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Subject: VICTORIA Digest - 27 Jun 2004 to 28 Jun 2004 (#2004-20)
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Topics of the day:
1. Conduct Literature (2)
2. D'Israeli on death - search for reference
3. NVSA Call for Papers 2005
4. Tess-O-O-O
5. water/latrines (3)
6. Richard Redgrave's "The Sempstress" - new owner? (2)
7. conduct literature
8. Updates to Literary Annual Site
9. Descriptions of rape
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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 08:25:02 +0100
From: Valerie Gorman <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Conduct Literature
To expand this topic slightly in the direction suggested by Ellen Jordan -
women in the workplace:
One of Kenneth Grahame's oddest pieces, which he began writing early in
his career and worked on for about four years, is a long story published
in "The Yellow Book" Oct 1894 and reprinted by John Lane as No. 5, Bodley
Booklets; "The Headswoman" .
In this tale, set in sixteenth-century France and centered around the
notion that a woman is appointed to be the public executioner, Grahame
argues (rather too jovially) that there is no job from which a woman
should be debarred.
It is worth noting that the Bank of England, where Grahame held the post
of Secretary to the Governor, had at this time taken the revolutionary
step of employing women for clerical work, to the distress of its more
conservative officers.
Valerie Gorman
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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:42:27 +0100
From: David McAllister <[log in to unmask]> Subject: D'Israeli on
death - search for reference
Dear all,
In his Necropolis Glasguensis (1831), John Strang quotes D'Israeli on
death, referring to (I presume) people in the Middle Ages who “first
beheld the grave yawn, and Death, in the Gothic form of a gaunt Anatomy,
parading through the universe!":
"The people were affrighted as they viewed every where hung before their
eyes, in the twilight of their Cathedrals, and their pale cloisters, the
most revolting emblems of death. Their barbarous taste perceived no
absurdity in giving action to a heap of dry bones, which could only keep
together in a state of immoveability and repose, nor that it was
burlesquing the awful idea of the resurrection, by exhibiting the
incorruptible spirit under the unnatural and ludicrous figure of
mortality, drawn out of the corruption of the grave.”
Strang does not indicate whether the quote should be attributed to Issac
or Benjamin. Given the early date of publication, and the fact that I have
been unable to find anything resembling this through Google or Literature
Online, I am beginning to suspect that it comes from Isaac, of whom I know
little, and who seems to be missing from the electronic databases. Does
anyone know the quote or have any idea where I should start looking?
Many thanks in anticipation,
David McAllister
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:21:29 -0400
From: James Eli Adams <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: NVSA Call for Papers 2005
>I hope Patrick won;t mind my pasting in below the CFP for the 31st annual
meeting of NVSA, to be held in Washington, DC April 15-17, 2005.
All best,
James Eli Adams
President, Northeast Victorian Studies Association
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of English
Cornell University
Goldwin Smith 250
Ithaca, NY 14853-3201
607-255-4895/5-6800 fax: 607-255-6661
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Northeast Victorian Studies
Association
2005 Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
VICTORIAN COLLABORATION
31 ST Annual Meeting: April 15-17, 2005 at American University,
Washington, D.C.
NVSA welcomes proposals for papers on the topic of Victorian
Collaboration. The topic can be broadly construed to include
partnerships, organizations, corporations, companies, collectives,
coalitions,
conspiracies, alliances, movements, unions, collusion, productive
friendships, brotherhoods and sisterhoods, and political collaboration (as
well as differences among these concepts). We especially encourage papers
in which analysis of particular collaborations, or representations of
collaboration, might pose larger questions about collaborative agency in
cultural production generally. How might reflection on collaboration,
that is, change our understandings of authorship, art, scientific
discovery, technological innovation, economic and social development,
political action, and other forms of creation and change?
Topics might include (but are not limited to):
Literary and artistic collaboration:
Collective authorship (e.g. Michael Field); collaborative
authorship (Dickens and Collins, Marx and Engels); collaborative
narratives (Jekyll and Hyde, Woman in White); authors and illustrators;
editorial collaboration (formal or informal) in journalism or book
publishing; artists, models, and patrons; theatrical and operatic
companies; music and dance; artistic collectives and societies
(Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Society of Authors, etc.); debate over
copyright and patents
Scholarly and scientific collaboration:
The DNB, the OED, scholarly (or pseudo-scholarly) organizations
and societies (BAAS, the Anthropological Society, the Browning Society,
etc.), scholarly disciplines and academic organizations (including new
universities and faculties), intellectual journals (Mind, Nature, Notes &
Queries, etc.); scientific expeditions; surveying and cartography;
standardizing measurement; the laboratory (in academia, industry, and
fiction); museums, libraries, and archives
Business, economic, and technological collaboration:
"the firm," the partnership, the corporation; debate over limited
liability; banking and finance; the factory and industrial production;
international trade; new technologies and their development (railways, the
telegraph, electric lighting.); engineering; international exhibitions
(e.g. the Crystal Palace); housing development; public architecture and
public works (e.g. the Thames Embankment); advertising; professional
societies; economic cooperatives; insurance (Lloyd's, burial societies,
etc.); trades unions
Social and Political Collaboration:
Victoria and Albert; Parliamentary ministries, major legislation
(Reform Bills, Divorce Act, Education Act, etc.), investigations and Blue
Books; political movements (the Anti-Corn Law League, Young England,
Chartism, women's suffrage, Fenianism, etc.); religious orders and
affiliations; voluntary organizations and charitable societies; public
health initiatives; "urban investigation"; the Post Office; the police
force; criminal collaboration; secret societies (including espionage);
collaborating with the enemy; international alliances, in peace and war;
colonial administration (including the East India Company)
Paper Proposals (no more than two double-spaced pages) by Oct. 15, 2004 to:
Professor Vincent Lankewish
English Department
Burrowes Building
Penn State University Email:[log in to unmask]
University Park, PA 16802-6200 Fax (attn: V Lankewish): (814)
863-7285
Please do not send complete papers, and do not include your name on your
proposal: we review proposals anonymously. Please do include your name,
institutional and email addresses, and proposal title in a cover
letter. Papers should take 15 minutes (20 minutes maximum) so as to
provide ample discussion time.
Teaching Roundtable: The program will include a roundtable discussion on
pedagogy. This years topic is Victorian Studies and Collaborative
Teaching. If you would like to make a presentation, please contact
Professor Don Ulin, Division of Humanities, University of Pittsburgh at
Bradford, 300 Campus Drive, Bradford, PA, 16701 (fax: 814-362-5094; email:
[log in to unmask]) describing briefly (no more than one double-spaced page)
the aspects of pedagogy that you would like to share. Keep in mind that
being a presenter means creating an atmosphere for stimulating discussion
rather than giving a paper.
The Coral Lansbury Travel Grant ($100.00) and George Ford Travel Grant
($100.00), given in memory of key founding members of NVSA, are awarded
annually to the graduate student, adjunct instructor, or independent
scholar who must travel the greatest distance to give a paper at our
conference. Apply by indicating in your cover letter that you wish to be
considered (and mention if you have other sources of funding).
To join NVSA, or to renew your membership for the 2004-2005 membership
year, please return the attached tear-off to Prof. Joan Dagle. Dr.
Hartley Spatt (24 Center Street, Woodmere, NY 11598) urges all members to
send him a note subscribing to the Victorian Studies Bulletin ($5.00 a
year).
Finally, our Vice-President for Information Services, Professor Glenn
Everett, has established a NVSA e-mail list (NVSA-L) and NVSA Home Page
(www.stonehill.edu/nvsa). The Web site offers items of interest to NVSA
members. NVSA-L is a place to summarize and share conference activities
and logistics, and to conduct NVSA business. It's used mainly around
conference time, so dont worry that it will clutter up your mailboxes. To
subscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] Leave the subject
line blank; on the message line write SUB-NVSA-L <first and last name>.
James Eli Adams, President, NVSA
Department
of English phone:
607-255-4895/255-6800
Cornell
University fax:
(607) 255-6661
Ithaca, NY 14853-3201
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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:03:27 -0500
From: John Farrell <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Tess-O-O-O
I'm trying to identify the commentator who stresses the final sentence of
chapter XXVIII in TESS where Tess tries to permit herself to accept Angel,
but says, in her distress, "O my heart--O, O, O."
I was sure that John Goode quoted this passage as part of his discussion
of how Tess' voice is reduced to silence. But I haven't found it in
Goode--nor in Hillis Miller (my next best guess).
Does anyone remember the discussion I'm groping for?
Many thanks,
John P. Farrell,
University of Texas
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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 09:03:26 -0700
From: "Smith, Julianne" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: water/latrines
A former student has sent me this request that I thought the list might
have some thoughts on:
A friend (and fellow yoga student) here in Nepal works
for a wonderful organization called Water Aid that
provides clean water, sanitation and hygiene education
around the world. The organization would like to produce a
small anthology. Working titles are "Words on Water"
or "Latrines in Literature". If you know of any suitable extracts from poems,
novels, short stories, etc., please let me know.
Julianne Smith
Humanities Department
Pepperdine University
24255 Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu, CA 90263
310-506-4625
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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:10:10 +0100
From: Paul Lewis <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: water/latrines
If you can find a copy you might get some inspiration from John Pudney
_The Smallest Room_ London 1954.
Here you will find this quote from a letter Wilkie Collins wrote to his
mother on 12 September 1867 shortly after moving to his new address.
My dear mother
I am safe back again among the British Workmen. The statement now is that
they will be done in a week. Ha! ha! Never mind. A certain
necessary place has got the most lovely new pan you ever saw. It's quite a
luxury to look into it...
best wishes
Paul
Paul Lewis
Mobile 07836 217 311
Web www.paullewis.co.uk
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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:31:57 -0700
From: Sara Atwood <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Conduct Literature
Re: Katherine O'Neill Sims's second posting---Bravo! As she so
articulately points out, issues like this are not black and white, nor is
it wise to judge the 19th century by 21st century cultural standards.
Best,
Sara Atwood
Graduate School/CUNY
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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:38:12 EDT
From: Anthony Rafalowski <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: water/latrines
My long familiarity with the art and cultivation of latrines results from
many seasons at scout camp. As a literary source, you might consult Lord
Baden Powell's Scouting for Boys, the original handbook of the Boy Scouts,
which dates to the early years of the twentieth century and which has
recently been reissued by Oxford University Press.
Tony Rafalowski
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Missouri-Columbia
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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:41:40 -0500
From: Martin A Danahay <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Richard Redgrave's "The Sempstress" - new owner?
Richard Redgrave's 1844 "The Sempstress" was one of the paintings
auctioned off from the Forbes Collection about a year or so ago - does
anybody know who bought it, or how I might found out who bought it?
Martin Danahay
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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 11:47:40 -0400
From: Alison Booth <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: conduct literature
Ellen Jordan's excellent list of the guides to work for women suggests how
much more complicated the view of (middle class) women's roles was back in
those dim days we tend to characterize as all corsets and separation of
spheres. I would add to her list Edwin A Pratt's Pioneer Women in Queen
Victoria's Reign (1867), which suggests a range of careers supported by
biographical examples.
I've written on the interconnection of Victorian self-help and self-help
today--though most of what I have to say about it is only forthcoming this
fall in my book, How to Make It as a Woman. I think we have been rather
hampered by the genre of advice/conduct literature, which probably had as
close a connection with everyday life in the 1850s as it does today. I
suggest looking at the hundreds of collections of biographies of women
published during the period for another take on Victorian gender
ideology--again, not a direct representation of the realities of most
women's lives at the time, but a narrative interpretation of what might
heuristically be expected or proposed or boasted for the sex. Some of the
collections are of contemporary career women, so probably offered direct
examples of how to succeed in certain lines of women's business.
Alison Booth
Professor, Department of English
219 Bryan Hall
University of Virginia
P.O.Box 400121
Charlottesville, VA 400121
(434) 924-7105 or -6665
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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:48:08 -0500
From: Kathleen O'Neill Sims <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Richard Redgrave's "The Sempstress" - new owner?
You might try contacting art historian and dealer Christopher Wood, whose
gallery seems to have been in charge of auctioning off the Forbes
collection. He has a website on which his e-mail address and phone number
are listed, although he doesn't disclose his address.
If the information isn't confidential, I'm sure he could tell you who
bought it. He lists its going price on the site.
Tel/Fax: +44 (0)20 7839 3963
Email: [log in to unmask]
Best,
Kathleen O'Neill Sims
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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:48:14 -0400
From: Katherine Harris <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Updates to Literary Annual Site
Notice of Updates:
Forget Me Not: A Hypertextual Archive of Ackermann's Literary Annual
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/womenstudies/FMN%20Hypertext
Katherine Harris, Archivist, Designer & Webmaster
Ph.D. Candidate in English
The Graduate Center CUNY
For access without frames:
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/womenstudies/FMN%20Hypertext/Site%20Index.htm
After the final February 4 updates went "live," I reminded scholars on = the
NASSR, SHARP and VICTORIA listserves of the archive's existence.
Subsequently, several scholars have browsed the site and suggested minor
revisions to the content. Many of those revisions have been incorporated
with the February 9 updates. I thank those scholars who made =
suggestions,
those who requested to use the archive in their courses and those who = sent
congratulations.=20
1. Under FMN Contents: Index of Engravers, Index of Engraving Titles = and
Index of Original Artists. =20
Each index includes the name of the original artist, the engraver, =
the
title of the engraving and the FMN location of the engraving. Each =
engraving
title has been linked to its image in addition to a link to the main =
page of
the engraving's FMN volume.=20
2. Updated Editors and Publishers chart.
Editors names have been linked to their contributions in the =
annuals
(under the chronological boundaries of this hypertext).
3. Under Genre's Content: Index of Prominent ("Canonical") Contributors = to
Annuals (other than the FMN).=20
Authors from both the Romantic and Victorian periods are included in
this index to punctuate the longevity of the genre and the draw of
established "literati" used to fill the pages. Included in this index =
are
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Baillie, Barbauld, Shelley, Disraeli, Southey, = Byron
(posthumously), Dickens, E. Browning and R. Browning. =20
4. FMN Content:=20
a) Transcript of John Galt's prose piece, "The Omen" (from the =
1830
FMN, pages 99-105) at the request of Tim Sauer, a John Galt =
bibliographer.
b) Transcript of 6 poems from the 1824, 1825 and 1829 volumes.
(Inclusion of these poems is based on their use in my dissertation.)=20
c) Transcript of 2 poems entitled "Constancy" (by James Bird and
Charles Swain) also from the 1829 FMN, pages 157-164. (Editor, Frederic
Shoberl solicited both James Bird and Charles Swain (two prolific
contributors to annuals) for a poetic illustration to accompany the
engraving, "Constancy" and wound up including both -- an unusual =
practice.)
d) Transcript of a Byron poem from the 1830 FMN entitled "To My =
Dear
Mary Anne" -- apparently an early poem of questionable quality.
[Browse the Index of Prose Titles, the Index of Poem Titles, the = transcript
of the Tables of Contents for 1824, 1825, 1829, 1830 or the FMN =
Contributors
index to find these verses and prose.]
5. Genre & FMN Content: My dissertation research has uncovered many = other
important contributors to the annuals; those contributors have been = added
either to Prominent Contributors (Charles Lamb, Bulwer-Lytton, Alaric A.
Watts [ed. of Literary Souvenir]) or to the FMN Contributors (Countess =
of
Blessington, because she contributed to later FMN volumes). =20
6. FMN Content: I have incorporated some "useful information" from the =
1824
FMN: the chart listing the post masters and postal rates for various = areas
(388-89). This is the last time this type of information appeared in = the
FMN. With Alaric Watts' introduction of the Literary Souvenir in 1825, = this
"useful information" and the blank memo pages disappeared and the annual
evolved into a literary miscellany; later, the genre broke into =
sub-genres
of landscape, comedy, juvenile, religious, musical and engraving-only
annuals.
If there is a particular piece which you would like to see in the = archive,
please let me know and I will endeavor to include it (if the piece is = not
extensive, i.e., less than 8 pages). Questions, comments and requests = are
always welcome.
Best,
Kathy Harris
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:59:43 +1000
From: Miranda Morris <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Descriptions of rape
I am looking at an accusation of rape laid in 1877/78, and am working on
an assumption that the rape may not have taken place,at least not at the
time or location described. (There are other good reasons for the
accusation to have been made) What I would really appreciate from list
members is descriptions of rapes or explicit seductions, particularly in a
domestic environment in fictional accounts. The statement given by the
woman I am working on suggests sensation fiction to me, and there are
other instances in her life where her choice of dramatic moment is finely
tuned.
Many thanks
Miranda Morris
PhD Candidate
school of Philosophy (Gender Studies)
University of Tasmania
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