THE OSCHOLARS
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Vol. IV
No. 2
issue no 33: February 2007
PUBLICATIONS
AND PAPERS
« Are there
not books that can make us live more in one single hour than life can make us
live in a score of shameful years? »
We hope where appropriate to review in future issues at least some of the books listed here. As always, we are happy to hear from anybody who would like to review; and we are always willing to consider for publication abstracts or précis of journal articles or published or unpublished doctoral theses. As usual, names of subscribers to THE OSCHOLARS are printed in bold.
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TABLES OF CONTENTS
I. Publications
& PAPERS ON OSCAR WILDE
II. OTHER PUBLICATIONS & PAPERS ON THE PERIOD
III. Journals
I. Publications and Papers on Oscar Wilde
The announcement has been made of the impending publication by Edinburgh University Press of Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture by Michèle Mendelssohn in the series Edinburgh Studies In Transatlantic Literatures. ISBN 9780748623853 (074862385X) £65.00.
'In this incisive and wonderfully readable study, Michèle
Mendelssohn shows how James and Wilde learned from each other's work, pondered
each other's careers, and admired and disdained each other's gifts. Marked by
brilliantly detailed renderings of period literary relations and deft close
readings, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and Aesthetic Culture
intervenes powerfully in debates about taste, commodification, sexuality,
professionalization, identity, and originality in Victorian and modernist
literature and culture.'
–Douglas Mao, Associate Professor, Department of English, Cornell
University
‘In this engrossing book, Michèle Mendelssohn challenges
the longstanding assumption that Henry James and Oscar Wilde shunned each
other’s influence, James because of homosexual panic, Wilde because of
dandified indifference. On the contrary, Mendelssohn demonstrates how their
conflictual relationship, comprised of esteem and contempt, admiration and
frustration, attraction and jealousy in equal measure, contributed to shaping
the transatlantic culture of aestheticism. Written with verve, and
substantiated with meticulous research, Mendelssohn’s study offers a fresh
perspective on aestheticism while illuminating the obscurities of a fascinating
literary friendship.’
–Maud
Ellmann, Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies,
Department of English, University of Notre Dame.
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND PERMISSIONS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (NB The book will include 33 black and white images)
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1
'I have asked Henry James not to bring his friend Oscar Wilde': Washington Square and the politics of Transatlantic Aestheticism
CHAPTER 2
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies: Plagiarism, Appropriation, and the Reinvention of Aestheticism
CHAPTER 3
The school of the future as well as the present: Wilde's impressions of James in 'Intentions' and 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'.
CHAPTER 4
‘Wild thoughts and desire! Things I can’t tell you - words I can’t speak!’: the Drama of Identity in ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ and ‘Guy Domville’
CHAPTER 5
Despoiling Poynton: James, the Wilde trials, and Interior Decoration
CHAPTER 6
‘A nest of
almost infant blackmailers!’: the End of Innocence in ‘The Turn of the Screw’
and De Profundis
Bibliography
Index
Also announced, for 3rd May, is a very different work, Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders by Gyles Brandreth. London: John Murray Hardcover: 352 pages ISBN-10: 0719569206 ISBN-13: 978-0719569203. We trust that this is not the sort of book that will set Wilde studies back ten years…
·
Editions Fayard announce for May Oscar Wilde à Paris by Herbert R. Lottman. Mr Lottman is an American who lives in Paris, and although he has published on Camus and Pétain and Flaubert, this is his first excursion into Wilde studies.
Sally Ledger’s Wilde Women and The Yellow Book: The Sexual Politics of Aestheticism and Decadence was published in ELT Vol 50 no.1. For the other articles and reviews in the same issue, see http://www.uncg.edu/eng/elt/cont501.htm.
Karen B. Golightly (Irish Studies, Southern Illinois University) gave a paper
on ‘The Female Influence of Irish Folklore Collecting: Ladies Wilde and
Gregory’ at the New Voices Conference, the National University of Ireland
(Maynooth), 6th May 2006.
II. BookS, ARTICLES & PAPERS of general fin-de-siècle interest
The publication is announced of Ruth E. Iskin: Modern Women and Parisian Consumer Culture in Impressionist Painting (Cambridge University Press, 2007) Hardback (ISBN-13: 9780521840804). Published January 2007 | 288 pages
This book examines the encounter between Impressionist painting and Parisian consumer culture. Its analysis of Impressionist paintings depicting women as consumers, producers, or sellers in sites such as the millinery boutique, theatre, opera, café-concert and market revises our understanding of the representation of women in Impressionist painting, from women’s exclusion from modernity to their inclusion in its public spaces, and from the privileging of the male gaze to a plurality of gazes. Ruth E. Iskin demonstrates that Impressionist painting addresses and represents women in active roles, and not only as objects on display, and probes the complex relationship between the Parisienne, French fashion, and national identity. She analyses Impressionist representations of commodity displays and of signs of consumer culture such as advertising and shopfronts in views of Paris. Incorporating a wide range of nineteenth-century literary and visual sources, The book situates Impressionist painting in the culture of consumption and suggests new ways of understanding the art and culture of nineteenth-century Paris.
Chapter 1: Introduction: Impressionism, Consumer Culture and Modern Women
Chapter 2: Selling, Seduction and Soliciting the Eye: Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergère
Chapter 3: Degas' Dazzling Hat Shops and Artisanal Ateliers: Consumers, Milliners and Saleswomen, 1882–c. 1910
Chapter 4: Inconspicuous Subversion: Parisian Consumer Culture in 1870s City Views
Chapter 5: Nature and Marketplace: Zola, Pissarro and Caillebotte
Chapter 6: The Chic Parisienne: A National Brand of French Fashion and Femininity
Patrick Leary placed the following on VICTORIA:
‘The following announcement comes to us from Bob Topp. I send it out with congratulations to his father, Dr. Chester W. Topp, who has recently turned 90, on completing and publishing this final volume of the splendid bibliographical series that he has made his life's work.’
The Hermitage Bookshop is especially pleased to announce the publication of
Volume 9, the final volume in our series on Victorian Yellowbacks and
Paperbacks. This is a unique and amazing accomplishment for a single individual
and represents 50 years of research by Dr. Topp.
VICTORIAN YELLOWBACKS & PAPERBACKS, 1849-1905: VOLUME 9, David Bryce;
Ingram, Cooke & Co.; David Bogue; Henry Lea; Swan Sonnenschein & Co.;
J. C. Brown & Co.
Victorian yellowbacks were originally published to be sold inexpensively in railway stalls. Their importance was first recognized by Michael Sadlier and later Robert Wolff, but until Dr. Topp's monumental effort there has been no systematic study of this important genre.
Based on research in his own collection of over 5000 yellowbacks and paperbacks
as well as exhaustive searches in Victorian literary and publisher's journals,
Dr. Topp has spent forty years compiling bibliographies of the yellowbacks
production of 27 Victorian publishers.
Fully indexed by author, title and series, each volume is arranged
chronologically with entries including the publisher, the year and the
approximate month and day of publication both for the first English and the
first American editions. In many cases the yellowback is the true first edition
of the work. Each volume is produced to the highest standards and
includes a 32 page full color section of photographs.
‘An incredible work, obviously produced by a loving collector.’ –Bob Fleck -
Oak Knoll Books
‘Chester W. Topp's herculean work of bibliography is meant for libraries and bibliophiles. Superb photographs of many yellowback covers convey something of the arresting color and 'dash'.’ –Linda Dowling - Studies in English Literature.
Volume 1: George Routledge. ISBN 0-9633920-0-X
Volume 2: Ward & Lock. ISBN 0-9633920-1-8
Volume 3: Hotten, Chatto & Windus; Chapman & Hall ISBN 0-9633920-2-6
Volume 4: Frederick Warne & Co.; Sampson Low & Co. ISBN 0-9633920-3-4
Volume 5: Macmillan & Co.; Smith, Elder & Co. ISBN 0-9633920-4-2
Volume 6: Longmans, Green & Co.; C.H. Clarke; John Maxwell & Co.; Tinsley Bros. ISBN 0-9633920-5-0
Volume 7: F.V.White & Co.; Cassell
& Co.; William Blackwood & Sons; Vizetelly & Co. ISBN 0-9633920-6-9
Volume 8: Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; J.W. Arrowsmith; Richard Bentley; Ward
& Downey; James Blackwood. ISBN 0-9633920-7-7
Volume 9: David Bryce; Ingram, Cooke & Co.; David Bogue; Henry Lea; Swan Sonnenschein & Co.; J. C. Brown & Co. ISBN 0-9633920-8-5
For further information or to order, please contact us by email, snail mail,
fax or phone at the following:
The Hermitage Bookshop, 290 Fillmore St., Denver, Colorado 80206; 303 388-6811
phone; 303 388-6853 fax hermitagebooks@qwest.net
New Voices
At the New Voices Conference, the National University of Ireland (Maynooth), 6th May 2006 the following papers were given.
Whitney Standlee (Cultural, Legal and Social Studies, University of Central Lancashire): ‘Crossed Lines: The Blurring of National, Religious, and Gendered Boundaries in George Egerton’s Keynotes (1893)’ , 5th May 2006.
Maria Beville (Department of English Language and Literature, MIC UL): ‘Sexual Terror in Bram Stoker’s Dracula’. 6th May 2006
Irina Ruppo (Department of English, NUIG): ‘Ambiguous Encounters. Ibsen’s later plays in the context of pre-1916 Irish society and literature’. 6th May 2006
III. Journals
1.
Art History
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
Please send articles for consideration to the address below. Before doing so please consult the Style Sheet: Art History C/o AAH, 70 Cowcross St London EC1M 6EJ Editor Prof Deborah Cherry Deputy Editor Prof Fintan Cullen Reviews Editor Dr Cordelia Warr.
For more details about Art History and the Art History Book Series please visit the Blackwell’s website. Volume 29 No 5 is the most recent to be published, and we give here such of the contents as fall within our interest: click on the article titles to view the abstracts.
Nancy Rose Marshall: History
Illuminated: William Holman Hunt's London
Bridge
Robyn Roslak: Artisans,
Consumers And Corporeality In Signac's Parisian Interiors
Adrian Lewis: Seurat's La
Grande Jatte: Fashion And Irony
2. Arts & Crafts Newsletter
The 62nd issue of Mark Golding’s Arts
and Crafts Newsletter, now called Art Chronicle, An Illustrated Journal of
Arts and Crafts, have now been published (December 2006 and January 2007)
and can be found on-line at www.achome.co.uk.
Notice of each issue of this informative journal is available by e-mail from mark@achome.co.uk. To read January's 'Arts &
Crafts Home Newsletter' please click on the link www.achome.co.uk
and 'FEBRUARY NEWSLETTER'. If you have
problems viewing the newsletter, please email Mr Golding and he will send
out the old format to you
All of the archived newsletters are available in FlashPaper format. This requires the Flash 6 player. If you do not have Flash 6 or higher, it can be installed by going to the site of Macromedia.com to download and install it.
3. British Art Journal
The December 2006 issue is announced of British Art Journal (founded in 1999), but no Table of Contents is as yet published (23rd January 2007). One cannot tell from the website of 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. For details www.britishartjournal.co.uk.
4. Cahiers Octave Mirbeau
No 14, 332 pages, will be published in March.
PREMIÈRE
PARTIE : ÉTUDES
• Jennifer FORREST : « ’La mort plutôt que le déshonneur’ dans L’Écuyère d’Octave Mirbeau ».
• Dominique BUSSILLET : « D’Octave Mirbeau à Michel Houellebecq ».
• Julia PRZYBOS : « Sébastien Roch, ou les traits de l’éloquence ».
• Ioanna CHATZIDIMITRIOU : « Le Jardin des supplices et les effets discursifs du pouvoir ».
• Louise
LYLE : « Charles Darwin dans Le
Jardin des supplices ».
• Sándor KÁLAI : « ’Des yeux d’avare, pleins de soupçons aigus et d’enquêtes policières’ (Le Journal d’une femme de chambre et le roman policier) ».
• Arnaud VAREILLE : « L’Œil panoptique : intériorisation et exhibition de la norme dans les romans d’Octave Mirbeau ».
• Claude HERZFELD : « Hermann Hesse et Octave Mirbeau – Cure et neurasthénie ».
• Jean-Pierre BUSSEREAU : « De
La 628-E8 ».
• Bernard JAHIER : « La Caricature dans les Contes cruels d’Octave Mirbeau – Aspects, formes et signification(s) ».
• Vincent LAISNEY : « ‘Une comédie bien humaine’ - L’interview selon Mirbeau ».
• Claudine ELNÉCAVÉ : « Mirbeau et Courteline, destins croisés ».
• Yannick
LEMARIÉ : « Le Foyer, une pièce
théorique ? ».
• Samuel LAIR : « Les Combats littéraires d’Octave Mirbeau – ‘les rires et les larmes’ ».
DEUXIÈME PARTIE : DOCUMENTS
• Pierre MICHEL : « Mirbeau et Ollendorff (suite) ».
• Pierre MICHEL : « Mirbeau s’explique sur L’Abbé Jules ».
• Octave Mirbeau : Lettre inédite à Théodore de Banville.
• Virginie
MEYER : « Les lettres d’Octave et Alice Mirbeau à Georges
Charpentier : deux auteurs, un éditeur, une amitié ».
• Octave et Alice Mirbeau : Lettres inédites à Georges Charpentier.
• Max COIFFAIT : « Octave Mirbeau et Léo Trézenik : un léger soupçon d’échange de mauvaises manières ».
• Vincent GOGIBU : « Une lettre inédite de Gourmont à Mirbeau ».
• Sándor
KÁLAI : « Notes sur une adaptation-traduction hongroise du Jardin des supplices ».
• Pierre MICHEL : « Mirbeau, Louis Deloncle et le naufrage de La Bourgogne ».
• Octave Mirbeau : « Louis Deloncle ».
• Pierre MICHEL : « Cézanne et Mirbeau » .
• Paul Cézanne : Lettre inédite à Octave Mirbeau.
• Jean-Claude DELAUNEY : « Mirbeau, Guitry et la Petite Hollande ».
• Pierre MICHEL : « Mirbeau vu par Leben-Routchka ».
• Leben-Routchka : « Gros numéros ».
TROISIÈME PARTIE : BIBLIOGRAPHIE
1. Œuvres
d’Octave Mirbeau :
• La Folle et autres nouvelles, par Pierre Michel.
• Combats littéraires.
• La Mort de Balzac.
• Nuit rouge et autres histoires cruelles de
Paris.
• Mémoire pour un avocat, par Samuel Lair.
2. Études sur Octave Mirbeau :
•
Pierre Michel, Mirbeau, Barbusse et l’enfer, par Samuel Lair.
• Studia romanica
posnaniensia, n°
XXXII, par Pierre Michel.
•
Actes du colloque de Cerisy Octave Mirbeau : Passions et anathèmes.
3. Notes de lecture :
• Gabrielle Houbre, Le Livre des courtisanes – Archives de la
police des mœurs (1861-1876), par Pierre Michel.
• Fernando Cipriani, Villiers de l’Isle-Adam e la cultura del suo tempo. Il poeta, la donna e lo scienziato, par Pierre Michel.
• Cahiers Edmond et Jules de Goncourt, n° 13, par Pierre Michel.
• Les Cahiers naturalistes, par Yannick Lemarié.
• Excavatio, Naturalism and the visual, par Yannick Lemarié.
• Joris-Karl Huysmans, Écrits sur l’art,
par Samuel Lair.
• Remy de Gourmont, Le Désarroi, par Pierre Michel.
• Remy de Gourmont, Les Arts et les Ymages, par Christian
Limousin.
• Marcel Schwob. L’Homme au masque d’or, par Pierre Michel.
• Jean Lorrain, Lettres à Marcel Schwob, par Bruno Fabre.
• Ian Geay, Le Malheureux bourdon :
figures et figuration du viol dans la littérature finiséculaire.
• Michel Autrand, Le Théâtre en France de 1870 à 1914, par Michel Brethenoux.
• Gabriel Badea-Päun, Antonio de
La Gándara (1861-1917), un portraitiste de la Belle Epoque, sa vie, son œuvre.
• Bernard Garreau, Correspondance générale de Marguerite Audoux,
par Pierre Michel.
• Robert Baudry, ‘Le Grand Meaulnes’ : un roman initiatique, par Claude Herzfeld.
• L’Art de la parole vive. Paroles chantées et paroles dites à
l’époque moderne, par Arnaud Vareille.
• Les Voix du peuple – XIXe et XXe siècles, par Pierre Michel.
• Serge Berstein, Léon Blum, par Alain Gendrault.
• Hanoch Gourarier, Descelle mes lèvres, par Alain Gendrault.
• Jean-Paul Sartre en son temps et aujourd’hui, par Pierre Michel.
• Des
femmes et de l’écriture – Le bassin méditerranéen, par Pierre Michel.
• Jean-François Nivet, Le Voyage au
Mont d’Or, par Pierre Michel.
4.
Bibliographie mirbellienne, par Pierre Michel
Nouvelles
diverses.
Maxime
Bourotte – La ‘mirbeaudialisation’ – Le colloque de Strasbourg et l’année
Mirbeau – Mirbeau au théâtre – Mirbeau traduit – Mirbeau sur CD – Mirbeau et
les archives Claude Monet – Mirbeau et Tolstoï – Mirbeau et Émile Hervet –
Mirbeau et Antonin Reschal – La Voix du regard – Huysmans – Eugène
Carrière et Albert Besnard – Gustave Kahn – Jules Renard – Charles-Louis Philippe – Léautaud et Claudel – Oscar Wilde – Le Frisson esthétique – Amer, revue finissante – Céline – Nos amis publient.
5. Contemporary Theatre Review
The most recent issue of Contemporary Theatre Review (Volume 17 Number 1 / January 2007) is available on the Taylor & Francis web site at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10486801.asp. This contains no articles relevant to our concerns.
6. English Literature in Transition
We have in one of our bibliographical
excursions listed the articles on Wilde that had appeared in ELT up to
that time. We are now monitoring ELT regularly. 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 issue is
Vol 50 No 2, and its table of contents includes the following:
Articles
Sally Mitchell: Frances Power Cobbe’s Life and the Rules for Women’s Autobiography
Patrick Brantlinger: Kipling’s ‘The White Man’s Burden’ and Its Afterlives
Lisa A. F. Lewis: ‘References,’ ‘Cross-References,’ and Notions of History in Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill and Rewards and Fairies
Book Reviews
(John A. Bertolini:) A. M. Gibbs: Bernard Shaw: A Life
(Shafquat Towheed:) Claire Harman: Myself
and the Other Fellow: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
(Alistair Davies:) Joseph Wiesenfarth: Ford Madox Ford and the Regiment
of Women (Matthew Bradley:) Joseph Bristow, ed.: The Fin-de-Siècle Poem:
English Literary Culture and the 1890s
(John G. Peters:) Jarlath Killeen: The Faiths of Oscar Wilde: Catholicism, Folklore and Ireland
(Michel W. Pharand:)
Donna R. White and C. Anita Tarr, eds.
J. M. Barrie’s ‘Peter Pan’ In and Out of Time: A Children’s Classic at 100
(Roger Luckhurst:) Vaclav Smil: Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867–1914 and Their Lasting Impact
(Brian W. Shaffer:) Michael Patrick Gillespie and A. Nicholas Fargnoli, eds.: ‘Ulysses’ in Critical Perspective
(Allan H. Simmons:) Wieslaw Krajka, ed.: Beyond the Roots: The Evolution of Conrad’s Ideology and Art.
7. 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 Helene Coustillas, the wife of the highest
authority of Gissing studies, who has read over all the numbers accessible on
this site. The years after 2000 will be
added gradually. The latest announced is
Vol. LXII, No. 3 (July 2006).
‘The
Muse of the Halls’ (George Gissing)
The
index to the papers of Henry Ryecroft (Hazel Bell)
The Gissings’
Wakefield Circle: II – The Milner family (Anthony Petyt)
Book
Reviews (William Greenslade): Gissing and the City: Cultural Crisis and the
Making of Books in Late Victorian England, ed. by John Spiers; (Pierre
Coustillas): Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing, James, Hardy
and Wells, by Christine DeVine; (Michael Cronin): Il riscatto di Eva,
by Maria Teresa Chialant
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/gissing/newsletter-journal/contents.html
8. Histoire de l'Art
Histoire de l'Art is published twice a year, in April and October, and we will in future report the publication of articles that touch upon our period. The current issue, no 59, is devoted to architecture and has no article that we should report, but last April’s issue, no 58 had two articles:
Emmanuelle Amiot-Saulnier, Henry Lerolle (1848-1929), peintre naturaliste et chrétien.
Fabienne Stahl, Maurice Denis (1870-1943) et le Stic B.
Histoire de l'Art is linked to APAHAU, the Association des Professeurs d’Archéologie et d’Histoire de l’Art des Universités. The price of each number is 30 €. Subscriptions (two issues) are as follows:
Special student subscription (carriage include) : 32 €; Subscription within France (carriage included) : 45 €; Subscription from elsewhere (carriage included) : 52 €.
Payment can be made by chèque postal, mandat international, cheque or transfer in favour of APAHU - Histoire de l'art. Request for subscription (with your name and address) to : Histoire de l'Art - Abonnements, Carré Colbert - INHA, 2, rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris.
9. Ibookcollector
This is an e-newsletter for collectors and the antiquarian book trade, covering book fairs, events and exhibitions, auctions and catalogues, with some reviews. It is linked to the website http://www.ibookcollector.com and will be sent on application to info@ibookcollector.com.
10. In-between
In-between is an open Journal 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 being prepared for a future issue 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.
11. Intellectual News
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 is announced at Birkbeck College, University of London, 17th-20th April 2007.
Intellectual News, the review of the ISIH: It is now announced that this journal will be published for the Society by Routledge, three times a year from 2007, under the title Intellectual History Review and edited by Stephen Clucas and Stephen Gaukroger.
The ISIH website is at http://www.history.upenn.edu/isih/. Tables of Contents of past issues can be found there.
12. 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 please visit www.litimag.oxfordjournals.org.
13. Literary London: interdisciplinary studies in the representation of London
This on-line journal, associated with the annual conference of the same name and edited by Lawrence Phillips (University of Northampton), and formerly found at http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/london-journal/index.html now has its own site at http://www.literarylondon.org/.
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. The latest issue, Volume IV No 2 (Autumn 2006) is now on line.
14. NAVSA Newsletter
The North American Victorian Studies
Association has published its latest online newsletter: 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.
15. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
The October 2006 issue (no. 3) of 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century is now available, free, at www.19.bbk.ac.uk. The theme is ‘Literature and the Press: 1800 / 1900’. Guest edited by Josephine McDonagh and Anna Vaninskaya. Contributors include Anne Humpherys (‘The Journals that Did: Writing about Sex in the late 1890s’: read more), Matthew Beaumont (‘Influential Force: Shafts and the Diffusion of Knowledge at the Fin de Siècle ‘: read more), and Carol Peaker (‘We are not Barbarians: Literature and the Russian Émigré Press in England, 1890–1905’: read more). With an Afterword by Laura Marcus.
This issue of 19 explores the relationships between literature and the press at two formative stages in the history of periodical publication. Essays in this issue consider aspects of the periodical press at both ends of the long nineteenth century: including authorial and editorial practices; illustration and design; and the political, religious and national affiliations that magazines produce and disseminate. They invite comparisons and contrasts between the kinds of discursive communities created by the press at the end of the eighteenth century, and the more fragmented readerships of magazines at the end of the nineteenth.
‘Literature and the Press: 1800 / 1900' is based on a symposium held at Linacre College, Oxford in May 2005, organised jointly by the Oxford Victorian Literature Seminar and the Oxford Fin de Siècle seminar.
v
Issue no 2 (Spring 2006) can be found at
http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/BackIssuePage.htm
16. 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 Autumn 2006 edition (volume V number 2) is
now published. The leading articles for late nineteenth century scholars
were listed in our December
issue. The next issue is scheduled for
March.
A subsidiary
publication of the AHNCA is its Newsletter (April and October), which carries a
very long list of exhibitions and publications on nineteenth-century art and
artists.
Click on the banner to see the journal’s excellent website.
17. Nineteenth Century Gender Studies
Issue 2.3 of Nineteenth-Century Gender
Studies is now available online. You can find it at
http://www.ncgsjournal.com/
Among the articles and reviews in this edition we note:
Articles:
Casey Cothran, ‘Fanged Desire: the New Woman and the Monster’.
Reviews-
Rita Bode, ‘Reconfiguring Pictures: Pre-Raphaelite Images in the Victorian Novel.’ Review of Sophia Andres’s The
Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian
Novel: Narrative Challenges to Visual Gendered Boundaries.
Daniel Wong, ‘Escaped Nuns, Crafty Jesuits, and the Many Uses of Anti-Catholic Fiction.’ Review of Susan M. Griffin’s Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-Century Fiction and Diana Peschier’s Nineteenth Century Anti-Catholic Discourses.
David Hennessee, ‘Between Friends, Sodomites, and Semites: A New Look at Victorian Democracy.’ Review of Richard Dellamora’s Friendship's Bonds: Democracy and the Novel in Victorian England.
Robin Chamberlain, ‘Sexing the Brain.’ Review of Rachel Malane’s Sex in Mind: The Gendered Brain in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Mental Sciences.
Melissa Purdue & Stacey Floyd, Editors, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Department of English, University of Kentucky, 1215 Patterson Office Tower Lexington, KY 40506 mpurd2@uky.edu.
18. 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. http://www2.selu.edu/Academics/Depts/English/NCS/frameset.html
The issue for 2006, still announced on the website as forthcoming, includes the following articles.
Andrew
Maunder: Making Heritage and
History: Jane Austen and Her Illustrators
Erin Hazard: ’Realized Day-dreams’: Excursions to Nineteenth-Century Authors’ Homes
Claudia Nelson: The ‘Child-Woman’ and the Victorian Novel
Dan Guernsey: Rousseau’s Emile and Social Palingenesis in Gustave Courbet’s The Painter’s Studio
Jane Wood: A Culture of Improvement: Knowledge, Aesthetic Consciousness, and the Conversazione
Yaël Schlick: Spatial Literacy and the Female Traveler: The Sexual Politics of Map-reading in Flaubert and Sand
Deborah Mutch: ’A Working-Class Tragedy’: The Fiction of Henry Mayers Hyndman
Ioanna Chatzidimitriou: Against Memory: Remodeling the Past in Huysmans’s A Rebours
Val Morgan: Huysmans’s Gilles de Rais: Crossing Thresholds, Reaching Limits
Richard Dellamora: May Sinclair, Periodization, and the Construction of Victorian Female Adolescence.
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
Email: dhanson@selu.edu
19. 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 for the next issue was 1st October. 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.
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.
20. The Review of the PRS
The current issue is Vol. XIV, No. 3, Autumn 2006. Click the image for the Table of Contents.
21. Revue d’Histoire
Moderne & Contemporaine : 53-4, octobre-décembre 2006
Écrire l’histoire des homosexualités en Europe : XIXe-XXe siècles
Dossier coordonné par Florence Tamagne
Intimités : de l’amitié et du couple
Sharon Marcus – L’amitié entre femmes dans l’Angleterre victorienne
Domenico Rizzo - Canon homophile et « marché » des relations dans les années 1950
Sociabilités : géographies urbaines de la Belle Époque
Régis Révenin – L’émergence d’une subculture à Paris
Nicole Albert – Une topographie des plaisirs lesbiens
Publicités : cultures gaies et medias
Martin Pénet – Chanson et homosexualité en France entre les deux guerres
Florence Tamagne – Homosexualité, médias et politique dans la France des années 1930
Politiques : homophilies
Julian Jackson – Le mouvement Arcadie (1954-1982)
Alexandre Marchant - Le discours militant de Daniel Guérin
Ouverture : post-communisme et intégration
européenne
Sinziana Carstocea - Une identité clandestine: l’homosexualité en Roumanie.
Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine :
rhmc1899@yahoo.fr ou rhmc@ens.fr
Rédaction : attention NOUVELLE ADRESSE : RHMC, bureau 114
56 rue Jacob, F-75006 Paris. Télécopie : 01 58 71 71 96
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.
22. Theatre Notebook
Theatre Notebook, a fully refereed Journal of the History and Technique of the
British Theatre, published by the Society for Theatre Research, welcomes offers
of scholarly articles on any period of British theatre history. It is edited by
Trevor Griffiths (t.griffiths@londonmet.ac.uk).
The current issue is Vol LX No 3 (February 2007). A complete classified list of all articles published in the last fourteen years can be found at http://www.str.org.uk/notebook.html. These include ‘Oscar Wilde’s Contract for a New Play, 1900’ by Russell Jackson, 50, 1996, 113-115; ‘Oscar Wilde’s Contract for A Woman of No Importance’ by Joel H. Kaplan, 48, 1994, 46-48 and ‘A Puppet’s Power: George Alexander, Clement Scott and the Re-plotting of Lady Windermere’s Fan’ by Joel H. Kaplan, 46, 1992, 59-73.
Professor Trevor R Griffiths
London Metropolitan University
166-220 Holloway Road
London N7 8DB
23. V&A Magazine
We have discontinued our coverage of this vapid publication unless it is linked to an exhibition concerned with our subjects.
24. Victorian Literature and Culture
Editors: John Maynard, (New York University), Adrienne Munich (State University of New York at Stony Brook).
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. The next edition (Vol. 35 no. 1, March 2007) was actually published on the 22nd January.
We have selected the following articles for mention:
A SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM: RICHARD FEVEREL AND THE ACTRESS IN THE HOUSE
Emily Allen
‘THE TRUTH OF MIDNIGHT’: APOCALYPTIC INSOMNIA IN JAMES THOMSON'S THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT
Kevin Mills
SEEDS OF DISCONTENT: DANCING MANIAS AND MEDICAL INQUIRY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Molly Engelhardt
PIRACY, SLAVERY, AND THE IMAGINATION OF EMPIRE IN STEVENSON's PACIFIC FICTION
Roslyn
Jolly
ROSA PRAED AND THE VAMPIRE-AESTHETE
Andrew McCann
‘SPIRITS IN THE MATERIAL WORLD’: SPIRITUALISM AND IDENTITY IN THE FIN DE SIÈCLE
Elana Gomel
‘A LITTLE POLITICAL WORLD OF MY OWN’: THE NEW WOMAN, THE NEW LIFE, AND NEW AMAZONIA
Matthew
Beaumont
A CLUB OF THEIR OWN: THE ‘LITERARY LADIES,’ NEW WOMEN WRITERS, AND FIN-DE-SIÈCLE AUTHORSHIP
Linda Hughes
THE WOMAN IN WHITE AND GRAPHIC SEX
William R. McKelvy
PANDORA'S BOX: WALTER CRANE, ‘OUR SPHINX-RIDDLE,’ AND THE POLITICS OF DECORATION
Morna
O'Neill
WOMEN AND DOMESTIC CULTURE
Talia
Schaffer
THE PERFECT MEDIUM: PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE OCCULT
Herbert Sussman
Published by Cambridge University Press ISSN: 1060-1503 EISSN: 1470-1553.
25. 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 on-line Table of Contents (Vol 48 No 4 Summer 2006) is given below:
|
Frances Robertson Caroline Levine Joseph Sramek Review
Essay Book
Reviews Eitan Bar-Yosef Bernhard Klein Paul Edison Caroline Reitz Eleanor J. Harrington-Austin John Marx Jill Brady-Hampton Joseph P. Finnan Maureen M. Martin Matthew Potter Elizabeth Helsinger Stefano Evangelista Patrocinio Schweickart |
Molly Engelhardt Katherine Newey Charles Edward McGuire Carolyn Lesjak David Killingray Tim Dolin Gregory Claeys Bruce Coleman Jamie L. Bronstein Allan Kellehear Laura C. Berry Lori Branch Deborah Wynne Clare Petititt Daniel Hack David Wayne Thomas Gisela Argyle Angelique Richardson Charles Upchurch Regenia Gagnier |
26. 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 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.
v On 23rd January 2007, various attempts to raise the VSB page at http://www.indiana.edu/~victoria/vsb.html met a ‘Page not found’ notice. Subsequent attempts were similarly fruitless up to the time of posting this issue of THE OSCHOLARS.
27. Victorians Institute Journal
The Victorians Institute has announced the
publication of volume 34 of Victorians Institute Journal. This is a general
issue with ten essays and ten reviews (288 pages) by scholars from the
USA and UK. More information about the Institute and VIJ (including tables
of contents) can be found at www.vcu.edu/vij.
David Latané, Department of English, Virginia Commonwealth
University. vij@vcu.edu
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