Victorian Studies. Vol. 49.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Allover very good and clean. - Contents: No. 1: George Eliot: The Conservative by Evan Horowitz -- The Creative Evolution of Scientific Paradigms: Vernon Lee and the Debate over the Hereditary Transmission of Acquired Characters by Shafquat Towheed -- Rival Maternities: Maud G�nne, Queen Victoria, and the Reign of the Political Mother by Andrea Bobotis -- CRITICAL REPSONSES -- Tactical Formalism: A Response to Caroline Levine by Herbert F. Tucker -- Strategic Aestheticism: A Response to Caroline Levine by Carolyn Dever -- Scaled Up, Writ Small: A Response to Carolyn Dever and Herbert F. Tucker by Caroline Levine -- BOOK REVIEWS -- The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel, by Catherine Gallagher by Mary Poovey -- Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth- Century British Novels, by James Buzard by Catherine Gallagher -- Novel Professions: Interested Disinterest and the Making of the Professional in the Victorian Novel, by Jennifer Ruth by Barry J. Faulk -- Literary Secretaries / Secretarial Culture, edited by Leah Price and Pamela Thurschwell by Christopher Keep -- Voice and the Victorian Storyteller, by Ivan Kreilkamp by Matthew Reynolds -- The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf, edited by Christine Alexander and Juliet McMaster by Judith Plotz -- Nineteenth-Century Anti-Catholic Discourses: The Case of Charlotte Bronte, by Diana Peschier by Maria LaMonaca -- Christina Rossetti: The Patience of Style, by Constance W. Hassett by Julie Melnyk -- Joseph Conrad and Popular Culture, by Stephen Donovan by Chris GoGwilt -- Ella Hepworth Dixon: The Story of a Modern Woman, by Valerie Fehlbaum by Margaret D. Stetz -- Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage: Theatricals in a Quiet Life, by Richard Foulkes by Hugues Lebailly -- The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre, edited by Kerry Powell; Gender and the London Theatre, 1880-1920, by Margaret D. Stetz by Katherine Newey -- The Public Art Museum in Nineteenth Century Britain: The Development of the National Gallery, by Christopher Whitehead by Jonah Siegel -- The World in Paint: Modem. Art and Visuality in England, 1848-1914, by David Peters Corbett by Lucy Curzon -- French Art in Nineteenth-Century Britain, by Edward Morris by John Bonehill -- Black Victorians: Black People in British Art 1800-1900, edited by Jan Marsh by Meaghan Clarke -- Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery, by Carolyn Vellenga Berman by Janet C. Myers -- Gissing and the City: Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late Victorian England, edited by John Spiers by Diana Maltz -- Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920, by Lise Shapiro Sanders by Maria Teresa Chialant -- The Women�s Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey, by Elizabeth Crawford by Jacqueline deVries -- Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Political Culture of Limited Suffrage, by Alan S. Kahan; The Militant Suffrage Movement: Citizenship and Resistance in Britain, 1860-1930, by Laura E. Nym Mayhall by Sandra Stanley Holton -- The Revolution in Popular Literature: Print, Politics and the People, 1790-1860, by Ian Haywood by Kelly Mays -- Margins of Disorder: New Liberalism and the Crisis of European Consciousness, by Gal Gerson by Ian Christopher Fletcher -- Utilitarianism and Empire, edited by Bart Schultz and Georgios Varouxakis by Douglas M. Peers -- Pornography, The Theory: What Utilitarianism Did to Action, by Frances Ferguson by Samantha Brennan -- Disraeli�s Disciple: The Scandalous Life of George Smythe, by Mary S. Millar; Benjamin Disraeli: The Novel as Political Discourse, by Michael Flavin by Robert O�Kell -- The Wake of Wellington: Englishness in 1852, by Peter W. Sinnema by Richard W. Davis -- The Life ofRichard Waldo Sib thorp: Evangelical, Catholic and Ritual Revivalism in the Nineteenth-Century Church, by Michael Trott by William Schoenl -- Oxbridge Men: British Masculinity and the Undergraduate Experience, 1850-1920, by Paul R. Deslandes by Sheldon Rothblatt -- The Organisation of Knowledge in Victorian Britain, edited by Martin Daunton by Thomas William Heyck -- Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion: �Our Feverish Contact�, by Allan Conrad Christensen by Jill L. Matus -- Subterranean Cities: The World Beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945, by David L. Pike by Di Drummond -- Faith, Fraternity and Fighting: the Orange Order and Irish Migrants in Northern England, c. 1850-1920, by Donald M. MacRaild by Elizabeth Malcolm -- Forging the Raj: Essays on British India in the Heyday of Empire, by Thomas R. Metcalf; The Lion and the Tiger: The Rise and Fall of the British Raj, by Denis Judd by Philip J. Stern -- Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire, edited by Felix Driver and Luciana Martins by Mark Harrison. - No. 2: Special Issue: Papers and Responses from the Third Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association, held jointly with the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism annual meeting. -- Editor�s Introduction -- MATTERS OF MEMORY -- Displaced Memories in Victorian Fiction and Psychology by Athena Vrettos -- �A Something-Nothing Out of Its Very Contrary�: The Photography of Coleridge by Alexandra Neel -- Imaging Interiority: Photography, Psychology, and Lyric Poetry by Laura Mandell -- Response by Deidre Lynch -- DRAMA IN PRACTICE -- Politics, Performance, and Coleridge�s �Suspension of Disbelief� by Michael Tomko -- George Coleman�s The Iron Chest and Blue-Beard and the Pseudoscience of Curiosity Cabinets by Marjean D. Purinton -- Literary Homosociality and the Political Science of the Actor�s Closet by Thomas C. Crochunis -- Response by Tracy C. Davis -- FORM AT THE LIMITS -- Pursuing Proper Protocol: Sarah Bowdich�s Purview of the Sciences of Exploration by Mary Orr -- �A Dim World, Where Monsters Dwell�: The Spatial Time of the Sydenham Crystal Palace Dinosaur Park by Nancy Rose Marshall -- Liberalism and the Time of Instinct by Kathleen Frederickson -- Response by Cannon Schmitt -- BOOK REVIEWS -- Republican Politics and English Poetry, 1789-1874, by Stephanie Kuduk Weiner by Isobel Armstrong -- Victorian Interpretation, by Suzy Anger by Ruth Livesey -- Common Scents: Comparative Encounters in High-Victorian Fiction, by Janice Carlisle by Mary Ann O�Farrell -- The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor, by Dan Bivona and Roger B. Henkle by Joseph Kestner -- Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction, by Lisa Surridge by Melissa Valiska Gregory -- Hard Men: Violence in England since 1750, by Clive Emsley by Paul R. Deslandes -- The Victorians and Sport, by Mike Huggins by James H. Mills -- The Irish Policeman, 1822-1922: A Life, by Elizabeth Malcolm by Neal Garnham -- Women Making News: Gender and Journalism in Modern Britain, by Michelle Elizabeth Tusan by Joanne Shattock -- Images at War: Illustrated Periodicals and Constructed Nations, by Mich� Martin by Peter W. Sinnema -- Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930, by Deborah Epstein Nord by Panikos Panayi -- Outlandish English Subjects in the Victorian Domestic Novel, by Timothy L. Carens by Dan Bivona -- The Holy Land in English Culture, 1799-1917, by Eitan Bar-Yosef by Tony Ballantyne -- Converting Women: Gender and Protestant Christianity in Colonial South India, by Eliza F. Kent by Jeffrey Cox -- Nature and Godly Empire: Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795-1850, by Sujit Sivasundaram by Anna Johnston -- Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800, by Peter Thorsheim by Alan Mayne -- The Western Medical Tradition, 1800-2000, by W. F. Bynum, Anne Hardy, Stephen Jacyna, Christopher Lawrence, and E. M. Tansey by Deborah Brunton -- Nervous Conditions: Science and the Body Politic in Early Industrial Britain, by Elizabeth Green Musselman by Christopher E. Forth -- Madness at Home: The Psychiatrist, the Patient, & the Family in England, 1820-1860, by Akihito Suzuki by David Wright -- Dangerous Motherhood: Insanity and Childbirth in Victorian Britain, by Hilary Marland by Alison Bashford -- Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age, by Theodore M. Porter by Frank A. J. L. James -- �The Busiest Man in England�: Grant Allen and the Writing Trade, 1875-1900, by Peter Morton; Grant Allen: Literature and Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siecle, edited by William Greenslade and Terence Rodgers by Suzy Anger -- More Usefully Employed: Amelia B. Edwards, Writer, Traveler and Campaigner for Ancient Egypt, by Brenda Moon by Ruth Y. Jenkins -- Graham R.: Rosamund Marriott Watson, Woman of Letters, by Linda K. Hughes by Jane de Gay -- Faith, Duty and the Power of Mind: The Cloughs and their Circle, 1820-1960, by Gillian Sutherland by Valerie Sanders -- Ford Madox Ford and the Regiment of Women: Violet Hunt, Jean Rhys, Stella Bowen, Janice Biala, by Joseph Wiesenfarth by Sara Haslam -- John Payne Collier: Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century, by Arthur Freeman and Janet Ing Freeman by Nick Groom -- Bernard Shaw: A Life, by A. M. Gibbs; Shaw Shadows: Rereading the Texts of Bernard Shaw, by Peter Gahan by Christopher Innes -- The Apostle of the Flesh: A Critical Life of Charles Kingsley, by J. M. I. Klaver by Jason B. Jones -- H. Rider Haggard on the Imperial Frontier: The Political & Literary Contexts of His African Romances, by Gerald Monsman by Lindy Stiebel -- The Victorian Novel, by Louis James by Sally Ledger -- Detective Fiction, by Charles J. Rzepka by Stacy Gillis -- The Circus and Victorian Society, by Brenda Assael by Michael Pickering -- Women�s Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain, by Katherine Newey by Renata Kobetts Miller -- Alfred Gilbert�s Aestheticism: Gilbert Amongst Whistler, Wilde, Leighton, Pater and Burne-Jones, by Jason Edwards by Lene Ostermark-Johansen -- Desire & Excess: The Nineteenth-Century Culture of Art, by Jonah Siegel; Haunted Museum: Longing, Travel & the Art-Romance Tradition, by Jonah Siegel by Elizabeth Helsinger. - No. 3: The Colonial Bildungsroman: The Story of an African Farm and the Ghost of Goethe by Jed Esty -- The City of London, Real and Unreal by Garrett Ziegler -- Manchester v. Thirlmere and the Construction of the Victorian Environment by Harriet Ritvo -- FORUM ON THE SOUTH SEAS -- Making Babies in the South Seas by Jonathan Lamb -- The Strange Career of William Ellis by Anna Johnston -- BOOK REVIEWS -- How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900, by Nancy Armstrong by Bruce Robbins -- Nation & Novel: The English Novel from its Origins to the Present Day, by Patrick Parrinder by Judith Wilt -- The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel, by Elaine Freedgood by Jordanna Bailkin -- Patent Inventions�Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel, by Clare Pettitt by Jennifer Ruth -- Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart, by Kirstie Blair by Erik Gray -- Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines: Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science in the Nineteenth Century, by Martin Willis by Gowan Dawson -- Reforming Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on Science and Society, by Laura J. Snyder by Fred Wilson -- The �Puritan� Democracy of Thomas Hill Green, by Alberto de Sanctis by David Weinstein -- Rural Society and the Anglican Clergy, 1815-1914: Encountering and Managing the Poor, by Robert Lee by Hugh McLeod -- Women, Welfare and Local Politics, 1880-1920: �We Might Be Trusted�, by Steven King by Moira Martin -- The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, by Hera Cook by Lucy Bland -- Gender at Work in Victorian Culture: Literature, Art and Masculinity, by Martin A. Danahay by Arlene Young -- History�s Beauties: Women and the National Portrait Gallery, 1856-1900, by Lara Perry by Janice Helland -- Turner as Draughtsman, by Andrew Wilton by Leo Costello -- Painting the Bible: Representation and Belief in Mid-Victorian Britain, by Michaela Giebelhausen by Frank M. Turner -- The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text, by Garrett Stewart by Leah Price -- Visual Delights Two: Exhibition and Reception, edited by Vanessa Toulmin and Simon Popple by Michael Pickering -- The Musician as Entrepreneur, 1700-1914: Managers, Charlatans, and Idealists, edited by William Weber by Jeremy Dibble -- The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century: Reassessing the Tradition, edited by Francis O�Gorman and Katherine Turner by Emma Mason -- Life Writing and Victorian Culture, edited by David Amigoni by Sarah J. Heidt -- �The Busiest Man in England�: A Life of Joseph Paxton, Gardener, Architect & Victorian Visionary, by Kate Colquhoun by Margaret Flanders Darby -- Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man, by Claire Tomalin; Thomas Hardy Reappraised: Essays in Honour of Michael Millgate, edited by Keith Wilson by Andrew Radford -- The Old Story with a Difference: Pickwick�s Vision, by Julian Wolfreys by John Bowen -- Past and Present, by Thomas Carlyle. Edited by Chris R. Vanden Bossche, Joel L. Brattin, and D. J. Treia by John D. Rosenberg -- George Eliot�s English Travels: Composite Characters and Coded Communication, by Kathleen McCormack by Nancy Henry -- An Imaginary England: Nation, Landscape and Literature, 1840-1920, by Roger Ebbatson by Alistair M. Duckworth -- Talking Animals in British Children�s Fiction, 1786-1914, by Tess Cosslett by Laurie Langbauer -- Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850, by Maya Jasanoff; The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj, by David Gilmore by A. Martin Wainwright -- Deciphering Race: White Anxiety, Racial Conflict, and the Turn to Fiction in Mid-Victorian English Prose, by Laura Callanan by Ann-Barbara Graff -- The Discovery of Islands: Essays in British History, by J. G. A. Pocock by Stephen Heathorn -- Empire and Superempire: Britain, America and the World, by Bernard Porter; Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History, by Frederick Cooper by Patrick Brantlinger -- Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain, by Simon Dentith by Mary Ellis Gibson. - No. 4: Of Beasts and Boys: Kingsley, Spencer, and the Theory of Recapitulation by Jessica Straley -- �I do swear�: Oath-Taking among the Elite Public in Victorian England by Albert D. Pionke -- The Subject of Money: Late-Victorian Melodrama�s Crisis of Masculinity by Kristen Guest -- The First Strawberries in India: Cultural Portability in Victorian Greater Britain by John Plotz -- BOOK REVIEWS -- The Most Secret Quintessence of Life: Sex, Glands, and Hormones, 1850-1950, by Chandak Sengoopta by Lisa Forman Cody -- Sex in Mind: The Gendered Brain in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Mental Sciences, by Rachel Malane by Tamar Heller -- In Science�s Shadow: Literary Constructions of Late Victorian Women, by Patricia Murphy by Barbara T. Gates -- Robert Louis Stevenson, Science, and the Fin de Si�e, by Julia Reid; Robert Louis Stevenson: Writer of Boundaries, edited by Richard Ambrosini and Richard Drury by Christine Ferguson -- George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country, by Michael Davis by Jenny Bourne Taylor -- George Eliot in Germany, 1854-55: �Cherished Memories�, by Gerlinde R�der-Bolton; 142 Strand: A Radical Address in Victorian London, by Rosemary Ashton by Kathleen McCormack -- The Thames, by Jonathan Schneer by Susan D. Pennybacker -- British Aestheticism and the Urban Working Classes, 1870-1900: Beauty for the People, by Diana Maltz by Christine DeVine -- George Gissing: Voices of the Unclassed, edited by Martin Ryle and Jenny Bourne Taylor by William Greenslade -- George Gissing, the Working Woman, and Urban Culture, by Emma Liggins by Annette R. Federico -- New Woman and Colonial Adventure Fiction in Victorian Britain: Gender, Genre, and Empire, by LeeAnne M. Richardson by Patricia Murphy -- In Their Own Words: British Women Writers and India 1740-1857, by Rosemary Raza by Sangeeta Mediratta -- Between Colonialism and Diaspora: Sikh Formations in an Imperial World, by Tony Ballantyne by Shompa Lahiri -- Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape and Science, 1800-1856, by David Arnold by Vinita Damodaran -- Charles Darwin, Geologist, by Sandra Herbert by Ursula Marvin -- Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture, by Jonathan Smith by Lucy Hartley -- Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science, by Jennifer Tucker by Marta Braun -- The Making of English Photography: Allegories, by Steve Edwards by Joanne Lukitsh -- Doves and Dreams: The Art of Frances Macdonald and J. Herbert McNair, edited by Pamela Robertson by John Morrison -- Household Gods: The British and their Possessions, by Deborah Cohen by Matthew Hilton -- The Natural Origins of Economics, by Margaret Schabas by Neil B. Niman -- Liberty and Authority in Victorian Britain, edited by Peter Mandler by Julia Stapleton -- Gladstone and Women, by Anne Isba by William R. McKelvy -- Wild and Fearless: The Life of Margaret Fountaine, by Natascha Scott-Stokes by Lila Marz Harper -- Anny: A Life of Anne Thackeray Ritchie, by Henrietta Garnett by Carol Hanbery MacKay -- The Ivy Leaf: The Parnells Remembered, by Donal McCartney and Pauric Travers by Alan O�Day -- John Stuart Blackie: Scottish Scholar and Patriot, by Stuart Wallace by Ewen A. Cameron -- Charles Knight: Educator, Publisher, Writer, by Valerie Gray by Laurel Brake -- British Universities Past and Present, by Robert Anderson by David Mitch -- Teacher Training at Cambridge: The Initiatives of Oscar Browning and Elizabeth Hughes, by Pam Hirsch and Mark McBeth by Deborah Gorham -- Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913, by Sean Brady by Julie Anne Taddeo -- Thomas Hardy on Screen, edited by T. R. Wright; Seeing Hardy: Film and Television Adaptations of the Fiction of Thomas Hardy, by Paul J. Niemeyer by Pamela Dalziel -- Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s, by Sarah Meer by Audrey A. Fisch -- Transatlantic Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture, edited by Denise Kohn, Sarah Meer, and Emily B. Todd by Michelle Hawley -- Altered States: Sex, Nation, Drugs, and Self-Transformation in Victorian Spiritualism, by Marlene Tromp; Possessed Victorians: Extra Spheres in Nineteenth-Century Mystical Writings, by Sarah A. Willburn by Elana Gomel -- Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre, edited by Kimberly Harrison and Richard Fantina by Janice M. Allan -- Allegories of One�s Own Mind: Melancholy in Victorian Poetry, by David G. Riede by Cornelia Pearsall.