
Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection''
by Nathan Cervo
34
Coming in The Victorian Newsletter
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Books Received
36
Group News
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 100
Fall 2001
Contents
Page
No Higher Love: Clerical Domesticity in Kingsley
and Eliot
by Laura Fasick
1
Victorian Ghostbusting: Gendered Authority in the
Middle-class Home
by Susan E. Schaper
6
Pristine Nostalgia in the Novels of Charles Dickens
by John Hulsman
Imperial Addiction: West End Shopping and East
End Opium
by Krista Lysack
Stupid Trollope
by Richard Dellamora
14
17
22
The Illegitimacy of the Colonial Entrepreneur in
George Eliot's Felix Holt
by Aeron Haynie
26
Coming in Victorian Newsletter
31
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 99
Spring 2001
Contents
Page
The Travels of RLS as a Young Man
by Gordon Hirsch
1
Marginalized Maisie: Social Purity and What Maisie
Knew
by Christine DeVine
7
A Note on ''Swallow'' in Swinburne's ''Itylus ''
by Nathan Cervo
15
Domesticity Betrayed: The Keepsake Literary Annual
by Kathryn Ledbetter
16
The Unmanned Fertility Figure in Hardy's The
Woodlanders (1887)
By Andrew Radford
24
Coming in The Victorian Newsletter
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 98
Fall 2000
Contents
Page
Selecting Heroines: George Gissing and ''Sexual
Science''
by Rosemary Jann
1
An Annotated Secondary Bibliography: The Picture
of Dorian Gray (1980-1999)
by Valentina Di Pietro
5
Hopkins, Language, Meaning
by Dennis Sobolev
11
Benjamin Disraeli's The Young Duke and the
Condition of England's Aristocrats
by Maria K. Bachmann
15
A Victorian Sensation Novel in the ''Contact Zone'':
Reading Lady Audley's Secret through Imperial Eyes
by R. Mark Hall
22
Burying the Dead: Matthew Arnold and the
Dissenters
by Terry G. Harris
26
Coming in The Victorian Newsletter
30
Books Received
31
Group News
[37]
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 97
Spring 2000
Contents
Page
Combining the Two Nations: Trades Unions as
Secret Societies 1837-1845
by Albert D. Pionke
1
Kathleen's Legacy: Dora Sigerson Shorter's
Vagrant Heart
by Deborah A. Logan
14
Christina Rossetti's Nightmares: Fact or Fiction
by Joy A. Fehr
21
Mrs. Sparsit, Sir Thomas Lawrence and
Coriolanus
by Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
27
Books Received
29
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[33]
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 96
Fall 1999
Contents
Page
Death by Drowning
by Dennis Sobolev
1
George MacDonald's Phantastes: The Spiral Journey
to the Goddess
by Bonnie Gaarden
6
Swinburne's "Notes on Designs of the Old Masters
of Florence": The Exegesis of Icons
by Lawrence J. Starzyk
15
Ada Leverson's Wild(e) Yellow Book Stories
by William M. Harrison
21
Books Received
29
Group News
[33]
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 95
Spring 1999
Contents
Page
Ten Unpublished Letters by John Addington
Symonds at Duke University
by John G. Younger
1
Gissing and Bosanquet: Culture Unhoused
by Peter Allan Dale
Mrs. Conyer's Secret: Decoding Sexuality in Aurora
Floyd
by Robert Dingley
11
16
Prophetic Moments in Dickens and Carlyle
by Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
18
"Mr. Gilfil's Love Story'' and the Critique of Kantianism
by Andrew Lynn
24
George Eliot's Challenge to Medusa's Gendered
Disparities
by Sophia Andres
27
Browning's "Beatrice Signorini'' as Portrait Poem
by Ernest Fontana
33
Books Received
36
Group News
[41]
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 94
Fall 1998
Contents
Page
Matthew Arnold's "Philistinism'' and Charles
Kingsley*
by Tod E. Jones
1
"Blighted'' by a "Upas Shadow": Catholicism's
Function for Kingsley in Westward Ho!
by Michael Schiefelbein
10
Sources and Outcomes of Adolescent Crises in
Wuthering Heights
by Jacqueline Banerjee
17
Collective Personification in Carlyle's French
Revolution
by R. S. Edgecombe
26
Star-Crossed Love: The Gravity of Science in
Hardy’s Two on a Tower
by Jim Barloon
27
''A Sign-Seeker'' and "Cleon": Hardy's Argument
with Browning
by James Persoon
32
''A Warning to the Curious": Victorian Science
and the Awful Unconscious in M. R. James's
Ghost Stories
by Brian Cowlishaw
Mire, Bog, and Hell in The Hound of the
Baskervilles
by Alan Smith
Books Received
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Number 93
Spring 1998
Contents
Page
Matthew Arnold's "Philistinism" and Charles
Kingsley
by Tod E. Jones
1
Figures of Restraint: The Ruskinian Gentleman and
the Romantic Artist
by Kenneth Daley
10
Tennyson, W. T. Stead, and "The Imperialism of
Responsibility": "Vastness'' and "The Maiden Tribute''
by Cecily Devereux
14
"No Sorrow I Have Thought More About": The
Tragic Failure of George Eliot's St. Theresa
by June Skye Szirotny
17
"A Total Subversion of Character": Dr. Jekyll's
Moral Insanity
by Mary Rosner
27
Of Eyes and Musical Voices in "The Great
Temptation": Darwinian Sexual Selection in The
Mill on the Floss
by Eric R. Gardner
31
Coming in The Victorian Newsletter
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Books Received
37
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 92
Fall 1997
Contents
Page
Scandalous Topicality: Silas Marner and the Political
Unconscious
by Stewart Crehan
1
The Poet and the Bible: Christina Rossetti's Feminist
Hermeneutics
by Lynda Palazzo
6
Flagellating Feminine Desire: Lesbians, Old Maids,
and New Women in "Miss Coote's Confession," a
Victorian Pornographic Narrative
by Tamar Heller
9
Strange Attractors on the Yorkshire Moors: Chaos
Theory and Wuthering Heights
by Richard Nemesvari
15
Victorian Things, Victorian Words: Representation
and Redemption in Gaskell's North and South
by Bonnie Gerard
21
Lewes's General Mind and the Judgment of St. Ogg's:
The Mill on the Floss as Scientific Text
by Richard A. Currie
25
Dante, Pater's Marius the Epicurean and Gaston de
Latour
by Ernest Fontana
28
Saint Teresa and Dorothea Brooke: The Absent Road
to Perfection in Middlemarch
by Sherry L. Mitchell
32
Books Received
38
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 91
Contents
From "Ladies' Business'' to "Real Business":
Elizabeth Gaskell's Capitalist Fantasy in North and
South
by Pamela Corpron Parker
Aesthetic Intertextuality as Cultural Critique: Vernon
Lee Rewrites History through Walter Pater's "La
Gioconda"
by Christa Zorn
Romance and the Self-Made Man: Gaskell Rewrites
Bronte
by Catherine Barnes Stevenson
Wilde's Gracious Enclosures: A Brief Tour
by Gareth Noon
Spring 1997
Page
1
4
10
17
Reconceiving the Mother: Deconstructing the
Madonna in Aurora Leigh
by Patricia Murphy
21
The Domination of Dorian Gray
by Barri J. Gold
27
Trollope's Admirable Women and Their Literary
Sisters: A Continuing Quest for the Bearer of the
Country House Tradition
by Yoko Hatano
Books Received
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 90
Fall 1996
Contents
Page
Gender, Race, and Colonial Discourse in the Travel
Writings of Mary Kingsley
by Salome C. Nnoromele
1
The Source of Callicles: Plato's Gorgias and Arnold's
"Empedocles on Etna"
by Carol Poster
6
Autobiography – A Mill of Words, A Rhetoric of
Silence
by Susan C. Hines
12
Clym Ancient and Modern: Oedipus, Bunyan and
The Return of the Native
by Charles Swann
15
Am I My Sister's Keeper? Sexual Deviance and the
Social Community
by Deborah A. Logan
18
Voice of My Voice: Mutual Submission and
Transcendental Potentiality in Jane Eyre
by Nels C. Pearson
28
Sex, Violence and Identity: A. C. Swinburne and
Uses of Sadomasochism
by Jonathan Alexander
33
More Shakespeare in Carlyle
by David-Everett Blythe
36
Books Received
39
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 89
Spring 1996
Contents
Page
The Impossible Goal: The Struggle for Manhood in
Victorian Fiction
by Jacqueline Banerjee
1
The Restoration of the Angel: Female Vampirism
in Doyle's "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire''
by Cyndy Hendershot
10
A Source Victorian or Biblical?: The Integration of
Biblical Diction and Symbolism in Oscar Wilde's
Salome
by Jason P. Mitchell
14
―Birds of a Feather": On Swinburne's Nightingale
and Shelley's Skylark
by Chris Foss
17
Love at First Beet: Vegetarian Critical Theory Meats
Dracula
by J. e. d. Stavick
23
Gray's Elegy and Browning's "Apparent Failure"
by Ernest Fontana
29
A Psychiatric Interpretation of Dr Jekyll's "Case"
by Susan Heseltine Jagoda
31
Coming in The Victorian Newsletter
33
Books Received
34
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 88
Fall 1995
Contents
Page
Oscar Wilde: Crime and the "Glorious Shapes
of Art"
by Peter Allan Dale
1
Metamorphosis as Metaphor in Bram Stoker's
Dracula
by Pascale Krumm
5
Flatness and Ethical Responsibility in Little Dorrit
by Dominic Rainsford
11
Intertextuality and Intratextuality: The Full Text
of Christina Rossetti's "Harmony on First Corinthians
XIII'' Rediscovered
by Mary Arseneau and Jan Marsh
17
Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Jungian Images in
Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White
by Sophia Andres
26
Crucifixes and Madonnas: George Eliot's Fascination
with Catholicism in Romola
by Michael Schiefelbein
31
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Priest vs. Poet
by A. R. Coulthard
35
Coming in Victorian Newsletter
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Books Received
41
Group News
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 87
Spring 1995
Contents
Page
Kingsley's Hypatia: Foes Ever New
by Lionel Lackey
1
Representing the "Latent Vashti": Theatricality in
Charlotte Bronte's Villette
by Lisa Surridge
4
The Eclipse of the Text in Carlyle's Critical Discourse
by Gregory Maertz
''A Frame Perfect and Glorious": Narrative Structure
in Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by Elizabeth Signorotti
Swinburne's Internal Centre: Reply to an Article
by Rikky Rooksby
14
20
25
Tristram, Iseult and the Internalized Centre: A Note
on Rikky Rooksby's "New" Swinburne
by Peter Anderson
29
Books Received
34
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[35]
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 86
Fall 1994
Contents
Page
Respectability and Romantic Poets: Late-Victorian
Guides to Reading
by John L. Kijinsky
1
From a Certain Point of View in "A Scandal of
Bohemia": Outsmarting Mr. Sherlock Holmes
by James Griffith
7
Michael Henchard: Hardy's Male Homosexual
by Tod E. Jones
Spencer's Doctrines and Mr. Hyde: Moral Evolution
in Stevenson's "Strange Case''
by Christine Persak
Matthew Arnold and the French Marguerite Tradition
by A. S. Weber
Rossetti's Carlisle Wall and Scott's Lay of the Last
Minstrel
by Ernest Fontana
The Sublimity of Catherine and Heathcliff
by Patrick Kelly
9
13
18
23
24
Kate Field and Anthony Trollope: Re George Eliot
and George Henry Lewes
by Carolyn J. Moss
31
Books Received
34
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 85
Spring 1994
Contents
Page
Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South: A National
Bildungsroman
by Patricia E. Johnson
1
"Morbid and Fearful Conditions of Mind'' in
Ruskin's Modern Painters II
by Owen Rogal
9
"Delightfully Irregular": Esther's Nascent ecriture
feminine in Bleak House
by Lynette Felber
13
Multiculturalism and the Question of Audience:
Adam Bede as a Test Case
by Joyce Quiring Erickson
20
Christina Rossetti's "Helpmeet"
by Diane D'Amico
25
"I Read It in Your Eye'': Spiritual Vision in Jane Eyre
by Amanda B. Witt
29
Charlotte Bronte's New Corinne: Re-reading The
Professor
by Elizabeth McIntyre
34
Books Received
40
Group News
[41]
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 84
Fall 1993
Contents
Page
Eros and Logos in Some Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde:
A Jungian Interpretation
by Clifton Snider
1
"The Central Truth": Phallogocentrism in Aurora
Leigh
by Patricia Thomas Srebnik
9
"I Magnify My Office": Christina Rossetti's
Authoritative Voice in Her Devotional Prose
by Joel Westerholm
11
The Sterile Star of Venus: Swinburne's Dream of Flight
by Peter Anderson
18
Bringing to Earth the "Good Angel of the Race''
by Michael Schiefelbein
25
The Flawed Craft of A. E. Housman
by A. R. Coulthard
29
The Physiological Determinism Debate in Oscar
Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Terri A. Hasseler
31
Overdetermined Allegory in Jekyll and Hyde
by Cyndy Hendershot
35
Books Received
39
Group News
[41]
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 83
Spring 1993
Contents
Page
Agents of Empire in The Woman in White
by Lillian Nayder
1
Good Housekeeping: Job-Searching in Victorian Fiction
by Monica Feinberg
7
Utopian Dreams / Heterotopian Nightmares: Disease
and Discourse in Carlyle's Latter-Day Pamphlets
by John B. Lamb
11
Oliver Twist and the Contours of Early Victorian England
by David Paroissien
14
Alice's Ab-surd-ity: Demon in Wonderland
by Pamela K. Gilbert
17
Hopkins's Best Poem
by Francis J. Smith, S. J.
22
Culture, Nature, and Gender in Mary Ward's Robert
Elsmere and Helbeck of Bannisdale
by Laura Fasick
25
The Personification of Death in the Poems of
William Ernest Henley
by Joseph S. Salemi
31
Down Garden Paths: Charlotte Bronte's Haunts
of Self and Other
by Barbara Gates
35
Tennyson and "The Spirit of the Age''
by Judith Kennedy
43
Books Received
47
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 82
Contents
From Religious Ecstasy to Romantic Fulfillment:
John Wesley's Journal and the Death of Heathcliff
in Wuthering Heights
by Katherine M. Sorensen
Fall 1992
Page
1
No Name: Embodying the Sensation Heroine
by Melynda Huskey
5
"Devising New Means": Sartor Resartus and the
Devoted Reader
by Vivienne Rundle
13
The Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral in Elizabeth Gaskell's
Cousin Phillis
by Pearl L. Brown
22
Reading and Restoration in Tess of the D’Urbervilles
by Ronald D. Morrison
27
Maggie, Tom and Oedipus: A Lacanian Reading
of The Mill on the Floss
by Ranjini Philip
35
Revisionist Mythmaking in Christina Rossetti's
"Goblin Market‖: Eve's Apple and Other Questions
Revised and Reconsidered
by Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt
Mrs. Oliphant, Miss Marjoribanks, and the
Victorian Canon
by Joseph H. O'Mealy
40
44
Allusions to Literature in Trollope's Novels:
Interpreting the Evidence, with Identification of
Literary, Historical and other References in
Trollope's The Bertrams (1859) and Lady Anna (1874)
by James Means
The Pregnant Death of Dorian Gray
by John Gall
50
55
Being Rid of Women: Middle-class Ideology in
Hard Times
by Kristin Flieger Samuelian
58
Individuation and Consummation in Hardy's Jude
the Obscure: The Lure of the Void
by Mary Ann Kelly
62
Coming in The Victorian Newsletter
64
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 81
Spring 1992
Contents
Page
"No Originals, Only Copies": Pre-Raphaelite Images
of Belatedness and Innovation
by Elliott L. Gilbert
1
Gadamer's Hermeneutics and Newman's Illative
Sense: Objectivism, Relativism, and Dogma
by Paul H. Schmidt
6
Harriet Martineau in America: Gender and the
Discourse of Sociology
by Maria H. Frawley
13
Thomas Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes: The Heroine as Text
by Jo Devereux
20
New Light on Arthur Hugh Clough's Eight-Year Poetic Silence
by Janice E. Keller
23
A Reading of Swinburne's "A Leave-Taking'' in
Light of Arnold's "The Forsaken Merman''
by J. L. Kerbaugh and Margret Kerbaugh
29
Narrative Disfigurement and the Unnamed Friend
in Tennyson's The Lover's Tale
by Ernest Fontana
33
Cultural Cartography: A. S. Byatt's Possession and
the Politics of Victorian Studies
by Louise Yelin
38
―Experiments Made by Nature": Mapping the
Nineteenth-Century Hysterical Body
by Dianne F. Sadoff
41
The Birth of Culture from the Spirit of Cartography
by David Faulkner
45
"What Cannot Be'': John Addington Symonds's
Memoirs and Homosexuality
by Joseph Cady
47
The Ring and the Book and Light in August:
Faulkner's Response to Browning
by Martin Bidney
51
Waiting for Thou: Resurrecting Clough's
"Seven Sonnets''
by Robert Johnson
59
Books Received
62
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 80
Contents
Following the Thread: Dickens and the Seamstress
by Lynn M. Alexander
Fall 1991
Page
1
Fair Margaret of "Maiden Song": Rossetti's
Response to the Romantic Nightingale
by Diane D'Amico
8
A Tale of Two Cities: Dickens, Revolution, and
the "Other" C________ D_________
by Franklin E. Court
14
Dickens and Eliot in Dialogue: Empty Space, Angels
and Maggie Tulliver
by Nancy Cervetti
18
Hopkins's Panic in "Spring"
by Joseph H. Gardner
23
Mary, Narcissus, and Quasimodo: Three Touchstones
for Pre-Raphaelitism and Aestheticism
by Nathan Cervo
26
"A cool observer of her own sex like me'':
Girl-Watching in Jane Eyre
by Annette Federico
29
Coming in the Victorian Newsletter
33
In Defense of Biography: Versions of Marguerite
and Why She Really Does Matter
by Bill Bell
34
Biography, the Interpretation of Meaning, and the
Seeking of Significances
by Wendell Harris
37
Books Received
39
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 79
Spring 1991
Contents
Page
Dying to Know
by George Levine
1
Poetry and the Scientization of Language: "Geist''
Son of "Waldmann''
by Peter Allan Dale
4
Thomas Carlyle and Dynamical Symbolism: The
Lesson of Edward Irving
by Tom Lloyd
9
Images of Middle-Eastern Women in Victorian
Travel Books
by Charisse Gendron
18
The "Condition of England Question": Past and
Present and Bleak House
by R. Bland Lawson
24
Oliver Twisted: Narrative and Doubling in
Dickens's Second Novel
by Stephen Bernstein
27
Dickens, Dickens, Micawber . . . and Bakhtin
by Stanley Tick
34
In Defense of Latimer: A Study of Narrative
Technique in George Eliot's "The Lifted Veil''
by Millie M. Kidd
37
The Diachronic Frame of Tennyson's "Morte d'Arthur‖
by Roger Platizky
41
Books Received
44
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 78
Fall 1990
Contents
Page
Antinomianism or Anarchy: A Note on Oscar
Wilde's "Pen, Pencil and Poison''
by William E. Buckler
1
Sara Coleridge: The Gigadibs Complex
by Nathan Cervo
3
"On Tuesday Last, at St. George's . . .'': The
Dandaical Wedding in Dickens
by Patricia Marks
9
Ruskin to the "Elusive'' Mr. Horn; An Unpublished
Letter from a Neglected Friendship
by Warren Dwyer
14
"Three Cups in One'': A Reading of "The Woodspurge''
by Andrew Leng
19
Faith of Our Mothers: Elizabeth Gaskell's "Lizzie Leigh''
by Joanne Thompson
22
The Problem of the Man-Trap in Hardy's The Woodlanders
by Jonathan C. Glance
26
Sartor Redivivus, or Retailoring Carlyle for the
Undergraduate Classroom
by Linda K. Hughes
29
Identification of Literary, Historical and other References in
Trollope's The Macdermots of Ballycloran (1847), The Three
Clerks (1858), Rachel Ray (1863), The Vicar of Bullhampton
(1870), Ralph the Heir (1871), and The American Senator (1877)
by James Means
Books Received
32
39
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 77
Spring 1990
Contents
Page
Pensee Sauvage at the MLA: Victorian Cultural
Imperialism Then and Now
by Patrick Brantlinger
1
The Power of the Word: Scientific Nomenclature
and the Spread of Empire
by Harriet Ritvo
5
The Anti-comedy of The Trumpet Major
by Richard Nemesvari
8
Behind "Golden Barriers": Framing and Taming
the Blessed Damozel
by Andrew Leng
13
Scenes of Marital Life: The Middle March of
Extratextual Reading
by Monica L. Feinberg
16
―The Coronation of the Whirlwind‖: The Victorian
Poetics of Indeterminacy
by Lawrence J. Starzyk
27
The Dover Switch, Or the New Sexism at "Dover Beach''
by Eugene R. August
35
Books Received
38
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 76
Fall 1989
Contents
Page
Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Misfortune Is a Woman
by Elizabeth Campbell
1
Family Plot: The Bleak House of Victorian
Romance
by Monica Feinberg
5
The Agnostic's Apology: A New Reading of Oscar
Wilde's ''The Portrait of Mr. W. H.''
by William E. Buckler
17
Sexual Politics and Narrative Method in
Tennyson's ''Guinevere''
by Richard A. Sylvia
23
The Lure of Biography: Who Was Marguerite and
to Whom Does It Matter?
by Wendell Harris
28
The Dover Glitch: Soul a la Sole
by Nathan Cervo
31
Response to Nathan Cervo
by Gerhard Joseph
34
''Why Can't a Duck Be More Like a Rabbit''
by Tom Hayes
35
Books Received
36
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 75
Spring 1989
Contents
Page
Ruskin's Pied Beauty and the Constitution of a
''Homosexual'' Code
by Linda Dowling
1
Why the Ghost of Oscar Wilde Manifests in
Finnegans Wake
by Grace Eckley
9
Darwin's Comedy: The Autobiography as Comic
Narrative
by Eugene R. August
15
A ''Root Deeper Than All Change": The Daughter's
Longing in the Victorian Novel
by Suzy Clarkson Holstein
20
The Literary Significance of Edmund Burke to
Matthew Arnold
by Dan Ritchie
28
Books Received
36
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 74
Fall 1988
Contents
Page
The Gothic Form of Wuthering Heights
by George E. Haggerty
1
A Rural Singing Match: Pastoral and Georgic in
Adam Bede
by Bruce S. Thornton
6
The Sublimation of Carnival in Ruskin's Theory of
the Grotesque
by James Diedrick
11
The Narrator as Protoreader in The French
Lieutenant's Woman
by Jerome Bump
16
Evangelical Doctrine and George Eliot's Narrator in
Middlemarch
by Katherine M. Sorensen
18
''Dover Beach," Hardy's Version
by James Persoon
Protoplasmic Hierarchy and Philosophical Harmony:
Science and Hegelian Aesthetics in Oscar Wilde's
Notebooks
by Philip E. Smith
27
30
Above Ruskin's Labyrinth
by Andelys Wood
33
Kipling, Joyce and the ''Bitched Line''
by David H. Stewart
37
Two New Letters on Matthew Arnold and English
Protestantism in 1869
by Clinton Machann
39
Visions of Wholeness and Voices from the Deep:
Kindred Wanderers in Byron's ''The Dream'' and
Tennyson's ''Ulysses''
by Martin Bidney
41
Ontogeny and Phylogeny in The Mill on the Floss
by Preston Fambrough
46
Swinburne's Imitations of Catullus
by George M. Ridenour
51
Swinburne's ''Lancelot'' and Pre-Raphaelite
Medievalism
by Rebecca Cochran
58
Books Received
63
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 73
Spring 1988
Contents
Page
Inventing Victorians: Virginia Woolf's "Memoirs
of a Novelist"
by Mary Kaiser Loges
1
Distortion Versus Revaluation: Three TwentiethCentury Responses to Victorian Fiction
by Jerome Meckier
3
The Dover Bitch: Victorian Duck or Modernist
Duck/Rabbit
by Gerhard Joseph
8
Carlyle's Denial of Axiological Content in Science
by Charles W. Schaefer
Mixed Metaphor, Mixed Gender: Swinburne and
the Victorian Critics
by Thais E. Morgan
10
16
The Humanities Tradition of Matthew Arnold
by William E. Buckler
20
Oliver (Un)Twisted: Narrative Strategies in Oliver Twist
by Joseph Sawicki
23
Representation and Homophobia in The Picture
of Dorian Gray
by Richard Dellamora
28
Coming In The Victorian Newsletter
31
Books Received
32
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 72
Fall 1987
Contents
Page
Swinburne, Clough, and the Speechless Christ:
"Before a Crucifix'' and "Easter Day''
by M. K. Louis
1
Pier Glasses and Sympathy in Eliot's Middlemarch
by Barbara McGovern
6
The Religion of Culture: Arnold's Priest and Pater's
Mystic
by Clay Daniel
9
Walter Pater's "Romantic Morality''
by Wolhee Choe
12
Bent and Broken Necks: Signs of Design in Stoker's
Dracula
by Alan Johnson
17
Woman and the Muse: The Lifeblood of Samuel
Smiles' Workers
by William B. Thesing
24
Treasure Island as a Late-Victorian Adults' Novel
by David H. Jackson
28
Darling Mothers, Devilish Queens: The Divided
Woman in Victorian Fantasy
by Susan A. Walsh
32
Christina Rossetti's Christian Year: Comfort for
"the weary heart''
by Diana D'Amico
36
Light on Some George Eliot Metaphors: Seeing
Things in Their True Colors
by Selma B. Brody
42
The Religious Poetry of Ernest Dowson
by Joseph S. Salemi
The Narrative Experimentalist of Tennyson's "Sea
Dreams"
by Richard A. Sylvia
Merlin in Victorian Poetry: A Jungian Analysis
by Clifton Snider
What the Dead Are Doing Underground: Hades and
Heaven in the Writings of Christina Rossetti
by Linda E. Marshall
44
47
51
55
Framing Wilde
by Gerhard Joseph
61
Books Received
64
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 71
Contents
Spring 1987
Page
Arnold among the Contentions of Criticism
by Holly Laird
1
Closure and the Victorian Novel, 1986
by Marianna Torgovnick
4
Victorian Weaving: The Alienation of Work into
Text in "The Lady of Shalott"
by Gerhard Joseph
7
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Anne Bronte's Jane Eyre
by Margaret Mary Berg
10
The Poor Fictionist's Conscience: Point of View in
the Palliser Novels
by Patricia A. Vernon
16
A New Perspective: Naturalism in George Moore's
A Mummer's Wife
by Judith Mitchell
20
Browning's Testament of His Devisings in
The Ring and the Book
by Joseph A. Dupras
27
Books Received
32
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 70
Fall 1986
Contents
Page
Disraeli and Carlyle's "Aristocracy of Talent": The
Role of Millbank in Coningsby Reconsidered
by Nils Clausson
1
The Reader as Whoremonger: A Phenomenological
Approach to Rossetti's "Jenny''
by Michael Cohen
5
Letters and Novels ''One Woman Wrote to Another":
George Eliot's Responses to Elizabeth Gaskell
by Robyn R. Warhol
8
J.E. Millais' Bubbles: A Work of Art in the Age of
Mechanical Reproduction
by William Sharpe
15
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: Bildungsroman or
anti-Bildungsroman?
by Nikki Lee Manos
18
Christianity, Spiritualism, and the Fourth Dimension
in Late Victorian England
by Rosemary Jann
24
Great Burke and Poor Boswell: Carlyle and the
Historian's Task
by Elizabeth Wheeler
28
Coming in Victorian Newsletter
31
Books Received
32
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 69
Contents
The Novel as Risk and Compromise, Poetry as Safe
Haven: Hardy and the Victorian Reading Public,
1863-1901
by William W. Morgan
Spring 1986
Page
1
Bard and Lady Novelist: Swinburne and the Novel
of (Mrs.) Manners
by David G. Riede
4
Genre and Gender in Aurora Leigh
by Dorothy Mermin
7
Walter Pater: The Critic and the Irrational
by Robert Keefe
12
He Stoops to Conquer: Redeeming the Fallen Woman in
the Fiction of Dickens, Gaskell and Their Contemporaries
by Laura Hapke
16
Trollope's Ground of Meaning: The Macdermots
of Ballycloran
by Sarah Gilead
23
Byron and Disraeli
by Peter W. Graham
26
Wilde's Autobiographical Signature in The Picture
of Dorian Gray
by Karl Beckson
30
Books Received
32
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 68
Fall 1985
Contents
Page
The Sources of Ruskin's Golden River
by Suzanne Rahn
1
Prelude and Finale to Middlemarch
by Harriet Farwell Adams
9
Eothen Again
by Charisse Gendron
11
Dorothea and Her Husbands: Some Autobiographical
Sources for Speculation
by Sara M. Putzell-Korab and Martine Watson Brownley
15
The Pilgrims of the Rhine: The Failure of the German
Bildungsroman in England
by Edwin M. Eigner
19
No Wragg by the Ilissus? A Note on Matthew Arnold's
''Wragg is in custody''
by Charles Swann
21
Hardy's "Mute Opinion": An Interpretation
by Laurence Perrine
23
The Waif at the Window: Emily Bronte's Feminine
Bildungsroman
by Annette R. Federico
26
Pater's Temporizing: The "Conclusion'' to
The Renaissance
by Ross Borden
29
Books Received
32
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 67
Spring 1985
Contents
Page
Aubrey Beardsley Counts the Ways
by Linda Gertner Zatlin
1
Domesticating the Brutal Passion in Nineteenthcentury Fiction
by Harriet Farwell Adams
Tennyson's Courtship of Sorrow
by Sylvia Manning
"Love in a Life": The Case of Nietzsche and
Lou Salome
by William Beatty Warner
7
10
14
Wilde's Closet Self: A Solo at One Remove
by Nathan Cervo
17
"When Critics Disagree''
by Kerry Powell
20
Physical Opposition in Barnaby Rudge
by Brian Rosenberg
21
Herbert Spencer and the Study of Laughter
by Michael S. Kearns
23
Robert Browning and Aurora Leigh
by George M. Ridenour
26
Books Received
32
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 66
Fall 1984
Contents
Page
Nero and the Aesthetics of Torture
by Linda Dowling
1
Genre and Perspective in the Study of Victorian
Women Writers: The Case of Elizabeth Missing Sewell
by Patrick Scott
5
Rossetti's intelligenza nova: Perception, Poetry and
Vision in Dante at Verona
by Thomas L. Cooksey
10
A. E. Housman's Two Strategies: A Shropshire Lad
and Last Poems
by Robert K. Martin
14
The Lady as Criminal: Contradiction and Resolution
in Trollope's Orley Farm
by Laura Hapke
18
"Childe Roland'' and Two Other Poems by Browning
by Myra Armistead
22
Lombroso's Criminal Man and Stoker's Dracula
by Ernest Fontana
25
Recollections of Tennyson by Sir George Prothero
in the Tennyson Research Centre
by Richard Collins
28
Books Received
32
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 65
Spring 1984
Contents
Page
Looking Backward—Victorian Poetry and Prose
by Jerome H. Buckley
1
Looking Backward: The Victorian Novel
by George H. Ford
3
Looking Forward: American Feminists, Victorian Sages
by Elaine Showalter
6
The Mesmerizing of Dorian Gray
by Kerry Powell
10
Dicken's War against the Militancy of the Oppressed
by Atta Britwum
15
Chaos and Cosmos: Carlyle's Idea of History
by Lowell T. Frye
19
George Eliot: Feminist Critic
by Carol A. Martin
22
"Muscular Christianity'' and Brutality: The Case of
Tom Brown
by Henry R. Harrington
26
Rossetti's Use of the ―Great Mother'' Mythos in "A
Last Confession''
by Nathan Cervo
29
Books Received
32
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 64
Fall 1983
Contents
Page
"Joy came in the evening": A Note on a Serious Joke
in George Eliot's Diary
by Shoshana Knapp
1
Swinburne in Hellas: "A Nympholept''
by George M. Ridenour
4
The Victorian Nightmare of Evolution: Charles
Darwin and Walter Bagehot
by Martha Westwater
9
Supposed Confessions, Uttered Thoughts: The Firstperson Singular in Tennyson's Poetry
by Timothy Peltason
13
Avoiding the High Prophetic Strain: De Quincey's
Mail-coach and Felix Holt
by Susan R. Cohen
19
Bleak House: Dickens, Esther, and the Androgynous
Mind
by Carol A. Senf
21
To Be Brought Up ''By Hand''
by Susan Schoenbauer Thurin
27
The Unity of Kidnapped
by Ralph Stewart
30
Coming in Victorian Newsletter
32
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 63
Spring 1983
Contents
Page
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Moment of the Picture
by Kelsey Thornton
1
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Caught Between Two Centuries
by Miriam Fuchs
3
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Pull of Silence
by Hartley S. Spatt
7
The Burden of Nineveh
by Carl Woodring
12
Parody and Homage: The Presence of Pater in Dorian Gray
[by Robert K. Martin]
15
The Christening of the New Woman: May 1894
by Ellen Jordan
19
The Image of St. Theresa in Middlemarch and Positive Ethics
by Franklin E. Court
21
The Disappearance of Tragedy in Meredith's "Modern Love''
by Hans Ostrom
26
Books Received
31
Coming in Victorian Newsletter
32
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 62
Fall 1982
Contents
Page
Early Verse by ''Unfortunate W. Thackeray''
by Juliet McMaster
1
"A Habitable Doll's House'': Beginning in Bleak House
by Thorell Tsomondo
3
Nietzsche, Bagehot and the Morality of Custom
by David S. Thatcher
7
Voices in a Dream: The Language of Skepticism in
Tennyson's "The Hesperides''
by Aidan Day
13
Tennyson's Narrative of Desire: The Lover's Tale
by Herbert F. Tucker, Jr.
21
Self-validation in Housman's A Shropshire Lad
LXII (Terence, This is Stupid Stuff)
by Eddy Dow
30
Coming in Victorian Newsletter
31
Books Received
32
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 61
Spring 1982
Contents
Page
George Eliot and the Victorian "Historic Imagination"
by Brian Rosenberg
1
The Victorian Historical Sense and Modernism
by Louis Menand
5
Carlyle's Incidental Montage: The Guises and the
Theory of Transcendent Historicism
by Rodger L. Tarr
8
The Historical Imagination: Browning and Pound
by Adena Rosmarin
11
Imitation in ―The Lady of Shalott‖
by Nathan Cervo
17
Adrian's Shrug: A Note on the "Wise Youth''
by Thomas J. Campbell
19
Carlyle's Secret Debt to Schiller: The Concept of
Goethe's Genius
by Lee C. R. Baker
Arnold and Bolingbroke
by Joseph Carroll
21
23
The Key to All Mythologies - A Possible Source
of Inspiration
by Katharina M. Wilson
27
Carlyle's Historical Imagination: Untrue Facts and
Unfactual Truths
by Beverly Taylor
29
Books Received
32
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 60
Fall 1981
Contents
Page
Tennyson and Carlyle: A Source for "The Eagle"
by Paul F. Mattheisen
1
The Schooling of John Bull: Form and Moral in
Talbot Baines Reed's Boys' Stories and in Kipling's
Stalky & Co.
by Patrick Scott
3
How It Struck A Contemporary: Tennyson's ―Lancelot
and Elaine‖ and Pre-Raphaelite Art
by Catherine Barnes Stevenson
8
Amours de Voyage and Matthew Arnold in Love:
An Inquiry
by Eugene R. August
15
Tennyson's "Ulysses" as Rhetorical Monologue
by Mary Saunders
The Mathematical References to the Adoption of the
Gregorian Calendar in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures
in Wonderland
by Laurence Dreyer
Self-Helpers and Self-seekers: Some Changing Attitudes
to Wealth, 1840-1910
by J. L. Winter
20
24
27
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 59
Spring 1981
Contents
Page
Style in Ruskin and Ruskin on Style
by Wendell Stacy Johnson
1
Literature and Dogma and Literature: New Textual
Perspective on Matthew Arnold's Critical Organicism
by William E. Buckler
6
Hopkins' Paradigms of Language
by Jerome Bump
17
Clocking the Reader in the Long Victorian Novel
by Michael Lund
22
Symbolic Representation and The Means of Revolution
in Daniel Deronda
by Peter Dale
25
Recent German Studies of Victorian Literature: 1979
by Werner Bies
31
Books Received
32
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 58
Fall 1980
Contents
Page
A Psychoanalytic Rereading of David Copperfield
by Gordon D. Hirsh
1
Midas and The Bell-Jar: Carlyle's Poetics of History
by Richard L. Stein
5
The Uncanny Critic of Brasenose: Walter Pater and
Modernists
by Sharon Bassett
10
The Path to True Civilization: Celt and Saxon and
Meredith's View of Anglo-lrish Relations
by Terrence L. Grimes
14
Becky Sharp and the Three Per Cent Solution
by Ira Bruce Nadel
20
Structure in Kipling's Kim
by David H. Stewart
24
Imposture and Absence in Wilde's ''Portrait of Mr. W.H.''
by Linda Dowling
26
Teaching Long Victorian Novels in Parts
by Michael Lund
29
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 57
Spring 1980
Contents
Page
Hopkins, Christina Rossetti, and Pre-Raphaelitism
by Jerome Bump
1
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Their Circle:
The Formation of the Victorian Avant-Garde
by Herbert Sussman
7
"The Thing Signified'' in The Dynasts: A Speculation
by William E. Buckler
9
Druids, Bards, and Tennyson's Merlin
by Catherine Barnes Stevenson
14
Thackeray's Journalism: Apprenticeship for Writer
and Reader
by Elizabeth Segel
Ruskin's Changing Evaluation of Poetic Vision
by Helen Pike Bauer
23
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Number 56
Fall 1979
Contents
Page
Newman's Way with the Reader in A Grammar
of Assent
by Philip Snyder
1
Tennyson, Chambers and Recapitulation
by D. C. Leonard
7
W. B. Yeats, Matthew Arnold and The Critical
Imperative
by Vinod Sena
10
John Ruskin, C. R. Cockerell and The Proportions
of Architecture
by Michael Brooks
14
Michael and his Lost Angel: Archetypal Conflict
and Victorian Life
by Bruce Wallis
20
Perspectives on Henry Esmond
by Mary Rosner
26
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 55
Spring 1979
Contents
Page
Deja vu Inverted: the Imminent Future in Walter
Pater's Marius the Epicurean
by William E. Buckler
1
Rights, Reason, and Redemption: Charlotte Bronte's
Neo-Platonism
by Sara Moore Putzell
5
Tractarian Aesthetics: Analogy and Reserve in
Keble and Newman
by G. B. Tennyson
8
Bruising the Serpent's Head: Topological Symbol in
Victorian Poetry
by George P. Landow
11
High Tea and Matzo Balls: Religion in the Victorian
Jewish Novel
by Linda Gertner Zatlin
15
Hardy, Barnes, and the Provincial
by Donald Wesling
18
Father and Mother in Father and Son
by E. Pearlman
19
Time in Nicholas Nickelby
by Patricia Marks
23
In Which a Poet is Frightened by a Lion: The
Philosophical Context of Mill's Poetic Theory
by Jonathan Loesburg
26
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32
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 54
Fall 1978
Contents
Page
Ironic Translation in Fifine at the Fair
by Dorothy Mermin
1
The Heroine of Middlemarch
by Gordon S. Haight
4
How Many Children had Barry Lyndon?
by Winslow Rogers
8
Martin Chuzzlewit: The Art of the Critical
Imagination
by David D. Marcus
10
A New Carlyle Manuscript
by Roger L. Tarr
16
Disraeli's Sybil and Hollinshed's Chronicles
by Lois E. Bueler
17
Thackeray in Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of
Charlotte Bronte: Some Manuscript & Evidence
by Angus Easson
19
Dickens with a Voice like Burke's
by Louie Crew
In Defense of Margaret: Another Look at Arnold's
''The Forsaken Merman''
by Frank R. Giordano, Jr.
22
23
Yeats, Tennyson, and "Innisfree"
by Gary Sloan
29
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 53
Spring 1978
Contents
Page
―Why Unblooms the Best Hope?‖: Victorian
Narrative Forms and the Explanation of Calamity
by James R. Kincaid
1
Browning: The Activation of Influence
by Loy D. Martin
―The Intricate Invasions of As‖: Meredith’s Theory
of Figure
by Michael Sprinkler
4
9
Victorian Philology and Victorian Poetry
by Dennis Taylor
13
The Unpleasantness at the Garrick Club
by Albert Borowitz
16
Vision of Evil: The Influence of Wilde’s Salome
on Heart of Darkness and A Full Moon in March
by Christopher S. Nassaar
23
Love and Strife in ―Dover Beach‖
by D. S. Neff
28
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Arthur F. Minerof
30
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 52
Fall 1977
Contents
Page
Trollope and Romanticism
by David R. Eastwood
1
Thomas Hardy’s Financial Exigencies
by William J. Hyde
5
George Eliot’s Debt to Villette
by Charles Burkhart
10
Francis Turner Palgrave’s Criticisms of Tennyson’s
In Memoriam
by John O. Waller
13
The Sources of Hopkins’ Inscape: Epistemology
at Oxford, 1864-1868
by Thomas A. Zaniello
18
The Uses of Solitude: Dickens and Robinson Crusoe
by G. W. Kennedy
25
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Arthur F. Minerof
30
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 51
Spring 1977
Contents
Page
The Victorian View of Russian Literature
by Harold Orel
1
Newman and the Victorian Cult of Style
by David J. DeLaura
6
Contrasting Pictorial Representations of Time:
The Dural Narration of Bleak House
by Devra Braun Rosenberg
10
Swinburne's Craft of Pure Expression
by Anthony H. Harrison
16
Heart of Stone: An Emblem for Conversion
by C. S. Vogel
21
Thomas Hardy's Correspondence with Sir George
Douglas
by M. D. Wilkie
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Arthur F. Minerof
Victorian Group News
25
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 50
Fall 1976
Contents
Page
Type Needs Antitype: The Structure of Browning's
Parleyings
by Mark Siegchrist
1
Hopkins, Pater, and Medievalism
by Jerome Bump
10
Suicide and Wuthering Heights
by Barbara Gates
15
Charlotte Bronte: The Importance of Being British
by Phyllis J. Read
20
A Note on Ruskin's Mythography
by Frederick Kirchoff
24
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Arthur F. Minerof
28
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32
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 49
Spring 1976
Contents
Page
Desperate Remedies: Sensation Novels of the 1860s
by Elaine Showalter
1
"Feeling Hot'': Victorian Drama and the Censors
by John R. Elliott, Jr.
5
A Straight Bat and a Modest Mind
by Coral Lansbury
9
Hymns for Children: Cultural Imperialism in
Victorian England
by Susan S. Tamke
18
Arnold's Two Regions of Form
by Mary W. Schneider
22
The Double Narrator in The Amazing Marriage
by Robert M. DeGraaff
24
Stammering in the Dodgson Family: An
Unpublished Letter by 'Lewis Carroll'
by Joseph Sigman and Richard Slobodin
26
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Arthur F. Minerof
28
Victorian Group News
31
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 48
Fall 1975
Contents
Page
Pater and His Younger Contemporaries
by Gerald Monsman
1
The ''Central Fiery Heart": Ruskin's Remaking of
Dante
by Martin Bidney
Why Thackeray Went To See a Man Hanged
by Albert I. Horowitz
''Nor help for pain": Matthew Arnold and Sophocles'
Philoctetes
by Ellen S. Gahtan
9
15
21
When Did Tennyson Meet Rosa Baring?
by Jack Kolb
26
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Arthur F. Minerof
28
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 47
Spring 1975
Contents
Page
The Forms of Victorian Fiction
by James R. Kincaid
1
Method and Moral in George Eliot's Narrative
by Elizabeth Ermarth
4
Vision and Form: The English Novel and the
Emergence of the Short Story
by Wendell V. Harris
8
Progressive Dubiety: The Discontinuity of
Disraeli's Political Trilogy
by Daniel R. Schwarz
12
Pater's Conception of the Renaissance: From Sources
to Personal Ideal
by Billie Andrew Inman
19
Critical Forum
G. B. Tennyson, Robert O. Preyer, James G. Nelson,
Phyllis Grosskurth
24
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Arthur F. Minerof
29
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 46
Fall 1974
Contents
Page
Pater, Hopkins, and the Self
by Gerald Monsman
1
Change and Changelessness in Bleak House
by Dianne F. Sadoff
5
Argument and Strategy in Mill's The Subjection of
Women
by Rise B. Axelrod
10
Carlyle and Ruskin: The Private Side of the Public
Coin
by Eloise K. Goreau
15
Hard Times, Page One: An Analysis
by Stanley Tick
20
Hardy, Mrs. Oliphant, and Jude the Obscure
by Norman Page
22
''A Good Hand at a Serial": Thomas Hardy and the
Art of Fiction
by Audrey C. Peterson
24
Irony and Sentimentality: Conflicting Modes in
Martin Chuzzlewit
by Richard Hannaford
26
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Arthur F. Minerof
English X News
28
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 45
Spring 1974
Contents
Page
The Image of the Anima in the Work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
by Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi
1
Elections in Victorian Fiction
by J. R. Dinwiddy
8
Hopkins' Reading of Arnold
by Margaret Stothart
13
John Tyndall and Tennyson's ''Lucretius''
by Sharon Mayer Libera
19
The Aesthetic Function of the ''Weird Seizures'' in The Princess
by Catherine Barnes Stevenson
21
Pipkins and Kettles in Vanity Fair
by David Leon Higdon
25
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Arthur F. Minerof
27
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 44
Fall 1973
Contents
Page
What You Always Wanted To Know About Alice
but Were Afraid To Ask
by Donald Rackin
1
Two Approaches to Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs
by Edmund Miller
5
The Nuns of Villette
by Charles Burkhart
8
Childhood and the Victorian Ideal of Manliness in
Tom Brown's Schooldays
by Henry R. Herrington
13
A Reading of Morris' The Defence of Guenevere and
Other Poems
by Patrick Brantlinger
18
Dante Gabriel Rosetti and Ernest Chesneau
by Mario Maurin
24
Hopkins' "Dapple-Dawn-Drawn" Charioteer
by Bruce Wallis
26
Who Was Lady Morley?
by John W. Bicknell and C. L. Cline
28
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 43
Contents
Spring 1973
Page
THE STATE OF VICTORIAN STUDIES: 1962-1972
Introductory Remarks
by Robert A. Colby
1
Victorian Nonfiction Prose
by G. B. Tennyson
3
Victorian Poetry
by R. C. Tobias
8
Victorian Fiction
by Lionel Stevenson
11
Emily Bronte and the Responsible Imagination
by Victor A. Neufeldt
15
Wave and Fire Imagery in Tennyson's Idylls
by Henry Koziki
21
Tennyson and the Spasmodics
by Joseph J. Collins
24
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Arthur E. Minerof
28
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 42
Fall 1972
Contents
Page
The Martyr Clown: Oscar Wilde in De Profundis
by Joseph Butwin
1
On Some Aspects of the Comic in Great
Expectations
by Henri Talon
6
A Missing Childhood in Hard Times
by Edward Hurley
11
A Reading of Hopkins' "Epithalamion"
by Lionel Adey
16
Fictional Conventions and Sexuality in Dracula
by Carrol L. Fry
20
Thackeray's Esmond and Anne Manning's "Spurious
Antiques''
by James C. Simmons
22
Tom Thumb Versus High Art: Douglas Jerrold's
"The English in Little''
by Angus Easson
25
Recent Publications : A Selected List
by Arthur E. Minerof
26
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32
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 41
Spring 1972
Contents
Page
Mrs. Gamp as the Great Mother: A Dickensian Use
of the Archetype
by Veronica M. S. Kennedy
1
Rossetti's Changing Style: The Revisions of "My
Sister's Sleep''
by Herbert Sussman
6
The Sketch of the Three Masks in Romola
by W. J. Sullivan
9
Tory-Radicalism and "The Two Nations'' in
Disraeli's Sybil
by Patrick Brantlinger
13
Two Notes on Religion in David Copperfield
by E. Pearlman
18
In Memoriam and The Excursion: A Matter of Comparison
by Stuart F. C. Niermeier
20
Past or Future Mindscapes: Pictures in Jane Eyre
by M. B. McLaughlin
22
The Midsummer Eves of Shakespeare and Christina
Rossetti
by Warren Herendeen
24
A Victorian "Modest Proposal''
by Charles T. Dougherty
27
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Arthur E. Minerof
28
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 40
Fall 1971
Contents
Page
Four Early Studies from Pater's The Renaissance:
The Aesthetics for a Humanist Myth
by William H. Sullivan
1
Art Amidst Revolution: Ruskin in 1848
by Edward Alexander
8
John Ruskin and the Nature of Manliness
by David Sonstroem
14
The Verdict in Whistler V. Ruskin
by Francis L. Fennell
17
William Morris and the Tannhauser Legend: A Gloss
on the Earthly Paradise Motif
by Barbara Fass
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Arthur F. Minerof
English X News
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27
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 39
Spring 1971
Contents
Page
Victorian Poetics: An Approach Through Genre
by W. David Shaw
1
Spiritual Confusion and Artistic Form in Victorian
Poetry
by Michael G. Sundell
4
Tennyson's Painted Shell
by Richard C. Tobias
7
A Note on Matthew Arnold in Love
by Park Honan
11
Robert Browning, Robert Chambers, and Mr. Home,
the Medium
by Milton Millhauser
15
The Dramatic Relationship Between ―By the FireSide‖ and ―Any Wife to Any Husband‖
by Richard Kelly
20
On the Naming of Hardy's Egdon Heath
by Allan C. Christensen
22
Another Possible Source for Dickens' Miss Havisham
by Stanley Friedman
24
The Devil in the Flesh: Samuel Butler's
"Confessional" Novel
by Joseph T. Bennett
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Arthur F. Minerof
English X News
25
29
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 38
Fall 1970
Contents
Page
Dickens' Portrait of the Artist
by Edward Hurley
1
Black and White Characters in Hard Times
by Mary Rose Sullivan
5
"All Her Perfections Tarnished": The Thematic
Function of Esther Summerson
by Mary Daehler Smith
10
Another Look at Hardy's ''Afterwards''
by David S. Thatcher
14
Meredith's Experiments with Ideas
by J. Raban Bilder
18
Huxley, Holmes, and the Scientist as Aesthete
by Phyllis Rose
22
Tory Noodles in Sydney Smith and Charles Dickens:
An Unnoticed Parallel
by Robert Simpson McLean
24
Stanza Form in Meredith's Modern Love
by Willie D. Reader
26
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Arthur F. Minerof
28
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 37
Spring 1970
Contents
Page
The Warp of Mill's ''Fabric'' of Thought
by Wendell V. Harris
1
Mill on De Quincey: Esprit Critique Revoked
by James G. Murray
7
John Stuart Mill on Dogmatism, Liberticide, and
Revolution
by Edward Alexander
12
Pickwick's ''Magnanimous Revenge": Reason and
Responsibility in the Pickwick Papers
by Fred Kaplan
18
Bishop Blougram and the Cardinals
by Ellen F. Shields
21
Henry Kingsley and the Governor Eyre Controversy
by William H. Scheuerle
24
G. W. E. Russell and the Editing of Matthew
Arnold's Letters
by William S. Peterson
27
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Arthur F. Minerof
29
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 36
Fall 1969
Contents
Page
Bleak House and the Brothers Grimm
by Joseph T. Flibbert
1
New Perspective on the Companion Poems of
Robert Browning
by Nancy B. Rich
5
Abandon the Day: FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar
Khayyam
by David Sonstroem
10
Thomas Hardy: The Poor Man and the Deterioration
of His Ladies
by W. J. Hyde
14
H. G. Wells's "Jungle Book'': The Influence of
Kipling on The Island of Dr. Moreau
by Robert L. Platzner
19
The Italian Renaissance and Some Late Victorians
by Alan P. Johnson
23
Hopkins' ''Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves''
by Norman White
27
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Arthur F Minerof
28
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 35
Spring 1969
Contents
Page
The Poet as Heroic Thief: Tennyson's "The Hesperides''
Reexamined
by James D. Merriman
1
Narrative Sequence and the Moral System: Three Tristram
Poems
by Masao Miyoshi
5
Anthony Trollope, or The Man with No Style at All
by Ruth apRoberts
10
Centripetal Vision in Pater's Marius
by James A. W. Heffernan
13
Sainthood and Dorothea Brooke
by Robert F. Damm
18
Tennyson, Vestiges, and the Dark Side of Science
by Milton Millhauser
22
Morris and Timekeeping
by Littleton Long
25
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Arthur F. Minerof
28
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 34
Fall 1968
Contents
Page
Trollope Empiricus
by Ruth apRoberts
1
Disraeli and the ''Baronial Principle": Some Versions
of Romantic Medievalism
by Bernard McCabe
7
Tennyson's Death in Life in Lyric and Myth: ''Tears,
Idle Tears'' and ''Demeter and Persephone''
by Gerhard Joseph
13
The Quickset Hedge: Ruskin's Early Prose
by N. N. Feltes
18
Metaphor and Method in Mill's On Liberty
by David R. Sanderson
22
The Parson-snob Controversy and Vanity Fair
by Myron Taube
25
Putting Quilp to Rest
by Robert Simpson McLean
29
Charlotte Bronte's Shirley and John Leyden's "The
Cout of Keeldar''
by Katherine Ware Ankenbrandt
33
Gareth's Four Antagonists: A Biblical Source
by W. David Shaw
34
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Arthur F. Minerof
35
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 33
Spring 1968
Contents
Page
Of Time, Rivers, and Tragedy: George Eliot and
Matthew Arnold
by U. C. Knoepflmacher
1
Dickens' Woman in White
by Harry Stone
5
Another Pippa
by Betty Cobey Senescu
8
Ruskin's Revisions of the Third Edition of Modern
Painters, Volume I
by George P. Landow
Swinburne and the Whitmaniacs
by William J. Goede
12
16
"The Butterfly'' and Wuthering Heights: A Mystic's
Eschatology
by Jo Anne A. Wilson
22
The Porcelain-Pattern Leitmotif in Meredith's The Egoist
by Daniel R. Schwarz
26
Gilbertian Humor: Pulling Together a Definition
by John Bush Jones
28
Egerton: Forgotten Realist
by Wendell V. Harris
31
Hebraism, Hellenism, and The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Jan B. Gordon
36
Amendments and Additions to the Complete Poems
of Lionel Johnson (1953)
by Ian Fletcher
38
Carlyle, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and Madame Cottin
by Edwin W. Marrs, Jr.
Reviewer of Browning's Men and Women in the
Rambler Identified
by Esther Rhodes Houghton
Tennyson's "Break, Break, Break'' Again
by Bert G. Hornback
43
46
47
An Unpublished Housman Letter on the Preface to
Last Poems
by B. J. Leggett
48
Thomas Hughes's Continuing Memorial: A Treasure
Trove for Victorian Scholars
by Ben Harris McClary
49
Dramatic Irony in Thackeray's Catherine: The
Function of Ikey Solomons, Esq., Jr.
by John Christopher Kleis
50
Dickens and Langland in Adjudication upon Meed
by Florence Jones
53
Scenes of Clerical Life: Idea Through Image
by David Leon Higdon
56
"Dover Beach" and "Andrea del Sarto''
by Burton R. Pollin
58
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Arthur F. Minerof
60
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 32
Fall 1967
Contents
Page
Arnold's Dramatic Meditations
by M. G. Sundell
1
Tennyson: Unscholarly Arthurian
by Hugh H. Wilson
5
Gissing, Gosse, and the Civil List
by Paul F. Mattheisen and Arthur C. Young
11
"The Atmosphere . . . from Cyprus": Hardy's
Development of Theme in Jude the Obscure
by Myron Taube
16
Histories and Flowers: The Organic Unity of William
Morris' Late Art
by Andrew Von Hendy
18
From Victorian to Modern: A Sketch for a Critical
Reappraisal
by Norman Friedman
20
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Arthur F. Minerof
English X News
28
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 31
Spring 1967
Contents
Page
Tennyson Criticism 1923-1966: From
Fragmentation to Tension in Polarity
by Elton E. Smith
1
Idylls of the King: Tennyson's New Realism
by Clyde de L. Ryals
5
Tennyson's Irony
by Jerome H. Buckley
7
George Eliot's Anti-Romantic Romance: "Mr.
Gilfil's Love-Story''
by U. C. Knoepflmacher
11
Metaphysical and Social Evolution in Wuthering Heights
by Irving H. Buchen
15
The Gothic Flame of Charles Dickens
by Larry Kirkpatrick
20
Coventry Patmore in Household Words
by Anne Lohrli
25
The American in England: An Examination of a
Hitherto Neglected Satire by Douglas Jerrold
by Richard Kelly
28
Becky Sharp and the Virtues of Sin
by Leslie M. Thompson
31
The ''Haunting Shade'' That Accompanies the Virtuous
Elizabeth-Jane in The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Raymond O'Dea
33
Mill and Middlemarch: The Progress of Public Opinion
by Larry M. Robbins
37
Tennyson and Hegel on War
by Richard W. Noland
39
Matthew Arnold's Letters to George Stacey Gibson
by Eugene Williamson
40
Benjamin Disraeli and R. Shelton Mackenzie:
Unpublished Letters
by David W. Tutein
Carlyle on Editing Letters
by Arthur A. Adrian
42
45
A Note on the Fluctuation of Fortune in Trollope's
Barsetshire
by Mary D. Smith
46
The Three Pictures in Jane Eyre
by Thomas Landford
47
Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Spiritualism: A New Letter
by Fred C. Thomson
49
Some Biographical Light on Rossetti's Translations of Villon
by Glen A. Omans
52
Piero di Cosimo: An Alternate Analogy for George
Eliot's Realism
by Edward T. Hurley
54
Ruskin and His ''Master''
by Donald R. Swanson
56
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Arthur F. Minerof
59
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 30
Fall 1966
Contents
Page
Nonfiction as Art
by George Levine
1
Gerard Manley Hopkins and the "Stanching,
Quenching Ocean of a Motionable Mind''
by Howard W. Fulweiler
6
"The Primaeval Fountain of Human Nature'': Mill,
Carlyle, and the French Revolution
by Henry Ebel
13
Imagery as Structure in Jane Eyre
by Donald H. Ericksen
18
A Brief Inquiry into the Morality of Amelia in
Vanity Fair
by Neal B. Houston
23
Hetty Sorrel, the Forlorn Maiden
by Thomas G. Burton
24
A Note on the Ruskin-Blackwood's Controversy
by Kenneth W. Davis
26
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Arthur F. Minerof
28
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 29
Spring 1966
Contents
Page
―No Arnold Could Ever Write a Novel‖
by A. Dwight Culler
1
Matthew Arnold's Empedocles on Etna
by Charles Berryman
5
The George-Amelia-Dobbin Triangle in the Structure
of Vanity Fair
by Myron Taube
9
Browning's Duke as Theatrical Producer
by W. David Shaw
18
Wilkie Collins' Heart and Science and the
Vivisection Controversy
by Dougald B. MacEachen
22
Jude the Obscure as Pagan Self-Assertion
by Ward Hellstrom
26
Trabb's Boy and Orlick
by Barry D. Bort
27
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Arthur F. Minerof
28
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 28
Fall 1965
Contents
Page
Metrical Prose in Dickens
by Park Honan
1
The Concept of the Infinite Moment in The House
of Life
by J. L. Kendall
4
Browning and Neoplatonism
by Jack Matthews
9
Ruskin on Slavery: A Semantic Examination
by John O. Waller
13
Hopkins's "The Shepherd's Brow''
by Robert Boykin Clark, S.J.
16
Imagery in the Scenes of Clerical Life
by Daniel P. Deneau
18
Art, Death, and the Composition of Shirley
by Earl A. Knies
22
"My Last Duchess'': A Possible Source
by L. Robert Stevens
25
The Victorian Woman
by Joseph Moscinski, S.J.
26
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Arthur F. Minerof
28
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33
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 27
Spring 1965
Contents
Methods in the Study of Victorian Style
by Richard Ohmann
Page
1
The Prose of the Apologia Pro Vita Sua
by George Levine
5
Scott and Dickens: Realist and Romantic
by Edgar Johnson
9
A Note on Hegel and George Eliot
by Darrel Mansell, Jr.
12
Dialectical Structures in Hardy's Poems
by D .F. Mayers
15
William Johnson Fox and Mill's Essays on Poetry
by F. Parvin Sharpless
18
Parents and Children in Great Expectations
by Vereen M. Bell
21
The Name Jude
by Robert F. Fleissner
24
A Note on Browning's ''Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came''
by Victor Hoar
26
Religion, Art, and the Poet
by Arthur F. Beringause
28
Henry James to Stopford Brooke: An Unpublished Letter
by Fred L. Standley
29
Carlyle, Jeffrey, and the ''Helotage'' Chapter of Sartor Resartus
by Alvan S. Ryan
30
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 26
Fall 1964
Contents
Page
The Thematic Evolution of ''The Idylls of the King''
by Nancy M. Engbretsen
1
Resolution of Identity in "Our Mutual Friend''
by Masao Miyoshi
5
The Pattern of Self-Alienation in ''Great
Expectations''
by Mordecai Marcus
9
Symbolic Characterization in ''One of Our
Conquerors''
by Fred C. Thomson
12
Caleb Garth of "Middlemarch"
by Russell M. Goldfarb
14
Disraeli's Use of Shelley
by Roland A. Duerksen
19
"The Bride of Literature": Ruskin, The Eastlakes
and Mid-Victorian Theories of Art
by Wendell Stacy Johnson
23
"Principle in Art'' as Criticism in the Mainstream
by Marvel Shmiefsky
28
A Note on the Feverel Crest
by Carl H. Ketcham
32
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The Victorian Newsletter
Number 25
Contents
Matthew Arnold's Refuge of Art: "Tristram and Iseult''
by Robert A. Greenberg
Sun and Shadow: The Nature of Experience in Tennyson's
''The Lady of Shalott''
by Lona Mosk Packer
Spring 1964
Page
1
4
"Alice in Wonderland'' in Perspective
by Elsie Leach
9
Hardy's Use of Setting and Jude the Obscure
by Ward Hellstrom
11
George Eliot and William Hale White
by Stephen Merton
13
The Two Isabels: A Study in Distortion
by Blair Gates Kenney
15
Carlyle as Poet: The Phoenix Image in ''Organic Filaments''
by Richard A. Levine
18
''Romola'' and Thomas Trollope's ''Filippo Strozzi''
by Lawrence Poston, III
20
The Landscapes of ''Rugby Chapel''
by William S. Peterson
22
Newman's ''Apologia": A Classic Reconsidered
by The Editor
24
A Matter of Unacknowledged Borrowing
by The Editor
26
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Robert A. Greenberg
English X News
29
33
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 24
Fall 1963
Contents
Page
Newman and Liberalism: The Later Phase
by Edward F. Jost
1
Our Mutual Friend: The Birds of Prey
by Richard A. Lanham
6
The Race for the Money in the Structure of Vanity Fair
by Myron Taube
12
Some Letters of Matthew Arnold
by Paul F. Mattheison and Arthur C. Young
17
George Eliot’s Reading of Wordsworth: The Record
by Thomas Pinney
20
[Unknown Title; Partial Article; Topic: Alice in
Wonderland]
by Elsie Leach
23
Arnold’s Tyrian Trader
by Earl E. Stevens
24
John Hay as a Critic of The Rubaiyat of Omar
Khayyam
by Sol Gittleman
26
English X News
27
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Robert Greenberg
28
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 23
Spring 1963
Contents
Page
The ―Death of Pan‖ in Victorian Literature
by Patricia Merivale
1
The Genius of John Ruskin
by John D. Rosenberg
4
Thackeray on War
by Eric Solomon
6
Gissing’s Articles for Vyestnik Evropy
by Harry E. Preble
12
The Attitude Toward the Reader in Carlyle’s Sartor
Resartus
by Alvan S. Ryan
15
Mermen and Mermaids: A Note on an ―Alien Vision‖
in the Poetry of Tennyson, Arnold, and Hopkins
by Howard Fulweiler
16
Arthur Donnithorne and Zeluco: Characterization Via
Literary Allusion in Adam Bede
by Irving H. Buchen
18
Robinson on Browning
by Richard Cary
19
Henry Mayhew: Farce Writer of the 1830’s
by John L. Bradley
21
Charles Dickens: The Pursuers and the Pursued
by Warrington Winters
23
―The Windhover‖ and ―St. Alphonsus Rodriguez‖
by William A. McQueen
25
Repetition of Imagery in Thomas Hardy
by Dale Kramer
26
A Letter from Harold Frederick to T. H. Huxley
by William Randel
27
English X News
28
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Robert A. Greenberg
29
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 22
Fall 1962
Contents
Page
Matthew Arnold and the American Civil War
by John O. Waller
1
Rossetti’s ―Willowwood‖ Sonnets and the Structure
of The House of Life
by Douglas J. Robillard
5
Restoration through Feeling in George Eliot’s Fiction:
A New Look at Hetty Sorrel
by I. W. Adam
9
The Thorn Imagery in Adam Bede
by Clyde de L. Ryals
12
Confusion of the Seasons in Tennyson’s ―The Last
Tournament‖
by Roy Gridley
14
Browning’s Fifine at the Fair: Meaning and Method
by J. L. Kendall
16
The Death of Dora Spenlow in David Copperfield
by J. Don Vann
19
Rossetti’s Cumaean Oracle
by John Lindberg
20
―How Do I Love Thee?‖ – an Echo of St. Paul
by John S. Phillipson
22
The Publication of Matthew Arnold’s Early Volumes
of Poetry
by Roger L. Brooks
22
Nineteenth-Century Holdings at the Folger
by B. R. Jerman
23
On a Certain Deficiency in Victorian Anthologies
by John W. Bicknell
23
English X News
27
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Robert A. Greenberg
27
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 21
Spring 1962
Contents
Page
The Fourth Dimension of Victorianism
by Wendell Stacy Johnson
1
The Unity of ―In Memoriam‖
by Jonathan Bishop
9
Hareton Earnshaw: Natural Theology on the Moors
by William H. Marshall
14
The Hawthorne and Browning Acquaintance: An
Addendum
by Lionel Stevenson
16
The Religious Imagery in Browning’s ―The Patriot‖
by David J. DeLaura
16
The Menu of Great Expectations
by Russell M. Goldfarb
18
―The Heart of that Mystery‖: A Note on John Stuart
Mill’s Theory of Poetry
by Seamus Cooney
20
James and Eliot: The Two Gwendolens
by Seymour Lainoff
23
English X News
24
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Robert A. Greenberg
26
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 20
Fall 1961
Contents
Page
Two Commentaries on Dickens: Dickens and
The Philosophic Basis of Melodrama
by Archibald C. Coolidge, Jr.
1
Two Commentaries on Dickens: Dickens and the
Heart as the Hope for Heaven: A Study of the
Philosophic Basis of Sensational Literary Technique
by Archibald C. Coolidge, Jr.
6
The Hawthorne and Browning Acquaintance:
Including an Unpublished Letter
by James C. Austin
13
The Scarlet Letter and Adam Bede
by Allan Casson
18
Browning and Wordsworth: The Argument for
Immortality in ―Saul‖
by Merle M. Bevington
19
Browning: ―Mage‖ and ―Maker‖ – A Study in Poetic
Purpose and Method
by Roma A. King, Jr.
21
Huxley and Kingsley
by Charles S. Blinderman
25
English X News
28
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Robert A. Greenberg
30
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 19
Spring 1961
Contents
Page
Hardy’s Response to the Critics of Jude
by William J. Hyde
1
Cordon Had a Rival
by Michael Timko
5
Dickens’ Plots: ―The Ways of Providence‖ or the
Influence of Collins?
by Harland S. Nelson
11
Clough and Graham Green’s The Quiet American
by Harry W. Rudman
14
Arthur Hugh Clough and Francis H. Underwood
by David Bonnell Green
15
A Note on Browning’s Defense of Chatterton
by Boyd A. Litzinger
17
Shelley, Devere, and Thompson’s ―Hound of Heaven‖
by Donald H. Reiman
18
The First Published American Text of Arnold’s
―Literature and Science‖
by James K. Robinson
19
Source of an ―Inspiration‖: Francis Newman’s
Influence on the Form of ―The Dream of Gerontius‖
by Daniel J. Mulcahy
21
―Popular Culture‖ and the Seminal Books of 1859
by George J. Worth
24
Daniel Deronda and William Shakespeare
by U. C. Knoepflmacher
27
Conscience in Conflict
by Alexander Sandow
29
English X News
30
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Robert A. Greenberg
30
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 18
Fall 1960
Contents
Page
The Character of Amelia in the Meaning of Vanity Fair
by Myron Taube
1
Dickens’s Humor
by Archibald C. Coolidge, Jr.
8
Richard Feverel, ―The Original Man‖
by William H. Marshall
15
Lippo’s Vision
by J. L. Kendall
18
Hopkins and Counterpoint
by Stephen Mooney
21
Did Cardinal Wiseman Review Men And Women?
by Boyd Litzinger
22
Browning’s Pauline: The Artistic Safety Device
by Park Honan
23
Swinburne and His Contemporaries
by James E. Suiter
24
Mark Twain and the Victorians
by William M. Gibson
26
An Essential Tool
by William D. Templeman
27
English X News: The Philadelphia Meeting
27
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Robert A. Greenberg
28
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 17
Spring 1960
Contents
Page
The Critical Significance of Autobiography in The
Way Of All Flesh
by Daniel F. Howard
1
The Rubaiyat’s Neglected Reviewer: A Centennial Recovery
by Michael Wolff
4
Robert Browning: ―Indisputably Fact‖
by Paul A. Cundiff
6
The Importance of Face in ―The Ring And The Book‖
by Robert Langbaum
11
The Art of Sartor Resartus: Two Views: Relationship
of Style and Device in Sartor Resartus
by Daniel P. Deneau
17
The Art of Sartor Resartus: Two Views: The Artistic
Unity of Sartor Resartus
by John Lindberg
20
Mill, Poets, and Other Men
by Seamus Cooney
23
Art and Reality in ―My Last Duchess‖
by Stanton Millet
25
Ritual in ―The Bishop Orders His Tomb‖
by Lawrence Poston, III
27
―My Dear Sumner‖: Three Letters from Matthew Arnold
by Fraser Neiman
28
The Genesis of Hopkins’ ―Heaven-Haven‖
by Boyd Litzinger
31
The Spectator Records, 1874-1897
by Robert H. Tener
33
Reviews
36
English X News
40
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Oscar Maurer
41
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 16
Fall 1959
Contents
Page
Browning’s View of Fact in The Ring And The Book
by Donald Smalley
1
The Unpublished Passages in the Manuscript of
Ruskin’s Autobiography
by Samuel E. Brown
10
The Imagery of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Fire, Light,
and the Incarnation
by W. Stacy Johnson
18
Samuel Smiles’ Self-Help: Forgotten Centenary
by John L. Bradley
23
George Eliot: The Moralist as Artist
by Gordon S. Haight
25
Grail-Themes in Browning’s ―Childe Roland‖
by John Lindberg
27
Dickens and the Class Question
by Pansy Pakenham
30
Some Illustrations of Carlyle’s Symbolist Imagery
by Robert Louis Peters
31
Another Victorian First
by Richard D. Altick
34
English X News
36
Recent Publications: A Selected List
38
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 15
Spring 1959
Contents
Page
Robert Browning: ―Our Human Speech‖
by Paul A. Cundiff
1
The Autobiographical Matrix of Great Expectations
by Ada Nisbet
10
The Hero-Villain of Oliver Twist
by Jonathan Bishop
14
Daniel Deronda and the Question of Unity in Fiction
by Jerome Beaty
16
Reviews
20
Arthur Hugh Clough: A Portrait Retouched
by Michael Timko
24
Darwin in the Ozarks
by Charles T. Dougherty
28
The Entitlement of Meredith’s ―Love in the Valley‖
by Virgil A. Peterson
28
Forgotten Bastards: A Note on Daniel Deronda
by Virgil A. Peterson
29
A Note on Some Emendations in Jude The Obscure
by Robert Hurley
29
Report from The Wellesley Index
by Walter Houghton
30
―Seriously. . .‖, Reprinted from TLS, January 23
English X News
32
32
Recent Publications: A Selected List by Oscar Maurer
33
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 14
Fall 1958
Contents
Page
Tennyson and the Sonnet
by Dougald B. MacEachen
1
The Pattern of Fatality in Tennyson’s Poetry
by Jacob Korg
8
Reviews
11
A Guide to Research Materials on the Major Victorians (Part III)
Charles Dickens
by K. J. Fielding
22
22
John Ruskin
by Charles T. Dougherty
23
The ―Epicureans‖ of Pater and Moore
by Eugene J. Brzenk
24
Editorial Notes and Announcements
27
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Oscar Maurer
29
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 13
Spring 1958
Contents
Page
The Significance of the Image Patterns in Meredith’s
Modern Love
by Elizabeth Cox Wright
1
Reviews
9
A Guide To Research Materials on the Major
Victorians (Part II)
The Brontes
by Mildred G. Christian
19
19
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
by Gardner B. Taplin
20
Robert Browning
by William C. DeVane
22
Thomas Carlyle
by Hill Shine
22
George Elliot
by Gordon S. Height
23
Gerard Manley Hopkins
by Rev. A. Bischoff
23
George Meredith
by Lionel Stevenson
24
Anthony Trollope
by Bradford A. Booth
24
A Note on Scholarship: Willa Cather on A. E. Housman
by William White
26
Oscar Wilde and Wilfrid Blunt: Ironic Notes on Prison,
Prose, and Poetry
by William T. Going
27
Editorial Notes and Announcements
29
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Oscar Maurer
30
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 12
Autumn 1957
Contents
Page
Philomela: A Major Theme in Arnold’s Poetry
by Robert A. Donovan
1
The Theme of Marriage in Tennyson
by W. Stacy Johnson
6
Reviews
11
A Guide to Research Materials of the Major
Victorians (Part I)
Edward Fitzgerald
by A. McKinley Terhune
22
22
Thomas Hardy
by Carl J. Weber
23
John Henry Newman
by A. Dwight Culler
24
Alfred Tennyson
by Edgar F. Shannon, Jr.
26
Notes on the Image and the Novel
by Daniel P. Deneau
27
Swinburne’s ―Boo‖
by Helen Gill Viljoen
29
English X Notes
30
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Oscar Maurer
30
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 11
Spring 1957
Contents
Page
Method in the Study of Victorian Prose: Another View
by Martin J. Svaglic
1
Tennyson and the Human Hand
by Charles Richard Sanders
5
The English Reception of Heine
by Sol Liptzin
14
Victorian Shaw
by Frederick P. W. McDowell
16
Leslie Stephen’s Stature as a Literary Critic
by Rene Wellek
19
Newman and the Problem of Critical Prose
by Francis G. Townsend
22
John Stuart Mill: The Second Greatest Influence
by Dwight N. Lindley
25
English X News
27
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Oscar Maurer
27
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 10
Autumn 1956
Contents
Page
George Eliot’s Theory of Fiction
by Gordon S. Haight
1
The Reputation of Dickens
by Royal A Gettmann
4
On the Theory of Trollope’s Pessimism
by Bradford A. Booth
5
Kipling: One of the Best We Have
by Donald L. Hill
6
The Life of John Ruskin: A ―Prelude‖
by Charles T. Dougherty
9
The Question of Carlyle’s ―Conversion‖
by Charles Richard Sanders
10
Truth in The Ring And The Book
by W. O. Raymond
12
Gondal’s Queen
by Mildred G. Christian
13
Method in the Study of Victorian Prose: A Criticism
by R. C. Schweik
15
A Rejoinder
by A. Dwight Culler
16
Notes and Brief Articles
16
Forthcoming Publications
20
English X News
22
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Oscar Maurer
Supplement 1
Aubrey Thomas de Vere, 1814-1902: Selected Bibliography
by Paul A. Winckler and William V. Stone
22
1
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 9
Spring 1956
Contents
Page
Method in the Study of Victorian Prose
by A. Dwight Culler
1
Ruskin’s Moral Argument
by Charles T. Dougherty
4
The Way Of All Flesh and A Portrait Of The Artist
As A Young Man: A Comparison
by Ilse Dusoir Lind
7
The Charles A. Stonehill Collection, Hunter College Library
by Robert A. Colby
10
Doctoral Theses in the Victorian Period
11
Editorial Notes
11
English X News
12
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Oscar Maurer
12
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 8
Autumn, 1955
Contents
Page
Victorian Studies, 1952-1955: A Catalogue of
Complaints and Compliments
by Francis G. Townsend
1
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson
by Bradford A. Booth
3
The Winnington Letters
by Van Akin Burd
4
Word Echoes in Past And Present
by John Tyree Fain
5
The John Rylands Library, Manchester
by K. J. Fielding
6
The Pilgrim Trust and the Dickens Letters
7
Doctoral Theses in the Victorian Period
7
Editorial Comments
8
English X News
9
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Oscar Maurer
9
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 7
April 1955
Contents
Page
An Editorial
by William E. Buckler
1
English X News
3
The Present State of Dickensian Studies
by Edgar Johnson
4
Brief Abstracts
10
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Francis G. Townsend
10
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 6
November 1954
Contents
Page
English X News
1
Library Notes
1
Editorial Comment
by Richard D. Altick
4
A Projected Bibliography of Nineteenth Century Fiction
by Robert A. Colby
7
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Francis G. Townsend
7
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 5
April 1954
Contents
Page
Introductory Note
1
The English X Program for 1954
1
Reference Books to Come
1
Religious Trends in Victorian Poetry
by Hoxie N. Fairchild
3
New Light on Ruskin
by Helen Gill Viljoen
4
More Research in Progress: Carlyle’s Letters
by Charles Richard Sanders
6
The MLA Conference in Minor Victorian Fiction
by John E. Tilford, Jr.
6
From the Editor’s Memo Pad
by Richard D. Altick
7
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Francis G. Townsend
10
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 4
November 1953
Contents
Page
English X News
1
Victorian Manuscripts at the Huntington Library
by Edward S. Lauterbach
3
Recent Publications: A Selected List
by Francis G. Townsend
6
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 3
April 1953
Contents
Page
News of English X
1
A Project for a Check-List of Matthew Arnold’s Letters
by Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr.
2
Other Work in Progress
4
Library Notes
6
Recent Publications
by Francis G. Townsend
7
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 2
November 1952
Contents
Page
Editorial
by Richard D. Altick
1
English X News
2
Recent Publications
3
The News Letter in Libraries
9
News of Victorian Scholars
9
Library Note
10
Books that Need Reissuing
10
―The Nineteenth Century‖: 1877-1952
by William D. Templeton
12
Research in Progress
12
Financial Statement and Advertisement
13
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 1
April 1952
Contents
Page
Note
by Richard D. Altick
1
Editorial
by Richard D. Altick
1
English X News
4
Current Bibliography
4
Library Notes
Microfilms of Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
8
Work in Progress
9
News of Victorian Scholars
10