Victorian Literature and Culture

Contents of Volume 35

Number 2

Gifts and Interests: John Halifax, Gentleman and the Purity of Business

SILVANA COLELLA

“Black Holes” of Calcutta and London: Internal Colonies in Vanity Fair

CORRI ZOLI

“The Intercourse between the Squire and his Son”: The Father-Son Marriage Plot and the Creation of the English Gentleman in Anthony Trollope’s Doctor Thorne.

HELENA GURFINKEL

The Literary Portrait as Centerfold: Fetishism in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret

LYNETTE FELBER

Nursery Poetics: An Examination of Lyric Representations of the Child in Tennyson’s “The Princess”

ANNA JANE BARTON

Comic Acts of (Be)longing: Performing Englishness in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

ANGELIA POON

Wilde’s Renaissance: Poison, Passion, and Personality

YVONNE IVORY

Editors’ Topic: Victorian Natural History

Guest Editor: Barbara T. Gates

Introduction: Why Victorian Natural History?

BARBARA T. GATES

Introducing Gilbert White: An Exemplary Natural Historian and his Editors

SUSAN BRUXVOORT LIPSCOMB

Gender, Royalty, and Sexuality in John Gould’s Birds of Australia

JONATHAN SMITH

“Let Nature Be your Teacher”: Tegetmeier’s Distinctive Ornithological Studies

KAREN SAYER

Don’t Say It with Nightshades: Sentimental Botany and the Natural History of Atropa Belladonna

ELIZABETH A. CAMPBELL

Gertrude Jekyll and the Late-Victorian Garden Book: Representing Nature-Culture Relations

GRACE KEHLER

Unnatural History: Ward’s Glass Cases

MARGARET FLANDERS DARBY 

“Fac-Similes of Nature”: Victorian Wax Flower Modelling

ANN B. SHTEIR

Anthropomorphic Taxidermy and the Death of Nature: The Curious Art of Hermann Ploucquet, Walter Potter, and Charles Waterton

MICHELLE HENNING

“The Poetry of Science”: Charles Dickens, Geology, and Visual and Material Culture in Victorian London

ADELENE BUCKLAND 

Review Essay

Split Ends? Literature and Politics at the Fin de Siècle

JOCK MACLEOD

Index