Victorian Studies. Vol. 47.

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: Class Discourse and Popular Agency in Bleak House by Chris R. Vanden Bossche -- News from Nowhere and the Here and Now: Reification and the Representation of the Present in Utopian Fiction by Matthew Beaumont -- The Space of Optimism: State Fantasy and the Case of The Odd Women by Zarena Aslami -- REVIEW ESSAY -- George Eliot�s �Trump�: Recent Work on Harriet Martineau by Deirdre David -- BOOK REVIEWS -- The Victorians, 1830-1880: The Oxford English Literary History, Volume 8, by Philip Davis by Herbert F. Tucker -- The Crime in Mind: Criminal Responsibility and the Victorian Novel, by Lisa Rodensky by Christine L. Krueger -- Capital Offenses: Geographies of Class and Crime in Victorian London, by Simon Joyce by Caroline Reitz -- Men of Blood: Violence, Manliness, and CriminalJustice in Victorian England, by Martin J. Wiener by Carolyn A. Conley -- British Friendly Societies, 1750-1914, by Simon Cordery by Timothy Alborn -- Women, Religion and Feminism in Britain, 1750-1900, edited by Sue Morgan by Joy Dixon -- Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860, by Anna Johnston by Jeffrey Cox -- Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930, by Patrick Brantlinger by Ian Duncan -- Alfred Maudslay and the Maya: A Biography, by Ian Graham by Robert D. Aguirre -- Negotiating India in the Nineteenth-Century Media, edited by David Finkelstein and Douglas M. Peers by Jeffrey L. Spear -- Security and Progress: Lord Salisbury at the India Office, by Paul R. Brumpton by Douglas M. Peers -- Benjamin Disraeli Letters, Volume 7: 1857-1859, edited by M. G. Wiebe, Mary S. Millar, Ann P. Robson, and Ellen L. Hawman by Robert O�Kell -- Victorian Political Thought on France and the French, by Georgios Varouxakis by Lawrence Rothfield -- Victorian Literature and the Victorian State: Character and Governance in a Liberal Society, by Lauren M. E. Goodlad by Jennifer Ruth -- Henry Sidgwick, Eye of the Universe: An Intellectual Biography, by Bart Schultz by Peter Allan Dale -- George Eliot, Music, and Victorian Culture, by Delia da Sousa Correa by Alison Byerly -- Ruskin and Gender, edited by Dinah Birch and Francis O�Gorman; Sesame and Lilies, by John Ruskin, edited by Deborah Epstein Nord by Sheila Emerson -- The Cambridge Companion to the Brontes, edited by Heather Glen Charlotte Bronte: The Imagination in History, by Heather Glen; �We Are Three Sisters �: Self and Family in the Writing of the Brontes, by Drew Lamonica by Tim Dolin -- Gothic Reflections: Narrative Force in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, by Peter K. Garrett by Patrick Brantlinger. - No. 2: Special Issue: Papers from the Second Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association -- Editors� Introduction -- NARRATIVES OF NATURE -- Reorienting the Scientific Frontier: Victorian Tide Pools and Literary Realism by Amy M. King -- Crossing the Beach: A Victorian Tale Adrift in the Pacific by Michelle Elleray -- The Philosophy of Decapitation: Analysis, Biomedical Reform, and Devolution in London�s Body Politic, 1830-1850 by James Elwick -- Response by Harriet Ritvo -- WHY �VICTORIAN �? -- Victorian Studies and the Two Modernities by Amanda Anderson -- Taming the Tropics: Charlotte Yonge Takes on Melanesia by Talia Schaffer -- Toward a Victorianist�s Theory of Androgynous Experiment by Lauren M. E. Goodlad -- Response by Kate Flint -- HISTORIANS AND THE VICTORIAN STUDIES QUESTION -- Theory of Victorian Studies: Anachronism and Self-Reflexivity by Matthew Rowlinson -- Theoretical Answers to Interdisciplinary Questions or Interdisciplinary Answers to Theoretical Questions? by Catherine Gallagher -- Political Economy, Gothic, and the Question of Imperial Citizenship by Sukanya Banerjee -- Response by James Vernon -- BOOK REVIEWS -- The One vs. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel, by Alex Woloch by Deidre Lynch -- Thackeray�s Skeptical Narrative and the �Perilous Trade� of Authorship, by Judith Fisher by Nicholas Dames -- Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body, by Anna Krugovoy Silver by Meegan Kennedy -- Gambling in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel: �A Leprosy Is O�er the Land," by Michael Flavin by Liz Rosdeitcher -- Hatred and Civility: The Antisocial Life in Victorian England, by Christopher Lane by John Plotz -- Victorian Keats: Manliness, Sexuality, and Desire, by James Najarian by Richard Marggraf Turley -- Colonialism and Homosexuality, by Robert Aldrich by Ross G. Forman -- Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity and Colonial Power in India, 1818-1940, by Jeffrey Cox by Susan Thorne -- Contested Christianity: The Political and Social Contexts of Victorian Theology, by Timothy Larsen by Mark Knight -- Technology, Industrial Conflict and the Development of Technical Education in 19th-Century England, by Bernard Cronin by Christopher Keep -- Women�s Bodies and Dangerous Trades in England, 1880-1914, by Carolyn Malone by David W. Gutzke -- Public Lives: Women, Family and Society in Victorian Britain, by Eleanor Gordon and Gwyneth Nair by Eileen Janes Yeo -- Nationalism, Imperialism and Identity in Late Victorian Culture: Civil and Military Worlds, by Steve Attridge by Nicholas Daly -- The Orient on the Victorian Stage, by Edward Ziter by John M. Mackenzie -- The Culture of Property: The Crisis of Liberalism in Modem Britain, by Jordanna Bailkin; Cultivating Victorians: Liberal Culture and the Aesthetic, by David Wayne Thomas by Jonah Siegel -- Body Doubles: Sculpture in Britain, 1877-1905, by David J. Getsy; Sculpture and the Pursuit of a Modem Ideal in Britain, c. 1880-1930, edited by David J. Getsy by Mark Stocker -- Memory and Desire: Painting in Britain and Ireland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, by Kenneth McConkey by Gordon Fyfe. - No. 3: Gods and Mysteries: The Revival of Paganism and the Remaking of Mythography through the Nineteenth Century by Margot K. Louis -- Digging to India: Modernity, Imperialism, and the Suez Canal by Emily A. Haddad -- Henry Wood, the �Proms,� and National Identity in Music, 1895-1904 by Lawrence Poston -- REVIEW ESSAY -- Religion, Difference, and the Limits of British Imperial History by Tony Ballantyne -- BOOK REVIEWS -- The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period, by William St. Clair by Andrew Elfenbein -- Stateliest Measures: Tennyson and the Literature of Greece and Rome, by A. A. Markley by Jason R. Rudy -- Building Cosmopolis: The Political Thought ofH. G. Wells, by John S. Partington; H. G. Wells: Traversing Time, by W. Warren Wagar by John R. Reed -- Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-Century Fiction, by Susan M. Griffin by Maria LaMonaca -- The Eternal Paddy: Irish Identity and the British Press, 1798-1882, by Michael de Nie by John Belchem -- Ireland: A Social, Cultural, and Literary History, 1791-1891, by James H. Murphy by Sara L. Maurer -- Music in Other Words: Victorian Conversations, by Ruth Solie by Donna Parsons -- Worldwide Pre-Raphaelitism, edited by Thomas J. Tobin by Norman Kelvin -- The Making of the Victorian Novelist: Anxieties of Authorship in the Mass Market, by Bradley Deane by Daniel Hack -- Professional Men and Domesticity in the Mid-Victorian Novel, by Laura Fasick by Allen J. Salerno -- Raising the Dust: The Literary Housekeeping of Mary Ward, Sarah Grand, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, by Beth Sutton- Ramspeck by Eileen Cleere -- How to Make It as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present, by Alison Booth by Kali Israel -- Medical Women and Victorian Fiction, by Kristine Swenson by Nicholas Birns -- Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture, by Martha Stoddard Holmes by Matthew Bolton -- The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia, by Warwick Anderson; Invisible Invaders: Smallpox and Other Diseases in Aboriginal Australia, 1780-1880, by Judy Campbell by Patrick Brantlinger -- British Naturalists in Qing China: Science, Empire, and Cultural Encounter, by Fa-ti Fan by Richard Bellon -- The Morals of Measurement: Accuracy, Irony, and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice, by Graeme J. N. Gooday by Iwan Rhys Morus -- Under the Wire: How the Telegraph Changed Diplomacy, by David Paull Nickles by Daniel Headrick. - No. 4: Flogging and Fascination: Dickens and the Fragile Will by Natalie Rose -- Confession as Cultural Form: The Plymouth Inquiry by Anne Hartman -- Ghosts in the Machina: Plotting in Chartist and Working-Class Fiction by Rob Breton -- REVIEW ESSAY -- Between Treasuries and the Web: Compendious Victorian Poetry Anthologies in Transition by Tricia Lootens -- BOOK REVIEWS -- Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860-2000, by Nicholas Daly by John M. Picker -- London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914, by Matt Cook; Backward Glances: Cruising the Queer Streets of New York and London, by Mark W. Turner by Leland Monk -- No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, by Lee Edelman by Carolyn Dever -- Nameless Offences: Homosexual Desire in the Nineteenth Century, by H. G. Cocks by Ross G. Forman -- Behaving Badly: Social Panic and Moral Outrage�Victorian and Modem Parallels, edited byJudith Rowbotham and Kim Stevenson by Lesley Hall -- Mapping the Victorian Social Body, by Pamela K. Gilbert by Bryan B. Rasmussen -- Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence: The Scientific Investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle, by Lawrence Frank by Kenneth Thompson -- Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain, by Tim Barringer by Julie E Codell -- Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850-1950, by Mark Hampton by E. M. Palmegiano -- Educating the Proper Woman Beader: Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation, by Jennifer Phegley by Margaret Beetham -- Victorian Women Poets (Essays and Studies), edited by Alison Chapman by Emily Harrington -- Subjects OnDisplay: Psychoanalysis, Social Expectation, and Victorian Femininity, by Beth Newman by Dianne F. Sadoff -- Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture, by Barry J. Faulk by Keith Wilson -- The French Actress and her English Audience, by John Stokes by John Glavin -- The Mind of Gladstone: Religion, Homer, and Politics, by David Bebbington by Walter L. Arnstein -- The Absent-Minded Imperialists: What the British Really Thought About Empire, by Bernard Porter by Antoinette Burton.