The Victorian Newsletter

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
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
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
Books Received 31
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

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
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
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

Hood's “Craniology” and the Head of Christopher Casby

in Little Dorrit 28
Books Received 30
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
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
Books Received 29
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
Books Received 34
Group News [37]

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

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
Books Received 36
Group News 41
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

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
Group News [33]

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
Books Received 31
Group News [37]

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
Books Received 29
Group News [33]

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
Ada Leverson's Wild(e) Yellow Book Stories 21

by William M. Harrison
Books Received 29
Group News [33]

Contents Page
Ten Unpublished Letters by John Addington

Symonds at Duke University 1
by John G. Younger
Gissing and Bosanquet: Culture Unhoused 11

by Peter Allan Dale
Mrs. Conyer's Secret: Decoding Sexuality in Aurora

Floyd 16
by Robert Dingley
Prophetic Moments in Dickens and Carlyle 18

"Mr. Gilfil's Love Story'' and the Critique of Kantianism 24

by Andrew Lynn
George Eliot's Challenge to Medusa's Gendered

Disparities 27
by Sophia Andres
Browning's "Beatrice Signorini'' as Portrait Poem 33

by Ernest Fontana
Books Received 36
Group News [41]

Contents Page
Matthew Arnold's "Philistinism'' and Charles

Kingsley* 1
by Tod E. Jones
"Blighted'' by a "Upas Shadow": Catholicism's

Function for Kingsley in Westward Ho! 10
by Michael Schiefelbein
Sources and Outcomes of Adolescent Crises in

Wuthering Heights 17
by Jacqueline Banerjee
Collective Personification in Carlyle's French

Revolution 26
by R. S. Edgecombe
Star-Crossed Love: The Gravity of Science in

Hardy’s Two on a Tower 27
by Jim Barloon
''A Sign-Seeker'' and "Cleon": Hardy's Argument

with Browning 32
by James Persoon
''A Warning to the Curious": Victorian Science

and the Awful Unconscious in M. R. James's
Ghost Stories 36
by Brian Cowlishaw
Mire, Bog, and Hell in The Hound of the

Baskervilles 42
by Alan Smith
Books Received 45
[* corrected version of #93]
Contents Page
Matthew Arnold's "Philistinism" and Charles

Kingsley 1
by Tod E. Jones
Figures of Restraint: The Ruskinian Gentleman and

the Romantic Artist 10
by Kenneth Daley
Tennyson, W. T. Stead, and "The Imperialism of

Responsibility": "Vastness'' and "The Maiden Tribute'' 14
by Cecily Devereux
"No Sorrow I Have Thought More About": The

Tragic Failure of George Eliot's St. Theresa 17
by June Skye Szirotny
"A Total Subversion of Character": Dr. Jekyll's

Moral Insanity 27
by Mary Rosner
Of Eyes and Musical Voices in "The Great

Temptation": Darwinian Sexual Selection in The
Mill on the Floss 31
by Eric R. Gardner
Books Received 37
Contents Page
Scandalous Topicality: Silas Marner and the Political

Unconscious 1
by Stewart Crehan
The Poet and the Bible: Christina Rossetti's Feminist

Hermeneutics 6
by Lynda Palazzo
Flagellating Feminine Desire: Lesbians, Old Maids,

and New Women in "Miss Coote's Confession," a
Victorian Pornographic Narrative 9
by Tamar Heller
Strange Attractors on the Yorkshire Moors: Chaos

Theory and Wuthering Heights 15
by Richard Nemesvari
Victorian Things, Victorian Words: Representation

and Redemption in Gaskell's North and South 21
by Bonnie Gerard
Lewes's General Mind and the Judgment of St. Ogg's:

The Mill on the Floss as Scientific Text 25
by Richard A. Currie
Dante, Pater's Marius the Epicurean and Gaston de

Latour 28
by Ernest Fontana
Saint Teresa and Dorothea Brooke: The Absent Road

to Perfection in Middlemarch 32
by Sherry L. Mitchell
Books Received 38
Contents Page
From "Ladies' Business'' to "Real Business":

Elizabeth Gaskell's Capitalist Fantasy in North and
South 1
by Pamela Corpron Parker
Aesthetic Intertextuality as Cultural Critique: Vernon

Lee Rewrites History through Walter Pater's "La
Gioconda" 4
by Christa Zorn
Romance and the Self-Made Man: Gaskell Rewrites

Bronte 10
by Catherine Barnes Stevenson
Wilde's Gracious Enclosures: A Brief Tour 17

by Gareth Noon
Reconceiving the Mother: Deconstructing the

Madonna in Aurora Leigh 21
by Patricia Murphy
The Domination of Dorian Gray 27

by Barri J. Gold
Trollope's Admirable Women and Their Literary

Sisters: A Continuing Quest for the Bearer of the
Country House Tradition 31
by Yoko Hatano
Books Received 37
Contents Page
Gender, Race, and Colonial Discourse in the Travel

Writings of Mary Kingsley 1
by Salome C. Nnoromele
The Source of Callicles: Plato's Gorgias and Arnold's

"Empedocles on Etna" 6
by Carol Poster
Autobiography – A Mill of Words, A Rhetoric of

Silence 12
by Susan C. Hines
Clym Ancient and Modern: Oedipus, Bunyan and

The Return of the Native 15
by Charles Swann
Am I My Sister's Keeper? Sexual Deviance and the

Social Community 18
by Deborah A. Logan
Voice of My Voice: Mutual Submission and

Transcendental Potentiality in Jane Eyre 28
by Nels C. Pearson
Sex, Violence and Identity: A. C. Swinburne and

Uses of Sadomasochism 33
by Jonathan Alexander
More Shakespeare in Carlyle 36

by David-Everett Blythe
Books Received 39
Contents Page
The Impossible Goal: The Struggle for Manhood in

Victorian Fiction 1
by Jacqueline Banerjee
The Restoration of the Angel: Female Vampirism

in Doyle's "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire'' 10
by Cyndy Hendershot
A Source Victorian or Biblical?: The Integration of

Biblical Diction and Symbolism in Oscar Wilde's
Salome 14
by Jason P. Mitchell
“Birds of a Feather": On Swinburne's Nightingale

and Shelley's Skylark 17
by Chris Foss
Love at First Beet: Vegetarian Critical Theory Meats

Dracula 23
by J. e. d. Stavick
Gray's Elegy and Browning's "Apparent Failure" 29

by Ernest Fontana
A Psychiatric Interpretation of Dr Jekyll's "Case" 31

by Susan Heseltine Jagoda
Books Received 34
Contents Page
Oscar Wilde: Crime and the "Glorious Shapes

of Art" 1
by Peter Allan Dale
Metamorphosis as Metaphor in Bram Stoker's

Dracula 5
by Pascale Krumm
Flatness and Ethical Responsibility in Little Dorrit 11

by Dominic Rainsford
Intertextuality and Intratextuality: The Full Text

of Christina Rossetti's "Harmony on First Corinthians
XIII'' Rediscovered 17
by Mary Arseneau and Jan Marsh
Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Jungian Images in

Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White 26
by Sophia Andres
Crucifixes and Madonnas: George Eliot's Fascination

with Catholicism in Romola 31
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Priest vs. Poet 35

by A. R. Coulthard
Books Received 41
Group News 44
Contents Page
Kingsley's Hypatia: Foes Ever New 1

by Lionel Lackey
Representing the "Latent Vashti": Theatricality in

Charlotte Bronte's Villette 4
by Lisa Surridge
The Eclipse of the Text in Carlyle's Critical Discourse 14

by Gregory Maertz
''A Frame Perfect and Glorious": Narrative Structure

in Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 20
by Elizabeth Signorotti
Swinburne's Internal Centre: Reply to an Article 25

by Rikky Rooksby
Tristram, Iseult and the Internalized Centre: A Note

on Rikky Rooksby's "New" Swinburne 29
by Peter Anderson
Books Received 34
Group News [35]

Contents Page
Respectability and Romantic Poets: Late-Victorian

Guides to Reading 1
by John L. Kijinsky
From a Certain Point of View in "A Scandal of

Bohemia": Outsmarting Mr. Sherlock Holmes 7
by James Griffith
Michael Henchard: Hardy's Male Homosexual 9

by Tod E. Jones
Spencer's Doctrines and Mr. Hyde: Moral Evolution

in Stevenson's "Strange Case'' 13
by Christine Persak
Matthew Arnold and the French Marguerite Tradition 18

by A. S. Weber
Rossetti's Carlisle Wall and Scott's Lay of the Last

Minstrel 23
by Ernest Fontana
The Sublimity of Catherine and Heathcliff 24

by Patrick Kelly
Kate Field and Anthony Trollope: Re George Eliot

and George Henry Lewes 31
by Carolyn J. Moss
Books Received 34
Contents Page
Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South: A National

Bildungsroman 1
by Patricia E. Johnson
"Morbid and Fearful Conditions of Mind'' in

Ruskin's Modern Painters II 9
by Owen Rogal
"Delightfully Irregular": Esther's Nascent ecriture

feminine in Bleak House 13
by Lynette Felber
Multiculturalism and the Question of Audience:

Adam Bede as a Test Case 20
by Joyce Quiring Erickson
Christina Rossetti's "Helpmeet" 25

by Diane D'Amico
"I Read It in Your Eye'': Spiritual Vision in Jane Eyre 29

by Amanda B. Witt
Charlotte Bronte's New Corinne: Re-reading The

Professor 34
by Elizabeth McIntyre
Books Received 40
Group News [41]

Contents Page
Eros and Logos in Some Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde:

A Jungian Interpretation 1
by Clifton Snider
"The Central Truth": Phallogocentrism in Aurora

Leigh 9
by Patricia Thomas Srebnik
"I Magnify My Office": Christina Rossetti's

Authoritative Voice in Her Devotional Prose 11
by Joel Westerholm
The Sterile Star of Venus: Swinburne's Dream of Flight 18

by Peter Anderson
Bringing to Earth the "Good Angel of the Race'' 25

The Flawed Craft of A. E. Housman 29

by A. R. Coulthard
The Physiological Determinism Debate in Oscar

Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray 31
by Terri A. Hasseler
Overdetermined Allegory in Jekyll and Hyde 35

by Cyndy Hendershot
Books Received 39
Group News [41]

Contents Page
Agents of Empire in The Woman in White 1

by Lillian Nayder
Good Housekeeping: Job-Searching in Victorian Fiction 7

by Monica Feinberg
Utopian Dreams / Heterotopian Nightmares: Disease

and Discourse in Carlyle's Latter-Day Pamphlets 11
by John B. Lamb
Oliver Twist and the Contours of Early Victorian England 14

by David Paroissien
Alice's Ab-surd-ity: Demon in Wonderland 17

by Pamela K. Gilbert
Hopkins's Best Poem 22

by Francis J. Smith, S. J.
Culture, Nature, and Gender in Mary Ward's Robert

Elsmere and Helbeck of Bannisdale 25
by Laura Fasick
The Personification of Death in the Poems of

William Ernest Henley 31
by Joseph S. Salemi
Down Garden Paths: Charlotte Bronte's Haunts

of Self and Other 35
by Barbara Gates
Tennyson and "The Spirit of the Age'' 43

by Judith Kennedy
Books Received 47
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From Religious Ecstasy to Romantic Fulfillment:

John Wesley's Journal and the Death of Heathcliff
in Wuthering Heights 1
by Katherine M. Sorensen
No Name: Embodying the Sensation Heroine 5

by Melynda Huskey
"Devising New Means": Sartor Resartus and the

Devoted Reader 13
by Vivienne Rundle
The Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral in Elizabeth Gaskell's

Cousin Phillis 22
by Pearl L. Brown
Reading and Restoration in Tess of the D’Urbervilles 27

by Ronald D. Morrison
Maggie, Tom and Oedipus: A Lacanian Reading

of The Mill on the Floss 35
by Ranjini Philip
Revisionist Mythmaking in Christina Rossetti's

"Goblin Market”: Eve's Apple and Other Questions
Revised and Reconsidered 40
by Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt
Mrs. Oliphant, Miss Marjoribanks, and the

Victorian Canon 44
by Joseph H. O'Mealy
Allusions to Literature in Trollope's Novels:
Interpreting the Evidence, with Identification of
Literary, Historical and other References in
Trollope's The Bertrams (1859) and Lady Anna (1874) 50
by James Means
The Pregnant Death of Dorian Gray 55

by John Gall
Being Rid of Women: Middle-class Ideology in

Hard Times 58
by Kristin Flieger Samuelian
Individuation and Consummation in Hardy's Jude

the Obscure: The Lure of the Void 62
by Mary Ann Kelly

Contents Page
"No Originals, Only Copies": Pre-Raphaelite Images

of Belatedness and Innovation 1
by Elliott L. Gilbert
Gadamer's Hermeneutics and Newman's Illative

Sense: Objectivism, Relativism, and Dogma 6
by Paul H. Schmidt
Harriet Martineau in America: Gender and the

Discourse of Sociology 13
by Maria H. Frawley
Thomas Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes: The Heroine as Text 20

by Jo Devereux
New Light on Arthur Hugh Clough's Eight-Year Poetic Silence 23

by Janice E. Keller
A Reading of Swinburne's "A Leave-Taking'' in

Light of Arnold's "The Forsaken Merman'' 29
by J. L. Kerbaugh and Margret Kerbaugh
Narrative Disfigurement and the Unnamed Friend

in Tennyson's The Lover's Tale 33
by Ernest Fontana
Cultural Cartography: A. S. Byatt's Possession and

the Politics of Victorian Studies 38
by Louise Yelin
“Experiments Made by Nature": Mapping the

Nineteenth-Century Hysterical Body 41
by Dianne F. Sadoff
The Birth of Culture from the Spirit of Cartography 45

by David Faulkner
"What Cannot Be'': John Addington Symonds's
Memoirs and Homosexuality 47
by Joseph Cady
The Ring and the Book and Light in August:

Faulkner's Response to Browning 51
by Martin Bidney
Waiting for Thou: Resurrecting Clough's

"Seven Sonnets'' 59
by Robert Johnson
Books Received 62
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Following the Thread: Dickens and the Seamstress 1
by Lynn M. Alexander
Fair Margaret of "Maiden Song": Rossetti's

Response to the Romantic Nightingale 8
by Diane D'Amico
A Tale of Two Cities: Dickens, Revolution, and

the "Other" C________ D_________ 14
by Franklin E. Court
Dickens and Eliot in Dialogue: Empty Space, Angels

and Maggie Tulliver 18
by Nancy Cervetti
Hopkins's Panic in "Spring" 23

by Joseph H. Gardner
Mary, Narcissus, and Quasimodo: Three Touchstones

for Pre-Raphaelitism and Aestheticism 26
by Nathan Cervo
"A cool observer of her own sex like me'':

Girl-Watching in Jane Eyre 29
by Annette Federico
Coming in the Victorian Newsletter 33
In Defense of Biography: Versions of Marguerite

and Why She Really Does Matter 34
by Bill Bell
Biography, the Interpretation of Meaning, and the

Seeking of Significances 37
by Wendell Harris
Books Received 39
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Dying to Know 1
by George Levine
Poetry and the Scientization of Language: "Geist''

Son of "Waldmann'' 4
by Peter Allan Dale
Thomas Carlyle and Dynamical Symbolism: The

Lesson of Edward Irving 9
by Tom Lloyd
Images of Middle-Eastern Women in Victorian

Travel Books 18
by Charisse Gendron
The "Condition of England Question": Past and

Present and Bleak House 24
by R. Bland Lawson
Oliver Twisted: Narrative and Doubling in

Dickens's Second Novel 27
by Stephen Bernstein
Dickens, Dickens, Micawber . . . and Bakhtin 34

by Stanley Tick
In Defense of Latimer: A Study of Narrative

Technique in George Eliot's "The Lifted Veil'' 37
by Millie M. Kidd
The Diachronic Frame of Tennyson's "Morte d'Arthur” 41

by Roger Platizky
Books Received 44
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Antinomianism or Anarchy: A Note on Oscar

Wilde's "Pen, Pencil and Poison'' 1
by William E. Buckler
Sara Coleridge: The Gigadibs Complex 3

by Nathan Cervo
"On Tuesday Last, at St. George's . . .'': The

Dandaical Wedding in Dickens 9
by Patricia Marks
Ruskin to the "Elusive'' Mr. Horn; An Unpublished

Letter from a Neglected Friendship 14
by Warren Dwyer
"Three Cups in One'': A Reading of "The Woodspurge'' 19

by Andrew Leng
Faith of Our Mothers: Elizabeth Gaskell's "Lizzie Leigh'' 22

by Joanne Thompson
The Problem of the Man-Trap in Hardy's The Woodlanders 26

by Jonathan C. Glance
Sartor Redivivus, or Retailoring Carlyle for the

Undergraduate Classroom 29
by Linda K. Hughes
Identification of Literary, Historical and other References in

Trollope's The Macdermots of Ballycloran (1847), The Three
Clerks (1858), Rachel Ray (1863), The Vicar of Bullhampton
(1870), Ralph the Heir (1871), and The American Senator (1877) 32
by James Means
Books Received 39
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Pensee Sauvage at the MLA: Victorian Cultural

Imperialism Then and Now 1
by Patrick Brantlinger
The Power of the Word: Scientific Nomenclature

and the Spread of Empire 5
by Harriet Ritvo
The Anti-comedy of The Trumpet Major 8

by Richard Nemesvari
Behind "Golden Barriers": Framing and Taming

the Blessed Damozel 13
by Andrew Leng
Scenes of Marital Life: The Middle March of

Extratextual Reading 16
by Monica L. Feinberg
“The Coronation of the Whirlwind”: The Victorian

Poetics of Indeterminacy 27
The Dover Switch, Or the New Sexism at "Dover Beach'' 35

by Eugene R. August
Books Received 38
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Misfortune Is a Woman 1

by Elizabeth Campbell
Family Plot: The Bleak House of Victorian

Romance 5
by Monica Feinberg
The Agnostic's Apology: A New Reading of Oscar

Wilde's ''The Portrait of Mr. W. H.'' 17
Sexual Politics and Narrative Method in

Tennyson's ''Guinevere'' 23
by Richard A. Sylvia
The Lure of Biography: Who Was Marguerite and

to Whom Does It Matter? 28
by Wendell Harris
The Dover Glitch: Soul a la Sole 31

by Nathan Cervo
Response to Nathan Cervo 34

by Gerhard Joseph
''Why Can't a Duck Be More Like a Rabbit'' 35

by Tom Hayes
Books Received 36
Contents Page
Ruskin's Pied Beauty and the Constitution of a

''Homosexual'' Code 1
by Linda Dowling
Why the Ghost of Oscar Wilde Manifests in

Finnegans Wake 9
by Grace Eckley
Darwin's Comedy: The Autobiography as Comic

Narrative 15
by Eugene R. August
A ''Root Deeper Than All Change": The Daughter's

Longing in the Victorian Novel 20
by Suzy Clarkson Holstein
The Literary Significance of Edmund Burke to

Matthew Arnold 28
by Dan Ritchie
Books Received 36
Contents Page
The Gothic Form of Wuthering Heights 1

by George E. Haggerty
A Rural Singing Match: Pastoral and Georgic in

Adam Bede 6
by Bruce S. Thornton
The Sublimation of Carnival in Ruskin's Theory of

the Grotesque 11
by James Diedrick
The Narrator as Protoreader in The French

Lieutenant's Woman 16
by Jerome Bump
Evangelical Doctrine and George Eliot's Narrator in

Middlemarch 18
by Katherine M. Sorensen
''Dover Beach," Hardy's Version 27

by James Persoon
Protoplasmic Hierarchy and Philosophical Harmony:

Science and Hegelian Aesthetics in Oscar Wilde's
Notebooks 30
by Philip E. Smith
Above Ruskin's Labyrinth 33

by Andelys Wood
Kipling, Joyce and the ''Bitched Line'' 37

by David H. Stewart
Two New Letters on Matthew Arnold and English

Protestantism in 1869 39
by Clinton Machann
Visions of Wholeness and Voices from the Deep:
Kindred Wanderers in Byron's ''The Dream'' and
Tennyson's ''Ulysses'' 41
by Martin Bidney
Ontogeny and Phylogeny in The Mill on the Floss 46

by Preston Fambrough
Swinburne's Imitations of Catullus 51

by George M. Ridenour
Swinburne's ''Lancelot'' and Pre-Raphaelite

Medievalism 58
by Rebecca Cochran
Books Received 63
Contents Page
Inventing Victorians: Virginia Woolf's "Memoirs

of a Novelist" 1
by Mary Kaiser Loges
Distortion Versus Revaluation: Three Twentieth-

Century Responses to Victorian Fiction 3
by Jerome Meckier
The Dover Bitch: Victorian Duck or Modernist

Duck/Rabbit 8
by Gerhard Joseph
Carlyle's Denial of Axiological Content in Science 10

by Charles W. Schaefer
Mixed Metaphor, Mixed Gender: Swinburne and

the Victorian Critics 16
by Thais E. Morgan
The Humanities Tradition of Matthew Arnold 20

Oliver (Un)Twisted: Narrative Strategies in Oliver Twist 23

by Joseph Sawicki
Representation and Homophobia in The Picture

of Dorian Gray 28
by Richard Dellamora
Coming In The Victorian Newsletter 31
Books Received 32
Contents Page
Swinburne, Clough, and the Speechless Christ:

"Before a Crucifix'' and "Easter Day'' 1
by M. K. Louis
Pier Glasses and Sympathy in Eliot's Middlemarch 6

by Barbara McGovern
The Religion of Culture: Arnold's Priest and Pater's

Mystic 9
by Clay Daniel
Walter Pater's "Romantic Morality'' 12

by Wolhee Choe
Bent and Broken Necks: Signs of Design in Stoker's

Dracula 17
by Alan Johnson
Woman and the Muse: The Lifeblood of Samuel

Smiles' Workers 24
by William B. Thesing
Treasure Island as a Late-Victorian Adults' Novel 28

by David H. Jackson
Darling Mothers, Devilish Queens: The Divided

Woman in Victorian Fantasy 32
by Susan A. Walsh
Christina Rossetti's Christian Year: Comfort for

"the weary heart'' 36
by Diana D'Amico
Light on Some George Eliot Metaphors: Seeing

Things in Their True Colors 42
by Selma B. Brody
The Religious Poetry of Ernest Dowson 44
by Joseph S. Salemi
The Narrative Experimentalist of Tennyson's "Sea

Dreams" 47
by Richard A. Sylvia
Merlin in Victorian Poetry: A Jungian Analysis 51

by Clifton Snider
What the Dead Are Doing Underground: Hades and

Heaven in the Writings of Christina Rossetti 55
by Linda E. Marshall
Framing Wilde 61
by Gerhard Joseph
Books Received 64
Contents Page
Arnold among the Contentions of Criticism 1

by Holly Laird
Closure and the Victorian Novel, 1986 4

by Marianna Torgovnick
Victorian Weaving: The Alienation of Work into

Text in "The Lady of Shalott" 7
by Gerhard Joseph
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Anne Bronte's Jane Eyre 10

by Margaret Mary Berg
The Poor Fictionist's Conscience: Point of View in

the Palliser Novels 16
by Patricia A. Vernon
A New Perspective: Naturalism in George Moore's

A Mummer's Wife 20
by Judith Mitchell
Browning's Testament of His Devisings in

The Ring and the Book 27
by Joseph A. Dupras
Books Received 32
Contents Page
Disraeli and Carlyle's "Aristocracy of Talent": The

Role of Millbank in Coningsby Reconsidered 1
by Nils Clausson
The Reader as Whoremonger: A Phenomenological

Approach to Rossetti's "Jenny'' 5
by Michael Cohen
Letters and Novels ''One Woman Wrote to Another":

George Eliot's Responses to Elizabeth Gaskell 8
by Robyn R. Warhol
J.E. Millais' Bubbles: A Work of Art in the Age of

Mechanical Reproduction 15
by William Sharpe
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: Bildungsroman or

anti-Bildungsroman? 18
by Nikki Lee Manos
Christianity, Spiritualism, and the Fourth Dimension

in Late Victorian England 24
by Rosemary Jann
Great Burke and Poor Boswell: Carlyle and the

Historian's Task 28
by Elizabeth Wheeler
Books Received 32
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The Novel as Risk and Compromise, Poetry as Safe

Haven: Hardy and the Victorian Reading Public,
1863-1901 1
by William W. Morgan
Bard and Lady Novelist: Swinburne and the Novel

of (Mrs.) Manners 4
by David G. Riede
Genre and Gender in Aurora Leigh 7

by Dorothy Mermin
Walter Pater: The Critic and the Irrational 12

by Robert Keefe
He Stoops to Conquer: Redeeming the Fallen Woman in

the Fiction of Dickens, Gaskell and Their Contemporaries 16
by Laura Hapke
Trollope's Ground of Meaning: The Macdermots

of Ballycloran 23
by Sarah Gilead
Byron and Disraeli 26

by Peter W. Graham
Wilde's Autobiographical Signature in The Picture

of Dorian Gray 30
by Karl Beckson
Books Received 32
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The Sources of Ruskin's Golden River 1

by Suzanne Rahn
Prelude and Finale to Middlemarch 9

by Harriet Farwell Adams
Eothen Again 11
by Charisse Gendron
Dorothea and Her Husbands: Some Autobiographical

Sources for Speculation 15
by Sara M. Putzell-Korab and Martine Watson Brownley
The Pilgrims of the Rhine: The Failure of the German

Bildungsroman in England 19
by Edwin M. Eigner
No Wragg by the Ilissus? A Note on Matthew Arnold's

''Wragg is in custody'' 21
by Charles Swann
Hardy's "Mute Opinion": An Interpretation 23

by Laurence Perrine
The Waif at the Window: Emily Bronte's Feminine

Bildungsroman 26
by Annette R. Federico
Pater's Temporizing: The "Conclusion'' to

The Renaissance 29
by Ross Borden
Books Received 32
Contents Page
Aubrey Beardsley Counts the Ways 1

by Linda Gertner Zatlin
Domesticating the Brutal Passion in Nineteenth-

century Fiction 7
by Harriet Farwell Adams
Tennyson's Courtship of Sorrow 10

by Sylvia Manning
"Love in a Life": The Case of Nietzsche and

Lou Salome 14
by William Beatty Warner
Wilde's Closet Self: A Solo at One Remove 17

by Nathan Cervo
"When Critics Disagree'' 20

by Kerry Powell
Physical Opposition in Barnaby Rudge 21

by Brian Rosenberg
Herbert Spencer and the Study of Laughter 23

by Michael S. Kearns
Robert Browning and Aurora Leigh 26

Books Received 32
Contents Page
Nero and the Aesthetics of Torture 1

by Linda Dowling
Genre and Perspective in the Study of Victorian

Women Writers: The Case of Elizabeth Missing Sewell 5
by Patrick Scott
Rossetti's intelligenza nova: Perception, Poetry and

Vision in Dante at Verona 10
by Thomas L. Cooksey
A. E. Housman's Two Strategies: A Shropshire Lad

and Last Poems 14
by Robert K. Martin
The Lady as Criminal: Contradiction and Resolution

in Trollope's Orley Farm 18
by Laura Hapke
"Childe Roland'' and Two Other Poems by Browning 22

by Myra Armistead
Lombroso's Criminal Man and Stoker's Dracula 25

by Ernest Fontana
Recollections of Tennyson by Sir George Prothero

in the Tennyson Research Centre 28
by Richard Collins
Books Received 32
Contents Page
Looking Backward—Victorian Poetry and Prose 1

by Jerome H. Buckley
Looking Backward: The Victorian Novel 3

by George H. Ford
Looking Forward: American Feminists, Victorian Sages 6

by Elaine Showalter
The Mesmerizing of Dorian Gray 10

by Kerry Powell
Dicken's War against the Militancy of the Oppressed 15

by Atta Britwum
Chaos and Cosmos: Carlyle's Idea of History 19

by Lowell T. Frye
George Eliot: Feminist Critic 22

by Carol A. Martin
"Muscular Christianity'' and Brutality: The Case of

Tom Brown 26
by Henry R. Harrington
Rossetti's Use of the “Great Mother'' Mythos in "A

Last Confession'' 29
by Nathan Cervo
Books Received 32
Contents Page
"Joy came in the evening": A Note on a Serious Joke

in George Eliot's Diary 1
by Shoshana Knapp
Swinburne in Hellas: "A Nympholept'' 4

The Victorian Nightmare of Evolution: Charles

Darwin and Walter Bagehot 9
by Martha Westwater
Supposed Confessions, Uttered Thoughts: The First-

person Singular in Tennyson's Poetry 13
by Timothy Peltason
Avoiding the High Prophetic Strain: De Quincey's

Mail-coach and Felix Holt 19
by Susan R. Cohen
Bleak House: Dickens, Esther, and the Androgynous

Mind 21
by Carol A. Senf
To Be Brought Up ''By Hand'' 27

by Susan Schoenbauer Thurin
The Unity of Kidnapped 30

by Ralph Stewart

Contents Page
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Moment of the Picture 1

by Kelsey Thornton
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Caught Between Two Centuries 3

by Miriam Fuchs
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Pull of Silence 7

by Hartley S. Spatt
The Burden of Nineveh 12

by Carl Woodring
Parody and Homage: The Presence of Pater in Dorian Gray 15

[by Robert K. Martin]
The Christening of the New Woman: May 1894 19

by Ellen Jordan
The Image of St. Theresa in Middlemarch and Positive Ethics 21

by Franklin E. Court
The Disappearance of Tragedy in Meredith's "Modern Love'' 26

by Hans Ostrom
Books Received 31

Contents Page
Early Verse by ''Unfortunate W. Thackeray'' 1

by Juliet McMaster
"A Habitable Doll's House'': Beginning in Bleak House 3

by Thorell Tsomondo
Nietzsche, Bagehot and the Morality of Custom 7

by David S. Thatcher
Voices in a Dream: The Language of Skepticism in

Tennyson's "The Hesperides'' 13
by Aidan Day
Tennyson's Narrative of Desire: The Lover's Tale 21

by Herbert F. Tucker, Jr.
Self-validation in Housman's A Shropshire Lad

LXII (Terence, This is Stupid Stuff) 30
by Eddy Dow
Books Received 32
Contents Page
George Eliot and the Victorian "Historic Imagination" 1

by Brian Rosenberg
The Victorian Historical Sense and Modernism 5

by Louis Menand
Carlyle's Incidental Montage: The Guises and the

Theory of Transcendent Historicism 8
by Rodger L. Tarr
The Historical Imagination: Browning and Pound 11

by Adena Rosmarin
Imitation in “The Lady of Shalott” 17

by Nathan Cervo
Adrian's Shrug: A Note on the "Wise Youth'' 19

by Thomas J. Campbell
Carlyle's Secret Debt to Schiller: The Concept of

Goethe's Genius 21
by Lee C. R. Baker
Arnold and Bolingbroke 23

by Joseph Carroll
The Key to All Mythologies - A Possible Source

of Inspiration 27
by Katharina M. Wilson
Carlyle's Historical Imagination: Untrue Facts and

Unfactual Truths 29
by Beverly Taylor
Books Received 32
Contents Page
Tennyson and Carlyle: A Source for "The Eagle" 1

by Paul F. Mattheisen
The Schooling of John Bull: Form and Moral in

Talbot Baines Reed's Boys' Stories and in Kipling's
Stalky & Co. 3
by Patrick Scott
How It Struck A Contemporary: Tennyson's “Lancelot

and Elaine” and Pre-Raphaelite Art 8
Amours de Voyage and Matthew Arnold in Love:

An Inquiry 15
by Eugene R. August
Tennyson's "Ulysses" as Rhetorical Monologue 20

by Mary Saunders
The Mathematical References to the Adoption of the

Gregorian Calendar in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures
in Wonderland 24
by Laurence Dreyer
Self-Helpers and Self-seekers: Some Changing Attitudes

to Wealth, 1840-1910 27
by J. L. Winter
Contents Page
Style in Ruskin and Ruskin on Style 1

by Wendell Stacy Johnson
Literature and Dogma and Literature: New Textual

Perspective on Matthew Arnold's Critical Organicism 6
Hopkins' Paradigms of Language 17

by Jerome Bump
Clocking the Reader in the Long Victorian Novel 22

by Michael Lund
Symbolic Representation and The Means of Revolution

in Daniel Deronda 25
by Peter Dale
Recent German Studies of Victorian Literature: 1979 31

by Werner Bies
Books Received 32
Contents Page
A Psychoanalytic Rereading of David Copperfield 1

by Gordon D. Hirsh
Midas and The Bell-Jar: Carlyle's Poetics of History 5

by Richard L. Stein
The Uncanny Critic of Brasenose: Walter Pater and

Modernists 10
by Sharon Bassett
The Path to True Civilization: Celt and Saxon and

Meredith's View of Anglo-lrish Relations 14
by Terrence L. Grimes
Becky Sharp and the Three Per Cent Solution 20

by Ira Bruce Nadel
Structure in Kipling's Kim 24

by David H. Stewart
Imposture and Absence in Wilde's ''Portrait of Mr. W.H.'' 26

by Linda Dowling
Teaching Long Victorian Novels in Parts 29

by Michael Lund
Contents Page
Hopkins, Christina Rossetti, and Pre-Raphaelitism 1

by Jerome Bump
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Their Circle:

The Formation of the Victorian Avant-Garde 7
by Herbert Sussman
"The Thing Signified'' in The Dynasts: A Speculation 9

Druids, Bards, and Tennyson's Merlin 14

Thackeray's Journalism: Apprenticeship for Writer

and Reader 23
by Elizabeth Segel
Ruskin's Changing Evaluation of Poetic Vision 27

by Helen Pike Bauer
Contents Page
Newman's Way with the Reader in A Grammar

of Assent 1
by Philip Snyder
Tennyson, Chambers and Recapitulation 7

by D. C. Leonard
W. B. Yeats, Matthew Arnold and The Critical

Imperative 10
by Vinod Sena
John Ruskin, C. R. Cockerell and The Proportions

of Architecture 14
by Michael Brooks
Michael and his Lost Angel: Archetypal Conflict

and Victorian Life 20
by Bruce Wallis
Perspectives on Henry Esmond 26

by Mary Rosner
Contents Page
Deja vu Inverted: the Imminent Future in Walter

Pater's Marius the Epicurean 1
Rights, Reason, and Redemption: Charlotte Bronte's

Neo-Platonism 5
by Sara Moore Putzell
Tractarian Aesthetics: Analogy and Reserve in

Keble and Newman 8
by G. B. Tennyson
Bruising the Serpent's Head: Topological Symbol in

Victorian Poetry 11
by George P. Landow
High Tea and Matzo Balls: Religion in the Victorian

Jewish Novel 15
by Linda Gertner Zatlin
Hardy, Barnes, and the Provincial 18

by Donald Wesling
Father and Mother in Father and Son 19

by E. Pearlman
Time in Nicholas Nickelby 23

by Patricia Marks
In Which a Poet is Frightened by a Lion: The

Philosophical Context of Mill's Poetic Theory 26
by Jonathan Loesburg
Books Received 32
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Contents Page
Ironic Translation in Fifine at the Fair 1

by Dorothy Mermin
The Heroine of Middlemarch 4

by Gordon S. Haight
How Many Children had Barry Lyndon? 8

by Winslow Rogers
Martin Chuzzlewit: The Art of the Critical

Imagination 10
by David D. Marcus
A New Carlyle Manuscript 16

by Roger L. Tarr
Disraeli's Sybil and Hollinshed's Chronicles 17

by Lois E. Bueler
Thackeray in Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of

Charlotte Bronte: Some Manuscript & Evidence 19
by Angus Easson
Dickens with a Voice like Burke's 22

by Louie Crew
In Defense of Margaret: Another Look at Arnold's

''The Forsaken Merman'' 23
by Frank R. Giordano, Jr.
Yeats, Tennyson, and "Innisfree" 29

by Gary Sloan
Victorian Group News 32

Contents Page
“Why Unblooms the Best Hope?”: Victorian

Narrative Forms and the Explanation of Calamity 1
by James R. Kincaid
Browning: The Activation of Influence 4

by Loy D. Martin
“The Intricate Invasions of As”: Meredith’s Theory

of Figure 9
by Michael Sprinkler
Victorian Philology and Victorian Poetry 13

by Dennis Taylor
The Unpleasantness at the Garrick Club 16

by Albert Borowitz
Vision of Evil: The Influence of Wilde’s Salome

on Heart of Darkness and A Full Moon in March 23
by Christopher S. Nassaar
Love and Strife in “Dover Beach” 28

by D. S. Neff
Recent Publications: A Selected List 30

by Arthur F. Minerof
Contents Page
Trollope and Romanticism 1

by David R. Eastwood
Thomas Hardy’s Financial Exigencies 5

by William J. Hyde
George Eliot’s Debt to Villette 10

by Charles Burkhart
Francis Turner Palgrave’s Criticisms of Tennyson’s

In Memoriam 13
by John O. Waller
The Sources of Hopkins’ Inscape: Epistemology

at Oxford, 1864-1868 18
by Thomas A. Zaniello
The Uses of Solitude: Dickens and Robinson Crusoe 25

by G. W. Kennedy

Victorian Group NotesInside Front Cover

Contents Page
The Victorian View of Russian Literature 1

by Harold Orel
Newman and the Victorian Cult of Style 6

by David J. DeLaura
Contrasting Pictorial Representations of Time:

The Dural Narration of Bleak House 10
by Devra Braun Rosenberg
Swinburne's Craft of Pure Expression 16

by Anthony H. Harrison
Heart of Stone: An Emblem for Conversion 21

by C. S. Vogel
Thomas Hardy's Correspondence with Sir George

Douglas 25
by M. D. Wilkie

Victorian Group NewsInside Back Cover

Contents Page
Type Needs Antitype: The Structure of Browning's

Parleyings 1
by Mark Siegchrist
Hopkins, Pater, and Medievalism 10

by Jerome Bump
Suicide and Wuthering Heights 15

by Barbara Gates
Charlotte Bronte: The Importance of Being British 20

by Phyllis J. Read
A Note on Ruskin's Mythography 24

by Frederick Kirchoff


Contents Page
Desperate Remedies: Sensation Novels of the 1860s 1

by Elaine Showalter
"Feeling Hot'': Victorian Drama and the Censors 5

by John R. Elliott, Jr.
A Straight Bat and a Modest Mind 9

by Coral Lansbury
Hymns for Children: Cultural Imperialism in

Victorian England 18
by Susan S. Tamke
Arnold's Two Regions of Form 22

by Mary W. Schneider
The Double Narrator in The Amazing Marriage 24

by Robert M. DeGraaff
Stammering in the Dodgson Family: An

Unpublished Letter by 'Lewis Carroll' 26
by Joseph Sigman and Richard Slobodin


Contents Page
Pater and His Younger Contemporaries 1

by Gerald Monsman
The ''Central Fiery Heart": Ruskin's Remaking of

Dante 9
by Martin Bidney
Why Thackeray Went To See a Man Hanged 15

by Albert I. Horowitz
''Nor help for pain": Matthew Arnold and Sophocles'

Philoctetes 21
by Ellen S. Gahtan
When Did Tennyson Meet Rosa Baring? 26

by Jack Kolb

English X News 32
Contents Page
The Forms of Victorian Fiction 1

by James R. Kincaid
Method and Moral in George Eliot's Narrative 4

by Elizabeth Ermarth
Vision and Form: The English Novel and the

Emergence of the Short Story 8
by Wendell V. Harris
Progressive Dubiety: The Discontinuity of

Disraeli's Political Trilogy 12
by Daniel R. Schwarz
Pater's Conception of the Renaissance: From Sources

to Personal Ideal 19
by Billie Andrew Inman
Critical Forum 24
G. B. Tennyson, Robert O. Preyer, James G. Nelson,
Phyllis Grosskurth

English X NewsInside Back Cover

Contents Page
Pater, Hopkins, and the Self 1

by Gerald Monsman
Change and Changelessness in Bleak House 5

by Dianne F. Sadoff
Argument and Strategy in Mill's The Subjection of

Women 10
by Rise B. Axelrod
Carlyle and Ruskin: The Private Side of the Public

Coin 15
by Eloise K. Goreau
Hard Times, Page One: An Analysis 20

by Stanley Tick
Hardy, Mrs. Oliphant, and Jude the Obscure 22

by Norman Page
''A Good Hand at a Serial": Thomas Hardy and the

Art of Fiction 24
by Audrey C. Peterson
Irony and Sentimentality: Conflicting Modes in

Martin Chuzzlewit 26
by Richard Hannaford


Contents Page
The Image of the Anima in the Work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1

by Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi
Elections in Victorian Fiction 8

by J. R. Dinwiddy
Hopkins' Reading of Arnold 13

by Margaret Stothart
John Tyndall and Tennyson's ''Lucretius'' 19

by Sharon Mayer Libera
The Aesthetic Function of the ''Weird Seizures'' in The Princess 21

Pipkins and Kettles in Vanity Fair 25

by David Leon Higdon


Contents Page
What You Always Wanted To Know About Alice

but Were Afraid To Ask 1
by Donald Rackin
Two Approaches to Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs 5

by Edmund Miller
The Nuns of Villette 8

by Charles Burkhart
Childhood and the Victorian Ideal of Manliness in

Tom Brown's Schooldays 13
by Henry R. Herrington
A Reading of Morris' The Defence of Guenevere and

Other Poems 18
Dante Gabriel Rosetti and Ernest Chesneau 24

by Mario Maurin
Hopkins' "Dapple-Dawn-Drawn" Charioteer 26

by Bruce Wallis
Who Was Lady Morley? 28

by John W. Bicknell and C. L. Cline
English X News 32
Contents Page
THE STATE OF VICTORIAN STUDIES: 1962-1972
Introductory Remarks 1
by Robert A. Colby
Victorian Nonfiction Prose 3

by G. B. Tennyson
Victorian Poetry 8
by R. C. Tobias
Victorian Fiction 11
by Lionel Stevenson
Emily Bronte and the Responsible Imagination 15

by Victor A. Neufeldt
Wave and Fire Imagery in Tennyson's Idylls 21

by Henry Koziki
Tennyson and the Spasmodics 24

by Joseph J. Collins

by Arthur E. Minerof

Contents Page
The Martyr Clown: Oscar Wilde in De Profundis 1

by Joseph Butwin
On Some Aspects of the Comic in Great

Expectations 6
by Henri Talon
A Missing Childhood in Hard Times 11

by Edward Hurley
A Reading of Hopkins' "Epithalamion" 16

by Lionel Adey
Fictional Conventions and Sexuality in Dracula 20

by Carrol L. Fry
Thackeray's Esmond and Anne Manning's "Spurious

Antiques'' 22
by James C. Simmons
Tom Thumb Versus High Art: Douglas Jerrold's

"The English in Little'' 25
by Angus Easson
Recent Publications : A Selected List 26

English X News 32
Contents Page
Mrs. Gamp as the Great Mother: A Dickensian Use

of the Archetype 1
by Veronica M. S. Kennedy
Rossetti's Changing Style: The Revisions of "My

Sister's Sleep'' 6
by Herbert Sussman
The Sketch of the Three Masks in Romola 9

by W. J. Sullivan
Tory-Radicalism and "The Two Nations'' in

Disraeli's Sybil 13
Two Notes on Religion in David Copperfield 18

by E. Pearlman
In Memoriam and The Excursion: A Matter of Comparison 20

by Stuart F. C. Niermeier
Past or Future Mindscapes: Pictures in Jane Eyre 22

by M. B. McLaughlin
The Midsummer Eves of Shakespeare and Christina

Rossetti 24
by Warren Herendeen
A Victorian "Modest Proposal'' 27

by Charles T. Dougherty


Contents Page
Four Early Studies from Pater's The Renaissance:

The Aesthetics for a Humanist Myth 1
by William H. Sullivan
Art Amidst Revolution: Ruskin in 1848 8

by Edward Alexander
John Ruskin and the Nature of Manliness 14

by David Sonstroem
The Verdict in Whistler V. Ruskin 17

by Francis L. Fennell
William Morris and the Tannhauser Legend: A Gloss

on the Earthly Paradise Motif 22
by Barbara Fass


Contents Page
Victorian Poetics: An Approach Through Genre 1

by W. David Shaw
Spiritual Confusion and Artistic Form in Victorian

Poetry 4
by Michael G. Sundell
Tennyson's Painted Shell 7

by Richard C. Tobias
A Note on Matthew Arnold in Love 11

by Park Honan
Robert Browning, Robert Chambers, and Mr. Home,

the Medium 15
by Milton Millhauser
The Dramatic Relationship Between “By the Fire-

Side” and “Any Wife to Any Husband” 20
by Richard Kelly
On the Naming of Hardy's Egdon Heath 22

by Allan C. Christensen
Another Possible Source for Dickens' Miss Havisham 24

by Stanley Friedman
The Devil in the Flesh: Samuel Butler's

"Confessional" Novel 25
by Joseph T. Bennett


Contents Page
Dickens' Portrait of the Artist 1

by Edward Hurley
Black and White Characters in Hard Times 5

by Mary Rose Sullivan
"All Her Perfections Tarnished": The Thematic

Function of Esther Summerson 10
by Mary Daehler Smith
Another Look at Hardy's ''Afterwards'' 14

by David S. Thatcher
Meredith's Experiments with Ideas 18

by J. Raban Bilder
Huxley, Holmes, and the Scientist as Aesthete 22

by Phyllis Rose
Tory Noodles in Sydney Smith and Charles Dickens:

An Unnoticed Parallel 24
by Robert Simpson McLean
Stanza Form in Meredith's Modern Love 26

by Willie D. Reader


Contents Page
The Warp of Mill's ''Fabric'' of Thought 1

Mill on De Quincey: Esprit Critique Revoked 7

by James G. Murray
John Stuart Mill on Dogmatism, Liberticide, and

Revolution 12
by Edward Alexander
Pickwick's ''Magnanimous Revenge": Reason and

Responsibility in the Pickwick Papers 18
by Fred Kaplan
Bishop Blougram and the Cardinals 21

by Ellen F. Shields
Henry Kingsley and the Governor Eyre Controversy 24

by William H. Scheuerle
G. W. E. Russell and the Editing of Matthew

Arnold's Letters 27
by William S. Peterson

English X News Inside

Back Cover
Contents Page
Bleak House and the Brothers Grimm 1

by Joseph T. Flibbert
New Perspective on the Companion Poems of

Robert Browning 5
by Nancy B. Rich
Abandon the Day: FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar

Khayyam 10
by David Sonstroem
Thomas Hardy: The Poor Man and the Deterioration

of His Ladies 14
by W. J. Hyde
H. G. Wells's "Jungle Book'': The Influence of

Kipling on The Island of Dr. Moreau 19
by Robert L. Platzner
The Italian Renaissance and Some Late Victorians 23

by Alan P. Johnson
Hopkins' ''Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves'' 27

by Norman White

by Arthur F Minerof

Contents Page
The Poet as Heroic Thief: Tennyson's "The Hesperides''

Reexamined 1
by James D. Merriman
Narrative Sequence and the Moral System: Three Tristram

Poems 5
by Masao Miyoshi
Anthony Trollope, or The Man with No Style at All 10

by Ruth apRoberts
Centripetal Vision in Pater's Marius 13

by James A. W. Heffernan
Sainthood and Dorothea Brooke 18

by Robert F. Damm
Tennyson, Vestiges, and the Dark Side of Science 22

by Milton Millhauser
Morris and Timekeeping 25

by Littleton Long

Contents Page
Trollope Empiricus 1
by Ruth apRoberts
Disraeli and the ''Baronial Principle": Some Versions

of Romantic Medievalism 7
by Bernard McCabe
Tennyson's Death in Life in Lyric and Myth: ''Tears,

Idle Tears'' and ''Demeter and Persephone'' 13
by Gerhard Joseph
The Quickset Hedge: Ruskin's Early Prose 18

by N. N. Feltes
Metaphor and Method in Mill's On Liberty 22

by David R. Sanderson
The Parson-snob Controversy and Vanity Fair 25

by Myron Taube
Putting Quilp to Rest 29

by Robert Simpson McLean
Charlotte Bronte's Shirley and John Leyden's "The

Cout of Keeldar'' 33
by Katherine Ware Ankenbrandt
Gareth's Four Antagonists: A Biblical Source 34

by W. David Shaw

Contents Page
Of Time, Rivers, and Tragedy: George Eliot and

Matthew Arnold 1
by U. C. Knoepflmacher
Dickens' Woman in White 5

by Harry Stone
Another Pippa 8
by Betty Cobey Senescu
Ruskin's Revisions of the Third Edition of Modern

Painters, Volume I 12
by George P. Landow
Swinburne and the Whitmaniacs 16

by William J. Goede
"The Butterfly'' and Wuthering Heights: A Mystic's

Eschatology 22
by Jo Anne A. Wilson
The Porcelain-Pattern Leitmotif in Meredith's The Egoist 26

by Daniel R. Schwarz
Gilbertian Humor: Pulling Together a Definition 28

by John Bush Jones
Egerton: Forgotten Realist 31

Hebraism, Hellenism, and The Picture of Dorian Gray 36

by Jan B. Gordon
Amendments and Additions to the Complete Poems

of Lionel Johnson (1953) 38
by Ian Fletcher
Carlyle, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and Madame Cottin 43
by Edwin W. Marrs, Jr.
Reviewer of Browning's Men and Women in the

Rambler Identified 46
by Esther Rhodes Houghton
Tennyson's "Break, Break, Break'' Again 47

by Bert G. Hornback
An Unpublished Housman Letter on the Preface to

Last Poems 48
by B. J. Leggett
Thomas Hughes's Continuing Memorial: A Treasure

Trove for Victorian Scholars 49
by Ben Harris McClary
Dramatic Irony in Thackeray's Catherine: The

Function of Ikey Solomons, Esq., Jr. 50
by John Christopher Kleis
Dickens and Langland in Adjudication upon Meed 53

by Florence Jones
Scenes of Clerical Life: Idea Through Image 56

by David Leon Higdon
"Dover Beach" and "Andrea del Sarto'' 58

by Burton R. Pollin

Contents Page
Arnold's Dramatic Meditations 1

by M. G. Sundell
Tennyson: Unscholarly Arthurian 5

by Hugh H. Wilson
Gissing, Gosse, and the Civil List 11

by Paul F. Mattheisen and Arthur C. Young
"The Atmosphere . . . from Cyprus": Hardy's

Development of Theme in Jude the Obscure 16
by Myron Taube
Histories and Flowers: The Organic Unity of William

Morris' Late Art 18
by Andrew Von Hendy
From Victorian to Modern: A Sketch for a Critical

Reappraisal 20
by Norman Friedman

English X News Inside Back Cover

Contents Page
Tennyson Criticism 1923-1966: From

Fragmentation to Tension in Polarity 1
by Elton E. Smith
Idylls of the King: Tennyson's New Realism 5

by Clyde de L. Ryals
Tennyson's Irony 7
by Jerome H. Buckley
George Eliot's Anti-Romantic Romance: "Mr.

Gilfil's Love-Story'' 11
Metaphysical and Social Evolution in Wuthering Heights 15

by Irving H. Buchen
The Gothic Flame of Charles Dickens 20

by Larry Kirkpatrick
Coventry Patmore in Household Words 25

by Anne Lohrli
The American in England: An Examination of a

Hitherto Neglected Satire by Douglas Jerrold 28
by Richard Kelly
Becky Sharp and the Virtues of Sin 31

by Leslie M. Thompson
The ''Haunting Shade'' That Accompanies the Virtuous

Elizabeth-Jane in The Mayor of Casterbridge 33
by Raymond O'Dea
Mill and Middlemarch: The Progress of Public Opinion 37

by Larry M. Robbins
Tennyson and Hegel on War 39
by Richard W. Noland
Matthew Arnold's Letters to George Stacey Gibson 40

by Eugene Williamson
Benjamin Disraeli and R. Shelton Mackenzie:

Unpublished Letters 42
by David W. Tutein
Carlyle on Editing Letters 45

by Arthur A. Adrian
A Note on the Fluctuation of Fortune in Trollope's

Barsetshire 46
by Mary D. Smith
The Three Pictures in Jane Eyre 47

by Thomas Landford
Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Spiritualism: A New Letter 49

by Fred C. Thomson
Some Biographical Light on Rossetti's Translations of Villon 52

by Glen A. Omans
Piero di Cosimo: An Alternate Analogy for George

Eliot's Realism 54
by Edward T. Hurley
Ruskin and His ''Master'' 56

by Donald R. Swanson


Contents Page
Nonfiction as Art 1
by George Levine
Gerard Manley Hopkins and the "Stanching,

Quenching Ocean of a Motionable Mind'' 6
by Howard W. Fulweiler
"The Primaeval Fountain of Human Nature'': Mill,

Carlyle, and the French Revolution 13
by Henry Ebel
Imagery as Structure in Jane Eyre 18

by Donald H. Ericksen
A Brief Inquiry into the Morality of Amelia in

Vanity Fair 23
by Neal B. Houston
Hetty Sorrel, the Forlorn Maiden 24

by Thomas G. Burton
A Note on the Ruskin-Blackwood's Controversy 26

by Kenneth W. Davis


Contents Page
“No Arnold Could Ever Write a Novel” 1

by A. Dwight Culler
Matthew Arnold's Empedocles on Etna 5

by Charles Berryman
The George-Amelia-Dobbin Triangle in the Structure

of Vanity Fair 9
by Myron Taube
Browning's Duke as Theatrical Producer 18

by W. David Shaw
Wilkie Collins' Heart and Science and the

Vivisection Controversy 22
by Dougald B. MacEachen
Jude the Obscure as Pagan Self-Assertion 26

by Ward Hellstrom
Trabb's Boy and Orlick 27

by Barry D. Bort

English X News Inside

Back Cover
The Victorian Newsletter
Number 28
Fall 1965
Contents Page
Metrical Prose in Dickens 1

by Park Honan
The Concept of the Infinite Moment in The House

of Life 4
by J. L. Kendall
Browning and Neoplatonism 9

by Jack Matthews
Ruskin on Slavery: A Semantic Examination 13

by John O. Waller
Hopkins's "The Shepherd's Brow'' 16

by Robert Boykin Clark, S.J.
Imagery in the Scenes of Clerical Life 18

by Daniel P. Deneau
Art, Death, and the Composition of Shirley 22

by Earl A. Knies
"My Last Duchess'': A Possible Source 25

by L. Robert Stevens
The Victorian Woman 26

by Joseph Moscinski, S.J.

English X News 33
Contents Page
Methods in the Study of Victorian Style 1
by Richard Ohmann
The Prose of the Apologia Pro Vita Sua 5

by George Levine
Scott and Dickens: Realist and Romantic 9

by Edgar Johnson
A Note on Hegel and George Eliot 12

by Darrel Mansell, Jr.
Dialectical Structures in Hardy's Poems 15

by D .F. Mayers
William Johnson Fox and Mill's Essays on Poetry 18

by F. Parvin Sharpless
Parents and Children in Great Expectations 21

by Vereen M. Bell
The Name Jude 24

by Robert F. Fleissner
A Note on Browning's ''Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'' 26

by Victor Hoar
Religion, Art, and the Poet 28

by Arthur F. Beringause
Henry James to Stopford Brooke: An Unpublished Letter 29

by Fred L. Standley
Carlyle, Jeffrey, and the ''Helotage'' Chapter of Sartor Resartus 30

by Alvan S. Ryan
English X News 33
Contents Page
The Thematic Evolution of ''The Idylls of the King'' 1

by Nancy M. Engbretsen
Resolution of Identity in "Our Mutual Friend'' 5

by Masao Miyoshi
The Pattern of Self-Alienation in ''Great

Expectations'' 9
by Mordecai Marcus
Symbolic Characterization in ''One of Our

Conquerors'' 12
by Fred C. Thomson
Caleb Garth of "Middlemarch" 14

by Russell M. Goldfarb
Disraeli's Use of Shelley 19

by Roland A. Duerksen
"The Bride of Literature": Ruskin, The Eastlakes

and Mid-Victorian Theories of Art 23
"Principle in Art'' as Criticism in the Mainstream 28

by Marvel Shmiefsky
A Note on the Feverel Crest 32

by Carl H. Ketcham
English X News 33
Contents Page
Matthew Arnold's Refuge of Art: "Tristram and Iseult'' 1
by Robert A. Greenberg
Sun and Shadow: The Nature of Experience in Tennyson's

''The Lady of Shalott'' 4
by Lona Mosk Packer
"Alice in Wonderland'' in Perspective 9

by Elsie Leach
Hardy's Use of Setting and Jude the Obscure 11

by Ward Hellstrom
George Eliot and William Hale White 13

by Stephen Merton
The Two Isabels: A Study in Distortion 15

by Blair Gates Kenney
Carlyle as Poet: The Phoenix Image in ''Organic Filaments'' 18

by Richard A. Levine
''Romola'' and Thomas Trollope's ''Filippo Strozzi'' 20

by Lawrence Poston, III
The Landscapes of ''Rugby Chapel'' 22

by William S. Peterson
Newman's ''Apologia": A Classic Reconsidered 24

by The Editor
A Matter of Unacknowledged Borrowing 26

by The Editor

English X News 33
Contents Page
Newman and Liberalism: The Later Phase 1

by Edward F. Jost
Our Mutual Friend: The Birds of Prey 6

by Richard A. Lanham
The Race for the Money in the Structure of Vanity Fair 12

by Myron Taube
Some Letters of Matthew Arnold 17

by Paul F. Mattheison and Arthur C. Young
George Eliot’s Reading of Wordsworth: The Record 20

by Thomas Pinney
[Unknown Title; Partial Article; Topic: Alice in

Wonderland] 23
by Elsie Leach
Arnold’s Tyrian Trader 24

by Earl E. Stevens
John Hay as a Critic of The Rubaiyat of Omar

Khayyam 26
by Sol Gittleman
English X News 27

by Robert Greenberg
Contents Page
The “Death of Pan” in Victorian Literature 1

by Patricia Merivale
The Genius of John Ruskin 4

by John D. Rosenberg
Thackeray on War 6
by Eric Solomon
Gissing’s Articles for Vyestnik Evropy 12

by Harry E. Preble
The Attitude Toward the Reader in Carlyle’s Sartor

Resartus 15
by Alvan S. Ryan
Mermen and Mermaids: A Note on an “Alien Vision”

in the Poetry of Tennyson, Arnold, and Hopkins 16
by Howard Fulweiler
Arthur Donnithorne and Zeluco: Characterization Via

Literary Allusion in Adam Bede 18
by Irving H. Buchen
Robinson on Browning 19
by Richard Cary
Henry Mayhew: Farce Writer of the 1830’s 21

by John L. Bradley
Charles Dickens: The Pursuers and the Pursued 23

by Warrington Winters
“The Windhover” and “St. Alphonsus Rodriguez” 25

by William A. McQueen
Repetition of Imagery in Thomas Hardy 26
by Dale Kramer
A Letter from Harold Frederick to T. H. Huxley 27

by William Randel
English X News 28

Contents Page
Matthew Arnold and the American Civil War 1

by John O. Waller
Rossetti’s “Willowwood” Sonnets and the Structure

of The House of Life 5
by Douglas J. Robillard
Restoration through Feeling in George Eliot’s Fiction:

A New Look at Hetty Sorrel 9
by I. W. Adam
The Thorn Imagery in Adam Bede 12

by Clyde de L. Ryals
Confusion of the Seasons in Tennyson’s “The Last

Tournament” 14
by Roy Gridley
Browning’s Fifine at the Fair: Meaning and Method 16

by J. L. Kendall
The Death of Dora Spenlow in David Copperfield 19

by J. Don Vann
Rossetti’s Cumaean Oracle 20

by John Lindberg
“How Do I Love Thee?” – an Echo of St. Paul 22

by John S. Phillipson
The Publication of Matthew Arnold’s Early Volumes

of Poetry 22
by Roger L. Brooks
Nineteenth-Century Holdings at the Folger 23

by B. R. Jerman
On a Certain Deficiency in Victorian Anthologies 23
by John W. Bicknell
English X News 27

Contents Page
The Fourth Dimension of Victorianism 1

The Unity of “In Memoriam” 9

by Jonathan Bishop
Hareton Earnshaw: Natural Theology on the Moors 14

by William H. Marshall
The Hawthorne and Browning Acquaintance: An

Addendum 16
by Lionel Stevenson
The Religious Imagery in Browning’s “The Patriot” 16

by David J. DeLaura
The Menu of Great Expectations 18

by Russell M. Goldfarb
“The Heart of that Mystery”: A Note on John Stuart

Mill’s Theory of Poetry 20
by Seamus Cooney
James and Eliot: The Two Gwendolens 23

by Seymour Lainoff
English X News 24

Contents Page
Two Commentaries on Dickens: Dickens and

The Philosophic Basis of Melodrama 1
by Archibald C. Coolidge, Jr.
Two Commentaries on Dickens: Dickens and the

Heart as the Hope for Heaven: A Study of the
Philosophic Basis of Sensational Literary Technique 6
The Hawthorne and Browning Acquaintance:

Including an Unpublished Letter 13
by James C. Austin
The Scarlet Letter and Adam Bede 18

by Allan Casson
Browning and Wordsworth: The Argument for

Immortality in “Saul” 19
by Merle M. Bevington
Browning: “Mage” and “Maker” – A Study in Poetic

Purpose and Method 21
by Roma A. King, Jr.
Huxley and Kingsley 25

by Charles S. Blinderman
English X News 28

Contents Page
Hardy’s Response to the Critics of Jude 1

by William J. Hyde
Cordon Had a Rival 5

by Michael Timko
Dickens’ Plots: “The Ways of Providence” or the

Influence of Collins? 11
by Harland S. Nelson
Clough and Graham Green’s The Quiet American 14

by Harry W. Rudman
Arthur Hugh Clough and Francis H. Underwood 15

by David Bonnell Green
A Note on Browning’s Defense of Chatterton 17

by Boyd A. Litzinger
Shelley, Devere, and Thompson’s “Hound of Heaven” 18

by Donald H. Reiman
The First Published American Text of Arnold’s

“Literature and Science” 19
by James K. Robinson
Source of an “Inspiration”: Francis Newman’s

Influence on the Form of “The Dream of Gerontius” 21
by Daniel J. Mulcahy
“Popular Culture” and the Seminal Books of 1859 24

by George J. Worth
Daniel Deronda and William Shakespeare 27

Conscience in Conflict 29
by Alexander Sandow
English X News 30

Contents Page
The Character of Amelia in the Meaning of Vanity Fair 1

by Myron Taube
Dickens’s Humor 8
Richard Feverel, “The Original Man” 15

by William H. Marshall
Lippo’s Vision 18
by J. L. Kendall
Hopkins and Counterpoint 21

by Stephen Mooney
Did Cardinal Wiseman Review Men And Women? 22

by Boyd Litzinger
Browning’s Pauline: The Artistic Safety Device 23

by Park Honan
Swinburne and His Contemporaries 24

by James E. Suiter
Mark Twain and the Victorians 26

by William M. Gibson
An Essential Tool 27
by William D. Templeman
English X News: The Philadelphia Meeting 27

Contents Page
The Critical Significance of Autobiography in The

Way Of All Flesh 1
by Daniel F. Howard
The Rubaiyat’s Neglected Reviewer: A Centennial Recovery 4

by Michael Wolff
Robert Browning: “Indisputably Fact” 6

by Paul A. Cundiff
The Importance of Face in “The Ring And The Book” 11

by Robert Langbaum
The Art of Sartor Resartus: Two Views: Relationship

of Style and Device in Sartor Resartus 17
by Daniel P. Deneau
The Art of Sartor Resartus: Two Views: The Artistic

Unity of Sartor Resartus 20
by John Lindberg
Mill, Poets, and Other Men 23

by Seamus Cooney
Art and Reality in “My Last Duchess” 25

by Stanton Millet
Ritual in “The Bishop Orders His Tomb” 27

by Lawrence Poston, III
“My Dear Sumner”: Three Letters from Matthew Arnold 28

by Fraser Neiman
The Genesis of Hopkins’ “Heaven-Haven” 31

by Boyd Litzinger
The Spectator Records, 1874-1897 33
by Robert H. Tener
Reviews 36
English X News 40

by Oscar Maurer
Contents Page
Browning’s View of Fact in The Ring And The Book 1

by Donald Smalley
The Unpublished Passages in the Manuscript of

Ruskin’s Autobiography 10
by Samuel E. Brown
The Imagery of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Fire, Light,

and the Incarnation 18
by W. Stacy Johnson
Samuel Smiles’ Self-Help: Forgotten Centenary 23

by John L. Bradley
George Eliot: The Moralist as Artist 25

by Gordon S. Haight
Grail-Themes in Browning’s “Childe Roland” 27

by John Lindberg
Dickens and the Class Question 30

by Pansy Pakenham
Some Illustrations of Carlyle’s Symbolist Imagery 31

by Robert Louis Peters
Another Victorian First 34

by Richard D. Altick
English X News 36

Contents Page
Robert Browning: “Our Human Speech” 1

by Paul A. Cundiff
The Autobiographical Matrix of Great Expectations 10

by Ada Nisbet
The Hero-Villain of Oliver Twist 14

by Jonathan Bishop
Daniel Deronda and the Question of Unity in Fiction 16

by Jerome Beaty
Reviews 20
Arthur Hugh Clough: A Portrait Retouched 24

by Michael Timko
Darwin in the Ozarks 28

The Entitlement of Meredith’s “Love in the Valley” 28

by Virgil A. Peterson
Forgotten Bastards: A Note on Daniel Deronda 29

by Virgil A. Peterson
A Note on Some Emendations in Jude The Obscure 29

by Robert Hurley
Report from The Wellesley Index 30

by Walter Houghton
“Seriously. . .”, Reprinted from TLS, January 23 32

English X News 32
Recent Publications: A Selected List by Oscar Maurer 33

Contents Page
Tennyson and the Sonnet 1

by Dougald B. MacEachen
The Pattern of Fatality in Tennyson’s Poetry 8

by Jacob Korg
Reviews 11
A Guide to Research Materials on the Major Victorians (Part III) 22

Charles Dickens 22
by K. J. Fielding
John Ruskin 23
The “Epicureans” of Pater and Moore 24

by Eugene J. Brzenk
Editorial Notes and Announcements 27

by Oscar Maurer
Contents Page
The Significance of the Image Patterns in Meredith’s

Modern Love 1
by Elizabeth Cox Wright
Reviews 9
A Guide To Research Materials on the Major

Victorians (Part II) 19
The Brontes 19
by Mildred G. Christian
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 20

by Gardner B. Taplin
Robert Browning 22
by William C. DeVane
Thomas Carlyle 22
by Hill Shine
George Elliot 23
by Gordon S. Height
Gerard Manley Hopkins 23

by Rev. A. Bischoff
George Meredith 24
by Lionel Stevenson
Anthony Trollope 24
by Bradford A. Booth
A Note on Scholarship: Willa Cather on A. E. Housman 26

by William White
Oscar Wilde and Wilfrid Blunt: Ironic Notes on Prison,
Prose, and Poetry 27
by William T. Going
Editorial Notes and Announcements 29

by Oscar Maurer
The Victorian Newsletter Number 12 Autumn 1957
Contents Page
Philomela: A Major Theme in Arnold’s Poetry 1

by Robert A. Donovan
The Theme of Marriage in Tennyson 6

by W. Stacy Johnson
Reviews 11
A Guide to Research Materials of the Major

Victorians (Part I) 22
Edward Fitzgerald 22
by A. McKinley Terhune
Thomas Hardy 23
by Carl J. Weber
John Henry Newman 24

by A. Dwight Culler
Alfred Tennyson 26
by Edgar F. Shannon, Jr.
Notes on the Image and the Novel 27

by Daniel P. Deneau
Swinburne’s “Boo” 29
by Helen Gill Viljoen
English X Notes 30

by Oscar Maurer
Contents Page
Method in the Study of Victorian Prose: Another View 1

by Martin J. Svaglic
Tennyson and the Human Hand 5

by Charles Richard Sanders
The English Reception of Heine 14

by Sol Liptzin
Victorian Shaw 16
by Frederick P. W. McDowell
Leslie Stephen’s Stature as a Literary Critic 19

by Rene Wellek
Newman and the Problem of Critical Prose 22

by Francis G. Townsend
John Stuart Mill: The Second Greatest Influence 25

by Dwight N. Lindley
English X News 27

by Oscar Maurer
The Victorian Newsletter Number 10 Autumn 1956
Contents Page
George Eliot’s Theory of Fiction 1

by Gordon S. Haight
The Reputation of Dickens 4

by Royal A Gettmann
On the Theory of Trollope’s Pessimism 5

Kipling: One of the Best We Have 6

by Donald L. Hill
The Life of John Ruskin: A “Prelude” 9

The Question of Carlyle’s “Conversion” 10

Truth in The Ring And The Book 12

by W. O. Raymond
Gondal’s Queen 13
by Mildred G. Christian
Method in the Study of Victorian Prose: A Criticism 15

by R. C. Schweik
A Rejoinder 16
by A. Dwight Culler
Notes and Brief Articles 16
Forthcoming Publications 20
English X News 22
by Oscar Maurer
Supplement 1
Aubrey Thomas de Vere, 1814-1902: Selected Bibliography 1
by Paul A. Winckler and William V. Stone
Contents Page
Method in the Study of Victorian Prose 1

by A. Dwight Culler
Ruskin’s Moral Argument 4

The Way Of All Flesh and A Portrait Of The Artist

As A Young Man: A Comparison 7
by Ilse Dusoir Lind
The Charles A. Stonehill Collection, Hunter College Library 10

by Robert A. Colby
Doctoral Theses in the Victorian Period 11
Editorial Notes 11
English X News 12

by Oscar Maurer
The Victorian Newsletter Number 8 Autumn, 1955
Contents Page
Victorian Studies, 1952-1955: A Catalogue of

Complaints and Compliments 1
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson 3

The Winnington Letters 4

by Van Akin Burd
Word Echoes in Past And Present 5

by John Tyree Fain
The John Rylands Library, Manchester 6

by K. J. Fielding
The Pilgrim Trust and the Dickens Letters 7
Doctoral Theses in the Victorian Period 7
Editorial Comments 8
English X News 9

by Oscar Maurer
The Victorian Newsletter Number 7 April 1955
Contents Page
An Editorial 1
English X News 3
The Present State of Dickensian Studies 4

by Edgar Johnson
Brief Abstracts 10

The Victorian Newsletter Number 6 November 1954
Contents Page
English X News 1
Library Notes 1
Editorial Comment 4
A Projected Bibliography of Nineteenth Century Fiction 7

by Robert A. Colby

Contents Page
Introductory Note 1
The English X Program for 1954 1
Reference Books to Come 1
Religious Trends in Victorian Poetry 3

by Hoxie N. Fairchild
New Light on Ruskin 4

by Helen Gill Viljoen
More Research in Progress: Carlyle’s Letters 6

The MLA Conference in Minor Victorian Fiction 6

by John E. Tilford, Jr.
From the Editor’s Memo Pad 7


Contents Page
English X News 1
Victorian Manuscripts at the Huntington Library 3

by Edward S. Lauterbach

Contents Page
News of English X 1
A Project for a Check-List of Matthew Arnold’s Letters 2

by Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr.
Other Work in Progress 4
Library Notes 6
Recent Publications 7
Contents Page
Editorial 1
English X News 2
Recent Publications 3
The News Letter in Libraries 9
News of Victorian Scholars 9
Library Note 10
Books that Need Reissuing 10
“The Nineteenth Century”: 1877-1952 12

by William D. Templeton
Research in Progress 12
Financial Statement and Advertisement 13

Contents Page
Note 1
Editorial 1
English X News 4
Current Bibliography 4
Library Notes
Microfilms of Nineteenth-Century Periodicals 8
Work in Progress 9
News of Victorian Scholars 10

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Tables of Contents, #111 (2007) through #1 (1952)

Carlyle's Influence on Shakespeare 1

Imagining Ophelia in Christina Rossetti's ''Sleeping at Last'' 8

The Poison Within: Robert Browning' s ''The Laboratory'' 10

''Her life was in her books'': Jean lngelow in the Literary

The Buddhist Sub-Text and the Imperial Soul-Making in Kim 20

''Gliding'': A Note On the Exquisite Delicacy of the Religious

Coming in The Victorian Newsletter 29

Reading Hodge: Preserving Rural Epistemologies in Hardy's

Unmanned by Marriage and the Metropolis in Gissing's

Anthony Trollope's Lady Anna and Shakespeare's Othello 18

The Romantic and the Familiar: Third-Person Narrative in

Tennyson's In Memoriam, Section 123, and the Submarine

Coming in Victorian Newsletter 30

Scandalous Sensations: The Woman In White on

Nostalgia to Amnesia: Charles Dickens, Marcus

The Epigraph to Henley’s In Hospital 14

Emily Bronte’s Pedagogy of Desire in Wuthering

Kate Field and Anthony Trollope: The Gaps in the

Metaphoric Mules: Dickens’s Tom Gradgrind and

A Husband’s Tragedy: The Relationship between Art

Coming In Victorian Newsletter 29

Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Ambivalent Pre-Raphaelite

Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Anglo-Dutch Emblem

Browning's ''Childe Roland'': The Visionary Poetic 14

Myths of Castration: Freud's ''Eternal Feminine''

Coming in Victorian Newsletter 30

The Haunted Self: Vision of the Ghost and the Woman

The Case of the Anomalous Narrative: Gothic ''Surmise''

Browning's “Childe Roland”: The Visionary Poetic 11

The Picture of Dorian Gray, or, The Embarrassing Orthodoxy

Dickens, Hunt and the Waiter in Somebody 's Luggage 25

Three Victorian ''Medieval'' Poems: “Dover Beach,” “The

“Eternal honour to his name”: Tennyson' s Ode on the Death

Deviance in The Law and the Lady: The Uneasy Positioning

Sympathy and Discipline in Mary Barton 15

Victorian Sisterhoods and Female Religious Vocation in

Catharis in George Meredith's Essay on Comedy 28

Italian Counterpoint: Henry James and John Ruskin

The Aesthetics of Adventure: The Dark Sublime and

Rehearsing Nicholas Nickelby: Dickens, Macready, and

Lady Audley as Sacrifice: Curing Female Disadvantage

Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson and the South Sea Idols 27

Hood's “Craniology” and the Head of Christopher Casby

Coming in The Victorian Newsletter 29

Christian Manliness and Fatherhood in Charles

Jane Eyre, Eros and Evangelicalism 4

The Professional Adrift in the Victorian Novel:

The Professional Adrift in the Victorian Novel

Fairies and Feminism: Recurrent Patterns in Chaucer's

Rhetorical Punctuation in Vanity Fair? 29

Thomas Meyrick, Jesuit Madness, and Hopkins 31

The Max Nordau Pre-Raphaelite Gallery 1

Christina Rossetti’s Last Poem: “Sleep at Last” or

“Attached to life again”: the “Queer Beauty” of

The Adventure of Geography: Women Writers un-Map

Coming in The Victorian Newsletter 28

“Ut Pictura Poesis”: The Nineteenth-Century Perspective 1

Flowers on a Dunghill in The Nether World 9

Who Is Heathcliff? The Shadow Knows 15

Arnold's ''The Function of Criticism at the Present

Monkeys, Microcephalus Idiots, and the Barbarous Races

Allusion in Robert Browning's ''A Death in the Desert'' 27