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From:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 53, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThese words from an October 1846 diary entry of Ernest Charles Jones (1819-1869) were written in the first flush of his Chartist poetic success, as the movement was still growing accustomed to the appearance in its...
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From:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 48, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedFor nineteenth-century readers Shakespeare's Sonnets promised much. The efforts of the previous century's scholars had seen Shakespeare's texts become the focus of a project seeking to refine and purify English into a...
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From:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 44, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe past year has brought us The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Chelsea Years, 1863.1872, III. 1871-72, the fifth volume of a series originally to be prepared by the late William Fredeman, and completed...
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From:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 42, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTHE BIGGEST SINGLE CHANGE TO THE BODY OF VICTORIAN POETRY IN THE LAST fifteen years has come from the long overdue restoration of women poets to the canon. So profound and far-reaching are the implications of this...
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From:English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 (Vol. 47, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedELIZA LYNN LINTON AND SARAH GRAND both had talent for drawing attention to themselves and to their causes. Linton ignited the Woman Question in the popular press while Grand ignited the New Woman Question. Linton fanned...
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From:Critical Survey (Vol. 13, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOne of our own noted litteratuers once said to me: `The public want personalities. If you would please them voila!' And when a man who has to make up a weekly letter hears a fresh dart of hot scandal hissing through the...
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From:Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature (Vol. 53, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI am persuaded that the transformation of religion, which is essential for its perpetuance, can be accomplished only by carrying the qualities of flexibility, perceptiveness, and judgment, which are the best fruits of...
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From:Victorian Studies (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn Degeneration (1895), his bitter diatribe against the decadence of the fin de siecle, Max Nordau offered an evocative description of the neurotic effects of everyday metropolitan society on the individual. In...
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From:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 41, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTENNYSON SCHOLARSHIP HAS YET TO ACCOUNT FOR THE IMPORTANT CONNECtions between the poet's lifelong preoccupation with astronomy and his larger poetic project. Astronomy fascinated Tennyson for its own sake, and also, I...
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From:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 41, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPreoccupations with empire and gender somewhat abated in Tennyson studies in 2002, with the slack taken up by attention to influence, a term near to hand because Robert Douglas-Fairhurst treats the subject in such...
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From:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 41, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewedwhere shall we know ... Sign-marks to guide us on the way we go?--Augusta Webster, "To-Day" Whirr--whirr--gone! And still we hurry on.--William Allingham, "Express" In December 1999 I proposed this special issue...
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From:Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (Vol. 40, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedEver since Arthur Hallam's early review of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Poems, critics have recognized that Tennyson's early work attempts to establish a kind of poetic authority, and that its characteristic power is...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Prose (Vol. 25, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDespite recent increased interest in the politics of the spoken word, the history of the English lecture platform is still dominated by interpretations derived from the rather different experience of America. This...
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From:The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (Vol. 93, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedHenry Fielding knew his death to be near when he wrote 'The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon' and wanted the book to take his place. Fielding constructed a book-body metaphor by portraying acts of embodiment such as eating...
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From:Essays in Literature (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA recurring image in Charles Dickens's works is the 'danse macabre.' The 'danse macabre' or dance of death consists of images directly associated with death, such as shrouds, tombstones, graveyards and corpses. These...
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From:Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (Vol. 55, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis essay argues that George Gissing develops his critical ideas about realism by correlating the balance of life and work in biography with the realist novelist's negotiation between external details and subjective...
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From:Connotations (Vol. 25, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe history of the world, my sweet--[...] --is who gets eaten and who get to eat. (Sondheim 105) In Nostalgic Postmodernism: The Victorian Tradition and the Contemporary British Novel (2001), Christian Gutleben notes...
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From:Victorian Studies (Vol. 59, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT: With the advent of spiritualism in the early 1850s, tables and chairs in British households were making an array of unpredictable movements and noises. One of the most unsettling aspects of spiritualism was...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Prose (Vol. 40, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis paper examines an influential but now neglected Victorian critic: Lady Elizabeth (Rigby) Eastlake (1809-1893). Eastlake developed a sizeable reputation beginning in the 1840s as a travel writer and art critic. She...
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From:Victorian Studies (Vol. 56, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe large-scale digitization of nineteenth-century books and periodicals now makes possible a more comprehensive exploration of the cultural history of Victorian texts and their interrelated bibliographic, visual, and...