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Subject: VICTORIA Digest - 11 Mar 2002 to 12 Mar 2002 (#2002-72)
There are 14 messages totalling 343 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. e-text of Hide and Seek
2. The Victorians: An Age in Retrospect
3. Punch and illustrations (3)
4. Stevenson conference
5. Quick biographical information (4)
6. Biographical information & William Stephens Hayward
7. Mental disability in Victorian England: Earlswood Asylum
8. Tennyson in New Criterion
9. Mohawks
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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 06:24:59 -0000
From: Paul Lewis <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: e-text of Hide and Seek
James Rusk has added the e-text of Wilkie Collins's Hide and Seek (1854) to
his collection. Hide and Seek was Wilkie's third published novel and is of
interest for three main reasons. It is the first of his books to contain a
main character who is disabled - the deaf and dumb Madonna. The description
of Valentine Blyth's art studio is supposed to be based on the studio of his
father, William Collins RA, 1 Devonport Street where he lived from 1843 to
his death in 1847. And there are numerous apparently autobiographical
details - Zachary Thorpe is essentially Wilkie.
James Rusk has now almost finished e-texting Wilkie's novels. The Fallen
Leaves will be next.
You can find Hide and Seek at
http://www.blackmask.com/jrusk/wcollins/hide/hidettl.htm
and a full list of Wilkie's e-texts at www.wilkiecollins.com menu option 5.
Paul
Paul Lewis
web www.paullewis.co.uk
tel 07836 217311
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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 06:03:19 -0500
From: John Gardiner <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: The Victorians: An Age in Retrospect
I wonder if I might draw the attention of subscribers to my forthcoming
book, The Victorians: An Age in Retrospect, to be published by Hambledon
and London on 23 May.
The book is based on my 1999 Kent PhD thesis on elite perceptions of the
Victorian past in inter-war Britain. What I argued there, and have
developed here, is that the extent of anti-Victorianism after the 1st World
War has been greatly exaggerated. Even debunkers like Lytton Strachey were,
after all, effectively Victorians themselves. So we are talking about
ambivalence on the part of disaffected Victorians rather than outright
rejection. Meanwhile the vast majority of people were not even touched by
anti-Victorianism: remember W.L. Burn's comment that people in the inter-
war years did not look at the Victorian age as 'history' at all, but used
their links with the past without self-consciousness.
I have developed the argument that it was really the 2nd World War, the
passing of the last generation of Victorians, youth culture and (above all)
consumerism that did away with Victorianism as a lived reality in 20th
century Britain - but in consumerism, of course, the Victorians have been
reborn within the 'heritage industry'. The book also has an overview of the
changing reputation of four eminent Victorians: Queen Victoria, Dickens,
Gladstone and Wilde. Some readers might be familiar with my first thoughts
on Dickens and Gladstone from articles in History Workshop Journal and
Historical Research (both 2001).
The book is designed for intelligent lay readers and synthesises a lot of
existing research, but I hope it will be considered useful for offering the
first general overview of changing attitudes to the Victorians since 1901.
The book covers some of the same ground as Matthew Sweet's Inventing the
Victorians, but hopefully without that (very enjoyable) book's tendency
towards Whiggishness. So I am particularly keen that convenors of Victorian
Studies modules might catch a glimpse of it with a view to using it as a
reader in their courses. If nothing else, it could be studied as a 'take'
on the Victorians in itself!
Please don't hesitate to contact me if I can be of any further help.
John Gardiner
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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:09:21 EST
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Punch and illustrations
Dear Listmembers
I am looking at illustrations in the periodical press that deal with issues
of social concern around public health, focusing in particular on Punch. I
am looking at the descriptive nature of many of the shorter works of
fiction that appear in other periodicals and how they attempt to create a
picture in the mind's eye, which, it can be argued, is then transcribed
into visual material through the cartoons in Punch. However, I am having
difficulty locating secondary criticism on this subject and I would be
grateful if any listmembers could point me in the right direction. Clare
Horrocks
Edge Hill College
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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:01:40 +0100
From: neil davie <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Punch and illustrations
Dear Clare,
Although not precisely on your subject of visual =
representations of public health, you might find the following article =
interesting:
Tim Barringer, "Images of Otherness and the Visual Production of =
Difference: Race and Labour in Illustrated Texts 1850-1865", in Shearer =
West, ed., *The Victorians and Race*, Aldershot, Scolar Press, 1996, =
pp.34-52.
Best wishes,
Neil Davie
Universit=E9 Paris 7, Paris, France.=20
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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 18:07:16 +0100
From: Richard Dury <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Stevenson conference
The programme for the RLS 2002 conference at Gargnano (Lake Garda, 26-29
August 2002), 'Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer of Boundaries', can be seen at
http://www.unibg.it/rls/garda_prog.htm; the conference page is at
http://www.unibg.it/rls/garda.htm
Richard Dury
Univ. Bergamo
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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:14:49 -0500
From: Herb Schlossberg <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Quick biographical information
I'm seeking advice on the most comprehensive biographical dictionary on the
Victorian period available in one volume. I have Roger Ellis, Who's Who in
Victorian Britain and Sally Mitchell, Victorian Britain: An Encylopedia.
Often neither has what I'm looking for. For example I'm now seeking some
general biographical information on Hastings Rashdall. Neither of those
volumes lists him in the index. Britannica on line has nothing on him.
Google turns up a myriad of references, but nothing seems to be one that
would help without a lengthy search through many irrelevant ones. What do
you use when you want some quick biographical help on a figure that's too
minor for your purpose to warrant taking a lot of time for a search?
Herb Schlossberg
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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:29:52 -0500
From: Herbert Tucker <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Quick biographical information
Concise Dictionary of Natl Biograpy vol i runs to d. 1900, vol ii to d.1970.
At 12:14 PM 3/12/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm seeking advice on the most comprehensive biographical dictionary on the
>Victorian period available in one volume. I have Roger Ellis, Who's Who in
>Victorian Britain and Sally Mitchell, Victorian Britain: An Encylopedia.
>Often neither has what I'm looking for. For example I'm now seeking some
>general biographical information on Hastings Rashdall. Neither of those
>volumes lists him in the index. Britannica on line has nothing on him.
>Google turns up a myriad of references, but nothing seems to be one that
>would help without a lengthy search through many irrelevant ones. What do
>you use when you want some quick biographical help on a figure that's too
>minor for your purpose to warrant taking a lot of time for a search?
>
>Herb Schlossberg
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Herbert Tucker
Department of English
219 Bryan Hall
University of Virginia 22904-4121
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434 / 924-6677
FAX: 434 / 924-1478
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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:42:16 -0500
From: Angela Bryant <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Biographical information & William Stephens Hayward
Dear Listmembers,
Yet another query in my study of Skittles. Yesterday, in the Kinsey
Institute, I perused several volumes written by a fairly prolific William
Stephens Hayward (at least 4 on Skittles--plus The Lady Detective, etc.).
In spite of their location and subject matter, they are a mild treatment of
our fair heroine (I must say I was hoping for racier!)in the standard
sensational style. My cursory searches for information about the author,
even in works that have cited him (notably Cyril Pearl's Girl with the
Swansdown Seat), have yielded little.
Thanks in advance.
Angela Bryant
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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:07:22 EST
From: Sally Mitchell <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Quick biographical information
And better yet, if your library has it available, the CD-ROM version of
the (old) Dictionary of National Biography covers the full text of all
the persons listed in vols 1 and 2 of the concise, with the advantage
that the text itself is searchable, so often picks up little bits of
information about people not listed in the alphabetical sequence. I've
found this especially useful for women, since an entry for (say) a male
painter will sometimes include "his sister Eunice, later Mrs. so-and-so,"
etc.
SALLY MITCHELL | ENGLISH DEPT, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY | [log in to unmask]
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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:44:46 -0500
From: Herb Schlossberg <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Quick biographical information
To: Michel Faber
Sorry to have misled you. I was just using Rashdall as an example of my
need to have a quick reference on my desk. For subjects worth five minutes
of my time for a purpose that's too trivial to warrant a trip to the library
or a bookstore.
Herb Schlossberg
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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:11:06 -0000
From: Lesley Hall <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Mental disability in Victorian England: Earlswood Asylum
David Wright's _Mental Disability in Victorian England:
The Earlswood Asylum 1847-1901_ (OUP 2001) has just received a long and
favourable review from Mark Jackson in the IHR's Reviews in History. It's
not yet on their website (www.history.ac.uk), and when I tried to post the
email version in extenso to the list, as I thought it might be of interest,
found it was too long and thus rejected. If anyone would like to see it I
would be happy to forward it - private replies please!
Lesley Hall
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website http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 19:14:39 -0500
From: Joanna Devereux <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Punch and illustrations
Hello Clare,
This is a bit of a shameless plug for NCF, but possibly useful. You could
look at the *Punch* cartoon of "Father Thames Introducing His Offspring to
the Fair City of London" (July 3, 1858), which Judith Johnston discusses in
her article "Urbanising the Colonial Space: Louisa Anne Meredith's *Over the
Straits: a Visit to Victoria* (1861)," *Nineteenth-Century Feminisms*,
Number 3 (Fall/Winter 2000): 25-41. The illustration is reprinted in the
article, and Johnston describes the picture in this way:
"The *Punch* cartoon, [See Fig. 1], names Father Thames' offspring as
Diphtheria, Scrofula and Cholera. The bodies of dead animals are clearly
depicted and in the far left-hand corner the dome of St. Paul's locates the
section of the Thames with fair precision" (38).
Hope this is helpful!
Jo Devereux
Department of English
University of Western Ontario
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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 21:25:49 -0500
From: David Latane <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Tennyson in New Criterion
Not, I hasten to add, that I read The New Criterion or wish to start an
off-topic discussion of this article, but following a link in Arts &
Letters Daily I discovered that Alfred's utility extends beyond "Ulysses."
http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/20/feb02/msteyn.htm
David Latane
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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:18:25 +0800
From: Maureen Perkins <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Mohawks
I know this is really an 18th c. question, but I also know that the
expertise of those on this list has a very wide span!
Can anyone point me in the direction of more information about the
Mohawks, that band of ruffians who terrorised Vauxhall Gardens?
Thank you!
--
Dr Maureen Perkins
Centre for Australian Studies
Curtin University of Technology
GPO Box U1987
Perth
Western Australia
6845
Tel: 08-9266-2762
Fax: 08-9266-7726
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