Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.4.35
A. Colley
hydrography; the “immediate call” for his maps came from a colonial historiographer, Robert Orme (72). Lambton’s geographical and military careers were inextricable; it is said that he saved General Baird’s army from disaster, using the position of the stars to guide them away from Tipu Sultan’s camp. D’Oyly was an amateur, rather than professional, artist. East India Company affairs were not enough to keep him busy: he even dabbled in satirical poetry, with Tom Raw, the Griffin appearing in 1828. Others remain in the shadows. In a discussion of the influence of Indian styles and techniques on colonial art, we hear that “D’Oyly employed a Patna artist Jairam Das, trained in the Mughal tradition, who was entrusted with his lithographic press” (149); Alicia and Anne Eliza Scott were two women artists inspired by the Himalayas; Fanny Parks published her account of the mountains in 1850. It may have been rewarding to pause in these places. The book is knowledgeable across multiple disciplines. Its key suggestion—that these modes of representing place ultimately perform the same work—can come at the expense of some subtlety. The distinctions among paintings, maps, and texts—or between bishops and botanists—could be addressed in more depth. This is one consequence of the book’s ambitious scope; like a map, it covers a great deal of ground. While it is interesting to be reminded of the historical arc of these ideas, references to Ptolemy, Bernard Mandeville, or the Tudors do not seem relevant to the project; they leave less space to interrogate assumptions about “Enlightenment order” or to chart granular shifts across the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (37). The survey of Romantic tourism in the Lake District will be familiar to readers. Writers as different as Charles Darwin and Richard Francis Burton can feel conflated. With such a variety of reference points, it is not always easy to locate where the book is placing its emphasis. It also establishes a dialogue with Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau, and Henri Lefebvre. This might encourage further reflections on the spatial turn in the humanities: to what extent must such theories adapt in order to illuminate the histories of the Global South? (They were, after all, formed in contexts of their own: Lefebvre’s thinking engages both decolonization and globalization in the twentieth century.) Mukherjee does not ask this question. Nevertheless, her wide-ranging, thoughtful book makes a clear case for the importance of place to our understanding of the past. Ushashi Dasgupta Pembroke College, University of Oxford
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.4.23
C. Reitz
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.4.21
M. Booth
{"title":"Victorian Literary Culture and Ancient Egypt, edited by Eleanor Dobson","authors":"M. Booth","doi":"10.2979/victorianstudies.64.4.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.64.4.21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45845,"journal":{"name":"VICTORIAN STUDIES","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41852787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.4.30
M. Lake
{"title":"Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America by Duncan Bell (review)","authors":"M. Lake","doi":"10.2979/victorianstudies.64.4.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.64.4.30","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45845,"journal":{"name":"VICTORIAN STUDIES","volume":"64 1","pages":"705 - 707"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45078824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.4.34
Ushashi Dasgupta
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.4.04
Sukanya Banerjee
Abstract:Drawing attention to the underexamined category of loyalty, this essay argues for the centrality of loyalty to the formation of modernity in Victorian Britain and its empire. In so doing, it teases out the relation between loyalty and affect. Affect plays a key role in rendering loyalty visible. However, as the essay argues, loyalty also operates as flattened affect in ways that are crucial to tracking not only loyalty’s vexed relation with narrativity but also its differentiating effects on a geotemporal scale.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.4.27
B. Newman
{"title":"The Jewish Decadence: Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity by Jonathan Freedman (review)","authors":"B. Newman","doi":"10.2979/victorianstudies.64.4.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.64.4.27","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45845,"journal":{"name":"VICTORIAN STUDIES","volume":"64 1","pages":"698 - 700"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42020222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.4.14
S. Mason
Abstract:This essay takes Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit (1855–57) as a test case for examining the place and purpose of silence in the Victorian city. In the London traversed by Amy Dorrit and Arthur Clennam, silent spaces serve a counterintuitively social function, offering a chance at unmediated connection that technologies such as the telegraph failed to provide. The Iron Bridge in particular fosters the interconnected processes of sonic insulation and social connection at play. Dickens’s use of silence for social connection posits the moderation of sound—the carving out of silence—as a way of prioritizing and protecting intimate exchanges. Ultimately, silence becomes a space for the intimate understanding of oneself, others, and the surrounding world.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.4.32
T. Watson
{"title":"Haiti in the British Imagination: Imperial Worlds, 1847-1915, by Jack Daniel Webb","authors":"T. Watson","doi":"10.2979/victorianstudies.64.4.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.64.4.32","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45845,"journal":{"name":"VICTORIAN STUDIES","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46123635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.4.40
Marjorie Levine-Clark
{"title":"Pauper Voices, Public Opinion and Workhouse Reform in Mid-Victorian England: Bearing Witness by Peter Jones and Steven King (review)","authors":"Marjorie Levine-Clark","doi":"10.2979/victorianstudies.64.4.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.64.4.40","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45845,"journal":{"name":"VICTORIAN STUDIES","volume":"64 1","pages":"727 - 729"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45136969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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