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Subject: VICTORIA Digest - 12 Dec 2002 to 13 Dec 2002 (#2002-342)
There are 19 messages totalling 517 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. women and performance (9)
2. ILN (3)
3. mobile Victorians with unknowable pasts
4. library books (2)
5. Nathaniel Hawthorne
6. Palmerston conference, Southampton, July 2003
7. Christmas anthology? (2)
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 23:05:19 -0500
From: Maria H Frawley <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: women and performance
Knowing that final paper season is a time when we all like to turn our
attention elsewhere, I write to solicit some ideas on behalf of a graduate
student here. She is interested in developing a speciality exam list
organized around 19th c. women's texts that give attention to performative
female accomplishments and artistry (poetry, music, and dance in
particular). She's also interested in representations of women writers and
their creative processes. All ideas for possible readings are welcome--and
thanks in advance! (I'll be sure to suggest that she skim through VICTORIA
archives for relevant subject headings too). Maria Frawley, Univ. of
Delaware
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:17:54 +0000
From: nicola gauld <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: ILN
Hi
Does anyone out there know of any books or articles on the actual
illustrators who contributed to the Illustrated London News?
Thanks in advance.
Nicola Gauld
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:53:52 +0000
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Sunie=20Fletcher?= <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: mobile Victorians with unknowable pasts
I've been enjoying the discussion of bigamy, mobility
via the railways, inventing new identities, etc. The
expansion of the great cities fits in here, too - one
didn't have to go as far as the colonies to discover
the freedom to shuck off one's past, or past self. The
anonymity of city life would both allow for this and
fuel the fear of strangers with unknown backgrounds
which in turn feeds 'bigamy fiction'.
The business of meeting people on trains is neatly
illustrated by two poems I was set to compare as an
undergrad: Patmore's 'The Girl of Any Period' and
Dobson's 'Incognita'...In each, a young man and woman
meet in the new social space of the railway carriage
(notably, the girl is travelling alone), and the
intimacy of the setting - indoor and outdoor, public
yet private - make for an accelerated acquaintance.
Dobson's couple take theirs no further, but Patmore's
leave the train together; this is acceptable since it
turns out that their families are acquainted!
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:38:34 -0500
From: "Schatz, SueAnn" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: library books
Our librarian has notified me that there is some extra money to buy books.
While I have some ideas, are there any recent "must haves"?
Thanks in advance,
SueAnn Schatz
Assistant Professor of English
Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania
313 Raub Hall
Lock Haven, PA 17745
570-893-2641
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http://www.lhup.edu/~sschatz
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:00:45 -0500
From: Angela Bryant <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: women and performance
Eliot's Daniel Deronda offers interesting insight into women and
performance through Gwendolyn and Mirah. The Vashti and school performance
sections of Bronte's Villette also address this issue.
Angela Bryant
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 15:56:48 +0000
From: anne gomez huff <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: library books
It's not incredibly recent, but I love my Oxford Guide to English Literature
(Ed. Drabble, 2000), because it has an unbeatable number of listings for
19th century british lit. I find myself pawing through it constantly. For
example, it has a listing for Hardy, but it also has listings for all his
major novels, as well as plot summaries for each, and most of theses also
include important information surrounding the publication of each work.
Also, this reference guide also includes cultural pieces like "Oxford
Movement," "Kelmscott Press," and "Punch"...all entries are a good starting
point for beginners.
Cheers---
Anne Gomez Huff
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:06:51 -0800
From: George Griffith <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rosemary Underwood wrote:
I am interested in finding out whether George Eliot read Nathaniel
Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables. Any suggestions re. her
opinion of Hawthorne generally would also be most helpful.
Although there is abundant evidence in the letters and journals of her
admiration for Hawthorne (in 1852 she called him "a great favourite of
mine"), and though Eliot refers to The Blithedale Romance in a letter of
Aug. 19, 1852, there is no specific evidence in the letters of her having
read The House of the Seven Gables. Eliot scholars disagree over an
attribution of an 1851 review of The Blithedale Romance in Westminster
Review while Eliot was editor. Reviewers in both the Edinburgh Review and
North British Review began citing similarities between Hawthorne and Eliot
as early as Eliot's first fictions in the late 50s. The best treatment of
the subject is Edward Stokes, Hawthorne's Influence on Dickens and George
Eliot (University of Queensland Press, 1985).
George Griffith
Chadron State College
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:50:18 -0600
From: Patrick Leary <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Palmerston conference, Southampton, July 2003
[The following notice comes to us from Miles Taylor, Director of the Centre
for the Study of Britain and its Empire, University of Southampton.]
Title: Palmerston Congress
Venue: University of Southampton, UK
Dates: 11-13 July 2003
Description: A new look at Lord Palmerston is long overdue. He has escaped
the biographer's gaze for a generation, and his statecraft at home and
abroad deserve a deeper analysis than they have earned so far. This
three-day residential conference is devoted to current Palmerston
scholarship and features a range of 25 papers from speakers from around the
world.
Keynote speakers: E.D. Steele, Muriel Chamberlain, A.C. Howe
Conference web-site: www.soton.ac.uk/~history/csbe/palm.html
Contact: Professor Miles Taylor, Dept. History, University of Southampton,
UK (e-mail: [log in to unmask])
The University of Southampton has recently established the 'Centre for the
Study of Britain and its Empire', whose website can be found here:
www.soton.ac.uk/~history/csbe
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:49:00 EST
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: ILN
Nicola
You might try Thorpe, J. English Illustrators: The Nineties, Hacker Art
Books, New York 1975 His chapter on the ILN, pp28 - 43, lists a lot of
artists. Also Reid, F. Illustrators of the Sixties, Dover (reprint), New
York 1975
Frank Murray
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:57:02 -0800
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: ILN
There's plenty of information in Peter Sinnema's recent _Dynamics of the
Printed Page_ (his Bib will be very helpful as well). Two books close at
hand are John Gooch's _The Boer War_ (with several essays in the last
section on illustrators) and Peter Johnson's _Front Line Artists_. Again,
you can mine the bibs for more material.
Richard D. Fulton
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:30:42 -0800
From: Priti Joshi <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: women and performance
Helen Huntington in Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is an artist
who supports herself and her son by selling her paintings (the men in her
life often use these paintings to "expose/reveal" her).
Priti.
11:05 PM 12/12/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Knowing that final paper season is a time when we all like to turn our
>attention elsewhere, I write to solicit some ideas on behalf of a graduate
>student here. She is interested in developing a speciality exam list
>organized around 19th c. women's texts that give attention to performative
>female accomplishments and artistry (poetry, music, and dance in
>particular). She's also interested in representations of women writers and
>their creative processes. All ideas for possible readings are welcome--and
>thanks in advance! (I'll be sure to suggest that she skim through VICTORIA
>archives for relevant subject headings too). Maria Frawley, Univ. of
>Delaware
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Priti Joshi
Dept of English & Comparative Literature
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182-8140
Ph: (619) 594-5170
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:52:07 -0500
From: Meegan Kennedy <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: women and performance
For 19th c women's texts considering women in (dramatic) performance,
your student should look at Austen's Mansfield Park, of course, and
may also be interested in Elizabeth Robin's The Convert, which
portrays suffragist speechmaking as a kind of women's performance
that must be learned. She might also want to look at Edward P.
Vining's The Mystery of Hamlet (1881) and the cluster of female
Hamlets around the turn of the century (including Sarah Bernhardt in
1899, I think).
Examples of women's musical accomplishments seem to abound in women's
texts. A few offhand: Caterina, in George Eliot's "Mr. Gilfil's Love
Story" (from Scenes from Clerical Life) is distinguished by her
beautiful singing voice, and of course the "singing of glees" occurs
at a crucial moment in The Mill on the Floss. Gaskell's poor Ruth
only starts singing again on her deathbed.
For a women writer's thoughts on women writers, there's always EBB's
Aurora Leigh and poems "To George Sand."
Hope this helps -- now back to grading!
Meegan Kennedy
>Knowing that final paper season is a time when we all like to turn our
>attention elsewhere, I write to solicit some ideas on behalf of a graduate
>student here. She is interested in developing a speciality exam list
>organized around 19th c. women's texts that give attention to performative
>female accomplishments and artistry (poetry, music, and dance in
>particular). She's also interested in representations of women writers and
>their creative processes. All ideas for possible readings are welcome--and
>thanks in advance! (I'll be sure to suggest that she skim through VICTORIA
>archives for relevant subject headings too). Maria Frawley, Univ. of
>Delaware
--
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***** Meegan Kennedy
Program in History and Literature
Harvard University
Barker Center 122
12 Quincy Street
Barker Ctr Mail Area H0850
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:25:36 -0600
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: women and performance
About
> 19th c. women's texts that give attention to performative
> female accomplishments and artistry (poetry, music, and dance in
> particular).
Perhaps your student would like to consider Gaskell's *Mary Barton* --
with Margaret's developing career as a professional singer.
Mary Haynes Kuhlman, Ph.D.
Department of English
Creighton University
Omaha, NE 68178 USA
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:46:10 -0800
From: "Margot K. Louis" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: women and performance
Angela Bryant writes:
>Eliot's Daniel Deronda offers interesting insight into women and
>performance through Gwendolyn and Mirah.
--And, I would add, the Alcharisi; also see Eliot's closely related closet
play _Armgart_, about an opera diva who loses her voice. There are
comments on women and performance in _Middlemarch_ too. In Michael Field's
poems from _Long Ago_, especially "'Sing to us, Sappho!' cried the crowd"
and "Grow vocal to me, O my shell divine" (## 34, 63), Sappho's
performances are explored. Obviously Barrett Browning's _Aurora Leigh_ is
a significant source (see especially Books II, III, and V on women and
poetry). Letitia Landon's "The Improvisatrice" and "A History of the Lyre"
are very important in this area; your student could also look at Hemans'
"Corinne at the Capitol" and "To a Wandering Female Singer."
Margot K. Louis
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 18:03:56 -0500
From: Narin Hassan <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: women and performance
Geraldine Jewsbury's novels would probably be useful to your
student--especially in terms of women as actresses. In Jewsbury's The Half
Sisters, Bianca struggles to gain respectability as a serious actress; the
novel has several scenes describing her theatrical performances.
--
Narin Hassan
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 17:42:58 -0800
From: "Cathrine O. Frank" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: women and performance
Fanny Burney's last novel The Wanderer (1814) equates women's theatricality
with their political sympathies, using their attitudes towards the French
Revolution as the criteria for determining their marriage-ability and all
that that signifies/entails. Juliet, the retiring heroine, is the one who
"gets the guy," while the literally more dramatic Elinor (who disguises
herself as a man and attempts suicide, on stage, at a concert) is left to a
vague sort of religious conversion. Much of the novel is indebted to a
rhetoric of theatricality and revolution and includes a domestic play
analogous to Austen's in Mansfield Park.
I talk about this strategy and compare it to Scott's similar method in
Waverley (where Flora MacIvor positions herself as the muse of Scottish
revolt) in "Wandering Narratives and Wavering Conclusions" in European
Romantic Review 12.4 (2001): 429-456.
Cathrine O. Frank
University of Cincinnati
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:08:18 -0000
From: Paul Lewis <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: women and performance
Magdalen Vanstone in _No Name_ (1862) by Wilkie Collins, left illegitimate
and penniless, MV transfers her skill for amateur theatricals onto the
professional stage.
Paul
Paul Lewis
web www.paullewis.co.uk
tel 07836 217311
Paul
Paul Lewis
web www.paullewis.co.uk
tel 07836 217311
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:56:28 +0100
From: neil davie <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Christmas anthology?
A seasonal question, if I may: I was wondering if Victoria members could =
point me in the direction of a good literary anthology on the Christmas =
theme (preferably with a good showing of Victorian writers)? I've got a =
much-thumbed copy of Godfrey Smith's excellent *A Christmas Reader* =
(Penguin, 1986) - now sadly out of print - but would be grateful for any =
other suggestions.
Thanks as always!
Best wishes,
Neil
Neil Davie, Universit=E9 Paris 7, Paris, France.
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"It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at =
Christmas"
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*A Christmas Carol*
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 17:31:30 -0800
From: "Penny L. Richards" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Christmas anthology?
Neil Davie asks, "I was wondering if Victoria members could point me in
the direction of a good literary anthology on the Christmas theme
(preferably with a good showing of Victorian writers)?"
Susan Koppelman, ed., _May Your Days Be Merry and Bright: Christmas Stories
by Women_ (1989) is also out of print, but not very difficult to find
secondhand if you look in all the usual places online. Thanks for the
reminder, I should dig out my copy now that the season is here...Aha, got
it. Okay, the contents includes stories by Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Willa Cather,
Zona Gale, Fannie Hurst, Edna Ferber, Frances Gray Patton, Dorothy Canfield
Fisher, Alice Childress, Pearl S. Buck, Grace Paley, Wilma Shore, and
Ntozake Shange. That looks like just a handful of 19th century women (the
stories were published between 1867 and 1985), and all American. So, not so
Victorian, but it's still a pretty nice collection.
Penny L. Richards PhD
Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Co-editor, H-Education and H-Disability
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