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Subject: VICTORIA Digest - 2 Sep 2003 to 3 Sep 2003 (#2003-36)
There are 13 messages totalling 446 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Incest in 19th c. Novels (3)
2. concerning the readership of Victorian novels.
3. sibling bonds
4. English Departments in Britain (5)
5. "Gender and the London Theatre, 1880-1920" at Bryn Mawr College
6. incest
7. Crawford histories--titles
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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:01:03 +0800
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Tamara=20Wagner?= <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Incest in 19th c. Novels
--- Melisa Summy <[log in to unmask]> wrote: there
doesn't seem
> to be much on
> brother/sister relationships
there certainly isn't much, but I was wondering if
someone had already mentioned Glenda Hudson's _Sibling
Love and Incest in Jane Austen?s Fiction_ Basingstoke:
Macmillan, 1992.
Best,
Tamara
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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 01:36:30 -0500
From: Sheldon Goldfarb <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: concerning the readership of Victorian novels.
For what it's worth, William Dean Howells, in his 1909 travel book, Seven
English Cities (pp. 194-95), writes of novel readers he sees at a seaside
resort. He says:
"I do not imagine that anywhere else in the world is there a half, or a
tenth part, so much fiction consumed as in the English summer resorts"--all
of the "innutritious" sort from the circulating library, he is sure.
After first noticing young girls reading, he adds: "The fiction was not
confined to young girls, however. Both sexes and all ages partook of it; I
saw as many old girls as young girls reading novels, and mothers of
families were apparently as much addicted to the indulgence."
Sheldon Goldfarb
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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:05:58 -0400
From: "Deborah D. Morse" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: sibling bonds
Melissa,
You might find The Sister Bond: A Feminist View of a Timeless Connection,
ed. Toni A.H. McNaron (Pergamon Press, 1985) has some provocative essays
about the sororal connection. As I recall, erotics are at least recognized
as under the surface. There are essays on Austen, C. Rossetti, Virginia
Woolf.
And hasn't Karen Chase written about the incest motif in Wuthering
Heights--or did someone already say that? Interestingly, Christopher
Heywood's new Broadview edition refutes this reading.
Hope this is useful.
Cheers,
Deborah Denenholz Morse
The College of William and Mary
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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:12:03 -0400
From: Patrick Scott <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: English Departments in Britain
What is a department? does it require not only a professor but a
subordinate or insubordinate teaching staff (in the words of the Newbolt
report, assistant missionaries)? traditionally, University College
London saw itself as having the first chair in English (see e.g. Stephen
Potter, The Muse in Chains, and recent work by eg Franklin Court),
Cambridge as the first truly literary program (see EMW Tillyard, The
Muse Unchained), and Oxford as having the first serious English degree
programs (see DJ Palmer, The Rise of English Studies), but as everbody
knows, the first chair in Britain (after the one at what became the
University of Pennsylvania (but was it then at college level? cf
WRParker, Where did English Departments come from) was at the University
of Edinburgh, when Hugh Blair became first professor, then Regius
Professor, of Rhetoric & Belles-Lettres (1759 or 1762, depending on
whose counting, but is Rhetoric English?). Does a Department have to
have what we now call a major, or is it enough to have courses of
lectures in the history of EngLit that aren't a major part of a
specialist degree program, or at least a full course-component in a
Scottish- or London-style general degree?
Patrick Scott
Associate University Librarian for Special Collections
& Professor of English,
Rare Books & Special Collections,
Thomas Cooper Library,
University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC 29208, USA.
Tel: 803-777-1275
Fax: 803-777-4661, attn Dr Scott
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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:12:39 -0400
From: The Menons <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Incest in 19th c. Novels
Can't remember if the following were mentioned:
George Eliot: <Mill on the Floss> and <Brother and Sister> Sonnet
sequence -- much critical material on these works will touch on or explore
incest, as will critical material on Austen's <Mansfield Park> and, to a
lesser extent, <Emma>.
Pat Menon
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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:26:50 EDT
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Subject: "Gender and the London Theatre, 1880-1920" at Bryn Mawr College
"GENDER AND THE LONDON THEATRE, 1880-1920"
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, PA
28 September to 19 December 2003
OPENING LECTURE:
"Gender and the London Theatre, 1880-1920," the fall exhibition at the Bryn
Mawr College Library, will open Sunday afternoon, 28 September 2003, with a
lecture by the exhibition co-curator, Dr. Margaret Stetz, the Mae and Robert
Carter Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Delaware. The
lecture will be held at 2 pm in Carpenter Library 21, and will be followed
by a reception and viewing of the exhibition in the Class of 1912 Rare Book
Room in the Mariam Coffin Canaday Library. The lecture and reception are
free and open to the public.
"Gender and the London Theatre, 1880-1920" will look at Britain at the turn
of the last century and explore the links between changing notions of gender
and sexuality and changes in the world of the stage. The exhibition will
feature items from Bryn Mawr's Special Collections and the collection of
late-Victorian books and graphics owned by the other co-curator, Mark
Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Delaware
Library.  Â
EXHIBITION DETAILS:
The exhibition begins with Gilbert and Sullivan using musical comedy to
confront and define two controversial new social types: the female
undergraduate (in "Princess Ida," 1884) and the "effeminate" male aesthete
(in "Patience," 1881), the latter based on Oscar Wilde. It follows Wilde
from his brilliant stage successes of the early 1890s, which questioned
distinctions between "good" and "bad" women, through his catastrophic fall
in 1895, after being convicted of gross indecency with men. The exhibition
also reveals a consistent emphasis upon cross-dressing and gender confusion
throughout the period, in everything from Sarah Bernhardt�s turn as
Prince Hamlet, to the West End farce "Charley�s Aunt," to J. M.
Barrie�s fantasy "Peter Pan," to the music hall impersonations by Vesta
Tilley of aristocratic young gentlemen. At the same time, it highlights how
playwrights such as G. B. Shaw and Elizabeth Robins, inspired by
English-language productions of Ibsen, used the stage as a platform for
serious debate over women�s suffrage, marriage, new models of
masculinity, and the rights of working women. The exhibition illustrates,
too, the importance of gender as a backstage issue, determining who would
or could become a theatre manager, a set designer, or a professional critic.
Among the items displayed are Aubrey Beardsley's rare poster for the first
production of William Butler Yeats's "The Land of Heart's Desire"; a
souvenir scroll by William Nicholson from the 1906 celebration of actress
Ellen Terry's fifty years in the theatre, depicting Terry in all of her
major roles; the program for Elizabeth Robins's landmark play "Votes for
Women"; and "Celebrities of the Stage", a series of superb color portraits
of leading theatrical figures of the day.Â
SYMPOSIUM:
An all-day symposium on the topic of gender and turn-of-the-century theatre
will be held on the Bryn Mawr campus on Saturday, November 22nd. The
featured speakers will be David Rose, editor of "The Oscholars: Journal of
Wilde Studies," and Dr. Lois Potter, the Ned B. Allen Professor of English
at the University of Delaware.  The symposium will also include a
dramatic reading of J. M. Barrie's one-act play "The Twelve-Pound Look"
(1910). It will conclude with a screening of the recent feature film
"Esther Kahn" (2000; directed by Arnaud Desplechin), based on a 1902 short
story and starring Summer Phoenix as a young Jewish actress fighting gender
barriers and anti-Semitism to make her way on the London stage.
For additional information about the symposium, please call the Bryn Mawr
College Department of Special Collections, 610-526-6576, or send an e-mail
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Eric L. Pumroy
Director of Library Collections and
Seymour Adelman Head of Special Collections
Mariam Coffin Canaday Library
Bryn Mawr College
101 North Merion Avenue
Bryn Mawr, PAÂ 19010-2899
610-526-5272
610-526-7480 (fax)
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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:44:43 +0100
From: Sarah Brown <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: English Departments in Britain
There is a book you might want to take a look at. I believe the title is
"The Scottish Invention of English Literature", edited by Robert Crawford.
It includes discussion of, for example, the genesis of English Literature as
a subject at St Andrews University.
Sarah
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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:46:51 +0100
From: Sarah Brown <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: incest
Apologies if this has been mentioned already but Valerie Sanders' recent
study 'The Brother-Sister Culture in Nineteenth-Century Literature" is also
relevant.
Sarah
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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:16:43 -0400
From: Melissa Ianetta <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: English Departments in Britain
As Patrick rightly notes, origin dates are a vexed question. For the view
from the history of Rhetoric side of the fence, however, I'd suggest you
look at Thomas Miller's _Formation of College English: Rhetoric and Belles
Lettres in the British Cultural Provinces_.
Best, Melissa
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Assistant Professor of English
Director of the Writing Center
Oklahoma State University
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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:49:40 -0400
From: Patrick Scott <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: English Departments in Britain
Crawford also published (?coedited) a history of the St Andrews
department itself. I do not know of other UK departments with
full-scale history--the Edinburgh dept history is only a series of
essays in the EUJournal. The classic place for such history is in the
opening paragraphs of a new professor's inaugural lecture, where by
convention gracious tribute should be paid to the accomplishments of
selected predecessors, before the appointee's personal agenda is laid
out as a manifesto, exemplified in a case study, or disguised as
continuity of a great tradition. New American department chairmen could
learn a lot from from conventions of this under-studied genre (a minor
rival in its way to that other undere-studied scholarly genre, the
colleague's obituary for the British Academy, DNB or one of the
newspapers of record).
Patrick Scott
Associate University Librarian for Special Collections
& Professor of English,
Rare Books & Special Collections,
Thomas Cooper Library,
University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC 29208, USA.
Tel: 803-777-1275
Fax: 803-777-4661, attn Dr Scott
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 10:41:04 -0400
From: Herbert Tucker <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: English Departments in Britain
Professors Scott and Ianetta having laid out the essential bibliography on
this subject, I'll just add that Crawford titled his book, perhaps one turn
too cleverly, *The Devolution of . . . * His subject is what Sarah'
Brown's memory of the title says, though with admirable pluck he presses
his polemic across the sea too, contending that the soul of American Lit in
19th cy is Scottish.
At 12:44 PM 9/3/03 +0100, you wrote:
> There is a book you might want to take a look at. I believe the title is
> "The Scottish Invention of English Literature", edited by Robert Crawford.
> It includes discussion of, for example, the genesis of English Literature
> as a subject at St Andrews University.
>
> Sarah
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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 11:04:28 -0400
From: Patrick Scott <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Crawford histories--titles
Crawford wrote a general book on EngLit (stressing Scottish origins and
input etc)
Devoving English Literature (Clarendon, 1992)
He also edited a collection of essays, covering several Scottish
universities, titled
The Scottish Invention of English Literature (Cambridge UP 1998).
He also edited a collection of essays on the history of St Andrew's
titled:
Launch-site: three centuries of literary studies at the University of
St Andrews (St Andrews: Verse, 1997).
Patrick
Patrick Scott
Associate University Librarian for Special Collections
& Professor of English,
Rare Books & Special Collections,
Thomas Cooper Library,
University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC 29208, USA.
Tel: 803-777-1275
Fax: 803-777-4661, attn Dr Scott
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 21:38:03 -0400
From: Elisabeth Rose Gruner <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Incest in 19th c. Novels
I missed earlier posts on this, having been set to "nomail" for the summer,
so I may be repeating information. There's a fairly recent book on
brother/sister relationships in the 19thC by Valerie Sanders: _The
Brother-Sister Culture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: From Austen to
Woolf_. There's also Leila May's very good book, _Disorderly Sisters:
Sibling Relations and Sororal Resistance in Nineteenth-Century British
Literature_. And Joseph Boone and Deborah Nord's terrific article: "Brother
and Sister: The Seductions of Siblinghood in Dickens, Eliot, and Brontë"
appeared in _Western Humanities Review_, Summer 1992. There's also a book
edited by JoAnna Stephens Mink & Janet Doubler Ward, _The Significance of
Sibling Relationships in Literature_, published in 1993 (in which a somewhat
elderly article of my own appears).
Sorry if this is repeat info. It's a topic I've thought a lot about and I
wanted to make sure these citations got through.
Libby
Elisabeth Rose Gruner
Women's Studies Coordinator
Associate Professor of English & Women's Studies
University of Richmond
Richmond VA 23173
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