The Victorian Newsletter Deborah A. Logan, Editor Western Kentucky University Tables of Contents, #111 (2007) through #1 (1952) 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. 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 Contents Page 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 Contents Page 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 Contents Page 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 Contents Page 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 Contents Page 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.