Deborah Denenholz Morse and Martin A. Danahay, eds. Victorian Animal Dreams: Representations of Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture. The Nineteenth Century Series. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2007. Pp. 281. $99.95 (cloth).

2008 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 963-964
Author(s):  
Tillman W. Nechtman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Victorian Literature ◽  
Ashgate Publishing ◽  
Victorian Literature And Culture

What Kitty Knew

2004 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 372-403
Author(s):  
ANN HEILMANN ◽  
MARK LLEWELLYN
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Victorian Literature ◽  
The Body ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Reading Matter ◽  
George Moore ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Victorian Literature And Culture ◽  
Late Victorian Literature

Framed by sensational Ripper stories that turned fact into �ction and lurid murder into gripping reading matter, the extraordinary popularity of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), George du Maurier's Trilby (1894), and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) clearly indicate that the �n de si�cle was a time enthralled by the concept of split selves and sadistic impulses, of insidious male desires metaphorically and literally inscribed on the body of unconscious, hysterical, or hypnotized women. With his John Norton narratives of the late 1880s to mid 1890s, George Moore made a signi�cant contribution to this important cultural preoccupation in late-Victorian literature and culture. In this essay we trace the development of the theme in Moore's A Mere Accident (1887), Mike Fletcher (1889), and "John Norton" (which appeared in his collection Celibates, 1895). We read Moore's stories in the context of the emerging discourses of psychoanalysis and its reliance upon and relation to earlier work on the theories of the "double brain" and "multiplex personality". We also draw on works of late-nineteenth-century sexology-Havelock Ellis's Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1897-1910) and Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis (�rst published in German, 1886)-in order to explore the psycho-sexual nature of the malaise that af�icts the Norton character and highlight his ambivalent role in the "accident" that befalls the vicar's daughter, Kitty Hare. In addition, we pay close attention to the proto-Freudian language of dreams that haunt Kitty in the aftermath of her assault, arguing that in his "John Norton" narratives Moore engaged with the evolving concept of trauma. These stories, we argue, re�ect an important and hitherto neglected aspect of late-Victorian narrative explorations of hysteria and sexual pathology.

Reforming the Religious Sonnet: Poetry, Doubt and the Church in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 413-436
Author(s):  
Kirstie Blair
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Victorian Literature ◽  
Carol Ann Duffy ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Geoffrey Hill ◽  
Victorian Literature And Culture ◽  
The Church

This essay examines the tradition of ‘doubting’ poetics through an assessment of selected nineteenth- and twentieth-century sonnets. Through considering recent work on Victorian literature and culture, it argues for the importance of the poetics of faith in this period, and assesses the presence of nineteenth-century Christian, and particularly Anglican, forms and concepts in the genre of the sonnet. Analysing later twentieth-century sonnets by Geoffrey Hill and Carol Ann Duffy, it suggests that the sonnet remains vitally linked to the literature of faith and that these sonnets have vital links to their Victorian predecessors.

ROBERT AND ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 1996

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 613-633
Author(s):  
Sandra M. Donaldson ◽  
Melissa Brotton
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
Victorian Literature ◽  
Annotated Bibliography ◽  
Elizabeth Barrett Browning ◽  
Victorian Poetry ◽  
Nineteenth Century Literature ◽  
Victorian Studies ◽  
Victorian Literature And Culture ◽  
Century Literature

The following abbreviations appear in this year’s bibliography:BSN Browning Society NotesDAI Dissertation Abstracts InternationalNCL Nineteenth Century LiteratureTLS Times Literary SupplementVLC Victorian Literature and CultureVP Victorian PoetryVR Victorian ReviewVS Victorian StudiesAn asterisk* indicates that we have not seen the item. Cross references with citation numbers between 51 and 70 followed by a colon (e.g., C68:) refer to William S. Peterson’s Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: An Annotated Bibliography, 1951–1970 (New York: Browning Institute, 1974); higher numbers refer to Robert Browning: A Bibliography 1830–1950, compiled by L. N. Broughton, C. S. Northup, and Robert Pearsall (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1953).

Aestheticism and the Politics of Pleasure

2015 ◽  
pp. 597-616
Author(s):  
Ruth Livesey
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Victorian Literature ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Walter Pater ◽  
Aesthetic Movement ◽  
Counter Culture ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Art For Art's Sake ◽  
Victorian Literature And Culture

The late nineteenth-century Aesthetic movement challenged many aspects of Victorian literature and culture. This chapter explores how the emphasis on pleasure within Aestheticism was central to that challenge. The pursuit of ‘art for art’s sake’ might seem to imply a step away from the politics of the day, but the hedonism of the movement, the chapter suggests, subverted dominant arguments about culture and society in an age of democratization. The works of Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater provide a means to examine a wider aesthetic counter-culture that resisted Matthew Arnold’s arguments for critical consensus, undermined the calculated happiness of Utilitarian political economy, and broke open new spaces for the appreciation and expression of beauty.

ROBERT AND ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 1997

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 479-499
Author(s):  
Sandra M. Donaldson ◽  
Dominic Bisignano ◽  
Melissa Brotton
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
Victorian Literature ◽  
Annotated Bibliography ◽  
Elizabeth Barrett Browning ◽  
English Studies ◽  
Victorian Poetry ◽  
Nineteenth Century Literature ◽  
Victorian Literature And Culture ◽  
Century Literature

The following abbreviations appear in this year’s bibliography:BSNBrowning Society NotesDAI Dissertation Abstracts InternationalN&QNotes and QueriesNCLNineteenth Century LiteratureRESReview of English StudiesSBHCStudies in Browning and His CircleVLCVictorian Literature and CultureVPVictorian PoetryVRVictorian ReviewAn asterisk* indicates that we have not seen the item. Cross references with citation numbers between 51 and 70 followed by a colon (e.g., C68:) refer to William S. Peterson’s Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: An Annotated Bibliography, 1951–1970 (New York: Browning Institute, 1974); higher numbers refer to Robert Browning: A Bibliography 1830–1950, compiled by L. N. Broughton, C. S. Northup, and Robert Pearsall (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1953).

Victorian Pain

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Ablow
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Victorian Literature ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Harriet Martineau ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Natural Philosophers ◽  
First Time

The nineteenth century introduced developments in science and medicine that made the eradication of pain conceivable for the first time. This new understanding of pain brought with it a complex set of moral and philosophical dilemmas. If pain serves no obvious purpose, how do we reconcile its existence with a well-ordered universe? Examining how writers of the day engaged with such questions, this book offers a compelling new literary and philosophical history of modern pain. The book provides close readings of novelists Charlotte Brontë and Thomas Hardy and political and natural philosophers John Stuart Mill, Harriet Martineau, and Charles Darwin, as well as a variety of medical, scientific, and popular writers of the Victorian age. The book explores how discussions of pain served as investigations into the status of persons and the nature and parameters of social life. No longer conceivable as divine trial or punishment, pain in the nineteenth century came to seem instead like a historical accident suggesting little or nothing about the individual who suffers. A landmark study of Victorian literature and the history of pain, the book shows how these writers came to see pain as a social as well as a personal problem. Rather than simply self-evident to the sufferer and unknowable to anyone else, pain was also understood to be produced between persons—and even, perhaps, by the fictions they read.

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