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 Contents Page 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 Contents Page 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 Contents Page 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 Contents Page 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 Contents Page 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 Contents Page 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 Contents Page 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 Contents Page 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 Contents Page 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 Contents Page 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 Contents Page 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 Contents Page ―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.