THE OSCHOLARS

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THE RACK AND THE PRESS

No 44: May 2008

This is a survey – necessarily incomplete, but growing, of the journals for our period, with special attention drawn to articles that fall within our general themes. Until November 2007, the survey was published in our section ‘Publications’. Our continued reconstruction of our website has suggested this new free-standing page. Theatre journals are covered in . French journals are covered more fully in our sister publication rue des beaux arts, the bimestrial bulletin of the French branch of The Oscar Wilde Society, which can be reached via our hub page. This does not preclude notice here.

For the Table of Contents, click |To hub page |To THE OSCHOLARS home page

 « More than half of modern culture depends upon what one should not read »

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ART HISTORY

With the creation of our Journal VISIONS, the information on Art History from this page will be better placed within its folds. This will occur for issue no 2, which we plan for July 2008. No new art history journals appear here this month.

The Art Book		Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide
Art History		The Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society
Arts & Crafts Newsletter		Word and Image
British Art Journal
HEROES
Cahiers Octave Mirbeau		North Wind
The Gissing Journal & Newsletter		The Wildean
LITERATURE
The Cambridge Quarterly		Literary Imagination
English Literature in Transition		Literary London
Ibookcollector		Victorian Literature and Culture
In-between		Victorian Poetry
Intellectual News
GENERAL STUDIES
Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies		Revue d’Histoire Moderne & Contemporaine
Consciousness, Literature and the Arts		Victorians Institute Journal
Dix-Neuf		Victorian Newsletter
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century		Victorian Review
NAVSA Newsletter		Victorian Studies
Nineteenth Century Gender Studies		Victorian Studies Bulletin
Nineteenth Century Studies
FILM
Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance

NEWS

Given the very high number of film versions of Wilde’s work (as noted in our rubric ‘Oscar Wilde and the Kinematograph’ in our Editorial page) we very much welcome (and are already in correspondence with) a new journal, Adaptation in Film and Performance. We republish below information received.

Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance

- an Intellect journal -

ISSN: 17536421

INAUGURAL issue is OUT

Editors: Richard Hand (@) and Katja Krebs (@)

Assistant editor: Márta Minier (@) Reviews editor: Duška Radosavljević (@)

Aims and scope: Adaptation, or the conversion of oral, historical or fictional narratives into stage drama has been common practice for centuries. In our own time the processes of cross-generic transformation continue to be extremely important in theatre as well as in the film and other media industries. Adaptation and the related areas of translation and intertextuality continue to have a central place in our culture with a profound resonance across our civilisation. As an academic discipline, Adaptation Studies has begun to establish itself in the last few decades as an important area of scholarship and research which continues to make significant contributions to our analysis and understanding of a complex and increasingly diverse world culture.

Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance is a new, peer-reviewed journal designed to engage with specific issues relating to performance on stage, film, television, radio and other media. Embracing comfortably these disciplines under the umbrella of adaptation theories and practices, it attempts to challenge widespread views of national cultural histories and global constructions of performance culture by analysing methods, histories and occurrences of adaptation across a range of media.

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Volume I number 1 (December 2007)

· Editorial (Richard Hand and Katja Krebs)

· ‘Art of the Past: Adapting Henry James’s The Golden Bowl’ (Sarah Artt)

· ‘Adaptation as Education: A Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District’ (Freda Chapple)

· ‘In Praise of Treason: Translating Calabar’ (Pedro de Senna)

· ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin as Dominant Culture’ (Jim O’Loughlin)

Practitioners’ Perspectives:

‘Translating the City: A Community Theatre Version of Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire in Newcastle-upon-Tyne’ (Duška Radosavljević)

Reviews

• Robert Stam and Alessandra Raengo (eds), Literature and Film: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation (2005), 2nd edition, 2007, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing (reviewed by Christophe Collard)

• Phyllis Zatlin, Theatrical Translation and Film Adaptation – A Practitioner’s View, 2005, Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters (reviewed by Georgina Lock)

• Julie Sanders, Adaptation and Appropriation, 2006, Routledge, UK New Critical Idiom, Series Editor: John Drakakis (reviewed by Kara McKechnie)

• Vernon God Little, Adapted by Tanya Ronder from a book by DBC Pierre, NHB/Young Vic, 2007 (reviewed by Helen Piper)

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The inaugural issue is available for inspection online by registering as a reader on the Intellect website:

http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals.php?issn=17536421.

If you would like to receive a sample copy, recommend the journal to your library or order the journal please contact Luke Roberts (Journals Marketing Co-ordinator at Intellect): Tel.: + 44 (0) 117 9589916; E-mail: @

Subscription prices: £33 personal and £210 institutional

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Call For Papers

JAFP welcomes papers, notes and comments. Please send your completed papers (4,000 - 6,000 words) accompanied by a short CV to the editors, Prof. Richard Hand: @; Dr. Katja Krebs: @

If you would like to discuss any specific proposals before submitting a completed paper, please contact the editors. Short 'Notes and Comments' contributions (up to 1000 words) that facilitate debate and exchange will also be considered.

The Art Book

Volume 15 Issue 2 (May 2008), published on behalf of the Association of Art Historians and edited by Sue Ward & Marion Arnold, is now available. Article and reviews include Pictures of Millais, by Colin Cruise.

Art History

Published on behalf of the Association of Art Historians and edited by David Peters Corbett and Christine Riding, Art History (ISSN 0141-6790) is a refereed journal that publishes essays and reviews on all aspects, areas and periods of the history of art, from a diversity of perspectives, 5 issues per year. Founded in 1978, it has established an international reputation for publishing innovative essays at the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship. At the forefront of scholarly enquiry, contributors to Art History are opening up the discipline to new developments and to the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches that are increasingly important in this globalised world. 'Art History' publishes a thematic ‘special issue’ each year.

Art History offers a diverse reviews section for those involved in the history of art and related fields. You can get online information about the journal directly from Blackwell’s website. This includes a listing of contents, the aims and scope of the journal, notes for contributors, subscription information for non-members.

The latest issue is that of April 2008 (Vol. 31 /2). This contains no article that falls within our interests.

Arts & Crafts Newsletter

The latest issue of Mark Golding’s Arts and Crafts Newsletter, no 75, May 2008, has now been published and can be found on-line by clicking its banner. Notice of each monthly issue of this very useful and informative journal is available by e-mail from mark@achome.co.uk.

Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies

The Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies (AJVS) has been renamed and relocated. From November 2007, it has been published online through the Open Journal System hosted by the National Library of Australia. It will continue to reflect the strongly interdisciplinary nature of the Association, with articles ranging on topics as diverse as archaeology, architecture, art, economics, history, landscape gardening, literature, medicine, philosophy, print culture, psychology, science, sociology, spiritualism, town planning and theatre likely to appear in its pages. In its new format, it will be published twice annually in May and November. The journal is refereed.

The editor of AJVS is Dr Jock Macleod, School of Arts, Media and Culture, Griffith University, Queensland. @

For further details about the journal, click the banner.

British Art Journal

The British Art Journal (‘The research journal of British Arts Studies’, founded in 1999), maintains a website at www.britishartjournal.co.uk, but no Table of Contents is as yet published and the website seems unchanged since 2003. One cannot tell from the website what was its most recent issue, and the Archive page has been suspended ‘for lack of funds’. Submissions are still being invited and we will continue to monitor the site in case articles on fin-de-siècle artists should appear.

Cahiers Octave Mirbeau

No 15 was published in March 2008, 384 well-illustrated pages, and is available from the Société Octave Mirbeau (23 euros).

PREMIÈRE PARTIE : ÉTUDES

• Anna GURAL-MIGDAL : « Entre naturalisme et frénétisme : la représentation du féminin dans Le Calvaire »

• Yannick LEMARIÉ : « L’Abbé Jules :  le Verbe et la colère »

•. Fernando CIPRIANI : « Sébastien Roch, du roman d’enfance au roman de formation »

• Samuel LAIR : « La 628-E8, “le nouveau jouet de Mirbeau” ».

• François MASSE : « L’automobile “vous met en communication directe” avec le monde : la relation au proche et au lointain dans le voyage automobile d’Octave Mirbeau ».

• Antigone SAMIOU : « L’“Autre” dans La 628-E8 d’Octave Mirbeau ».

• Charles MULLER : « Le Vocabulaire automobile d’Octave Mirbeau »

• Cécile BARRAUD : « Octave Mirbeau, “un batteur d’âmes”, à l’horizon de la Revue blanche »

• Arnaud VAREILLE : « D'un usage particulier de la caricature chez Mirbeau : le contre-type »

• Chantal BEAUVALOT : « Un critique d’art et un peintre, Octave Mirbeau et Albert Besnard  : une relation ambivalente »

• Nathalie COUTELET : « Le Théâtre populaire de la “Coopération des idées” ».

• Claude HERZFELD : « Kierkegaard et Mirbeau face à l’angoisse »

DEUXIÈME PARTIE : DOCUMENTS

• Colette BECKER : « La Fabrique des Rougon-Macquart »

• Pierre MICHEL : « Octave Mirbeau et Bertha von Suttner »

- Bertha von Suttner : « Menton et Venise »

- Octave Mirbeau : Lettres inédites à Bertha von Suttner 

• Pierre MICHEL : « Janer Cristaldo et Le Jardin des supplices »

• Maxime BENOÎT-JEANNIN : « Passion, crise et rupture chez Henry de Groux, à travers son journal (Léon Bloy, Henry de Groux et Octave Mirbeau au temps de l’Affaire Dreyfus) »

• Pierre MICHEL et Jean-Claude DELAUNEY : « Les épreuves corrigées de La 628-E8 »

• Pierre MICHEL : « Aristide Briand, Paul Léautaud et Le Foyer »

• Éric-Noël DYVORNE : « Tempête autour du Foyer à Nantes »

• Dominique GARBAN : « Jacques Rouché et Octave Mirbeau »

• Bernard GARREAU : « Présence d’Octave Mirbeau dans la correspondance alducienne »

• Clémence ARNOULT : « Deux écrivains libertaires : Han Ryner juge Octave Mirbeau - Autour de deux fragments et d'un article »

TROISIÈME PARTIE : TÉMOIGNAGES

• Janer CRISTALDO : « Notre jardin à Tolède »

• Stéphane DUSSEL : « Réminiscence »

• Marie BRILLANT : « La Mise en scène de Familière Familie »

• Alain BOURGES et Emmanuel POLLAUD-DULIAN : « Les Acharnistes et Octave Mirbeau »

• Fabienne MASSIANI : « Les circonstances d’une rencontre »

QUATRIÈME PARTIE BIBLIOGRAPHIE

1. Œuvres d’Octave Mirbeau, par Pierre Michel. :

• Les affaires sont les affaires

• Les Mémoires de mon ami

• La Grève des électeurs

• Le Journal d’une femme de chambre

• La Bague et autres contes

2. Études sur Octave Mirbeau :

• Delphine Neuenschwander, Le Dépassement du naturalisme dans les “Combats esthétiques” d'Octave Mirbeau, par Pierre Michel.

• Marie Brillant, Le Théâtre de l’éducation chez Octave Mirbeau : Représentation, décalage et mise à nu, par Pierre Michel.

• Kinda Mubaideen (éd.), Un aller simple pour l’Octavie, par Pierre Michel.

• Robert Ziegler, The Nothing Machine : The Fiction of Octave Mirbeau, par Pierre Michel.

• Pierre Michel, Octave Mirbeau, par Alain Gendrault

• Laure Himy et Gérard Poulouin (éd.), Octave Mirbeau – Passions et anathèmes, par Pierre Michel

3. Notes de lecture :

• Alphonse de Lamartine, Les Écrits sur les Serbes, par Pierre Michel

• Vallès et la littérature populaire, Autour de Vallès, n° 37, par Arnaud Vareille

• Patrick Besnier, Sophie Lucet et Nathalie Prince (éd.), Catulle Mendès : l’énigme d’une disparition, par Arnaud Vareille

• Éléonore Reverzy, La Chair de l’idée – Poétique de l’allégorie dans “Les Rougon-Macquart” par Pierre Michel

• Anna Gural-Migdal et Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt (éd.), Zola et le texte naturaliste en Europe et aux Amériques, Généricité, intertextualité et influences, par Yannick Lemarié

• Les Cahiers naturalistes, n° 81, par Yannick Lemarié

• Excavatio, volumes XXI et XXII, par Yannick Lemarié

• Michel Drouin, André Hélard, Philippe Oriol et Gérard Provost (éd.), L’Affaire Dreyfus – Nouveaux regards, nouveaux problème, par Pierre Michel

• Michel Winock, Clemenceau, par Alain Gendrault

• Patrice Locmant, J.-K. Huysmans, Le forçat de la vie, par Samuel Lair

• Thierry Rodange (éd.), Jean Lorrain (1855-1906), Autour et alentours, par Samuel Lair

• Jean Lorrain, Lettres à Georges Coquiot, par Pierre Michel

• Léo Trézénik, Histoires percheronnes, par Pierre Michel

• Philippe Baron (éd.), Le Théâtre Libre d’Antoine et les théâtres de recherche étrangers, par Colette Becker.

• Pierre Loti et l’exotisme fin de siècle, par Pierre Michel

• Fernando Cipriani, Dal discorso letterario al discorso sociale, par Pierre Michel

• Christian Berg, Alexandre Gefen, Monique Jutrin et Agnès Lhermitte (éd.), Retours à Marcel Schwob – D’un siècle à l’autre (1905-2008), par Bruno Fabre

• Paul-Henri Bourrelier, “La Revue blanche” – Une génération dans l’engagement 1890-1905, par Samuel Lair.

• Géza Csáth, Le Jardin du mage, par Pierre Michel

• Céline Beaudet, Les Milieux libres. Vivre en anarchiste à la « Belle-Époque » en France, par Céline Beaudet.

• Jean Royère, En Avignon, par Vincent Gogibu.

• Claude Herzfeld, La Littérature, dernier refuge du mythe ? Mirbeau, Philippe, Alain‑Fournier..., par Bernard Garreau.

• Norbert Col (éd.), Écriture des soi, par Samuel Lair.

• Marie Blaise (éd.), La Conversion, par Samuel Lair.

• Gus Bofa, La Croisière incertaine et Le Livre de la guerre de cent ans, par Pierre Michel

• Emmanuel Pollaud-Dulian, Gus Bofa, par Pierre Michel

• Arlette Bouloumié (éd.), Errance et marginalité dans la littérature, par Pierre Michel

• Wieslaw Malinowski (éd.), Studia romanica posnaniensia, n° XXXIV, par Arnaud Vareille

4. Bibliographie mirbellienne, par Pierre Michel

Nouvelles diverses.

Le colloque Mirbeau de Strasbourg – Mirbeau au théâtre – Mirbeau traduit – Mirbeau sur Internet – Correspondance générale – De Mirbellus à Célestine – Le Grognard – Amer – Vivre l’autre – Théophile Gautier – Alphonse Daudet – Jules Renard – Carrière et Besnard – Claudel et Léautaud – Hyvernaud.

The Cambridge Quarterly

The Cambridge Quarterly was established on, and remains committed to, the principle that literature is an art, and that the purpose of art is to give pleasure and enlightenment. The journal devotes itself principally to literary criticism and its fundamental aim to take a critical look at accepted views. The Cambridge Quarterly also regularly publishes articles on music, cinema, painting, and sculpture, and endows a prize for, and publishes, the best Cambridge University Finals dissertation each year. Four issues are published each year, the current one being Volume 37 Issue 2, June 2008.

To mark the centenary in 2007 of the publication of Henry James's The American Scene, the previous issue of The Cambridge Quarterly devoted to 'Modern James', guest-edited by Tamara Follini and Philip Horne.

We do not overlook the fact that it is published by the Oxford University Press...

Consciousness, Literature and the Arts

Please note that this refereed, Internet-based journal is now hosted by the University of Lincoln.

The new URL is http://blackboard.lincoln.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/users/dmeyerdinkgrafe/index.htm. The current issue is Volume 9 Number 1, April 2008.

Submissions, enquiries and finished material, no longer than 10,000 words excluding bibliography, welcome any time, via email attachment to or via ordinary mail (hardcopy and disk, IBM format, preferably in Word) to be sent to Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe (Professor of Drama, Lincoln School of Performing Arts, LPAC Building, University of Lincoln, Lincoln LN6 7TS, England).

Dix-Neuf

‘Dix-Neuf’ is the journal of the Society of Dix-Neuvémistes, a British association of historians of nineteenth century France, or, in its own words ‘a forum for cutting-edge research in nineteenth-century French and francophone studies in all relevant disciplines. It is interdisciplinary in focus and seeks to promote wide-ranging critical and theoretical debate’. It is published in April and October and its Table of Contents is available on its website – at time of viewing (20th May 2008), that for No. 8, April 2007 [sic].

English Literature in Transition

Long ago in one of our bibliographical excursions we listed the articles on Wilde that had appeared in ELT up to that time. This has been updated in our Bibliographies section. We are now monitoring ELT regularly. We are pleased to report that Wilde is one of the four writers featured on its newly redesigned home page. More information on ELT can be found at www.uncg.edu/eng/elt/. (ELT’s indices are searchable online). It should not be confused with English Language in Transition, which is principally a pedagogic journal devoted to the teaching of English as a foreign language. The latest issues are Vol 51 No 1. & 2. The table of contents for issue 1 includes:

Articles

Robert Langenfeld: The Editor’s Fence

Jock Macleod: Between Politics And Culture: Liberal Journalism And Literary Cultural Discourse At The Fin De Siècle

Regenia Gagnier: Literary Alternatives To Rational Choice: Historical Psychology And Semi-Detached Marriages

Jessica Maynard: Arthur Morrison, The Floating World And The Pictorial Method in A Child Of The Jago: Painters Of The East

Anna Vaninskaya: The Late-Victorian Romance Revival: A Generic Excursus

Book Reviews (reviewer’s name precedes the title, author or editor follows)

Stanley Weintraub: The Letters Of A. E. Housman, Archie Burnett, Ed.

Eitan Bar-Yosef: E. Nesbit’s Psammead Trilogy: A Children’s Classic At 100, Raymond E. Jones, Ed.

Shafquat Towheed: Robert Louis Stevenson, Science And The Fin De Siècle, Julia Reid

Molly Youngkin: Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, And Social Class, John Kucich

Guy Davidson: British Modernism And Censorship, Celia Marshik

Marysa Demoor: Modernism And Democracy: Literary Culture 1900–1930, Rachel Potter

Todd Avery: Modernism On Fleet Street, Patrick Collier

Brian W. Shaffer: The Cambridge Introduction To Joseph Conrad, John G. Peters; The Cambridge Introduction To James Joyce, Eric Bulson

Michel W. Pharand: Victorian Literature And Culture, Maureen Moran

Nadine Cooper: Précis Reviews

Contents 51 : 2 2008

Articles

Jo-Ann Wallace: The Very First Lady Chatterley? Mrs. Havelock Ellis’s Seaweed.

Kamran Ahmadgoli & Ian Small: The Creative Editor: Robert Ross, Oscar Wilde and the Collected Works.

Joan Navarre: Paul Verlaine and A Platonic Lament: Beardsley’s Portrayal of a Parallel Love Story in Wilde’s Salome.

Nick Freeman: Edward Thomas, Swinburne, and Richard Jefferies: ‘The dead oak tree bough’.

Edward H. Cohen: The Publication and Reception of W. E. Henley’s A Book of Verses: ‘The Diversity of Contemporary Tongues’

Book Reviews

Edward P. Commentale and Andrzej Gasiorek, eds.: T. E. Hulme and the Question of Modernism. Review by Anthony Cuda.

Victoria Glendinning: Leonard Woolf: A Biography. Review by Judith Scherer Herz.

Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Volume IV: Oxford Essays and Notes (Lesley Higgins, ed.). Review by Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi.

Kirsten MacLeod: Fictions of British Decadence: High Art, Popular Writing, and the Fin de Siècle. Review by Stefano Evangelista.

Tim Kendall: Modern English War Poetry. Review by Stephen E. Tabachnick.

Barbara Rawlinson: A Man of Many Parts: Gissing’s Short Stories, Essays and Other Works. Review by Arlene Young.

Paul Fox, ed.: Decadences: Morality and Aesthetics in British Literature. Review by Jad Adams.

Margaret D. Stetz and Cheryl A.Wilson, eds.: Michael Field and Their World. Review by Stefanie Markovits.

Laurence Raw: Adapting Henry James to the Screen: Gender, Fiction and Film. Review by Lisa Honaker.

Mary Hammond: Reading, Publishing and the Formation of Literary Taste in England, 1880–1914. Review by Katherine Baxter

Précis Reviews. Review by Nadine Cooper.

The Gissing Journal & Newsletter

Mitsu Matsuoka (Nagoya University) announces the availability of The Gissing Newsletter and The Gissing Journal in pdf on the Web. For years scholars who wished to consult the Newsletter and/or the Journal had to apply to libraries which hold a file or to the successive distributors, but from now on they can read all issues from 1965 to 2000 in this computerized version, essentially thanks to Hélène Coustillas, the wife of the highest authority of Gissing studies, who has read over all the numbers accessible on this site. http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/gissing/newsletter-journal/contents.html. The years after 2000 will be added gradually. The series has reached Vol. XXXVI, No. 4 (October, 2000)

Contents lists for the journals are at http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/GG-Journal.html. The latest are Vol. XLIV, Nos. 1 & 2 (January and April, 2008)

Ibookcollector

This is a free e-newsletter for collectors and the antiquarian book trade, covering book fairs, events and exhibitions, auctions and catalogues, with some reviews and articles of bibliophiliac interest presented in a lively way. Published weekly, it is linked to the website http://www.ibookcollector.com where an application form may be found. Current issue at time of writing is no. 112.

In-between

In-between is an open Journal, edited by Gulshan Taneja, which carries essays and book reviews on a wide variety of areas of academic interest. Essays–peer-reviewed–can focus on subjects ranging from Beowulf to Beckett and beyond, though the largest number of articles on a single author so far has been on Wilde in six different issues. A bibliography of these is published in the BIBLIOGRAPHIES appendix of THE OSCHOLARS. Books being reviewed should not have been published before the previous calendar year. Review copies are generally made available, if required and requested well in time.

In-between prefers British spelling, single quotation marks and outside punctuation, and footnotes rather than endnotes. Please submit both an electronic copy and a hard copy by airmail; also, a hard copy c.v., and a hundred word note for the contributors’ column.

Gulshan Taneja, Editor, in-between@rediff.com. English Department, RLA College, University of Delhi, New Delhi-110021, India.

Intellectual News / Intellectual History Review

Intellectual News is the journal of the International Society for Intellectual History, created in 1994 to foster communication and interaction among the international community of intellectual historians and scholars working in related fields. As agreed upon at its founding, the Society will make no attempt to define intellectual history as having only one approach. The Society therefore invites membership from scholars working in such diverse fields as art and music, religion and literature, philosophy, politics, and the sciences. The goal of the Society is two-fold: to bring together scholars working in the field of intellectual history and in related fields; and to provide this international community of scholars with a forum for debating and discussing various approaches to the study of intellectual history. A Conference was held at Birkbeck College, University of London, 17th-20th April 2007.

The journal is now published for the Society by Routledge, three times a year from 2007, under the title Intellectual History Review and edited by Professor Stephen Clucas of Birkbeck College, University of London, and Prof. Stephen Gaukroger of University of Sydney. The journal will continue to be a forum for the Anglo-American and European intellectual history community, promoting the work and aims of the ISIH as well as the study of intellectual history more generally. IHR will publish articles, literature surveys, and essay reviews of current work in intellectual history and related historical areas. Further information can be found by visiting the Routledge website.

Tables of Contents of past issues can be found on the Society’s website, but be warned: the last noted is No. 15 Spring 2005 (forthcoming). The current issue (no 18) is advertised on line, but without a Table of Contents. Click the banner.

Literary Imagination

Oxford Journals is pleased to announce the addition of Literary Imagination to their literature list from March 2007. Literary Imagination is published on behalf of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. The Journal explores the complexity and power of the literary process, ancient to modern, through essays, articles, translations, poetry, fiction and more. For more information we are asked to visit www.litimag.oxfordjournals.org but the Table of Contents of the current issue, Vol. X no. 2, (which does not include anything from our period), can be reached by clicking the image.

Literary London: interdisciplinary studies in the representation of London

This e-journal, associated with the annual conference of the same name and edited by Lawrence Phillips (University of Northampton), is found on line at http://www.literarylondon.org/. The current issue is Volume 5 Number 2, and articles of particular interest are

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Stefania Ciocia, ‘Queer and Verdant’: The Textual Politics of Sarah Waters’s Neo-Victorian Novels

Rudolf Weiss, London as Melodrama: 19th-Century Popular Theatre and the Myth of the Metropolis

We recommend this journal as a possible vehicle for articles on the Rhymers Club, the Café Royal, London salons, ‘Darkest London’ and other fin-de-siècle themes, especially the literary representation of such themes.

NAVSA Newsletter

The North American Victorian Studies Association has published its latest on-line newsletter, no 7: http://www.purdue.edu/NAVSA/newsletters/2007Winter/
Among other things, the newsletter includes news of interest to Victorianists (prizes, conferences, etc.); the contents of the forthcoming special issue of Victorian Studies dedicated to the 2006 Purdue conference; and news about future NAVSA conferences, including the 2007 meeting in Victoria, British Columbia.

19:Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

The April 2008 issue (no. 6) of 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century is now available: click the banner. The theme is ‘Victorian Fiction and the Material Imagination’, guest edited by Victoria Mills. The emphasis is more Dickens and mid-Victorian than fin-de-siècle. Previous issues can be found at http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/issues.htm

Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide

Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide is the world’s first scholarly, refereed e-journal devoted to the study of nineteenth-century painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, architecture, and decorative arts across the globe, and functions as the journal of Association of Historians of Nineteenth Century Art. Open to various historical and theoretical approaches the editors welcome contributions that reach across national boundaries and illuminate intercultural contact zones. The chronological scope of the journal is the ‘long’ nineteenth century, stretching from the American and French Revolutions, at one end, to the outbreak of World War I, at the other.

The Spring 2008 edition (Volume VII Number 1) is now published. The leading articles for late nineteenth century scholars are listed below (hyperlinked):

ARTICLES

Cléo de Mérode's Postcard Stardom by Michael Garval

Reflections of Desire: Masculinity and Fantasy in the Fin-de-Siècle Luxury Brothel by Gina Greene

REVIEWS

Jean-Jacques Henner, Le dernier des romantiques. Reviewed by Gabriel P. Weisberg

Georges Seurat: The Drawings. Reviewed by Michael Dorsch

The Painted Face: Portraits of Women in France, 1814-1914, by Tamar Garb. Reviewed by Amy Freund

Model and Supermodel: The Artist's Model in British Art and Culture, Jane Desmarais, Martin Postle, and William Vaughan, eds. Reviewed by Susan Waller

Odalisques and Arabesques: Orientalist Photography, 1839-1925 by Ken Jacobson. Reviewed by Radha Dalal

Victorian and Edwardian Responses to the Italian Renaissance, John E. Law and Lene Østermark-Johansen, eds. Reviewed by Joel Hollander

Click on the banner to see the journal’s excellent website.

Nineteenth Century Gender Studies

Issue 3.3 (Winter 2007) is now published: click the colophon. The journal accepts essays and book reviews year-round.

A selection from the current issue:

Articles

Daniel S. Brown, ‘Chopping Wood: ‘Primitive’ Masculinity in Gauguin’s Man With an Axe, Matamoe and Noa Noa‘

Alexis Harley, ‘Sexing the Aesthete: the Autobiography and Apostasy of Edmund Gosse‘

Anne-Sophie Leluan-Pinker, ‘‘Have everything new and made new again’: gendered vision and the ‘great sex question’ in Ménie Muriel Dowie's Gallia ‘

Natalie A. Phillips, ‘Claiming Her Own Context(s): Strategic Singularity in the Poetry of Toru Dutt‘

Review Essay

David Wayne Thomas, ‘Theory and the Ethos of Argument.’ Review of Amanda Anderson’s The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory.

Reviews

Rachel Teukolsky, ‘Pursuing the Victorian Honeymoon.’ Review of Helena Michie’s Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal.

Sara Dustin, ‘Fashioning Literature.’ Review of Clair Hughes’s Dressed in Fiction.

Heather Brown, ‘Outfitting the Seamstress.’ Review of Beth Harris’s Famine and Fashion: Needlewomen in the Nineteenth Century.

Deborah M. Fratz, ‘Disability, Gender and Genre in Victorian Culture.’ Review of Martha Stoddard Holmes’s Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture.

Serena Trowbridge, ‘Spiritualism and ‘The Woman Question.’’ Review of Alex Owen’s The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England.

Diana Maltz, ‘Hooligan Knights.’ Review of Troy Boone’s Youth of Darkest England: Working-Class Children at the Heart of Victorian Empire.

Nineteenth Century Studies

Nineteenth Century Studies is published by the Nineteenth Century Studies Association with the support of Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. NCS is a member of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Click the colophon to reach the website.

Volume 21, the issue for 2007, is still announced on the website as forthcoming (29th May 2008).

David C. Hanson, Editor, Nineteenth Century Studies, Department of English, Southeastern Louisiana, University SLU 10861, Hammond, LA 70402
Ph.: 985-549-2113. FAX: 985-549-5021. E-mail: dhanson@selu.edu

North Wind

	North Wind is the journal devoted to George MacDonald studies. Articles are welcome on all aspects of MacDonald: his fairy tales, fantasies, novels, poetry, and sermons. The journal is also seeking shorter ‘notes and queries’ that focus on issues related to MacDonald.
	Deadline for submissions is 1st October each year, but no new edition is yet announced. All submissions should be sent to John Pennington, Editor, North Wind, St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI 54301, USA. @
	The complete editorial guidelines can no longer be found at http://www.snc.edu/english/submissionguidelines.html, but, instead, at http://www.snc.edu/english/northwind.html. The website was revamped recently (Autumn 2007).

North Wind is a refereed journal. Articles are listed in The MLA On-line Bibliography. For more details of the George MacDonald Society, see our Society Page.

The Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society

First issued in the Spring of 1993, The Review has appeared three times a year (except in 1998, 2000 and 2003), when special issues on Burne-Jones, Ruskin and Millais each represented two numbers. The latest issue whose details are given on line is Vol. XV, No. 3, Autumn 2007. Click the image for the Table of Contents.

Revue d’Histoire Moderne & Contemporaine

The RHMC describes itself as follows:

Revue trimestrielle éditée par la Société d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, publiée par les Éditions BELIN avec le concours du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) et du Centre National du Livre (CNL). La revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine est la principale revue scientifique de référence pour les époques moderne et contemporaine. Elle publie chaque trimestre les contributions inédites d'historiens français et étrangers. Espace de dialogue et de débat, cette revue permet de faire le point sur les avancées et les problèmes de l'historiographie contemporaine.

The current edition, juillet-septembre 2007 N°54-3, contains no articles that touch upon our concerns. We have not been able to discover any later issue.

Rédaction : attention NOUVELLE ADRESSE : RHMC, bureau 114
56 rue Jacob, F-75006 Paris. Télécopie : 01 58 71 71 96. rhmc1899@yahoo.fr ou rhmc@ens.fr
Directeurs de la revue : Pierre Milza, Daniel Roche; Rédactrice en chef : Caroline Douki.
Sommaires, commandes, abonnements :
www.editions-belin.com ou www.cairn.info (accès RHMC en ligne)
Éditions Belin, 8 rue Férou, 75278 Paris cedex 06, France.

Victorian Literature and Culture

Editors: John Maynard, (New York University), Adrienne Munich (State University of New York at Stony Brook). Published by Cambridge University Press ISSN: 1060-1503 EISSN: 1470-1553.

Victorian Literature and Culture encourages high quality original work concerned with all areas of Victorian literature and culture, including music and the fine arts. The journal presents work at the cutting edge of current research, including exciting new studies in untouched subjects or new methodologies. Contributions are welcomed from internationally established scholars as well as younger members of the profession. It can be reached by clicking the banner below, but the site is not an easy one to navigate.

The current issue is Volume 36, Issue 1, March 2008.

Victorian Newsletter

The Victorian Newsletter, begun in 1952, features scholarly articles by many of the most prominent Victorian academics of the last half century.  As such, the VN reflects the genesis and the development of contemporary Victorian literary and cultural studies.  Under the editorship of Dr. Ward Hellstrom for nearly thirty years, VN is now edited by Deborah Logan, Professor of English at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The Victorian Newsletter is a refereed publication which particularly welcomes article-length analyses of Victorian literature and culture.

Please send manuscripts to Professor Logan at the Department of English, Cherry Hall, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 42101. Inquiries to @. The illustration is the cover for the Spring 2007 edition; click it for Tables of Contents of the Newsletter from 1952 through 2007.

Victorian Studies

Edited by Andrew H. Miller and Ivan Krielkamp
ISSN: 0042-5222. Published four times a year in print and electronically.

For almost 50 years, Victorian Studies has been devoted to the study of British culture of the Victorian age. It regularly includes interdisciplinary articles on comparative literature, social and political history, and the histories of education, philosophy, fine arts, economics, law and science, as well as review essays, and an extensive book review section. An annual cumulative and fully searchable bibliography of noteworthy publications that have a bearing on the Victorian period is available electronically and is included in the cost of a subscription.

Victorian Studies is the official publication of the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA), and is published by Indiana University Press. The most recent issue is Volume 50 No 1 Autumn 2007. There is a particularly strong review section: subjects include Vernon Lee and John Ruskin, reviewers include Regenia Gagnier, Margaret Stetz, Jonathan Rose, Allison Pease, and Kristin Mahoney, books reviewed include ones by Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham.

Victorian Studies Bulletin

The Victorian Studies Bulletin, edited by Richard Currie and Rachel Bright, is a quarterly newsletter published by the Victorian Committee of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The VSB publishes announcements of future conferences and exhibitions; calls for papers or presentations or articles for publications; brief reviews of past conferences and exhibitions; reports on new publications, especially from small publishers; regional newsletters, with ordering info; reports on local groups, with meeting dates, locations, topics, addresses; announcements of grant opportunities, scholarships, fellowships; special issues of journals.

The newsletter comes out in December, March, July, and September. The editors require copy about two months in advance of that date for the notice to appear in a given issue of VSB

Postings from any country are welcome. Postings should sent to Rachel Bright at rbright@temple.edu. To subscribe to the Victorian Studies Bulletin one is asked to send a cheque for $5 to Hartley Spatt, English, SUNY Maritime College, Fort Schuyler, Bronx, NY 10465. Correspondents in the U.K., Europe, and elsewhere should write to the Victorian Studies Bulletin, Clearinghouse, Victorian Studies Centre, University of Leicester, University Rd., Leicester, England LE1 7RH.

N.B. Various attempts to raise the VSB page have been unsuccessful throughout 2007 and 2008. The journal is still promoted on the Victoria Research Web at http://victorianresearch.org/vsb.html, but without giving it a web address; the link from Mitsu Matsuoka’s page of Victorian Web Sites http://www.indiana.edu/~victoria/vsb.html only brings a page not found notice. We welcome news.

Victorians Institute Journal

The Victorians Institute Journal, an annual publication of studies in Victorian literature, art, and culture, is produced under the auspice of the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. VIJ began publishing in 1972, under the editorship of Conrad Festa. It was for many years edited by Donald Lawler at East Carolina University, and from 1994-1999 was edited by Beverly Taylor (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Mary Ellis Gibson (UNC-Greensboro).

The most recent Victorians Institute Journal Volume 35 (2007) features essays on Collins, Gaskell, Arnold and other Victorian topics, and a full slate of reviews, including a review by Samuel Lyndon Gladden of The Resurrection of Oscar Wilde: A Cultural Afterlife, by Julia Wood.. More information about the Institute and VIJ (including tables of contents) can be found at www.vcu.edu/vij. For the ToC for Volume 35 (2007), click the cover picture.

The Editor is David Latané, Department of English, Virginia Commonwealth University. @

Victorian Poetry

Founded in 1962 to further the aesthetic study of the poetry of the Victorian period (1830-1914) in Britain, Victorian Poetry today publishes articles from a broad range of theoretical/critical angles, including but not confined to new historicism, feminism, and social/cultural issues. The journal has expanded its purview from the major figures of Victorian England (Tennyson, Browning, the Rossettis, etc.) to a wider compass of poets of all classes and gender identifications in nineteenth-century Britain and the Commonwealth. Publisher: West Virginia University Press.

To commemorate the centenary of the death of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Rikky Rooksby and Terry Meyers are editing a special issue (for Winter 2009) of Victorian Poetry dedicated to the life and works of the poet.   They seek for consideration essays of every sort, critical, biographical, and bibliographic. They set no particular requirements beyond lucidity and interest.

Deadline: Immediate. Direct submissions and other correspondence to Terry Meyers @ or to Rikky Rooksby @.

The latest issue is Volume 45, Number 4, Winter 2007 and its Table of Contents can be found by clicking the banner; but its articles are in the custody of Project Muse and are locked against the casual viewer and independent scholar.

Victorian Review

Victorian Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies publishes research articles on all aspects of Victorian literature, history, science, arts, and culture. The journal, which began publication in 1972, is published twice annually by the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada. Victorian Review belongs to the Canadian Association of Learned Journals and follows its guidelines. Victorian Review is based in the Department of English, University of Victoria, Canada.

The coming issue is on Classical Myth and Victorian Literature, guest edited by Catherine Maxwell (Queen Mary College, University of London). This special issue of Victorian Review honours the late Margot Louis of the University of Victoria, a vibrant voice in Victorian studies and an esteemed teacher and colleague, in tribute to her courageous battle with cancer. 

Victorian Review is edited by Alison Chapman (@), Mary Elizabeth Leighton (@), Judith Mitchell (@) and Lisa Surridge (@).

The Wildean and the Wild about Wilde Newsletter

The Wildean has its own page on our site, and this also contains a guide to the Wild about Wilde Newsletter, which is no longer published. Click the banner.

Word & Image

Word & Image concerns itself with the study of the encounters, dialogues and mutual collaboration (or hostility) between verbal and visual languages, one of the prime new areas of humanistic criticism. Word & Image provides a forum for articles that focus exclusively on this special study of the relations between words and images. Themed issues, guest-edited by internationally acknowledged scholars, are a regular feature of the journal. Recent examples include reading ancient and medieval art, the picture and the text, and artists in two media. 4 issues per year; print version only. It is not easy to find its Table of Contents on-line. We gave up.

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