Victorian Literature and Culture

Contents of Volume 34

Number 1

Trafficking in Literary Authority: Mudie’s Select Library and the Commodification of the Victorian Novel

LEWIS ROBERTS

In the Eye of the Beholder: Victorian Age Construction and the Specular Self

KAY HEATH

“The Secrets of Good Brewing, the Folly of Stinginess”: Adam Bede’s Carnival

MARK M. HENNELLY, JR.

Calculations and Concealments: Infanticide in Mid-Nineteenth Century Britain

AERON HUNT

“Their Calling Me ‘Mother’ Was Not, I Think, Altogether Unmeaning”: Mary Seacole’s Maternal Personae

NICOLE FLUHR

Realism, Speculation, and the God Standard in Harriet Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy

ANNETTE VAN

“The Law’s a Bachelor”: Oliver Twist, Bastardy, and the New Poor Law

SUSAN ZLOTNICK

Armgart’s Voice Problems

GRACE KEHLER

Ariadne and the Rippled Nose: Portrait Likenesses in Middlemarch

ELIZABETH HOLLANDER

The Ethic of the Gift in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda

MAGUERITTE MURPHY

Jasper Packlemerton, Victorian Freak

KELLY HAGER

The Cesspool of Empire: Sherlock Homes and the Return of the Repressed

YUMNA SIDDIQI

Self against Childhood: The Contributions of Alice Meynell to a Psycho-Physiology of Memory

LINDA M. AUSTIN

Works in Progress

Possessed Individualism in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda

SARAH WILLBURN

The Woman of Letters at Home: Harriet Martineau and the Lake District

ALEXIS EASLEY

“Shrewd Women of Business”: Madame Rachel, Victorian Consumerism, and L. T. Meade’s The Sorceress of the Strand

ELIZABETH CAROLYN MILLER

Review Essays

Victorians Live

HERBERT SUSSMAN, Editor

Introduction

Images of Empire: Art and Artifacts in Cape Town, South Africa

CAROLE G. SILVER

Australia’s Victorian Vestiges

MARGARET HARRIS

William Morris: “The Beauty of Life”

HERBERT SUSSMAN

The Ends of (the British) Empire

PAT BRANTLINGER

Mainstreaming Disability Studies?

JULIA MIELE RODAS

Sound and Scents

BARBARA T. GATES