The Victorian Newsletter
Deborah A. Logan, Editor Western Kentucky University
Tables of Contents, #118 (2010) through #1 (1952)
The Victorian Newsletter Number 118 Fall 2010
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Whose Child is it? Paternalism, Parenting, and Political 7 Ambiguity in Frances Trollope’s Factory Novel by Galia Benziman
Charlotte Brooke’s ―Maon‖ and the Construction of 30 Anglo-Irish Identity by Lucy Cogan
Freud’s Uncanny: The Role of the Double in Jane Eyre and 43 Wuthering Heights by Morteza Jafari
Republicanism, Regicide and ―The Musgrave Ritual‖ 54 by Richard Jacobs
From the Erotic Blush to the Petrifying Medusa Gaze in 67 George Eliot’s Novels by Gillian M. E. Alban
Book Review: Lesley Higgins, ed. Oxford Essays and Notes, 87 Vol. IV of The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Jerome Bump
Book Review: Matthew Hofer and Gary Scharnhorst, eds. 93 Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews by Nikolai Endres
Books Received 99
Contributors 100
The Victorian Newsletter Number 117 Spring 2010
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The Market(place) and the Muse: Tennyson, Lincolnshire, 5 and the Nineteenth-Century Idea of the Book by Patrick Scott
Tennyson’s False Women: Vivien, Guinevere, and the Challenge 39 to Victorian Domestic Ideology by Ingrid Ranum
The Mysteries of Origin and the Need for a Happy Ending: 58 George Meredith’s Evan Harrington: He Could be a Gentleman by Shu-Fang Lai
Tennyson and the Poetics of Alterity 75 by Aaron Worth
―The weight of all the hopes of half the world‖: Tennyson’s 90 The Princess and Maurice’s Eustace Conway by Leslie Haynsworth
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
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Becoming a ―Mere Appendix‖: The Rehabilitated Masculinity 3 of Sherlock Holmes by Tom Bragg
Redeeming the ―City of the Dead‖: Metaphysical Fiction, 27 Touristic Fantasy, and the Historical Other in Bulwer’s The Last Days of Pompeii by Stanwood S. Walker
―Impenetrable Dooms‖: Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s 53 The Question and Explanatory Sonnets by D.M.R. Bentley
Irregular and Not Proven: The Problem of Scottish Law in the 66 Novels of Wilkie Collins by Mary M. Husemann
Book Review: John Plotz, Portable Property: Victorian Culture 90 on the Move by Jessica Kuskey
Book Review: Rosemarie Bodenheimer, Knowing Dickens 92 by Karen Laird
Book Review: Joseph Bristow, ed. Oscar Wilde and Modern 95 Culture: The Making of a Legend by Nikolai Endres
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
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Introducing a ―Lost‖ Victorian Novel: 7 The Elusive William North and The City of the Jugglers (1850) by Patrick Scott
North’s The City of the Jugglers (1850) and the European 16 Revolutions of 1848 by Lanya Lamouria
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 46 by Rebecca Stern
North versus North: William North (1825-1854) in Light of 55 New Documentation by Allan Life and Page Life
A Preliminary Checklist of Writings by and about 95 William North (1825-1854) by Page Life, Patrick Scott, and Allan Life
Book Review: Marlene Tromp, ed. Victorian Freaks: The Social 116 Context of Freakery in Britain by John Miller
Book Review: Andrew Miller, The Burdens of Perfection: 119 On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature by Susan E. Colón
Books Received 122
Contributors 123
Announcements/Acknowledgements 124
The Victorian Newsletter Number 114 Fall 2008
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Rewriting the Boxer Rebellion: The Imaginative Creations of 7 Putnam Weale, Edmund Backhouse, and Charles Welsh Mason by Jacqueline Young
Alien Image, Ideal Beauty: The Orientalist Vision of American 30 Slavery in Hiram Powers’s The Greek Slave by Sara Hackenberg
Sight, Sound, and Silence: Representations of the Slave Body in 51 Barrett Browning, Hawkshaw, and Douglass by Debbie Bark
Charlotte Brontë’s ―Pain Pressed‖ Pilgrimage and its Critical 69 Reception by Jacqueline Banerjee
Review Essay: Norman H. MacKenzie, Excursions in Hopkins; 93 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
Book Review: Antonio Melechi, Servants of the Supernatural: 101 The Night Side of Victorian Nature by Joseph Good
Books Received 104
Announcements 106
Contributors 107
The Victorian Newsletter Number 113 Spring 2008
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Secret Ciphers, Secret Knowledge: the Classics in British 3 India, ca. 1800-1900 by Chris Hagerman
The Disclosure of Secrets: Reflection and Growth in Jane Eyre 22 and Middlemarch by Kathleen Conway
―The Boy Was a Girl‖: Reconstructing Gender and Class to 38 Deconstruct Difference in Sarah Grand’s The Heavenly Twins by Audrey Fessler
The Other Serpents: Deviance and Contagion in ―The Speckled 54 Band‖ by Stella Pratt-Smith
Caliban upon the Demiurge: Gnosticism on the Island in 67 ―Caliban upon Setebos‖ by Carrol L. Fry
Science, Technology, and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life: 77 H.G. Wells’s response to John Ruskin and William Morris in A Modern Utopia by Kevin Swafford
Domestic Imperialism in Several Victorian Texts: Contact Zones 88 at Home by Mary Rosner
Contributors 107
Books Received 108
Announcements 110
The Victorian Newsletter Number 112 Fall 2007
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Translating Authority: Romola’s Disruption of the Gendered 6 Narrative by Lesa Scholl
The Anarchist and the Detective: The Science of Detection 19 and the Subversion of Generic Convention in H.G. Wells’s ―The Thumbmark‖ by Nils Clausson
Class Consciousness, Critter Collecting, and the Climatic 32 Conditions: Post-Victorian Existentialism in the ―Morphing‖ Victorian Scientist by Jill E. Wagner
There is Something Wilde about Mary: The Eccles Bequest 51 by Nikolai Endres
Against ―All that rowdy lot‖: Trollope’s Grudge Against Disraeli 55 by Karen Kurt Teal
Sensational Bodies: Lady Audley and the Pre-Raphaelite Portrait 69 by Brian Donnelly
John Opie’s Lectures to the Royal Academy and Little Dorrit 91 by Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
Contributors 101
Books Received 102
The Victorian Newsletter Number 111 Spring 2007
Contents Page Carlyle's Influence on Shakespeare 1 by Robert Sawyer
Imagining Ophelia in Christina Rossetti's ''Sleeping at Last'' 8 by Mary Faraci
The Poison Within: Robert Browning' s ''The Laboratory'' 10 by David Sonstroem
''Her life was in her books'': Jean lngelow in the Literary Marketplace 12 by Maura Ives
The Buddhist Sub-Text and the Imperial Soul-Making in Kim 20 by Young Hee Kwon
''Gliding'': A Note On the Exquisite Delicacy of the Religious Glissade Motif in Hopkins's ''The Windhover'' 29 by Nathan Cervo
Coming in The Victorian Newsletter 29
Books Received 30
Notice 32
The Victorian Newsletter Number 110 Fall 2006
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Reading Hodge: Preserving Rural Epistemologies in Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd 1 by Eric G. Lorentzen
Unmanned by Marriage and the Metropolis in Gissing's The Whirlpool 10 by Andrew Radford
Anthony Trollope's Lady Anna and Shakespeare's Othello 18 by Maurice Hunt
The Romantic and the Familiar: Third-Person Narrative in Chapter 11 of Bleak House 23 by David Paroissien
Tennyson's In Memoriam, Section 123, and the Submarine Forest on the Lincolnshire Coast 28 by Patrick Scott
Coming in Victorian Newsletter 30
Books Received 31
The Victorian Newsletter Number 109 Spring 2006
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Scandalous Sensations: The Woman In White on the Victorian Stage 1 by Maria K. Bachman
Nostalgia to Amnesia: Charles Dickens, Marcus Clarke and Narratives of Australia’s Convict Origins 9 by Beth A. Boehm
The Epigraph to Henley’s In Hospital 14 by Edward H. Cohen
Emily Bronte’s Pedagogy of Desire in Wuthering Heights 16 by Amy Carol Reeves
Kate Field and Anthony Trollope: The Gaps in the Record 21 by Gary Scharnhorst
Metaphoric Mules: Dickens’s Tom Gradgrind and Dante’s Vanni Fucci 24 by Ernest Fontana
A Husband’s Tragedy: The Relationship between Art and Life in Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband 25 by Carol Schnitzer
Coming In Victorian Newsletter 29
Books Received 30
The Victorian Newsletter Number 108 Fall 2005
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Ambivalent Pre-Raphaelite Ekphrasis 1 by Sophia Andres
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Anglo-Dutch Emblem Tradition 6 by D. M. R. Bentley
Browning's ''Childe Roland'': The Visionary Poetic 14 by Lawrence J. Starzyk
Myths of Castration: Freud's ''Eternal Feminine'' and Rider Haggard's She 21 by Shannon Young
Coming in Victorian Newsletter 30
Books Received 31
The Victorian Newsletter Number 107 Spring 2005
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The Haunted Self: Vision of the Ghost and the Woman at the Fin de Siecle 1 by Hilary Grimes
The Case of the Anomalous Narrative: Gothic ''Surmise'' and Trigonometric ''Proof '' in Arthur Conan Doyle's ''The Musgrave Ritual'' 5 by Nils Clausson
Browning's ―Childe Roland‖: The Visionary Poetic 11 by Lawrence J. Starzyk
The Picture of Dorian Gray, or, The Embarrassing Orthodoxy of Oscar Wilde 18 by Michael Buma
Dickens, Hunt and the Waiter in Somebody 's Luggage 25 by Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
Three Victorian ''Medieval'' Poems: ―Dover Beach,‖ ―The Windhover,‖ and "The Higher Pantheism‖ 28 by Nathan Cervo
Books Received 29
The Victorian Newsletter Number 106 Fall 2004
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―Eternal honour to his name‖: Tennyson' s Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington and Victorian Memorial Aesthetics 1 by Anna Jane Barton
Deviance in The Law and the Lady: The Uneasy Positioning of Mr. Dexter 9 by Mary Rosner
Sympathy and Discipline in Mary Barton 15 by Melissa Schaub
Victorian Sisterhoods and Female Religious Vocation in Margaret Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford 21 by Oliver Lovesey
Catharis in George Meredith's Essay on Comedy 28 by Jacob Korg
Books Received 30
The Victorian Newsletter Number 105 Spring 2004
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Italian Counterpoint: Henry James and John Ruskin in Florence 1 by Kevin Swafford
The Aesthetics of Adventure: The Dark Sublime and the Rise of the Colonial Anti-Hero 7 by Andrew Libby
Rehearsing Nicholas Nickelby: Dickens, Macready, and the Pantomime of Life 16 by Greg Hecimovich
Lady Audley as Sacrifice: Curing Female Disadvantage in Lady Audley's Secret 24 by Nicole P. Fisk
Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson and the South Sea Idols 27 by Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
Hood's ―Craniology‖ and the Head of Christopher Casby in Little Dorrit 28 by Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
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 1 by Laura Fasick
Jane Eyre, Eros and Evangelicalism 4 by Laura Haigwood
The Professional Adrift in the Victorian Novel: (1) Agnes Grey 13 by Robert D. Butterworth
The Professional Adrift in the Victorian Novel (2) New Grub Street 17 by Robert D. Butterworth
Fairies and Feminism: Recurrent Patterns in Chaucer's ''The Wife of Bath's Tale'' and Bronte's Jane Eyre 22 by Warren Edminster
Rhetorical Punctuation in Vanity Fair? 29 by Daniel P. Deneau
Thomas Meyrick, Jesuit Madness, and Hopkins 31 by Ernest Fontana
Books Received 34
The Victorian Newsletter Number 103 Spring 2003
Contents Page
The Max Nordau Pre-Raphaelite Gallery 1 by Nathan Cervo
Christina Rossetti’s Last Poem: ―Sleep at Last‖ or ―Heaven Overarches‖? 11 by Diane D’Amico
―Attached to life again‖: the ―Queer Beauty‖ of Convalescence in Bleak House 17 by Natalie Bell Cole
The Adventure of Geography: Women Writers un-Map and Re-Map Imperialism 20 by Megan A. Norcia
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 1 by Lawrence Starzyk
Flowers on a Dunghill in The Nether World 9 by Constance Harsh
Who Is Heathcliff? The Shadow Knows 15 by Marilyn Hume
Arnold's ''The Function of Criticism at the Present Time'': ―Finally, there is the systematic judgment . . . the most worthless of all.'' 18 by Nilli Diengott
Monkeys, Microcephalus Idiots, and the Barbarous Races of Mankind: Darwin's Dangerous Victorianism 20 by Leila S. May
Allusion in Robert Browning's ''A Death in the Desert'' 27 by Robert lnglesfield
Rossetti's Belated and Disturbed Walk Poems 29 by Ernest Fontana
Coming in Victorian Newsletter 33
Books Received 34
Group News [37]
The Victorian Newsletter Number 101 Spring 2002
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Mr. Sludge and Mrs. Oliphant: Victorian Negotiations with the Dead 1 by June Sturrock
Image and Text in Jane Eyre's Avian Vignettes and Bewick's History of British Birds 5 by Susan B. Taylor
One Man Is an Island: Natural Landscape Imagery in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island 12 by Brian Gibson
A Hundred Daily Comedies: Anne Thackerary Ritchie's Comic Identity in Old Kensington 21 by George Scott Christian
''Escaping the Body's Gaol'': The Poetry of Anne Bronte 27 by Alexandra Leach
The Fall of the House of Usher and Little Dorrit 32 by Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
A Note on ''Jack, Joke'' in Hopkins's ''That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection'' 34 by Nathan Cervo
Coming in The Victorian Newsletter 35
Books Received 36
Group News 41
The Victorian Newsletter Number 100 Fall 2001
Contents Page
No Higher Love: Clerical Domesticity in Kingsley and Eliot 1 by Laura Fasick
Victorian Ghostbusting: Gendered Authority in the Middle-class Home 6 by Susan E. Schaper
Pristine Nostalgia in the Novels of Charles Dickens 14 by John Hulsman
Imperial Addiction: West End Shopping and East End Opium 17 by Krista Lysack
Stupid Trollope 22 by Richard Dellamora
The Illegitimacy of the Colonial Entrepreneur in George Eliot's Felix Holt 26 by Aeron Haynie
Coming in Victorian Newsletter 31
The Victorian Newsletter Number 99 Spring 2001
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The Travels of RLS as a Young Man 1 by Gordon Hirsch
Marginalized Maisie: Social Purity and What Maisie Knew 7 by Christine DeVine
A Note on ''Swallow'' in Swinburne's ''Itylus '' 15 by Nathan Cervo
Domesticity Betrayed: The Keepsake Literary Annual 16 by Kathryn Ledbetter
The Unmanned Fertility Figure in Hardy's The Woodlanders (1887) 24 By Andrew Radford
Coming in The Victorian Newsletter 32
Group News [33]
The Victorian Newsletter Number 98 Fall 2000
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Selecting Heroines: George Gissing and ''Sexual Science'' 1 by Rosemary Jann
An Annotated Secondary Bibliography: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1980-1999) 5 by Valentina Di Pietro
Hopkins, Language, Meaning 11 by Dennis Sobolev
Benjamin Disraeli's The Young Duke and the Condition of England's Aristocrats 15 by Maria K. Bachmann
A Victorian Sensation Novel in the ''Contact Zone'': Reading Lady Audley's Secret through Imperial Eyes 22 by R. Mark Hall
Burying the Dead: Matthew Arnold and the Dissenters 26 by Terry G. Harris
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 1 by Albert D. Pionke
Kathleen's Legacy: Dora Sigerson Shorter's Vagrant Heart 14 by Deborah A. Logan
Christina Rossetti's Nightmares: Fact or Fiction 21 by Joy A. Fehr
Mrs. Sparsit, Sir Thomas Lawrence and Coriolanus 27 by Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
Books Received 29
Group News [33]
The Victorian Newsletter Number 96 Fall 1999
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Death by Drowning 1 by Dennis Sobolev
George MacDonald's Phantastes: The Spiral Journey to the Goddess 6 by Bonnie Gaarden
Swinburne's "Notes on Designs of the Old Masters of Florence": The Exegesis of Icons 15 by Lawrence J. Starzyk
Ada Leverson's Wild(e) Yellow Book Stories 21 by William M. Harrison
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 1 by John G. Younger
Gissing and Bosanquet: Culture Unhoused 11 by Peter Allan Dale
Mrs. Conyer's Secret: Decoding Sexuality in Aurora Floyd 16 by Robert Dingley
Prophetic Moments in Dickens and Carlyle 18 by Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
"Mr. Gilfil's Love Story'' and the Critique of Kantianism 24 by Andrew Lynn
George Eliot's Challenge to Medusa's Gendered Disparities 27 by Sophia Andres
Browning's "Beatrice Signorini'' as Portrait Poem 33 by Ernest Fontana
Books Received 36
Group News [41]
The Victorian Newsletter Number 94 Fall 1998
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Matthew Arnold's "Philistinism'' and Charles Kingsley* 1 by Tod E. Jones
"Blighted'' by a "Upas Shadow": Catholicism's Function for Kingsley in Westward Ho! 10 by Michael Schiefelbein
Sources and Outcomes of Adolescent Crises in Wuthering Heights 17 by Jacqueline Banerjee
Collective Personification in Carlyle's French Revolution 26 by R. S. Edgecombe
Star-Crossed Love: The Gravity of Science in Hardy’s Two on a Tower 27 by Jim Barloon
''A Sign-Seeker'' and "Cleon": Hardy's Argument with Browning 32 by James Persoon
''A Warning to the Curious": Victorian Science and the Awful Unconscious in M. R. James's Ghost Stories 36 by Brian Cowlishaw
Mire, Bog, and Hell in The Hound of the Baskervilles 42 by Alan Smith
Books Received 45 [* corrected version of #93]
The Victorian Newsletter Number 93 Spring 1998
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Matthew Arnold's "Philistinism" and Charles Kingsley 1 by Tod E. Jones
Figures of Restraint: The Ruskinian Gentleman and the Romantic Artist 10 by Kenneth Daley
Tennyson, W. T. Stead, and "The Imperialism of Responsibility": "Vastness'' and "The Maiden Tribute'' 14 by Cecily Devereux
"No Sorrow I Have Thought More About": The Tragic Failure of George Eliot's St. Theresa 17 by June Skye Szirotny
"A Total Subversion of Character": Dr. Jekyll's Moral Insanity 27 by Mary Rosner
Of Eyes and Musical Voices in "The Great Temptation": Darwinian Sexual Selection in The Mill on the Floss 31 by Eric R. Gardner
Coming in The Victorian Newsletter 36
Books Received 37
The Victorian Newsletter Number 92 Fall 1997
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Scandalous Topicality: Silas Marner and the Political Unconscious 1 by Stewart Crehan
The Poet and the Bible: Christina Rossetti's Feminist Hermeneutics 6 by Lynda Palazzo
Flagellating Feminine Desire: Lesbians, Old Maids, and New Women in "Miss Coote's Confession," a Victorian Pornographic Narrative 9 by Tamar Heller
Strange Attractors on the Yorkshire Moors: Chaos Theory and Wuthering Heights 15 by Richard Nemesvari
Victorian Things, Victorian Words: Representation and Redemption in Gaskell's North and South 21 by Bonnie Gerard
Lewes's General Mind and the Judgment of St. Ogg's: The Mill on the Floss as Scientific Text 25 by Richard A. Currie
Dante, Pater's Marius the Epicurean and Gaston de Latour 28 by Ernest Fontana
Saint Teresa and Dorothea Brooke: The Absent Road to Perfection in Middlemarch 32 by Sherry L. Mitchell
Books Received 38
The Victorian Newsletter Number 91 Spring 1997
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From "Ladies' Business'' to "Real Business": Elizabeth Gaskell's Capitalist Fantasy in North and South 1 by Pamela Corpron Parker
Aesthetic Intertextuality as Cultural Critique: Vernon Lee Rewrites History through Walter Pater's "La Gioconda" 4 by Christa Zorn
Romance and the Self-Made Man: Gaskell Rewrites Bronte 10 by Catherine Barnes Stevenson
Wilde's Gracious Enclosures: A Brief Tour 17 by Gareth Noon
Reconceiving the Mother: Deconstructing the Madonna in Aurora Leigh 21 by Patricia Murphy
The Domination of Dorian Gray 27 by Barri J. Gold
Trollope's Admirable Women and Their Literary Sisters: A Continuing Quest for the Bearer of the Country House Tradition 31 by Yoko Hatano
Books Received 37
The Victorian Newsletter Number 90 Fall 1996
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Gender, Race, and Colonial Discourse in the Travel Writings of Mary Kingsley 1 by Salome C. Nnoromele
The Source of Callicles: Plato's Gorgias and Arnold's "Empedocles on Etna" 6 by Carol Poster
Autobiography – A Mill of Words, A Rhetoric of Silence 12 by Susan C. Hines
Clym Ancient and Modern: Oedipus, Bunyan and The Return of the Native 15 by Charles Swann
Am I My Sister's Keeper? Sexual Deviance and the Social Community 18 by Deborah A. Logan
Voice of My Voice: Mutual Submission and Transcendental Potentiality in Jane Eyre 28 by Nels C. Pearson
Sex, Violence and Identity: A. C. Swinburne and Uses of Sadomasochism 33 by Jonathan Alexander
More Shakespeare in Carlyle 36 by David-Everett Blythe
Books Received 39
The Victorian Newsletter Number 89 Spring 1996
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The Impossible Goal: The Struggle for Manhood in Victorian Fiction 1 by Jacqueline Banerjee
The Restoration of the Angel: Female Vampirism in Doyle's "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire'' 10 by Cyndy Hendershot
A Source Victorian or Biblical?: The Integration of Biblical Diction and Symbolism in Oscar Wilde's Salome 14 by Jason P. Mitchell
―Birds of a Feather": On Swinburne's Nightingale and Shelley's Skylark 17 by Chris Foss
Love at First Beet: Vegetarian Critical Theory Meats Dracula 23 by J. e. d. Stavick
Gray's Elegy and Browning's "Apparent Failure" 29 by Ernest Fontana
A Psychiatric Interpretation of Dr Jekyll's "Case" 31 by Susan Heseltine Jagoda
Coming in The Victorian Newsletter 33
Books Received 34
The Victorian Newsletter Number 88 Fall 1995
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Oscar Wilde: Crime and the "Glorious Shapes of Art" 1 by Peter Allan Dale
Metamorphosis as Metaphor in Bram Stoker's Dracula 5 by Pascale Krumm
Flatness and Ethical Responsibility in Little Dorrit 11 by Dominic Rainsford
Intertextuality and Intratextuality: The Full Text of Christina Rossetti's "Harmony on First Corinthians XIII'' Rediscovered 17 by Mary Arseneau and Jan Marsh
Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Jungian Images in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White 26 by Sophia Andres
Crucifixes and Madonnas: George Eliot's Fascination with Catholicism in Romola 31 by Michael Schiefelbein
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Priest vs. Poet 35 by A. R. Coulthard
Coming in Victorian Newsletter 40
Books Received 41
Group News 44
The Victorian Newsletter Number 87 Spring 1995
Contents Page
Kingsley's Hypatia: Foes Ever New 1 by Lionel Lackey
Representing the "Latent Vashti": Theatricality in Charlotte Bronte's Villette 4 by Lisa Surridge
The Eclipse of the Text in Carlyle's Critical Discourse 14 by Gregory Maertz
''A Frame Perfect and Glorious": Narrative Structure in Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 20 by Elizabeth Signorotti
Swinburne's Internal Centre: Reply to an Article 25 by Rikky Rooksby
Tristram, Iseult and the Internalized Centre: A Note on Rikky Rooksby's "New" Swinburne 29 by Peter Anderson
Books Received 34
Group News [35]
The Victorian Newsletter Number 86 Fall 1994
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Respectability and Romantic Poets: Late-Victorian Guides to Reading 1 by John L. Kijinsky
From a Certain Point of View in "A Scandal of Bohemia": Outsmarting Mr. Sherlock Holmes 7 by James Griffith
Michael Henchard: Hardy's Male Homosexual 9 by Tod E. Jones
Spencer's Doctrines and Mr. Hyde: Moral Evolution in Stevenson's "Strange Case'' 13 by Christine Persak
Matthew Arnold and the French Marguerite Tradition 18 by A. S. Weber
Rossetti's Carlisle Wall and Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel 23 by Ernest Fontana
The Sublimity of Catherine and Heathcliff 24 by Patrick Kelly
Kate Field and Anthony Trollope: Re George Eliot and George Henry Lewes 31 by Carolyn J. Moss
Books Received 34
The Victorian Newsletter Number 85 Spring 1994
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Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South: A National Bildungsroman 1 by Patricia E. Johnson
"Morbid and Fearful Conditions of Mind'' in Ruskin's Modern Painters II 9 by Owen Rogal
"Delightfully Irregular": Esther's Nascent ecriture feminine in Bleak House 13 by Lynette Felber
Multiculturalism and the Question of Audience: Adam Bede as a Test Case 20 by Joyce Quiring Erickson
Christina Rossetti's "Helpmeet" 25 by Diane D'Amico
"I Read It in Your Eye'': Spiritual Vision in Jane Eyre 29 by Amanda B. Witt
Charlotte Bronte's New Corinne: Re-reading The Professor 34 by Elizabeth McIntyre
Books Received 40
Group News [41]
The Victorian Newsletter Number 84 Fall 1993
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Eros and Logos in Some Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde: A Jungian Interpretation 1 by Clifton Snider
"The Central Truth": Phallogocentrism in Aurora Leigh 9 by Patricia Thomas Srebnik
"I Magnify My Office": Christina Rossetti's Authoritative Voice in Her Devotional Prose 11 by Joel Westerholm
The Sterile Star of Venus: Swinburne's Dream of Flight 18 by Peter Anderson
Bringing to Earth the "Good Angel of the Race'' 25 by Michael Schiefelbein
The Flawed Craft of A. E. Housman 29 by A. R. Coulthard
The Physiological Determinism Debate in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray 31 by Terri A. Hasseler
Overdetermined Allegory in Jekyll and Hyde 35 by Cyndy Hendershot
Books Received 39
Group News [41]
The Victorian Newsletter Number 83 Spring 1993
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Agents of Empire in The Woman in White 1 by Lillian Nayder
Good Housekeeping: Job-Searching in Victorian Fiction 7 by Monica Feinberg
Utopian Dreams / Heterotopian Nightmares: Disease and Discourse in Carlyle's Latter-Day Pamphlets 11 by John B. Lamb
Oliver Twist and the Contours of Early Victorian England 14 by David Paroissien
Alice's Ab-surd-ity: Demon in Wonderland 17 by Pamela K. Gilbert
Hopkins's Best Poem 22 by Francis J. Smith, S. J.
Culture, Nature, and Gender in Mary Ward's Robert Elsmere and Helbeck of Bannisdale 25 by Laura Fasick
The Personification of Death in the Poems of William Ernest Henley 31 by Joseph S. Salemi
Down Garden Paths: Charlotte Bronte's Haunts of Self and Other 35 by Barbara Gates
Tennyson and "The Spirit of the Age'' 43 by Judith Kennedy
Books Received 47
The Victorian Newsletter Number 82 Fall 1992
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From Religious Ecstasy to Romantic Fulfillment: John Wesley's Journal and the Death of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights 1 by Katherine M. Sorensen
No Name: Embodying the Sensation Heroine 5 by Melynda Huskey
"Devising New Means": Sartor Resartus and the Devoted Reader 13 by Vivienne Rundle
The Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cousin Phillis 22 by Pearl L. Brown
Reading and Restoration in Tess of the D’Urbervilles 27 by Ronald D. Morrison
Maggie, Tom and Oedipus: A Lacanian Reading of The Mill on the Floss 35 by Ranjini Philip
Revisionist Mythmaking in Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market‖: Eve's Apple and Other Questions Revised and Reconsidered 40 by Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt
Mrs. Oliphant, Miss Marjoribanks, and the Victorian Canon 44 by Joseph H. O'Mealy
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) 50 by James Means
The Pregnant Death of Dorian Gray 55 by John Gall
Being Rid of Women: Middle-class Ideology in Hard Times 58 by Kristin Flieger Samuelian
Individuation and Consummation in Hardy's Jude the Obscure: The Lure of the Void 62 by Mary Ann Kelly
Coming in The Victorian Newsletter 64
The Victorian Newsletter Number 81 Spring 1992
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"No Originals, Only Copies": Pre-Raphaelite Images of Belatedness and Innovation 1 by Elliott L. Gilbert
Gadamer's Hermeneutics and Newman's Illative Sense: Objectivism, Relativism, and Dogma 6 by Paul H. Schmidt
Harriet Martineau in America: Gender and the Discourse of Sociology 13 by Maria H. Frawley
Thomas Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes: The Heroine as Text 20 by Jo Devereux
New Light on Arthur Hugh Clough's Eight-Year Poetic Silence 23 by Janice E. Keller
A Reading of Swinburne's "A Leave-Taking'' in Light of Arnold's "The Forsaken Merman'' 29 by J. L. Kerbaugh and Margret Kerbaugh
Narrative Disfigurement and the Unnamed Friend in Tennyson's The Lover's Tale 33 by Ernest Fontana
Cultural Cartography: A. S. Byatt's Possession and the Politics of Victorian Studies 38 by Louise Yelin
―Experiments Made by Nature": Mapping the Nineteenth-Century Hysterical Body 41 by Dianne F. Sadoff
The Birth of Culture from the Spirit of Cartography 45 by David Faulkner
"What Cannot Be'': John Addington Symonds's Memoirs and Homosexuality 47 by Joseph Cady
The Ring and the Book and Light in August: Faulkner's Response to Browning 51 by Martin Bidney
Waiting for Thou: Resurrecting Clough's "Seven Sonnets'' 59 by Robert Johnson
Books Received 62
The Victorian Newsletter Number 80 Fall 1991
Contents Page Following the Thread: Dickens and the Seamstress 1 by Lynn M. Alexander
Fair Margaret of "Maiden Song": Rossetti's Response to the Romantic Nightingale 8 by Diane D'Amico
A Tale of Two Cities: Dickens, Revolution, and the "Other" C______D______14 by Franklin E. Court
Dickens and Eliot in Dialogue: Empty Space, Angels and Maggie Tulliver 18 by Nancy Cervetti
Hopkins's Panic in "Spring" 23 by Joseph H. Gardner
Mary, Narcissus, and Quasimodo: Three Touchstones for Pre-Raphaelitism and Aestheticism 26 by Nathan Cervo
"A cool observer of her own sex like me'': Girl-Watching in Jane Eyre 29 by Annette Federico
Coming in the Victorian Newsletter 33
In Defense of Biography: Versions of Marguerite and Why She Really Does Matter 34 by Bill Bell
Biography, the Interpretation of Meaning, and the Seeking of Significances 37 by Wendell Harris
Books Received 39
The Victorian Newsletter Number 79 Spring 1991
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Dying to Know 1 by George Levine
Poetry and the Scientization of Language: "Geist'' Son of "Waldmann'' 4 by Peter Allan Dale
Thomas Carlyle and Dynamical Symbolism: The Lesson of Edward Irving 9 by Tom Lloyd
Images of Middle-Eastern Women in Victorian Travel Books 18 by Charisse Gendron
The "Condition of England Question": Past and Present and Bleak House 24 by R. Bland Lawson
Oliver Twisted: Narrative and Doubling in Dickens's Second Novel 27 by Stephen Bernstein
Dickens, Dickens, Micawber . . . and Bakhtin 34 by Stanley Tick
In Defense of Latimer: A Study of Narrative Technique in George Eliot's "The Lifted Veil'' 37 by Millie M. Kidd
The Diachronic Frame of Tennyson's "Morte d'Arthur‖ 41 by Roger Platizky
Books Received 44
The Victorian Newsletter Number 78 Fall 1990
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Antinomianism or Anarchy: A Note on Oscar Wilde's "Pen, Pencil and Poison'' 1 by William E. Buckler
Sara Coleridge: The Gigadibs Complex 3 by Nathan Cervo
"On Tuesday Last, at St. George's . . .'': The Dandaical Wedding in Dickens 9 by Patricia Marks
Ruskin to the "Elusive'' Mr. Horn; An Unpublished Letter from a Neglected Friendship 14 by Warren Dwyer
"Three Cups in One'': A Reading of "The Woodspurge'' 19 by Andrew Leng
Faith of Our Mothers: Elizabeth Gaskell's "Lizzie Leigh'' 22 by Joanne Thompson
The Problem of the Man-Trap in Hardy's The Woodlanders 26 by Jonathan C. Glance
Sartor Redivivus, or Retailoring Carlyle for the Undergraduate Classroom 29 by Linda K. Hughes
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) 32 by James Means
Books Received 39
The Victorian Newsletter Number 77 Spring 1990
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Pensee Sauvage at the MLA: Victorian Cultural Imperialism Then and Now 1 by Patrick Brantlinger
The Power of the Word: Scientific Nomenclature and the Spread of Empire 5 by Harriet Ritvo
The Anti-comedy of The Trumpet Major 8 by Richard Nemesvari
Behind "Golden Barriers": Framing and Taming the Blessed Damozel 13 by Andrew Leng
Scenes of Marital Life: The Middle March of Extratextual Reading 16 by Monica L. Feinberg
―The Coronation of the Whirlwind‖: The Victorian Poetics of Indeterminacy 27 by Lawrence J. Starzyk
The Dover Switch, Or the New Sexism at "Dover Beach'' 35 by Eugene R. August
Books Received 38
The Victorian Newsletter Number 76 Fall 1989
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Misfortune Is a Woman 1 by Elizabeth Campbell
Family Plot: The Bleak House of Victorian Romance 5 by Monica Feinberg
The Agnostic's Apology: A New Reading of Oscar Wilde's ''The Portrait of Mr. W. H.'' 17 by William E. Buckler
Sexual Politics and Narrative Method in Tennyson's ''Guinevere'' 23 by Richard A. Sylvia
The Lure of Biography: Who Was Marguerite and to Whom Does It Matter? 28 by Wendell Harris
The Dover Glitch: Soul a la Sole 31 by Nathan Cervo
Response to Nathan Cervo 34 by Gerhard Joseph
''Why Can't a Duck Be More Like a Rabbit'' 35 by Tom Hayes
Books Received 36
The Victorian Newsletter Number 75 Spring 1989
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Ruskin's Pied Beauty and the Constitution of a ''Homosexual'' Code 1 by Linda Dowling
Why the Ghost of Oscar Wilde Manifests in Finnegans Wake 9 by Grace Eckley
Darwin's Comedy: The Autobiography as Comic Narrative 15 by Eugene R. August
A ''Root Deeper Than All Change": The Daughter's Longing in the Victorian Novel 20 by Suzy Clarkson Holstein
The Literary Significance of Edmund Burke to Matthew Arnold 28 by Dan Ritchie
Books Received 36
The Victorian Newsletter Number 74 Fall 1988
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The Gothic Form of Wuthering Heights 1 by George E. Haggerty
A Rural Singing Match: Pastoral and Georgic in Adam Bede 6 by Bruce S. Thornton
The Sublimation of Carnival in Ruskin's Theory of the Grotesque 11 by James Diedrick
The Narrator as Protoreader in The French Lieutenant's Woman 16 by Jerome Bump
Evangelical Doctrine and George Eliot's Narrator in Middlemarch 18 by Katherine M. Sorensen
''Dover Beach," Hardy's Version 27 by James Persoon
Protoplasmic Hierarchy and Philosophical Harmony: Science and Hegelian Aesthetics in Oscar Wilde's Notebooks 30 by Philip E. Smith
Above Ruskin's Labyrinth 33 by Andelys Wood
Kipling, Joyce and the ''Bitched Line'' 37 by David H. Stewart
Two New Letters on Matthew Arnold and English Protestantism in 1869 39 by Clinton Machann
Visions of Wholeness and Voices from the Deep: Kindred Wanderers in Byron's ''The Dream'' and Tennyson's ''Ulysses'' 41 by Martin Bidney
Ontogeny and Phylogeny in The Mill on the Floss 46 by Preston Fambrough
Swinburne's Imitations of Catullus 51 by George M. Ridenour
Swinburne's ''Lancelot'' and Pre-Raphaelite Medievalism 58 by Rebecca Cochran
Books Received 63
The Victorian Newsletter Number 73 Spring 1988
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Inventing Victorians: Virginia Woolf's "Memoirs of a Novelist" 1 by Mary Kaiser Loges
Distortion Versus Revaluation: Three Twentieth- Century Responses to Victorian Fiction 3 by Jerome Meckier
The Dover Bitch: Victorian Duck or Modernist Duck/Rabbit 8 by Gerhard Joseph
Carlyle's Denial of Axiological Content in Science 10 by Charles W. Schaefer
Mixed Metaphor, Mixed Gender: Swinburne and the Victorian Critics 16 by Thais E. Morgan
The Humanities Tradition of Matthew Arnold 20 by William E. Buckler
Oliver (Un)Twisted: Narrative Strategies in Oliver Twist 23 by Joseph Sawicki
Representation and Homophobia in The Picture of Dorian Gray 28 by Richard Dellamora
Coming In The Victorian Newsletter 31
Books Received 32
The Victorian Newsletter Number 72 Fall 1987
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Swinburne, Clough, and the Speechless Christ: "Before a Crucifix'' and "Easter Day'' 1 by M. K. Louis
Pier Glasses and Sympathy in Eliot's Middlemarch 6 by Barbara McGovern
The Religion of Culture: Arnold's Priest and Pater's Mystic 9 by Clay Daniel
Walter Pater's "Romantic Morality'' 12 by Wolhee Choe
Bent and Broken Necks: Signs of Design in Stoker's Dracula 17 by Alan Johnson
Woman and the Muse: The Lifeblood of Samuel Smiles' Workers 24 by William B. Thesing
Treasure Island as a Late-Victorian Adults' Novel 28 by David H. Jackson
Darling Mothers, Devilish Queens: The Divided Woman in Victorian Fantasy 32 by Susan A. Walsh
Christina Rossetti's Christian Year: Comfort for "the weary heart'' 36 by Diana D'Amico
Light on Some George Eliot Metaphors: Seeing Things in Their True Colors 42 by Selma B. Brody
The Religious Poetry of Ernest Dowson 44 by Joseph S. Salemi
The Narrative Experimentalist of Tennyson's "Sea Dreams" 47 by Richard A. Sylvia
Merlin in Victorian Poetry: A Jungian Analysis 51 by Clifton Snider
What the Dead Are Doing Underground: Hades and Heaven in the Writings of Christina Rossetti 55 by Linda E. Marshall
Framing Wilde 61 by Gerhard Joseph
Books Received 64
The Victorian Newsletter Number 71 Spring 1987
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Arnold among the Contentions of Criticism 1 by Holly Laird
Closure and the Victorian Novel, 1986 4 by Marianna Torgovnick
Victorian Weaving: The Alienation of Work into Text in "The Lady of Shalott" 7 by Gerhard Joseph
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Anne Bronte's Jane Eyre 10 by Margaret Mary Berg
The Poor Fictionist's Conscience: Point of View in the Palliser Novels 16 by Patricia A. Vernon
A New Perspective: Naturalism in George Moore's A Mummer's Wife 20 by Judith Mitchell
Browning's Testament of His Devisings in The Ring and the Book 27 by Joseph A. Dupras
Books Received 32
The Victorian Newsletter Number 70 Fall 1986
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Disraeli and Carlyle's "Aristocracy of Talent": The Role of Millbank in Coningsby Reconsidered 1 by Nils Clausson
The Reader as Whoremonger: A Phenomenological Approach to Rossetti's "Jenny'' 5 by Michael Cohen
Letters and Novels ''One Woman Wrote to Another": George Eliot's Responses to Elizabeth Gaskell 8 by Robyn R. Warhol
J.E. Millais' Bubbles: A Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 15 by William Sharpe
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: Bildungsroman or anti-Bildungsroman? 18 by Nikki Lee Manos
Christianity, Spiritualism, and the Fourth Dimension in Late Victorian England 24 by Rosemary Jann
Great Burke and Poor Boswell: Carlyle and the Historian's Task 28 by Elizabeth Wheeler
Coming in Victorian Newsletter 31
Books Received 32
The Victorian Newsletter Number 69 Spring 1986
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The Novel as Risk and Compromise, Poetry as Safe Haven: Hardy and the Victorian Reading Public, 1863-1901 1 by William W. Morgan
Bard and Lady Novelist: Swinburne and the Novel of (Mrs.) Manners 4 by David G. Riede
Genre and Gender in Aurora Leigh 7 by Dorothy Mermin
Walter Pater: The Critic and the Irrational 12 by Robert Keefe
He Stoops to Conquer: Redeeming the Fallen Woman in the Fiction of Dickens, Gaskell and Their Contemporaries 16 by Laura Hapke
Trollope's Ground of Meaning: The Macdermots of Ballycloran 23 by Sarah Gilead
Byron and Disraeli 26 by Peter W. Graham
Wilde's Autobiographical Signature in The Picture of Dorian Gray 30 by Karl Beckson
Books Received 32
The Victorian Newsletter Number 68 Fall 1985
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The Sources of Ruskin's Golden River 1 by Suzanne Rahn
Prelude and Finale to Middlemarch 9 by Harriet Farwell Adams
Eothen Again 11 by Charisse Gendron
Dorothea and Her Husbands: Some Autobiographical Sources for Speculation 15 by Sara M. Putzell-Korab and Martine Watson Brownley
The Pilgrims of the Rhine: The Failure of the German Bildungsroman in England 19 by Edwin M. Eigner
No Wragg by the Ilissus? A Note on Matthew Arnold's ''Wragg is in custody'' 21 by Charles Swann
Hardy's "Mute Opinion": An Interpretation 23 by Laurence Perrine
The Waif at the Window: Emily Bronte's Feminine Bildungsroman 26 by Annette R. Federico
Pater's Temporizing: The "Conclusion'' to The Renaissance 29 by Ross Borden
Books Received 32
The Victorian Newsletter Number 67 Spring 1985
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Aubrey Beardsley Counts the Ways 1 by Linda Gertner Zatlin
Domesticating the Brutal Passion in Nineteenth- century Fiction 7 by Harriet Farwell Adams
Tennyson's Courtship of Sorrow 10 by Sylvia Manning
"Love in a Life": The Case of Nietzsche and Lou Salome 14 by William Beatty Warner
Wilde's Closet Self: A Solo at One Remove 17 by Nathan Cervo
"When Critics Disagree'' 20 by Kerry Powell
Physical Opposition in Barnaby Rudge 21 by Brian Rosenberg
Herbert Spencer and the Study of Laughter 23 by Michael S. Kearns
Robert Browning and Aurora Leigh 26 by George M. Ridenour
Books Received 32
The Victorian Newsletter Number 66 Fall 1984
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Nero and the Aesthetics of Torture 1 by Linda Dowling
Genre and Perspective in the Study of Victorian Women Writers: The Case of Elizabeth Missing Sewell 5 by Patrick Scott
Rossetti's intelligenza nova: Perception, Poetry and Vision in Dante at Verona 10 by Thomas L. Cooksey
A. E. Housman's Two Strategies: A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems 14 by Robert K. Martin
The Lady as Criminal: Contradiction and Resolution in Trollope's Orley Farm 18 by Laura Hapke
"Childe Roland'' and Two Other Poems by Browning 22 by Myra Armistead
Lombroso's Criminal Man and Stoker's Dracula 25 by Ernest Fontana
Recollections of Tennyson by Sir George Prothero in the Tennyson Research Centre 28 by Richard Collins
Books Received 32
The Victorian Newsletter Number 65 Spring 1984
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Looking Backward—Victorian Poetry and Prose 1 by Jerome H. Buckley
Looking Backward: The Victorian Novel 3 by George H. Ford
Looking Forward: American Feminists, Victorian Sages 6 by Elaine Showalter
The Mesmerizing of Dorian Gray 10 by Kerry Powell
Dicken's War against the Militancy of the Oppressed 15 by Atta Britwum
Chaos and Cosmos: Carlyle's Idea of History 19 by Lowell T. Frye
George Eliot: Feminist Critic 22 by Carol A. Martin
"Muscular Christianity'' and Brutality: The Case of Tom Brown 26 by Henry R. Harrington
Rossetti's Use of the ―Great Mother'' Mythos in "A Last Confession'' 29 by Nathan Cervo
Books Received 32
The Victorian Newsletter Number 64 Fall 1983
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"Joy came in the evening": A Note on a Serious Joke in George Eliot's Diary 1 by Shoshana Knapp
Swinburne in Hellas: "A Nympholept'' 4 by George M. Ridenour
The Victorian Nightmare of Evolution: Charles Darwin and Walter Bagehot 9 by Martha Westwater
Supposed Confessions, Uttered Thoughts: The First- person Singular in Tennyson's Poetry 13 by Timothy Peltason
Avoiding the High Prophetic Strain: De Quincey's Mail-coach and Felix Holt 19 by Susan R. Cohen
Bleak House: Dickens, Esther, and the Androgynous Mind 21 by Carol A. Senf
To Be Brought Up ''By Hand'' 27 by Susan Schoenbauer Thurin
The Unity of Kidnapped 30 by Ralph Stewart
Coming in Victorian Newsletter 32
The Victorian Newsletter Number 63 Spring 1983
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Moment of the Picture 1 by Kelsey Thornton
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Caught Between Two Centuries 3 by Miriam Fuchs
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Pull of Silence 7 by Hartley S. Spatt
The Burden of Nineveh 12 by Carl Woodring
Parody and Homage: The Presence of Pater in Dorian Gray 15 [by Robert K. Martin]
The Christening of the New Woman: May 1894 19 by Ellen Jordan
The Image of St. Theresa in Middlemarch and Positive Ethics 21 by Franklin E. Court
The Disappearance of Tragedy in Meredith's "Modern Love'' 26 by Hans Ostrom
Books Received 31
Coming in Victorian Newsletter 32
The Victorian Newsletter Number 62 Fall 1982
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Early Verse by ''Unfortunate W. Thackeray'' 1 by Juliet McMaster
"A Habitable Doll's House'': Beginning in Bleak House 3 by Thorell Tsomondo
Nietzsche, Bagehot and the Morality of Custom 7 by David S. Thatcher
Voices in a Dream: The Language of Skepticism in Tennyson's "The Hesperides'' 13 by Aidan Day
Tennyson's Narrative of Desire: The Lover's Tale 21 by Herbert F. Tucker, Jr.
Self-validation in Housman's A Shropshire Lad LXII (Terence, This is Stupid Stuff) 30 by Eddy Dow
Coming in Victorian Newsletter 31
Books Received 32
The Victorian Newsletter Number 61 Spring 1982
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George Eliot and the Victorian "Historic Imagination" 1 by Brian Rosenberg
The Victorian Historical Sense and Modernism 5 by Louis Menand
Carlyle's Incidental Montage: The Guises and the Theory of Transcendent Historicism 8 by Rodger L. Tarr
The Historical Imagination: Browning and Pound 11 by Adena Rosmarin
Imitation in ―The Lady of Shalott‖ 17 by Nathan Cervo
Adrian's Shrug: A Note on the "Wise Youth'' 19 by Thomas J. Campbell
Carlyle's Secret Debt to Schiller: The Concept of Goethe's Genius 21 by Lee C. R. Baker
Arnold and Bolingbroke 23 by Joseph Carroll
The Key to All Mythologies - A Possible Source of Inspiration 27 by Katharina M. Wilson
Carlyle's Historical Imagination: Untrue Facts and Unfactual Truths 29 by Beverly Taylor
Books Received 32
The Victorian Newsletter Number 60 Fall 1981
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Tennyson and Carlyle: A Source for "The Eagle" 1 by Paul F. Mattheisen
The Schooling of John Bull: Form and Moral in Talbot Baines Reed's Boys' Stories and in Kipling's Stalky & Co. 3 by Patrick Scott
How It Struck A Contemporary: Tennyson's ―Lancelot and Elaine‖ and Pre-Raphaelite Art 8 by Catherine Barnes Stevenson
Amours de Voyage and Matthew Arnold in Love: An Inquiry 15 by Eugene R. August
Tennyson's "Ulysses" as Rhetorical Monologue 20 by Mary Saunders
The Mathematical References to the Adoption of the Gregorian Calendar in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 24 by Laurence Dreyer
Self-Helpers and Self-seekers: Some Changing Attitudes to Wealth, 1840-1910 27 by J. L. Winter
The Victorian Newsletter Number 59 Spring 1981
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Style in Ruskin and Ruskin on Style 1 by Wendell Stacy Johnson
Literature and Dogma and Literature: New Textual Perspective on Matthew Arnold's Critical Organicism 6 by William E. Buckler
Hopkins' Paradigms of Language 17 by Jerome Bump
Clocking the Reader in the Long Victorian Novel 22 by Michael Lund
Symbolic Representation and The Means of Revolution in Daniel Deronda 25 by Peter Dale
Recent German Studies of Victorian Literature: 1979 31 by Werner Bies
Books Received 32
The Victorian Newsletter Number 58 Fall 1980
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A Psychoanalytic Rereading of David Copperfield 1 by Gordon D. Hirsh
Midas and The Bell-Jar: Carlyle's Poetics of History 5 by Richard L. Stein
The Uncanny Critic of Brasenose: Walter Pater and Modernists 10 by Sharon Bassett
The Path to True Civilization: Celt and Saxon and Meredith's View of Anglo-lrish Relations 14 by Terrence L. Grimes
Becky Sharp and the Three Per Cent Solution 20 by Ira Bruce Nadel
Structure in Kipling's Kim 24 by David H. Stewart
Imposture and Absence in Wilde's ''Portrait of Mr. W.H.'' 26 by Linda Dowling
Teaching Long Victorian Novels in Parts 29 by Michael Lund
The Victorian Newsletter Number 57 Spring 1980
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Hopkins, Christina Rossetti, and Pre-Raphaelitism 1 by Jerome Bump
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Their Circle: The Formation of the Victorian Avant-Garde 7 by Herbert Sussman
"The Thing Signified'' in The Dynasts: A Speculation 9 by William E. Buckler
Druids, Bards, and Tennyson's Merlin 14 by Catherine Barnes Stevenson
Thackeray's Journalism: Apprenticeship for Writer and Reader 23 by Elizabeth Segel
Ruskin's Changing Evaluation of Poetic Vision 27 by Helen Pike Bauer
The Victorian Newsletter Number 56 Fall 1979
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Newman's Way with the Reader in A Grammar of Assent 1 by Philip Snyder
Tennyson, Chambers and Recapitulation 7 by D. C. Leonard
W. B. Yeats, Matthew Arnold and The Critical Imperative 10 by Vinod Sena
John Ruskin, C. R. Cockerell and The Proportions of Architecture 14 by Michael Brooks
Michael and his Lost Angel: Archetypal Conflict and Victorian Life 20 by Bruce Wallis
Perspectives on Henry Esmond 26 by Mary Rosner
The Victorian Newsletter Number 55 Spring 1979
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Deja vu Inverted: the Imminent Future in Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean 1 by William E. Buckler
Rights, Reason, and Redemption: Charlotte Bronte's Neo-Platonism 5 by Sara Moore Putzell
Tractarian Aesthetics: Analogy and Reserve in Keble and Newman 8 by G. B. Tennyson
Bruising the Serpent's Head: Topological Symbol in Victorian Poetry 11 by George P. Landow
High Tea and Matzo Balls: Religion in the Victorian Jewish Novel 15 by Linda Gertner Zatlin
Hardy, Barnes, and the Provincial 18 by Donald Wesling
Father and Mother in Father and Son 19 by E. Pearlman
Time in Nicholas Nickelby 23 by Patricia Marks
In Which a Poet is Frightened by a Lion: The Philosophical Context of Mill's Poetic Theory 26 by Jonathan Loesburg
Books Received 32
Victorian Group News Inside Back Cover
The Victorian Newsletter Number 54 Fall 1978
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Ironic Translation in Fifine at the Fair 1 by Dorothy Mermin
The Heroine of Middlemarch 4 by Gordon S. Haight
How Many Children had Barry Lyndon? 8 by Winslow Rogers
Martin Chuzzlewit: The Art of the Critical Imagination 10 by David D. Marcus
A New Carlyle Manuscript 16 by Roger L. Tarr
Disraeli's Sybil and Hollinshed's Chronicles 17 by Lois E. Bueler
Thackeray in Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte: Some Manuscript & Evidence 19 by Angus Easson
Dickens with a Voice like Burke's 22 by Louie Crew
In Defense of Margaret: Another Look at Arnold's ''The Forsaken Merman'' 23 by Frank R. Giordano, Jr.
Yeats, Tennyson, and "Innisfree" 29 by Gary Sloan
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The Victorian Newsletter Number 53 Spring 1978
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―Why Unblooms the Best Hope?‖: Victorian Narrative Forms and the Explanation of Calamity 1 by James R. Kincaid
Browning: The Activation of Influence 4 by Loy D. Martin
―The Intricate Invasions of As‖: Meredith’s Theory of Figure 9 by Michael Sprinkler
Victorian Philology and Victorian Poetry 13 by Dennis Taylor
The Unpleasantness at the Garrick Club 16 by Albert Borowitz
Vision of Evil: The Influence of Wilde’s Salome on Heart of Darkness and A Full Moon in March 23 by Christopher S. Nassaar
Love and Strife in ―Dover Beach‖ 28 by D. S. Neff
Recent Publications: A Selected List 30 by Arthur F. Minerof
The Victorian Newsletter Number 52 Fall 1977
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Trollope and Romanticism 1 by David R. Eastwood
Thomas Hardy’s Financial Exigencies 5 by William J. Hyde
George Eliot’s Debt to Villette 10 by Charles Burkhart
Francis Turner Palgrave’s Criticisms of Tennyson’s In Memoriam 13 by John O. Waller
The Sources of Hopkins’ Inscape: Epistemology at Oxford, 1864-1868 18 by Thomas A. Zaniello
The Uses of Solitude: Dickens and Robinson Crusoe 25 by G. W. Kennedy
Recent Publications: A Selected List 30 by Arthur F. Minerof
Victorian Group Notes Inside Front Cover
The Victorian Newsletter Number 51 Spring 1977
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The Victorian View of Russian Literature 1 by Harold Orel
Newman and the Victorian Cult of Style 6 by David J. DeLaura
Contrasting Pictorial Representations of Time: The Dural Narration of Bleak House 10 by Devra Braun Rosenberg
Swinburne's Craft of Pure Expression 16 by Anthony H. Harrison
Heart of Stone: An Emblem for Conversion 21 by C. S. Vogel
Thomas Hardy's Correspondence with Sir George Douglas 25 by M. D. Wilkie
Recent Publications: A Selected List 29 by Arthur F. Minerof
Victorian Group News Inside Back Cover
The Victorian Newsletter Number 50 Fall 1976
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Type Needs Antitype: The Structure of Browning's Parleyings 1 by Mark Siegchrist
Hopkins, Pater, and Medievalism 10 by Jerome Bump
Suicide and Wuthering Heights 15 by Barbara Gates
Charlotte Bronte: The Importance of Being British 20 by Phyllis J. Read
A Note on Ruskin's Mythography 24 by Frederick Kirchoff
Recent Publications: A Selected List 28 by Arthur F. Minerof
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The Victorian Newsletter Number 49 Spring 1976
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Desperate Remedies: Sensation Novels of the 1860s 1 by Elaine Showalter
"Feeling Hot'': Victorian Drama and the Censors 5 by John R. Elliott, Jr.
A Straight Bat and a Modest Mind 9 by Coral Lansbury
Hymns for Children: Cultural Imperialism in Victorian England 18 by Susan S. Tamke
Arnold's Two Regions of Form 22 by Mary W. Schneider
The Double Narrator in The Amazing Marriage 24 by Robert M. DeGraaff
Stammering in the Dodgson Family: An Unpublished Letter by 'Lewis Carroll' 26 by Joseph Sigman and Richard Slobodin
Recent Publications: A Selected List 28 by Arthur F. Minerof
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The Victorian Newsletter Number 48 Fall 1975
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Pater and His Younger Contemporaries 1 by Gerald Monsman
The ''Central Fiery Heart": Ruskin's Remaking of Dante 9 by Martin Bidney
Why Thackeray Went To See a Man Hanged 15 by Albert I. Horowitz
''Nor help for pain": Matthew Arnold and Sophocles' Philoctetes 21 by Ellen S. Gahtan
When Did Tennyson Meet Rosa Baring? 26 by Jack Kolb
Recent Publications: A Selected List 28 by Arthur F. Minerof
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The Victorian Newsletter Number 47 Spring 1975
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The Forms of Victorian Fiction 1 by James R. Kincaid
Method and Moral in George Eliot's Narrative 4 by Elizabeth Ermarth
Vision and Form: The English Novel and the Emergence of the Short Story 8 by Wendell V. Harris
Progressive Dubiety: The Discontinuity of Disraeli's Political Trilogy 12 by Daniel R. Schwarz
Pater's Conception of the Renaissance: From Sources to Personal Ideal 19 by Billie Andrew Inman
Critical Forum 24 G. B. Tennyson, Robert O. Preyer, James G. Nelson, Phyllis Grosskurth
Recent Publications: A Selected List 29 by Arthur F. Minerof
English X News Inside Back Cover
The Victorian Newsletter Number 46 Fall 1974
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Pater, Hopkins, and the Self 1 by Gerald Monsman
Change and Changelessness in Bleak House 5 by Dianne F. Sadoff
Argument and Strategy in Mill's The Subjection of Women 10 by Rise B. Axelrod
Carlyle and Ruskin: The Private Side of the Public Coin 15 by Eloise K. Goreau
Hard Times, Page One: An Analysis 20 by Stanley Tick
Hardy, Mrs. Oliphant, and Jude the Obscure 22 by Norman Page
''A Good Hand at a Serial": Thomas Hardy and the Art of Fiction 24 by Audrey C. Peterson
Irony and Sentimentality: Conflicting Modes in Martin Chuzzlewit 26 by Richard Hannaford
Recent Publications: A Selected List 28 by Arthur F. Minerof
English X News Inside Back Cover
The Victorian Newsletter Number 45 Spring 1974
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The Image of the Anima in the Work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 by Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi
Elections in Victorian Fiction 8 by J. R. Dinwiddy
Hopkins' Reading of Arnold 13 by Margaret Stothart
John Tyndall and Tennyson's ''Lucretius'' 19 by Sharon Mayer Libera
The Aesthetic Function of the ''Weird Seizures'' in The Princess 21 by Catherine Barnes Stevenson
Pipkins and Kettles in Vanity Fair 25 by David Leon Higdon
Recent Publications: A Selected List 27 by Arthur F. Minerof
English X News Inside Back Cover
The Victorian Newsletter Number 44 Fall 1973
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What You Always Wanted To Know About Alice but Were Afraid To Ask 1 by Donald Rackin
Two Approaches to Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs 5 by Edmund Miller
The Nuns of Villette 8 by Charles Burkhart
Childhood and the Victorian Ideal of Manliness in Tom Brown's Schooldays 13 by Henry R. Herrington
A Reading of Morris' The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems 18 by Patrick Brantlinger
Dante Gabriel Rosetti and Ernest Chesneau 24 by Mario Maurin
Hopkins' "Dapple-Dawn-Drawn" Charioteer 26 by Bruce Wallis
Who Was Lady Morley? 28 by John W. Bicknell and C. L. Cline
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The Victorian Newsletter Number 43 Spring 1973
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THE STATE OF VICTORIAN STUDIES: 1962-1972
Introductory Remarks 1 by Robert A. Colby
Victorian Nonfiction Prose 3 by G. B. Tennyson
Victorian Poetry 8 by R. C. Tobias
Victorian Fiction 11 by Lionel Stevenson
Emily Bronte and the Responsible Imagination 15 by Victor A. Neufeldt
Wave and Fire Imagery in Tennyson's Idylls 21 by Henry Koziki
Tennyson and the Spasmodics 24 by Joseph J. Collins
Recent Publications: A Selected List 28 by Arthur E. Minerof
English X News Inside Back Cover
The Victorian Newsletter Number 42 Fall 1972
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The Martyr Clown: Oscar Wilde in De Profundis 1 by Joseph Butwin
On Some Aspects of the Comic in Great Expectations 6 by Henri Talon
A Missing Childhood in Hard Times 11 by Edward Hurley
A Reading of Hopkins' "Epithalamion" 16 by Lionel Adey
Fictional Conventions and Sexuality in Dracula 20 by Carrol L. Fry
Thackeray's Esmond and Anne Manning's "Spurious Antiques'' 22 by James C. Simmons
Tom Thumb Versus High Art: Douglas Jerrold's "The English in Little'' 25 by Angus Easson
Recent Publications : A Selected List 26 by Arthur E. Minerof
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The Victorian Newsletter Number 41 Spring 1972
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Mrs. Gamp as the Great Mother: A Dickensian Use of the Archetype 1 by Veronica M. S. Kennedy
Rossetti's Changing Style: The Revisions of "My Sister's Sleep'' 6 by Herbert Sussman
The Sketch of the Three Masks in Romola 9 by W. J. Sullivan
Tory-Radicalism and "The Two Nations'' in Disraeli's Sybil 13 by Patrick Brantlinger
Two Notes on Religion in David Copperfield 18 by E. Pearlman
In Memoriam and The Excursion: A Matter of Comparison 20 by Stuart F. C. Niermeier
Past or Future Mindscapes: Pictures in Jane Eyre 22 by M. B. McLaughlin
The Midsummer Eves of Shakespeare and Christina Rossetti 24 by Warren Herendeen
A Victorian "Modest Proposal'' 27 by Charles T. Dougherty
Recent Publications: A Selected List 28 by Arthur E. Minerof
English X News Inside Back Cover
The Victorian Newsletter Number 40 Fall 1971
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Four Early Studies from Pater's The Renaissance: The Aesthetics for a Humanist Myth 1 by William H. Sullivan
Art Amidst Revolution: Ruskin in 1848 8 by Edward Alexander
John Ruskin and the Nature of Manliness 14 by David Sonstroem
The Verdict in Whistler V. Ruskin 17 by Francis L. Fennell
William Morris and the Tannhauser Legend: A Gloss on the Earthly Paradise Motif 22 by Barbara Fass
Recent Publications: A Selected List 27 by Arthur F. Minerof
English X News Inside Back Cover
The Victorian Newsletter Number 39 Spring 1971
Contents Page
Victorian Poetics: An Approach Through Genre 1 by W. David Shaw
Spiritual Confusion and Artistic Form in Victorian Poetry 4 by Michael G. Sundell
Tennyson's Painted Shell 7 by Richard C. Tobias
A Note on Matthew Arnold in Love 11 by Park Honan
Robert Browning, Robert Chambers, and Mr. Home, the Medium 15 by Milton Millhauser
The Dramatic Relationship Between ―By the Fire- Side‖ and ―Any Wife to Any Husband‖ 20 by Richard Kelly
On the Naming of Hardy's Egdon Heath 22 by Allan C. Christensen
Another Possible Source for Dickens' Miss Havisham 24 by Stanley Friedman
The Devil in the Flesh: Samuel Butler's "Confessional" Novel 25 by Joseph T. Bennett
Recent Publications: A Selected List 29 by Arthur F. Minerof
English X News Inside Back Cover
The Victorian Newsletter Number 38 Fall 1970
Contents Page
Dickens' Portrait of the Artist 1 by Edward Hurley
Black and White Characters in Hard Times 5 by Mary Rose Sullivan
"All Her Perfections Tarnished": The Thematic Function of Esther Summerson 10 by Mary Daehler Smith
Another Look at Hardy's ''Afterwards'' 14 by David S. Thatcher
Meredith's Experiments with Ideas 18 by J. Raban Bilder
Huxley, Holmes, and the Scientist as Aesthete 22 by Phyllis Rose
Tory Noodles in Sydney Smith and Charles Dickens: An Unnoticed Parallel 24 by Robert Simpson McLean
Stanza Form in Meredith's Modern Love 26 by Willie D. Reader
Recent Publications: A Selected List 28 by Arthur F. Minerof
English X News Inside Back Cover
The Victorian Newsletter Number 37 Spring 1970
Contents Page
The Warp of Mill's ''Fabric'' of Thought 1 by Wendell V. Harris
Mill on De Quincey: Esprit Critique Revoked 7 by James G. Murray
John Stuart Mill on Dogmatism, Liberticide, and Revolution 12 by Edward Alexander
Pickwick's ''Magnanimous Revenge": Reason and Responsibility in the Pickwick Papers 18 by Fred Kaplan
Bishop Blougram and the Cardinals 21 by Ellen F. Shields
Henry Kingsley and the Governor Eyre Controversy 24 by William H. Scheuerle
G. W. E. Russell and the Editing of Matthew Arnold's Letters 27 by William S. Peterson
Recent Publications: A Selected List 29 by Arthur F. Minerof
English X News Inside Back Cover
The Victorian Newsletter Number 36 Fall 1969
Contents Page
Bleak House and the Brothers Grimm 1 by Joseph T. Flibbert
New Perspective on the Companion Poems of Robert Browning 5 by Nancy B. Rich
Abandon the Day: FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 10 by David Sonstroem
Thomas Hardy: The Poor Man and the Deterioration of His Ladies 14 by W. J. Hyde
H. G. Wells's "Jungle Book'': The Influence of Kipling on The Island of Dr. Moreau 19 by Robert L. Platzner
The Italian Renaissance and Some Late Victorians 23 by Alan P. Johnson
Hopkins' ''Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves'' 27 by Norman White
Recent Publications: A Selected List 28 by Arthur F Minerof
English X News Inside Back Cover
The Victorian Newsletter Number 35 Spring 1969
Contents Page
The Poet as Heroic Thief: Tennyson's "The Hesperides'' Reexamined 1 by James D. Merriman
Narrative Sequence and the Moral System: Three Tristram Poems 5 by Masao Miyoshi
Anthony Trollope, or The Man with No Style at All 10 by Ruth apRoberts
Centripetal Vision in Pater's Marius 13 by James A. W. Heffernan
Sainthood and Dorothea Brooke 18 by Robert F. Damm
Tennyson, Vestiges, and the Dark Side of Science 22 by Milton Millhauser
Morris and Timekeeping 25 by Littleton Long
Recent Publications: A Selected List 28 by Arthur F. Minerof
The Victorian Newsletter Number 34 Fall 1968
Contents Page
Trollope Empiricus 1 by Ruth apRoberts
Disraeli and the ''Baronial Principle": Some Versions of Romantic Medievalism 7 by Bernard McCabe
Tennyson's Death in Life in Lyric and Myth: ''Tears, Idle Tears'' and ''Demeter and Persephone'' 13 by Gerhard Joseph
The Quickset Hedge: Ruskin's Early Prose 18 by N. N. Feltes
Metaphor and Method in Mill's On Liberty 22 by David R. Sanderson
The Parson-snob Controversy and Vanity Fair 25 by Myron Taube
Putting Quilp to Rest 29 by Robert Simpson McLean
Charlotte Bronte's Shirley and John Leyden's "The Cout of Keeldar'' 33 by Katherine Ware Ankenbrandt
Gareth's Four Antagonists: A Biblical Source 34 by W. David Shaw
Recent Publications: A Selected List 35 by Arthur F. Minerof
The Victorian Newsletter Number 33 Spring 1968
Contents Page
Of Time, Rivers, and Tragedy: George Eliot and Matthew Arnold 1 by U. C. Knoepflmacher
Dickens' Woman in White 5 by Harry Stone
Another Pippa 8 by Betty Cobey Senescu
Ruskin's Revisions of the Third Edition of Modern Painters, Volume I 12 by George P. Landow
Swinburne and the Whitmaniacs 16 by William J. Goede
"The Butterfly'' and Wuthering Heights: A Mystic's Eschatology 22 by Jo Anne A. Wilson
The Porcelain-Pattern Leitmotif in Meredith's The Egoist 26 by Daniel R. Schwarz
Gilbertian Humor: Pulling Together a Definition 28 by John Bush Jones
Egerton: Forgotten Realist 31 by Wendell V. Harris
Hebraism, Hellenism, and The Picture of Dorian Gray 36 by Jan B. Gordon
Amendments and Additions to the Complete Poems of Lionel Johnson (1953) 38 by Ian Fletcher
Carlyle, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and Madame Cottin 43 by Edwin W. Marrs, Jr.
Reviewer of Browning's Men and Women in the Rambler Identified 46 by Esther Rhodes Houghton
Tennyson's "Break, Break, Break'' Again 47 by Bert G. Hornback
An Unpublished Housman Letter on the Preface to Last Poems 48 by B. J. Leggett
Thomas Hughes's Continuing Memorial: A Treasure Trove for Victorian Scholars 49 by Ben Harris McClary
Dramatic Irony in Thackeray's Catherine: The Function of Ikey Solomons, Esq., Jr. 50 by John Christopher Kleis
Dickens and Langland in Adjudication upon Meed 53 by Florence Jones
Scenes of Clerical Life: Idea Through Image 56 by David Leon Higdon
"Dover Beach" and "Andrea del Sarto'' 58 by Burton R. Pollin
Recent Publications: A Selected List 60 by Arthur F. Minerof
The Victorian Newsletter Number 32 Fall 1967
Contents Page
Arnold's Dramatic Meditations 1 by M. G. Sundell
Tennyson: Unscholarly Arthurian 5 by Hugh H. Wilson
Gissing, Gosse, and the Civil List 11 by Paul F. Mattheisen and Arthur C. Young
"The Atmosphere . . . from Cyprus": Hardy's Development of Theme in Jude the Obscure 16 by Myron Taube
Histories and Flowers: The Organic Unity of William Morris' Late Art 18 by Andrew Von Hendy
From Victorian to Modern: A Sketch for a Critical Reappraisal 20 by Norman Friedman
Recent Publications: A Selected List 28 by Arthur F. Minerof
English X News Inside Back Cover
The Victorian Newsletter Number 31 Spring 1967
Contents Page
Tennyson Criticism 1923-1966: From Fragmentation to Tension in Polarity 1 by Elton E. Smith
Idylls of the King: Tennyson's New Realism 5 by Clyde de L. Ryals
Tennyson's Irony 7 by Jerome H. Buckley
George Eliot's Anti-Romantic Romance: "Mr. Gilfil's Love-Story'' 11 by U. C. Knoepflmacher
Metaphysical and Social Evolution in Wuthering Heights 15 by Irving H. Buchen
The Gothic Flame of Charles Dickens 20 by Larry Kirkpatrick
Coventry Patmore in Household Words 25 by Anne Lohrli
The American in England: An Examination of a Hitherto Neglected Satire by Douglas Jerrold 28 by Richard Kelly
Becky Sharp and the Virtues of Sin 31 by Leslie M. Thompson
The ''Haunting Shade'' That Accompanies the Virtuous Elizabeth-Jane in The Mayor of Casterbridge 33 by Raymond O'Dea
Mill and Middlemarch: The Progress of Public Opinion 37 by Larry M. Robbins
Tennyson and Hegel on War 39 by Richard W. Noland
Matthew Arnold's Letters to George Stacey Gibson 40 by Eugene Williamson
Benjamin Disraeli and R. Shelton Mackenzie: Unpublished Letters 42 by David W. Tutein
Carlyle on Editing Letters 45 by Arthur A. Adrian
A Note on the Fluctuation of Fortune in Trollope's Barsetshire 46 by Mary D. Smith
The Three Pictures in Jane Eyre 47 by Thomas Landford
Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Spiritualism: A New Letter 49 by Fred C. Thomson
Some Biographical Light on Rossetti's Translations of Villon 52 by Glen A. Omans
Piero di Cosimo: An Alternate Analogy for George Eliot's Realism 54 by Edward T. Hurley
Ruskin and His ''Master'' 56 by Donald R. Swanson
Recent Publications: A Selected List 59 by Arthur F. Minerof
English X News Inside Back Cover
The Victorian Newsletter Number 30 Fall 1966
Contents Page
Nonfiction as Art 1 by George Levine
Gerard Manley Hopkins and the "Stanching, Quenching Ocean of a Motionable Mind'' 6 by Howard W. Fulweiler
"The Primaeval Fountain of Human Nature'': Mill, Carlyle, and the French Revolution 13 by Henry Ebel
Imagery as Structure in Jane Eyre 18 by Donald H. Ericksen
A Brief Inquiry into the Morality of Amelia in Vanity Fair 23 by Neal B. Houston
Hetty Sorrel, the Forlorn Maiden 24 by Thomas G. Burton
A Note on the Ruskin-Blackwood's Controversy 26 by Kenneth W. Davis
Recent Publications: A Selected List 28 by Arthur F. Minerof
English X News Inside Back Cover
The Victorian Newsletter Number 29 Spring 1966
Contents Page
―No Arnold Could Ever Write a Novel‖ 1 by A. Dwight Culler
Matthew Arnold's Empedocles on Etna 5 by Charles Berryman
The George-Amelia-Dobbin Triangle in the Structure of Vanity Fair 9 by Myron Taube
Browning's Duke as Theatrical Producer 18 by W. David Shaw
Wilkie Collins' Heart and Science and the Vivisection Controversy 22 by Dougald B. MacEachen
Jude the Obscure as Pagan Self-Assertion 26 by Ward Hellstrom
Trabb's Boy and Orlick 27 by Barry D. Bort
Recent Publications: A Selected List 28 by Arthur F. Minerof
English X News Inside Back Cover
The Victorian Newsletter Number 28 Fall 1965
Contents Page
Metrical Prose in Dickens 1 by Park Honan
The Concept of the Infinite Moment in The House of Life 4 by J. L. Kendall
Browning and Neoplatonism 9 by Jack Matthews
Ruskin on Slavery: A Semantic Examination 13 by John O. Waller
Hopkins's "The Shepherd's Brow'' 16 by Robert Boykin Clark, S.J.
Imagery in the Scenes of Clerical Life 18 by Daniel P. Deneau
Art, Death, and the Composition of Shirley 22 by Earl A. Knies
"My Last Duchess'': A Possible Source 25 by L. Robert Stevens
The Victorian Woman 26 by Joseph Moscinski, S.J.
Recent Publications: A Selected List 28 by Arthur F. Minerof
English X News 33
The Victorian Newsletter Number 27 Spring 1965
Contents Page Methods in the Study of Victorian Style 1 by Richard Ohmann
The Prose of the Apologia Pro Vita Sua 5 by George Levine
Scott and Dickens: Realist and Romantic 9 by Edgar Johnson
A Note on Hegel and George Eliot 12 by Darrel Mansell, Jr.
Dialectical Structures in Hardy's Poems 15 by D .F. Mayers
William Johnson Fox and Mill's Essays on Poetry 18 by F. Parvin Sharpless
Parents and Children in Great Expectations 21 by Vereen M. Bell
The Name Jude 24 by Robert F. Fleissner
A Note on Browning's ''Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'' 26 by Victor Hoar
Religion, Art, and the Poet 28 by Arthur F. Beringause
Henry James to Stopford Brooke: An Unpublished Letter 29 by Fred L. Standley
Carlyle, Jeffrey, and the ''Helotage'' Chapter of Sartor Resartus 30 by Alvan S. Ryan
English X News 33
The Victorian Newsletter Number 26 Fall 1964
Contents Page
The Thematic Evolution of ''The Idylls of the King'' 1 by Nancy M. Engbretsen
Resolution of Identity in "Our Mutual Friend'' 5 by Masao Miyoshi
The Pattern of Self-Alienation in ''Great Expectations'' 9 by Mordecai Marcus
Symbolic Characterization in ''One of Our Conquerors'' 12 by Fred C. Thomson
Caleb Garth of "Middlemarch" 14 by Russell M. Goldfarb
Disraeli's Use of Shelley 19 by Roland A. Duerksen
"The Bride of Literature": Ruskin, The Eastlakes and Mid-Victorian Theories of Art 23 by Wendell Stacy Johnson
"Principle in Art'' as Criticism in the Mainstream 28 by Marvel Shmiefsky
A Note on the Feverel Crest 32 by Carl H. Ketcham
English X News 33
The Victorian Newsletter Number 25 Spring 1964
Contents Page Matthew Arnold's Refuge of Art: "Tristram and Iseult'' 1 by Robert A. Greenberg
Sun and Shadow: The Nature of Experience in Tennyson's ''The Lady of Shalott'' 4 by Lona Mosk Packer
"Alice in Wonderland'' in Perspective 9 by Elsie Leach
Hardy's Use of Setting and Jude the Obscure 11 by Ward Hellstrom
George Eliot and William Hale White 13 by Stephen Merton
The Two Isabels: A Study in Distortion 15 by Blair Gates Kenney
Carlyle as Poet: The Phoenix Image in ''Organic Filaments'' 18 by Richard A. Levine
''Romola'' and Thomas Trollope's ''Filippo Strozzi'' 20 by Lawrence Poston, III
The Landscapes of ''Rugby Chapel'' 22 by William S. Peterson
Newman's ''Apologia": A Classic Reconsidered 24 by The Editor
A Matter of Unacknowledged Borrowing 26 by The Editor
Recent Publications: A Selected List 29 by Robert A. Greenberg English X News 33
The Victorian Newsletter Number 24 Fall 1963
Contents Page
Newman and Liberalism: The Later Phase 1 by Edward F. Jost
Our Mutual Friend: The Birds of Prey 6 by Richard A. Lanham
The Race for the Money in the Structure of Vanity Fair 12 by Myron Taube
Some Letters of Matthew Arnold 17 by Paul F. Mattheison and Arthur C. Young
George Eliot’s Reading of Wordsworth: The Record 20 by Thomas Pinney
[Unknown Title; Partial Article; Topic: Alice in Wonderland] 23 by Elsie Leach
Arnold’s Tyrian Trader 24 by Earl E. Stevens
John Hay as a Critic of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 26 by Sol Gittleman
English X News 27
Recent Publications: A Selected List 28 by Robert Greenberg
The Victorian Newsletter Number 23 Spring 1963
Contents Page
The ―Death of Pan‖ in Victorian Literature 1 by Patricia Merivale
The Genius of John Ruskin 4 by John D. Rosenberg
Thackeray on War 6 by Eric Solomon
Gissing’s Articles for Vyestnik Evropy 12 by Harry E. Preble
The Attitude Toward the Reader in Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus 15 by Alvan S. Ryan
Mermen and Mermaids: A Note on an ―Alien Vision‖ in the Poetry of Tennyson, Arnold, and Hopkins 16 by Howard Fulweiler
Arthur Donnithorne and Zeluco: Characterization Via Literary Allusion in Adam Bede 18 by Irving H. Buchen
Robinson on Browning 19 by Richard Cary
Henry Mayhew: Farce Writer of the 1830’s 21 by John L. Bradley
Charles Dickens: The Pursuers and the Pursued 23 by Warrington Winters
―The Windhover‖ and ―St. Alphonsus Rodriguez‖ 25 by William A. McQueen
Repetition of Imagery in Thomas Hardy 26 by Dale Kramer
A Letter from Harold Frederick to T. H. Huxley 27 by William Randel
English X News 28
Recent Publications: A Selected List 29 by Robert A. Greenberg
The Victorian Newsletter Number 22 Fall 1962
Contents Page
Matthew Arnold and the American Civil War 1 by John O. Waller
Rossetti’s ―Willowwood‖ Sonnets and the Structure of The House of Life 5 by Douglas J. Robillard
Restoration through Feeling in George Eliot’s Fiction: A New Look at Hetty Sorrel 9 by I. W. Adam
The Thorn Imagery in Adam Bede 12 by Clyde de L. Ryals
Confusion of the Seasons in Tennyson’s ―The Last Tournament‖ 14 by Roy Gridley
Browning’s Fifine at the Fair: Meaning and Method 16 by J. L. Kendall
The Death of Dora Spenlow in David Copperfield 19 by J. Don Vann
Rossetti’s Cumaean Oracle 20 by John Lindberg
―How Do I Love Thee?‖ – an Echo of St. Paul 22 by John S. Phillipson
The Publication of Matthew Arnold’s Early Volumes of Poetry 22 by Roger L. Brooks
Nineteenth-Century Holdings at the Folger 23 by B. R. Jerman
On a Certain Deficiency in Victorian Anthologies 23 by John W. Bicknell
English X News 27
Recent Publications: A Selected List 27 by Robert A. Greenberg
The Victorian Newsletter Number 21 Spring 1962
Contents Page
The Fourth Dimension of Victorianism 1 by Wendell Stacy Johnson
The Unity of ―In Memoriam‖ 9 by Jonathan Bishop
Hareton Earnshaw: Natural Theology on the Moors 14 by William H. Marshall
The Hawthorne and Browning Acquaintance: An Addendum 16 by Lionel Stevenson
The Religious Imagery in Browning’s ―The Patriot‖ 16 by David J. DeLaura
The Menu of Great Expectations 18 by Russell M. Goldfarb
―The Heart of that Mystery‖: A Note on John Stuart Mill’s Theory of Poetry 20 by Seamus Cooney
James and Eliot: The Two Gwendolens 23 by Seymour Lainoff
English X News 24
Recent Publications: A Selected List 26 by Robert A. Greenberg
The Victorian Newsletter Number 20 Fall 1961
Contents Page
Two Commentaries on Dickens: Dickens and The Philosophic Basis of Melodrama 1 by Archibald C. Coolidge, Jr.
Two Commentaries on Dickens: Dickens and the Heart as the Hope for Heaven: A Study of the Philosophic Basis of Sensational Literary Technique 6 by Archibald C. Coolidge, Jr.
The Hawthorne and Browning Acquaintance: Including an Unpublished Letter 13 by James C. Austin
The Scarlet Letter and Adam Bede 18 by Allan Casson
Browning and Wordsworth: The Argument for Immortality in ―Saul‖ 19 by Merle M. Bevington
Browning: ―Mage‖ and ―Maker‖ – A Study in Poetic Purpose and Method 21 by Roma A. King, Jr.
Huxley and Kingsley 25 by Charles S. Blinderman
English X News 28
Recent Publications: A Selected List 30 by Robert A. Greenberg
The Victorian Newsletter Number 19 Spring 1961
Contents Page
Hardy’s Response to the Critics of Jude 1 by William J. Hyde
Cordon Had a Rival 5 by Michael Timko
Dickens’ Plots: ―The Ways of Providence‖ or the Influence of Collins? 11 by Harland S. Nelson
Clough and Graham Green’s The Quiet American 14 by Harry W. Rudman
Arthur Hugh Clough and Francis H. Underwood 15 by David Bonnell Green
A Note on Browning’s Defense of Chatterton 17 by Boyd A. Litzinger
Shelley, Devere, and Thompson’s ―Hound of Heaven‖ 18 by Donald H. Reiman
The First Published American Text of Arnold’s ―Literature and Science‖ 19 by James K. Robinson
Source of an ―Inspiration‖: Francis Newman’s Influence on the Form of ―The Dream of Gerontius‖ 21 by Daniel J. Mulcahy
―Popular Culture‖ and the Seminal Books of 1859 24 by George J. Worth
Daniel Deronda and William Shakespeare 27 by U. C. Knoepflmacher
Conscience in Conflict 29 by Alexander Sandow
English X News 30
Recent Publications: A Selected List 30 by Robert A. Greenberg
The Victorian Newsletter Number 18 Fall 1960
Contents Page
The Character of Amelia in the Meaning of Vanity Fair 1 by Myron Taube
Dickens’s Humor 8 by Archibald C. Coolidge, Jr.
Richard Feverel, ―The Original Man‖ 15 by William H. Marshall
Lippo’s Vision 18 by J. L. Kendall
Hopkins and Counterpoint 21 by Stephen Mooney
Did Cardinal Wiseman Review Men And Women? 22 by Boyd Litzinger
Browning’s Pauline: The Artistic Safety Device 23 by Park Honan
Swinburne and His Contemporaries 24 by James E. Suiter
Mark Twain and the Victorians 26 by William M. Gibson
An Essential Tool 27 by William D. Templeman
English X News: The Philadelphia Meeting 27
Recent Publications: A Selected List 28 by Robert A. Greenberg
The Victorian Newsletter Number 17 Spring 1960
Contents Page
The Critical Significance of Autobiography in The Way Of All Flesh 1 by Daniel F. Howard
The Rubaiyat’s Neglected Reviewer: A Centennial Recovery 4 by Michael Wolff
Robert Browning: ―Indisputably Fact‖ 6 by Paul A. Cundiff
The Importance of Face in ―The Ring And The Book‖ 11 by Robert Langbaum
The Art of Sartor Resartus: Two Views: Relationship of Style and Device in Sartor Resartus 17 by Daniel P. Deneau
The Art of Sartor Resartus: Two Views: The Artistic Unity of Sartor Resartus 20 by John Lindberg
Mill, Poets, and Other Men 23 by Seamus Cooney
Art and Reality in ―My Last Duchess‖ 25 by Stanton Millet
Ritual in ―The Bishop Orders His Tomb‖ 27 by Lawrence Poston, III
―My Dear Sumner‖: Three Letters from Matthew Arnold 28 by Fraser Neiman
The Genesis of Hopkins’ ―Heaven-Haven‖ 31 by Boyd Litzinger
The Spectator Records, 1874-1897 33 by Robert H. Tener
Reviews 36
English X News 40
Recent Publications: A Selected List 41 by Oscar Maurer
The Victorian Newsletter Number 16 Fall 1959
Contents Page
Browning’s View of Fact in The Ring And The Book 1 by Donald Smalley
The Unpublished Passages in the Manuscript of Ruskin’s Autobiography 10 by Samuel E. Brown
The Imagery of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Fire, Light, and the Incarnation 18 by W. Stacy Johnson
Samuel Smiles’ Self-Help: Forgotten Centenary 23 by John L. Bradley
George Eliot: The Moralist as Artist 25 by Gordon S. Haight
Grail-Themes in Browning’s ―Childe Roland‖ 27 by John Lindberg
Dickens and the Class Question 30 by Pansy Pakenham
Some Illustrations of Carlyle’s Symbolist Imagery 31 by Robert Louis Peters
Another Victorian First 34 by Richard D. Altick
English X News 36
Recent Publications: A Selected List 38
The Victorian Newsletter Number 15 Spring 1959
Contents Page
Robert Browning: ―Our Human Speech‖ 1 by Paul A. Cundiff
The Autobiographical Matrix of Great Expectations 10 by Ada Nisbet
The Hero-Villain of Oliver Twist 14 by Jonathan Bishop
Daniel Deronda and the Question of Unity in Fiction 16 by Jerome Beaty
Reviews 20
Arthur Hugh Clough: A Portrait Retouched 24 by Michael Timko
Darwin in the Ozarks 28 by Charles T. Dougherty
The Entitlement of Meredith’s ―Love in the Valley‖ 28 by Virgil A. Peterson
Forgotten Bastards: A Note on Daniel Deronda 29 by Virgil A. Peterson
A Note on Some Emendations in Jude The Obscure 29 by Robert Hurley
Report from The Wellesley Index 30 by Walter Houghton
―Seriously. . .‖, Reprinted from TLS, January 23 32 English X News 32
Recent Publications: A Selected List by Oscar Maurer 33
The Victorian Newsletter Number 14 Fall 1958
Contents Page
Tennyson and the Sonnet 1 by Dougald B. MacEachen
The Pattern of Fatality in Tennyson’s Poetry 8 by Jacob Korg
Reviews 11
A Guide to Research Materials on the Major Victorians (Part III) 22 Charles Dickens 22 by K. J. Fielding
John Ruskin 23 by Charles T. Dougherty
The ―Epicureans‖ of Pater and Moore 24 by Eugene J. Brzenk
Editorial Notes and Announcements 27
Recent Publications: A Selected List 29 by Oscar Maurer
The Victorian Newsletter Number 13 Spring 1958
Contents Page
The Significance of the Image Patterns in Meredith’s Modern Love 1 by Elizabeth Cox Wright
Reviews 9
A Guide To Research Materials on the Major Victorians (Part II) 19 The Brontes 19 by Mildred G. Christian
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 20 by Gardner B. Taplin
Robert Browning 22 by William C. DeVane
Thomas Carlyle 22 by Hill Shine
George Elliot 23 by Gordon S. Height
Gerard Manley Hopkins 23 by Rev. A. Bischoff
George Meredith 24 by Lionel Stevenson
Anthony Trollope 24 by Bradford A. Booth
A Note on Scholarship: Willa Cather on A. E. Housman 26 by William White
Oscar Wilde and Wilfrid Blunt: Ironic Notes on Prison, Prose, and Poetry 27 by William T. Going
Editorial Notes and Announcements 29
Recent Publications: A Selected List 30 by Oscar Maurer
The Victorian Newsletter Number 12 Autumn 1957
Contents Page
Philomela: A Major Theme in Arnold’s Poetry 1 by Robert A. Donovan
The Theme of Marriage in Tennyson 6 by W. Stacy Johnson
Reviews 11
A Guide to Research Materials of the Major Victorians (Part I) 22 Edward Fitzgerald 22 by A. McKinley Terhune
Thomas Hardy 23 by Carl J. Weber
John Henry Newman 24 by A. Dwight Culler
Alfred Tennyson 26 by Edgar F. Shannon, Jr.
Notes on the Image and the Novel 27 by Daniel P. Deneau
Swinburne’s ―Boo‖ 29 by Helen Gill Viljoen
English X Notes 30
Recent Publications: A Selected List 30 by Oscar Maurer
The Victorian Newsletter Number 11 Spring 1957
Contents Page
Method in the Study of Victorian Prose: Another View 1 by Martin J. Svaglic
Tennyson and the Human Hand 5 by Charles Richard Sanders
The English Reception of Heine 14 by Sol Liptzin
Victorian Shaw 16 by Frederick P. W. McDowell
Leslie Stephen’s Stature as a Literary Critic 19 by Rene Wellek
Newman and the Problem of Critical Prose 22 by Francis G. Townsend
John Stuart Mill: The Second Greatest Influence 25 by Dwight N. Lindley
English X News 27
Recent Publications: A Selected List 27 by Oscar Maurer
The Victorian Newsletter Number 10 Autumn 1956
Contents Page
George Eliot’s Theory of Fiction 1 by Gordon S. Haight
The Reputation of Dickens 4 by Royal A Gettmann
On the Theory of Trollope’s Pessimism 5 by Bradford A. Booth
Kipling: One of the Best We Have 6 by Donald L. Hill
The Life of John Ruskin: A ―Prelude‖ 9 by Charles T. Dougherty
The Question of Carlyle’s ―Conversion‖ 10 by Charles Richard Sanders
Truth in The Ring And The Book 12 by W. O. Raymond
Gondal’s Queen 13 by Mildred G. Christian
Method in the Study of Victorian Prose: A Criticism 15 by R. C. Schweik
A Rejoinder 16 by A. Dwight Culler
Notes and Brief Articles 16
Forthcoming Publications 20
English X News 22
Recent Publications: A Selected List 22 by Oscar Maurer
Supplement 1 Aubrey Thomas de Vere, 1814-1902: Selected Bibliography 1 by Paul A. Winckler and William V. Stone
The Victorian Newsletter Number 9 Spring 1956
Contents Page
Method in the Study of Victorian Prose 1 by A. Dwight Culler
Ruskin’s Moral Argument 4 by Charles T. Dougherty
The Way Of All Flesh and A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man: A Comparison 7 by Ilse Dusoir Lind
The Charles A. Stonehill Collection, Hunter College Library 10 by Robert A. Colby
Doctoral Theses in the Victorian Period 11
Editorial Notes 11
English X News 12
Recent Publications: A Selected List 12 by Oscar Maurer
The Victorian Newsletter Number 8 Autumn, 1955
Contents Page
Victorian Studies, 1952-1955: A Catalogue of Complaints and Compliments 1 by Francis G. Townsend
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson 3 by Bradford A. Booth
The Winnington Letters 4 by Van Akin Burd
Word Echoes in Past And Present 5 by John Tyree Fain
The John Rylands Library, Manchester 6 by K. J. Fielding
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 9 by Oscar Maurer
The Victorian Newsletter Number 7 April 1955
Contents Page
An Editorial 1 by William E. Buckler
English X News 3
The Present State of Dickensian Studies 4 by Edgar Johnson
Brief Abstracts 10
Recent Publications: A Selected List 10 by Francis G. Townsend
The Victorian Newsletter Number 6 November 1954
Contents Page
English X News 1
Library Notes 1
Editorial Comment 4 by Richard D. Altick
A Projected Bibliography of Nineteenth Century Fiction 7 by Robert A. Colby
Recent Publications: A Selected List 7 by Francis G. Townsend
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 3 by Hoxie N. Fairchild
New Light on Ruskin 4 by Helen Gill Viljoen
More Research in Progress: Carlyle’s Letters 6 by Charles Richard Sanders
The MLA Conference in Minor Victorian Fiction 6 by John E. Tilford, Jr.
From the Editor’s Memo Pad 7 by Richard D. Altick
Recent Publications: A Selected List 10 by Francis G. Townsend
The Victorian Newsletter Number 4 November 1953
Contents Page
English X News 1
Victorian Manuscripts at the Huntington Library 3 by Edward S. Lauterbach
Recent Publications: A Selected List 6 by Francis G. Townsend
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 2 by Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr.
Other Work in Progress 4
Library Notes 6
Recent Publications 7 by Francis G. Townsend
The Victorian Newsletter Number 2 November 1952
Contents Page
Editorial 1 by Richard D. Altick
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 12 by William D. Templeton
Research in Progress 12
Financial Statement and Advertisement 13
The Victorian Newsletter Number 1 April 1952
Contents Page
Note 1 by Richard D. Altick
Editorial 1 by Richard D. Altick
English X News 4
Current Bibliography 4
Library Notes
Microfilms of Nineteenth-Century Periodicals 8
Work in Progress 9
News of Victorian Scholars 10