Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.03
C. Otter
With respect to raw materials, we shall most likely have, from all quarters of the globe, specimens of animal and vegetable life, as well as of minerals,—samples of what is in the earth and what is produced on the earth. In the class of animal substances, we shall probably have enormous elephants’ tusks from Africa and Asia; leather from Morocco and Russia; Beaver from Baffin’s Bay; the wools of Australia, of Yorkshire, and of Thibet; silk from Asia and from Europe; and furs from the Esquimaux. As the evidence of what we may expect from the suggested exposition, I may state that the Court of Directors of the East India Company intend to exhibit the best of everything that India can produce; and we shall therefore probably obtain, by this means, the best practical notion of the value of our East Indian possessions. (55)
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.21
A. Patrick
{"title":"Victorian Poetry and the Poetics of the Literary Periodical by Caley Ehnes (review)","authors":"A. Patrick","doi":"10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45845,"journal":{"name":"VICTORIAN STUDIES","volume":"64 1","pages":"489 - 490"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48151027","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 : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.37
M. Tusan
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.38
P. Fletcher
{"title":"The Tastemakers: British Dealers and the Anglo-Gallic Interior, 1785–1865 by Diana Davis (review)","authors":"P. Fletcher","doi":"10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.38","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45845,"journal":{"name":"VICTORIAN STUDIES","volume":"64 1","pages":"526 - 527"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43208784","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 : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.22
Troy J. Bassett
{"title":"Victorian Literary Businesses: The Management and Practices of the British Publishing Industry by Marrisa Joseph (review)","authors":"Troy J. Bassett","doi":"10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.22","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45845,"journal":{"name":"VICTORIAN STUDIES","volume":"64 1","pages":"491 - 492"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45413134","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 : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.11
Carolyn M. Dever
muddles our familiar sense of unified agency. A subject leading and a subject being led: who is doing the living? The fragmented image is further troubled by the plurality Miller postulates, namely, that one could have led many lives (but, alas, lives one). Moreover, we are haunted by the suggestion that the singular life we are living is not being sufficiently well lived—or is, in a Thoreauvian sense, “unlived” (xvi). “When I described my project to a friend,” Miller confides, “he said, ‘Ah—YOLO + FOMO’” (162). It is an algorithm that fits the times, no doubt, and a tidy condensation, yet it may skirt the shades of difference between “unled” (possible but not taken) and “unlived” (actual but not fulfilled). Those familiar with work on unled lives by Gary Saul Morson, Michael André Bernstein, Hilary Dannenberg, Catherine Gallagher, and perhaps most spiritually aligned, Adam Phillips and James Wood, should find Miller’s accomplished pastiche of value. In addition to his knowing selection and assembly of examples (a veritable commonplace book of unled lives), Miller is a profoundly gifted close reader—someone whose company one would like to keep, and return to again and again. David LaRocca Cornell University
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.10
David LaRocca
{"title":"On Not Being Someone Else: Tales of Our Unled Lives by Andrew H. Miller (review)","authors":"David LaRocca","doi":"10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45845,"journal":{"name":"VICTORIAN STUDIES","volume":"64 1","pages":"466 - 468"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46643964","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 : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.01
Yang-Ho Lee
Abstract:This essay situates Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins's "The Perils of Certain English Prisoners" (1857), which critics have traditionally read as a reaction to the so-called Indian Mutiny, in a wider imperial context by foregrounding its setting of the Mosquito Coast in 1744. Reading the silver trade, which connects the setting of 1744 to the publication date of 1857, and connecting Britain to South America and China, this essay argues that "The Perils" enacts transimperial entanglements, presenting the British Empire as imbued with an expanded temporality and terrestrial reach that extends beyond its formal political boundaries. In "The Perils," Dickens and Collins locate 1857 and India in a genealogy of empire rather than treating the Mutiny as a significant but topical moment. In doing so, they forge connections with a fictional past of British ascendency in the silver trade, overlaying the historical mahogany and opium trades, to project a British-dominated imperial future, while simultaneously displacing and erasing Indigenous peoples in the transformation of the landscape for British benefit.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.18
M. Christian
{"title":"Stereoscopic London: Plays of Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw and Arthur Wing Pinero in the 1890s by Gül Kurtuluş (review)","authors":"M. Christian","doi":"10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.64.3.18","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45845,"journal":{"name":"VICTORIAN STUDIES","volume":"64 1","pages":"482 - 483"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46314788","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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