Victorian Literature and Culture

Contents of Volume 35

Number 1

Husband, Wife, and Sister: Making and Remaking the Early Victorian Family

MARY JEAN CORBETT

Imperial Economics: Harriet Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy and the Narration of Empire

CLAUDIA C. KLAVER

Characterizing the Factory System: Factory Subjectivity in Household Words

JONATHAN V. FARINA

Christianity and the State of Slavery in Jane Eyre

SUE THOMAS

A Shock to the System: Richard Feverel and the Actress in the House

EMILY ALLEN

Semantic Counterpoint and the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins

DENNIS SOBOLEV

“The Truth of Midnight”: Apocalyptic Insomnia in James Thomson’s The City of Dreadful Night

KEVIN MILLS

Seeds of Discontent: Dancing Manias and Medical Inquiry in Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture

MOLLY ENGELHARDT

Piracy, Slavery, and the Imagination of Empire in Stevenson’s Pacific Fiction

ROSLYN JOLLY

Rosa Praed and the Vampire-Aesthete

ANDREW MCCANN

“Spirits in the Material World”: Spiritualism and Identity in the Fin de Siècle

ELANA GOMEL

“A Little Political World of My Own”: The New Woman, the New Life, and New Amazonia

MATTHEW BEAUMONT

A Club of Their Own: The “Literary Ladies,” New Women Writers, and Fin-de-Siècle Authorship

LINDA HUGHES

WORKS IN PROGRESS

“That There Brutus”: Elite Culture and Knowledge Diffusion in the Industrial Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell

DAVID THIELE

The Woman in White and Graphic Sex

WILLIAM R. MCKELVY

Pandora’s Box: Walter Crane, “Our Sphinx-Riddle,” and the Politics of Decoration

MORNA O’NEILL

REVIEW ESSAYS

Victorians Live

HERBERT SUSSMAN, Editor

Introduction

Black Victorians: Black People in British Art 1800-19000           

SHEARER WEST

The Darwin Exhibition

GEORGE LEVINE

The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult           

HERBERT SUSSMAN

Matters of Material Interest

ROBERT L. PATTEN

Law, Literature, and Victorian Studies

SIMON PETCH

Women and Domestic Culture

TALIA SCHAFFER