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There are 9 messages totalling 246 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Juliet Barker's The Bronte's
2. Nineteenth-Century Pirates (CFP)
3. Anne Lister (2)
4. Robert Browning's Poetry (NCE)
5. Robert Elsmere (2)
6. Critical Sources on Jack The Ripper
7. Critical sources on Jack the Ripper
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 22:45:13 -0500
From: Nancy Weyant <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Juliet Barker's The Bronte's
I recognize this isn't 100% Victorian but I too would like to
comment/respond to Chris's response re publishing patterns.
I am not in a position to provide a perspective re British publishing
"issues" but in America in the late 1980s, librarians found themslves the
victims of the fallout of a rewriting of a tax law that grew out of abuses
of intential over-production that had provided companies with MAJOR tax
benefits for overproducing and warehousing the overage. The original
culprit was a copper tubing company but the revised tax law had the
unfortunate by-product of forcing publishers to print much smaller runs of
academic titles. The end result has been that important scholarly titles
(those titles that will NEVER be on the New York Times "best-sellers" lists)
are printed in ever-smaller runs. Well-reviewed academic titles (like
Barker's Bronte or Uglow's Gaskell) are routinely "out of print" before all
interested individuals (as distinct from libraries with "approval programs"
from such operations as Blackwell's) can acquire them. The unfortunate
reality is that scholarly discourse and the "free-market economy" are not
compatible. Some publishers have developed a response of printing on
demand. Not ideal, but at least important scholarly books can remain
available, if not on open shelves at our favorite bookstores. As librarians
and scholars, we can (and must) encourage publishers to find innovative ways
to deal with the fallout of the constraints of the tax laws and the "free
market economy".
Nancy S. Weyant
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 15:33:07 -0800
From: Grace Moore <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Nineteenth-Century Pirates (CFP)
Contributions are solicited for an edited collection on Pirates and
Mutineers in
nineteenth-century literature.
Suggested topics might include:
Robert Louis Stevenson.
Henry Newbolt.
Dickensian pirates.
Smugglers, buccaneers and privateers.
Dialogues between real-life piracy and fiction.
Gilbert & Sullivan.
Mythologizing Drake.
The Victorians and Elizabethan seafarers.
However, the above topics are by no means prescriptive. Please send
abstracts(either via e-mail or regular mail) by no later than February 1st
2004. Queries should be addressed to Grace Moore:
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Dr. Grace Moore
Assistant Professor
The Department of English
The University of Idaho
Room 126 Carol Ryrie Brink Hall
P.O. Box 441102
Moscow
Idaho 83844-1102
USA
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:22:52 -0500
From: Mary Wilson Carpenter <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Anne Lister
Re Lesley Hall's comment about readers of Anne Lister's diaries:=20
When I visited Shibden Hall in Halifax--Anne Lister's home, now =
part of a public park--and also studied the diaries at the Calderdale =
Archives where they are now housed, I was told by Helena Whitbread and =
other Lister scholars that, yes, residents of Halifax were for some time =
allowed to borrow the diaries and take them home to read! I don't =
remember at about what period this was permitted.=20
As to whether such readers were able to break the code, it's =
anyone's guess as to just how many tried and perhaps succeeded. However, =
Jill Liddington, in her article "Anne Lister of Shibden Hall, Halifax =
(1791-1840): Her Diaries and the Historians," History Workshop Journal =
35 (1993):45-77, states that Lister's descendent John Lister broke the =
code with the help of a friend. This was in 1885, when all male =
homosexual acts had just been criminalized, and it is probable that John =
Lister was homosexual himself, which Liddington believes accounts for =
his suppression of public knowledge of what the coded sections of the =
diary held.=20
Mary Wilson Carpenter,
Professor Emerita,
Queen's University, Canada
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 11:13:38 -0600
From: John Farrell <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Robert Browning's Poetry (NCE)
> Jim Loucks and I are beginning work on the new Norton Critical Edition of
> Robert Browning's poetry, and we are looking for suggestions
"Love in a Life" is one of Browning's most beautiful poems, but I don't
remember seeing it anthologized. Its companion piece ("Life in a Love")
would, of course, need to accompany it.
John P. Farrell.
University of Texas
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:51:16 -0000
From: Sarah Brown <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Robert Elsmere
I wonder whether it might be useful to read Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple
Story (late c.18) as it deals with marriage and catholicism. (I haven't
read Robert Elsmere for some time but I remember connecting the two novels
together when I did read it.)
Sarah
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 15:47:09 +0000
From: Christopher Pittard <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Critical Sources on Jack The Ripper
Hello again,
Apologies for an errant hyphen in my earlier suggestion, "Apprehending the
Criminal" - the author surname is Leps, not Christine-Leps.
Christopher Pittard
School of English
Postgraduate Faculty
University of Exeter
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Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 18:27:35 +0100
From: "neil.davie" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Critical sources on Jack the Ripper
On the subject of the wider cultural context of the Ripper murders and =
particularly the official reaction to them, may I suggest, in addition =
to Marie-Christine Leps' book, Martin J. Wiener's *Reconstructing the =
Criminal : Culture, Law and Policy in England, 1830-1914* (Cambridge, =
Cambridge University Press, 1990)?
Best wishes,
Neil
Neil Davie, Universit=E9 Paris 7, Paris, France.
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Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 14:31:46 -0500
From: Beth Sutton-Ramspeck <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Robert Elsmere
Hi, Gemma,
I presume you are already familiar with William S. Peterson's important
book on _Robert Elsmere_, John Sutherland's frequently-brilliant,
frequently-exasperating biography, and the more general studies by
Esther Smith and Enid Jones. Of course in many ways the best sources of
information about the novel remain Ward's own comments, in her
autobiography, in her article "The New Reformation," and in her
introduction to the Westmoreland Edition of the novel.
More recently, there are a myriad of interesting dissertations and
briefer studies, for which you can consult the standard bibliographical
sources.
For materials through 1990, by all means look at Michaelyn Burnette's
useful bibliography at
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Collections/English/ward3.html
In addition, Jeff Smith of LSU is in the late stages of revising and
updating the bibliography of Ward criticism he did for his 1987
bibliography. His bibliography, which will be published by AMS (I think
I have the press correct), will go through 2002 and contain a large
number of previously undiscovered items.
For sources and parallels, I'm not so sure about Inchbald (it's an
interesting parallel, but I don't know whether it would have been
something Ward knew). I'd look first to Ward's own parents' conflicts,
to Charlotte Bronte's _Villette_ (see Ward's intro. to the Haworth
edition), and of course the Oxford controversies that Ward explicitly
names in her comments about the book's origins. But this is not the
book on which I've concentrated my own attention; others out there know
_Elsmere_ far better than I and can advise you better.
Good luck with your work. Ward's writings definitely repay study.
Beth Sutton-Ramspeck
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Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 23:13:56 -0000
From: Lesley Hall <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Anne Lister
> residents of Halifax were for some time >allowed to borrow the diaries and
take >them home to read!
A practice unfortunately not unknown in other repositories of manuscripts
and archives, alas.
Lesley Hall
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