Victorian Studies. Vol. 48.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Minimal staining on binding, allover very good and clean. / Minimale Anschmutzung auf Einband, insgesamt sehr gut und sauber. - Contents: No. 1: The Beard Movement in Victorian Britain by Christopher Oldstone-Moore -- Wife Stories: Narrating Marriage and Self in the Life of Jane Franklin by Penny Russell -- �How Far am I Responsible?�: Women and Morphinomania in Late-Nineteenth-Century Britain by Susan Zieger -- FORUM ON LIBERALISM -- The Place of Liberalism by Jordanna Bailkin -- On a Darkling Plain: Victorian Liberalism and the Fantasy of Agency by Elaine Hadley -- Liberalism lite? by Rohan McWilliam -- REVIEW FORUM -- The Birth of the Modem World, 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons, by C. A. Bayly -- The Long Nineteenth Century Is Too Short by Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- The State of the World by Gauri Viswanathan -- Reply by C. A. Bayly -- BOOK REVIEWS -- A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain, by Robert Darby by Roger Cooter -- Predicting the Weather: Victorians and the Science of Meteorology, by Katharine Anderson by Robert W. Smith -- Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: Reading the Magazine of Nature, by Geoffrey Cantor, Gowan Dawson, Graeme Gooday, Richard Noakes, Sally Shuttleworth, and Jonathan R. Topham; Science Serialized: Representation of the Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals, edited by Geoffrey Cantor and Sally Shuttleworth by Richard Yeo -- Imperial Co-Histories: National Identities and the British and Colonial Press, edited by Julie F. Codell by Lynn Zastoupil -- Detecting the Nation: Fictions of Detection and the Imperial Venture, by Caroline Reitz by Kathy Alexis Psomiades -- The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination, by Gautam Chakravarty by Shuchi Kapila -- Orientalism and Visual Culture: Imagining Mesopotamia in Nineteenth-Century Europe, by Frederick N. Bohrer by Gary Sampson -- A Victorian Wanderer: The Life of Thomas Arnold the Younger, by Bernard Bergonzi; Victorian Travellers in Cyprus: A Garden of Their Own, by Mary Roussou-Sinclair; A Victorian Traveler in the Middle East: The Photography and Travel Writing of Lady Annie Brassey, by Nancy Micklewright by Susan Morgan -- Royal Spectacle: The 1860 Visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada and the United States, by Ian Radforth by Frank Prochaska -- Literature and the Irish Famine 1845-1919, by Melissa Fegan by Chris Morash -- Reading Irish Histories: Texts, Contexts, and Memory in Modem Ireland, edited by Lawrence W. McBride b Gear��Tuathaigh -- George Eliot U. S.: Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Perspectives, by Monika Mueller by Laura Green -- Images of the Woman Reader in Victorian British and American Fiction, by Catherine J. Golden by Jennifer Phegley -- Pictorial Victorians: The Inscription of Values in Word and Image, by Julia Thomas by Alison Byerly -- The Idea of Music in Victorian Fiction, edited by Sophie Fuller and Nicky Losseff by Donna S. Parsons -- Devoted Sisters: Representations of the Sister Relationship in Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature, by Sarah Annes Brown by Susan Fraiman -- Lot�s Daughters: Sex, Redemption, and Women�s Quest for Authority, by Robert M. Polhemus by Alison Booth -- Crime, Gender and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century England, by Tammy C. Whitlock by Erika Rappaport -- Plots of Opportunity: Representing Conspiracy in Victorian England, by Albert D. Pionke by Chris R. Vanden Bossche -- Filth: Dirt, Disgust, and Modem Life, edited by William A. Cohen and Ryan Johnson by Christopher Lane -- Making English Morals: Voluntary Association and Moral Reform in England, 1787-1886, by M. J. D. Roberts by Susan Mumm -- Coleridge and Newman: The Centrality of Conscience, by Philip C. Rule, S.J. by Ian Ker -- Alfred Tennyson: The Critical Legacy, by Laurence W. Mazzeno by Kathryn Ledbetter -- The Oxford Companion to the Brontes, edited by Christine Alexander and Margaret Smith by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman -- Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the Strachey Family, by Barbara Caine by Philippa Levine -- From Life: Julia Margaret Cameron and Victorian Photography, by Victoria Olsen by Helen Groth -- Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs, edited by Julian Cox and Colin Ford, with contributions by Joanne Lukitsch and Philippa Wright by Jennifer Green-Lewis -- New Media, 1740-1915, edited by Lisa Gitelman and Geoffrey B. Pingree by Richard Menke. - No. 2: Special Issue: Papers and Responses from the Third Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association -- Editor�s Introduction -- MEDIUMS, MEDIA, MEDIATION -- Esoteric Art Confronting the Public Eye: The Abstract Spirit Drawings of Georgiana Houghton by Rachel Oberter -- Psychic Reading by Lisa Brocklebank -- The Narrator as Medium in George Eliot�s �The Lifted Veil� by Jill Galvan -- Response by Mary Poovey -- GENRE MATTERS -- Empty Houses: Thackeray�s Theater of Interiority by David Kurnick -- Dickens, Fascinated by Rosemarie Bodenheimer -- Revenge Stories of Modern Life by Daniel Hack -- Empathy and Identity in Vernon Lee�s Hauntings by Nicole Fluhr -- Response by Carolyn Williams -- ADDRESSED TO THE NINES -- The Victorian Archive and the Disappearance of the Book by Dino Franco Felluga -- BOOK REVIEWS -- The Ethics of Identity, by Anthony Appiah by Amanda Anderson -- Perfection, the State, and Victorian Liberalism, by Daniel S. Malachuk by Lauren M. E. Goodlad -- A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France, by Jennifer Pitts by Michael Bentley -- Professional Savages: Captive Lives and Western Spectacle, by Roslyn Poignant by Nadja Durbach -- Empire Families: Britons and Late Imperial India, by Elizabeth Buettner by Nancy Fix Anderson -- Dickens and Empire: Discourses of Class, Race and Colonialism in the Works of Charles Dickens, by Grace Moore by Lillian Nayder -- Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj, by Jharna Gourlay by Judith Godden -- Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies: Christian Missionaries Imagine Chinese Religion, by Eric Reinders by Lars Peter Laamann -- Methodism: Empire of the Spirit, by David Hempton by Dale A. Johnson -- Mill on God: The Pervasiveness and Elusiveness of Mill�s Religious Thought, by Alan P. F. Sell by Eldon Eisenach -- Gerard Manley Hopkins and Victorian Catholicism: A Heart in Hiding, byJill Muller by James Finn Cotter -- The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961: Newman, Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton, Greene, Waugh, by Ian Ker by Carol Marie Engelhardt -- Nineteenth-Century Ireland: A Guide to Recent Research, edited by Laurence M. Geary and Margaret Kelleher by Timothy G. McMahon -- Ireland Abroad: Politics and Professions in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Oonagh Walsh by Enda Leaney -- Unfolding the South: Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers and Artists in Italy, edited by Alison Chapman and Jane Stabler by Pauline Nestor -- Whistler and His Mother: An Unexpected Relationship, by Sarah Walden by Anne Koval -- William Nicholson, by Sanford Schwartz by Allen Staley -- From William Morris: Building Conservation and the Arts and Crafts Cult of Authenticity, 1877-1939, edited by Chris Miele by Peter Stansky -- The University of London, 1858-1900: The Politics of Senate and Convocation, by F. M. G. Willson by W. C. Lubenow -- Unmapped Countries: Biological Visions in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, edited by Anne-Julia Zwierlein by Bernard Lightman -- Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain: From Mary Shelley to George Eliot, by Janis McLarren Caldwell by Miriam Bailin -- Invalidism and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain, by Maria H. Frawley by Lennard J. Davis -- Captivating Subjects: Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Jason Haslam and Julia Wright by Sean Grass -- The Perversity of Poetry: Romantic Ideology and the Popular Male Poet of Genius, by Dino Franco Felluga by Matthew Rowlinson -- Tame Passions of Wilde: The Styles of Manageable Desire, by Jeff Nunokawa by Dennis Denisoff -- Inaugural Wounds: The Shaping of Desire in Five Nineteenth-Century English Narratives, by Robert E. Lougy by Laurie Langbauer -- Intimate. Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928, by Martha Vicinus by Judith Halberstam -- Marital Violence: An English Family History 1660-1857, by Elizabeth Foyster by Martin J. Wiener -- Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London, by Seth Koven by Sharon Marcus. - No. 3: Why the Notion of Victorian Britain Does Make Sense by Martin Hewitt -- Toward a New Transatlanticism: Dickens in the United States by Amanda Claybaugh -- Black Ireland�s Race: Thomas Carlyle and the Young Ireland Movement by Julie M. Dugger -- REVIEW ESSAYS -- Becoming Green by Andrew Vincent -- �Charting the Golden Stream�: Recent Work on Victorian Periodicals by Kay Boardman -- BOOK REVIEWS -- The Invention of World Religions, or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism, by Tomoko Masuzawa by Frank M. Turner -- The Secret of the Totem: Religion and Society from McLennan to Freud, by Robert Alun Jones by Andrew Von Hendy -- The Broad Church: A Biography of a Movement, by Tod E. Jones by Stephen Prickett -- John Keble in Context, by Kirstie Blair by Francis L. Fennell -- Philosophy, Dissent and Nonconformity: 1689-1920, by Alan P. F. Sell by Kirk Willis -- Helen Macfarlane: A Feminist, Revolutionary foumalist, and Philosopher in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England, by David Black by Jutta Schwarzkopf -- Teaching British Women Writers 1750-1900, edited by Jeanne Moskal and Shannon R. Wooden by Theresa A. Dougal -- Reading the Bronte Body: Disease, Desire, and the Constraints of Culture, by Beth Torgerson by Athena Vrettos -- Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853- 1907, by Nadja Durbach by Martin Fichman -- Criminal Conversations: Victorian Crimes, Social Panic, and Moral Outrage, edited by Judith Rowbotham and Kim Stevenson by Marjorie Levine-Clark -- Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation, edited by Andrew Maunder and Grace Moore by Marlene Tromp -- Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel, by Robert Alter; Imagining London, 1770-1900, by Alan Robinson by Richard Maxwell -- The Material Interests of the Victorian Novel, by Daniel Hack by Christina Crosby -- Friendship �s Bonds: Democracy and the Novel in Victorian England, by Richard Dellamora by Michael Ragussis -- The Self in the Cell: Narrating the Victorian Prisoner, by Sean Grass by Audrey Jaffe -- Avuncularism: Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Nineteenth-Century English Culture, by Eileen Gleere by Eileen Gillooly -- Nationalism and Irony: Burke, Scott, Carlyle, by Yoon Sun Lee by Harry E. Shaw -- Nervous Reactions: Victorian Recollections of Romanticism, edited by Joel Faflak and Julia M. Wright by Kenneth Daley -- The Figure of Music in Nineteenth-Century Poetry,edited by Phyllis Weliever by Robert Terrell Bledsoe -- Poetical Remains: Poets � Graves, Bodies, and Books in the Nineteenth Century, by Samantha Matthews by Charles LaPorte -- Elegy for an Age: The Presence of the Past in Victorian Literature, by John D. Rosenberg by Linda M. Austin -- Reinventing King Arthur: The Arthurian Legends in Victorian Culture, by Inga Bryden by Linda K. Hughes -- The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon: Edwardian Britain on Film, edited by Vanessa Toulmin, Simon Popple, and Patrick Russell by Laura E. Nym Mayhall -- John Constable and the Theory of Landscape Painting, by Ray Lambert by Juilee Decker -- Culturing the Child, 1690-1914: Essays in Memory of Mitzi Myers, edited by Donelle Ruwe by Kimberly Reynolds -- The Subverting Vision of Bulwer Lytton: Bicentenary Reflections, edited by Allan Conrad Christensen by Richard Salmon -- Robert Louis Stevenson: A Literary Life, by William Gray; Robert Louis Stevenson and the Colonial Imagination, by Ann C. Colley by Stephen Arata -- The Transvaal Rebellion: The First Boer War, 1880-1881, by John Laband by Stanley H. Palmer -- Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature, by Joseph Carroll by Jonathan Smith -- Discovering Water: James Watt, Henry Cavendish and the Nineteenth- Century �Water Controversy," by David Philip Miller by John Broich -- The Victorian Scientist: The Growth of a Profession, by Jack Meadows; John Phillips and the Business of Victorian Science, by Jack Morrell by Theodore M. Porter -- An Elusive Victorian: The Evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace, by Martin Fichman by Sandra Herbert. - No. 4: Science and Fiction: James Nasmyth�s Photographic Images of the Moon by Frances Robertson -- Strategic Formalism: Toward a New Method in Cultural Studies by Caroline Levine -- �Face Him Like a Briton�: Tiger Hunting, Imperialism, and British Masculinity in Colonial India, 1800-1875 by Joseph Sramek -- REVIEW ESSAY -- After the Exhibitionary Complex: Museum Histories and the Future of the Victorian Past by Lara Kriegel -- BOOK REVIEWS -- Gender and Empire, edited by Philippa Levine by Tammy M. Proctor -- The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World, by Dane Kennedy by Eitan Bar-Yosef -- The Ocean at Home: An Illustrated History of the Aquarium, by Bernd Brunner, trans. Ashley Marc Slapp; Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea, by Helen M. Rozwadowski by Bernhard Klein -- Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture, by Robert D. Aguirre by Paul Edison -- Crime and Empire: The Colony in Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Crime, by Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee by Caroline Reitz -- The Exotic Woman in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction and Culture: A Reconsideration, by Piya Pal-Lapinski by Eleanor J. Harrington-Austin -- Irish Orientalism: A Literary and Intellectual History, by Joseph Lennon by John Marx -- Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland�s Political & Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley, by Helena Kelleher Kahn by Jill Brady Hampton -- Carson: The Man Who Divided Ireland, by Geoffrey Lewis by Joseph P. Finnan -- Painting the Nation: Identity and Nationalism in Scottish Painting, 1800-1920, by John Morrison by Maureen M. Martin -- Representations of G. F. Watts: Art Making in Victorian Culture, edited by Colin Trodd and Stephanie Brown by Matthew Potter -- The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel: Narrative Challenges to Visual Gendered Boundaries, by Sophia Andres by Elizabeth Helsinger -- Victorian and Edwardian Responses to the Italian Renaissance, edited by John E. Law and Lene Ostermark-Johansen by Stefano Evangelista -- Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present, edited by Janet Badia and Jennifer Phegley by Patrocinio Schweickart -- Dance and Dancers in the Victorian and Edwardian Music Hall Ballet, by Alexandra Carter by Molly Engelhardt -- New Readings in Theatre History, by Jacky Bratton by Katherine Newey -- Music Analysis in Britain in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, by Catherine Dale; Parry�s Creative Process, by Michael Allis by Charles Edward McGuire -- Manufacturing Culture: Vindication of Early Victorian Industry, by Joseph Bizup by Carolyn Lesjak -- Chocolate on Trial: Slavery, Politics & the Ethics of Business, by Lowell J. Satre by David Killingray -- Middle-Class Culture in the Nineteenth Century: America, Australia and Britain, by Linda Young by Tim Dolin -- Lords of Misrule: Hostility to Aristocracy in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain, by Antony Taylor by Gregory Claeys -- The Politics of the Poor: The East End of London 1885-1914, by Marc Brodie by Bruce Coleman -- Papers for the People: A Study of the Chartist Press, edited by Joan Allen and Owen R. Ashton by Jamie L. Bronstein -- Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870-1914, by Julie-Marie Strange by Allan Kellehear -- Child Murder and British Culture, 1720-1900, by Josephine McDonagh by Laura C. Berry -- Queer Fish: Christian Unreason from Darwin to Derrida, by John Schad by Lori Branch -- The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction: Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot and Serialization, by David Payne by Deborah Wynne -- The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination, by Paul K. Saint-Amour by Clare Pettitt -- Paperwork: Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age, by Kevin McLaughlin by Daniel Hack -- Consensual Fictions: Women, Liberalism and the English Novel, by Wendy S. Jones by David Wayne Thomas -- Behind Her Times: Transition England in the Novels of Mary Arnold Ward, by Judith Wilt by Gisela Argyle -- Thomas Hardy and the Survivals of Time, by Andrew Radford; Thomas Hardy�s �Facts�Notebook, edited by William Greenslade by Angelique Richardson -- Sodom on the Thames: Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times, by Morris B. Kaplan by Charles Upchurch -- The Fin-de-Si�e Poem: English Literary Culture and the 1890s, edited byJoseph Bristow by Regenia Gagnier.