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Subject: VICTORIA Digest - 24 Sep 2003 to 25 Sep 2003 (#2003-58)
There are 13 messages totalling 506 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Novels set in 19th AND 20th centuries
2. Novels set in 19th AND 20th Centuries
3. 19th/20th Century Novels (2)
4. If I were a cassowary
5. profession
6. profession [2]
7. New on the William Morris Society web site
8. Harkness- In Darkest London
9. UPDATE: Re-Imagining the Ancient World in C19 Britain (10/15/03;
1/30/04) 10. Victorians Institute October 3-4--Program
11. Thanks re: oppressed children
12. Relocation of ELCS-L List (Lit, Culture, Society, 1880-1920)
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:01:50 +0100
From: Chris Willis <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Novels set in 19th AND 20th centuries
Hi!
Emelyne wrote:
> Try a rather Narnia-esque novel for children entitled 'Tom's Midnight
> Garden' (shown on BBC at least twice in the last 20 years)
The novel is by Philippa Pearce and is still in print. It's excellent. As
I recall, there was a fashion for this type of time-travelling children's
novel in the 1960s, but most were set in the Edwardian era or WW1.
All the best
Chris
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:10:44 +1000
From: Peter Freund <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Novels set in 19th AND 20th Centuries
Time shifting seems to have been a popular device for mid-twentieth century
children's novelists seeking - ones which come to mind along the lines of
"Tom's Midnight Garden" (already mentioned) are Gillian Avery's "Huck and
Her Time Machine," the "Green Knowe" novels of Lucy M Boston and Barbara Ker
Wilson's "Path Through The Woods."
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 08:01:43 -0500
From: Ellen Moody <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: 19th/20th Century Novels
One way to turn up a large number of 20th
century novels which weave back and
forth between present time and and the
19th century (or 18th to "Elizabethan") is to
go through a list of Booker Prize winners
and titles which were short-listed. There is
a book on the "post-colonial" outlook of the
terrain from which the Booker books are
heavily drawn, and there have been numerous
essays (and I believe one collection of such)
on the uses of "historicity" in the set.
Booker Prize books form a kind of subset or subgenre
within the prize culture and publicity
manipulation of the modern English-speaking
(or reading) literary marketplace. _Possession_
is really typical of the Booker Prize book;
I recently read Swift's _Waterland_ and Margaret
Atwood's _Alias Grace_ (near winners) and
all three bear study in terms of one another --
and an extrapolation of the audience they are
aimed at. (A film adaptation of _Alias
Grace_ is under consideration -- with Cate
Blanchett -- I'm not sure I've spelt her
name right.)
Also interesting are those Booker Prize and
non-Booker Prize books which at their margins or in the
penumbra of what's implicated are essentially
historical. This is also a genuine subgenre
within the Booker Prize terrain (e.g., Prawler
Jhabvala's _Heat and Dust_, Carr's _A
Month in the Country_). The length and mood
of these (often nostalgic) is repeated in
non-Booker Prize books (e.g., Colegate's _Shooting Party_
and _The Summer of the Royal Visit_ --
someone will correct me if either of these
were Booker Prize sellers). Some books
in this subset of novels have the
device of switching a traditional perspective
(Bainbridge's _According to Queeney_ --
shortlisted for the Booker). A American
version of this is Valerie Martin's _Mary
Reilly_ (she recently won an Orange prize
for her _Property_ -- is it weaving back and
forth from present time to the US
south during the period of slavery/).
Valerie Gorman (apologies if I've mispelt
her name) brought up some issues one could
raise about what's usually said about the
above books and what they may actually
project. Kate Flint has written -- admittedly
very hostilely -- about _Waterland_ in this
vein.
This is really worth bringing out since it
brings us to the edge of a discussion of
how Victorian England and Victorian
studies are used in today's media and books
beyond the more "popular" TV film adaptations,
author-heritage sites and the like.
Cheers to all,
Ellen Moody
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NB: Don't get me wrong. I love Booker
Prize books and assign them to classes.
I would just like to hear some serious
critiques of historicity in modern respected
and best-selling (prize culture) novels.
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:10:16 -0500
From: Bill Morgan <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: If I were a cassowary
Many thanks to Miriam Burstein for her response to my query about
Wilberforce. That he could be serious about missionary work and still be
seduced by the opportunity to rhyme cassowary with missionary and Timbuctoo
with "hymn-book too" speaks well of him! A man of parts, as the 18c would
say.
Bill Morgan
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:39:27 +0100
From: Lee Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: profession
A query from a user of www.victorianlondon.org
Does anyone know what a "link trap maker" was (a profession)? I've already
checked Google and OED.
My guess, as always, is something to do with horses ...!
regards,
Lee
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:45:29 +0100
From: Lee Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: profession [2]
And, in strange synchronicity, another profession-related request ...
what was the job of a 'miller's traveller' ?
Lee
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:21:01 +0000
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Subject: New on the William Morris Society web site
This message is being sent to several lists; kindly pardon cross-posting.
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New Content on the William Morris Society Web Site: Upcoming Events
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The William Morris Society is pleased to announce the following upcoming
events in the United States and United Kingdom. More information (and more
events and news) can be had from the web address following the listing:
United States:
8 Nov 2003 - 4 Apr 2004: "The Beauty of Life": William Morris and the Art of
Design, an exhibition at the Huntington Library, drawn primarily from the
Sanford and Helen Berger Collection. A conference is planned for December
2003.
24 -25 Oct 2003: American Printing History Association (APHA) 27th Annual
Conference, Grolier Club, New York City.
United Kingdom:
through 18 Jan 2004: Rossetti Exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery,
Liverpool.
through 12 Dec 2003: Exhibition of works from the collection of Andrew
Lloyd- Webber, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
6 Dec 2003: "John Ruskin's Critique of Political Economy," lecture by David
Gorman.
22 Nov 2003: "Pre-Raphaelite Art in the Victoria & Albert Museum," lecture
by Suzanne Cooper.
7 Nov 2003: 2003 KELMSCOTT LECTURE on "Dreaming London: The Future City in
Morris and Others," by Peter Preston.
31 Oct 2003: "Morris, Shaw, and Politics," lecture by David Rainger, 25 Red
Lion Square, London.
11 Oct 2003: "Morris and Violence: William Morris's Views of the Ethics of
War,'" lecture by Florence Boos.
10 Oct 2003: Lecture by Suzanne Fayence Cooper on "The Pre-Raphaelites" at
the Cheltenham Festival (special WMS member discount).
1 Oct 2003 Deadline: CALL FOR PAPERS: "The Pre-Raphaelite Ideal" conference,
Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, Trinity & All Saints, date TBA 2004.
27 Sep 2003: Recital for Clavichord and Flute at Kelmscott House.
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The Society also invites everyone to visit our main web address
http://www.morrissociety.org/
to see what else is new. On our web site, the Morris Society announces
items of interest to scholars, researchers, and everyone interested in
William Morris, his circle, and the Pre-Raphaelite movement, such as:
* News of Morris Society events in the UK, USA, Canada, and worldwide.
* Events and exhibitions related to the life and works of Morris and his
associates.
* Calls for papers and essays for conferences and book collections.
* Biographical information and examples of Morris's works in many media.
* Books by and about William Morris.
* Products and services dealing with William Morris and his circle.
* Links to related web resources.
If you enjoy the resources on our web site, please consider supporting the
Society by becoming a member.
Kindly let us know what you think, and if you have any suggestions about the
site, or would like to bring an event to the attention of the Morris
Society, feel free to contact the Society through the web site.
Enjoy!
s/ Thomas J. Tobin, Ph.D., M.S.L.S.
Governing Committee
The William Morris Society in the United States
webmaster @ morrissociety.org
WMS Online: http://www.morrissociety.org/
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 05:55:46 -0700
From: bob biderman <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Harkness- In Darkest London
Re: Margaret Harkness ? In Darkest London
It was originally published in 1889 under her nom de plume, John Law and
although translated into German and Swedish, was quickly forgotten in
England ? though referenced on occasion by social historians. She really
does deserve another look ? it?s an important documentary for anyone
interested in London?s East End of the late 1880s and the descriptions of
the Whitechapel penny gaffs, the workhouse, the factory life of young women
and the dire conditions of East End slums, are some of the best I?ve ever
read.
The book has just been reprinted and is available from Black Apollo Press.
You can get further information by emailing:
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 23:19:08 +0100
From: Susan Hoyle <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: 19th/20th Century Novels
Ellen Moody's suggestion is excellent, as long as no one thinks that the
[Man]Booker Prize is specifically for such books. Plenty of short-listed
and winning titles have nothing at all to do with weaving back and forth in
this way.
Susan Hoyle
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One way to turn up a large number of 20th
century novels which weave back and
forth between present time and and the
19th century (or 18th to "Elizabethan") is to
go through a list of Booker Prize winners
and titles which were short-listed.
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 21:05:33 -0400
From: "Meilee D. Bridges" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: UPDATE: Re-Imagining the Ancient World in C19 Britain (10/15/03;
1/30/04)
CFP: "Re-Imagining the Ancient World in 19th-Century Britain"
***Deadline for Abstracts: 15 October 2003***
An interdisciplinary conference hosted by Contexts for Classics, the
Department of English Language & Literature, the Department of Classics,
the Department of Art History, the C.P. Cavafy Professorship in Modern
Greek, and the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Friday, January 30, 2004
Featured Speakers:
Caroline Arscott
Senior Lecturer, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Catharine Edwards
Professor of History, Classics, & Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University
of London
Shawn Malley
Assistant Professor of English, Bishop's University, Quebec
Oswyn Murray
CUF Lecturer in Ancient History, Faculty of Classics, Balliol College,
University of Oxford, and Director, Bibliotheca Academica Translationum
Elizabeth Prettejohn
Professor of Modern Art, University of Plymouth, Exeter
In the past twenty years, several scholars have focused broadly on the ways
in which "the Classical tradition" informed the cultural milieu of
19th-century Britain. These studies explore why and how Classical studies
contributed to the shaping and validating of English political ideologies,
social hierarchies, academic institutions, and aesthetic values. However,
this current work also seems to suggest that the 19th-century Britons'
relationship with antiquity derived from an unexamined sense of cultural
heritage, a common ancestry located in ancient Rome and Greece.
This conference seeks to interrogate this relationship between antiquity
and the 19th century: is it still useful to rationalize 19th-century
Classicism as an effect of mythologized national genealogies? How else
might we account for the reception and transmission of Classics in this
period? In what ways did educators, writers, artists, and musicians engage
with the ancient
past? Are there manifestations of this engagement that intimate a greater
heterogeneity of response to antiquity than the term "Classical tradition"
implies?
This international, interdisciplinary conference brings together
faculty and graduate students from various fields within the humanities
(e.g., literature, Classics, history, art history, anthropology, music,
drama) to explore collectively representations of antiquity from the
beginnings of British Romanticism to the early 20th century. Primary in
focus are the ways in which British artists re-imagined the ancient world
in the fine arts: literature (drama, fiction, poetry, or nonfiction); art
(painting, sculpture); architecture; and music. However, the conference
will also encourage dialogue about the ways in which the period
re-considered knowledge of the ancient past through advances in the
professional fields of archaeology, history, philology, anthropology,
ethnology, paleontology, and mythography. Papers may be about the use of
Classical themes or subject matter, translations of ancient texts,
Classical education, and other creative or scholarly representations of
ancient civilizations (including Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Assyrian
cultures).
Papers should be 15-20 minutes in length. Please send paper proposals
(maximum: two double-spaced pages) by October 15, 2003 to:
Meilee D. Bridges
Department of English Language & Literature
University of Michigan
3187 Angell Hall
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1003
By email: [log in to unmask] (attachments welcome)
NB: As abstracts will be reviewed anonymously, please include your title
but no other identifying information on your proposal. Please do include
your name, institutional and email addresses, phone number, proposal title,
and potential audio-visual needs in a cover sheet that accompanies the
abstract.
A conference website provides this call for papers and will relay any
relevant updates and further information:
<http://www.umich.edu/~cfc/c19antiquity.htm>. Please contact Meilee D.
Bridges at the email above if you have any questions.
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 22:49:16 -0400
From: David Latane <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Victorians Institute October 3-4--Program
I have just posted the program for the upcoming Victorians Institute
Meeting at Western Kentucky University. For the program and information
about the Institute and Victorians Institute Journal, go to
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~dlatane/VI.html
David Latane
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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:30:31 +1000
From: Pam Scott <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Thanks re: oppressed children
Thank you to all who suggested women writers who had used oppressed
children in their work. Pam Scott
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 23:29:20 -0400
From: "Rachel M. Bright" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Relocation of ELCS-L List (Lit, Culture, Society, 1880-1920)
I am happy to announce that the ELCS-L moderated discussion list has
been relocated from U Toronto to Temple University. This list is
dedicated to the sharing of information and ideas about any and all
aspects of British, North American, and European literature, culture and
society in the four decades 1880-1920.
The period 1880-1920 can be thought of as a 'transition' period: a
movement from Victorian values to those of the Modernist aesthetic. This
was a period of vast social, political, and artistic change, a progress
as well as an exploration. At the same time, it was a period of
tremendous social and political stability - people's attitudes were
firmly rooted in traditions which had been in place for most of a
century. It was this stability that in some ways permitted, even
encouraged, the movements in thought which took place. This apparent
dichotomy is one of the reasons for the artistic and philosophical
richness of the period.
Discussion of all aspects of life and artistic endeavor during the
period is encouraged. While the primary orientation of the list is
academic and literary, we welcome contributions from all those who take
an informed interest in the period and its history, politics, popular
culture, fine arts, music or any other area of interest. Topics might
include (but are most certainly not limited to) literature, music, fine
and performing arts, political and social movements, and how all these
disparate elements of life relate to each other and change over this
time period.
The new archives can be found at
<http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/elcs-l.html>
http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/elcs-l.html; you can also subscribe
to the list through this interface. If you have any questions about
ELCS-L, please contact the list owner, Rachel Bright, at
[log in to unmask]
Rachel M. Bright
English Department
Temple University
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