Pub Date : 2024-09-13DOI: 10.1017/s1060150323001006
Faith Smith
In this essay I read debates about amenities of water and waste in the British Caribbean in the late and immediate post-Victorian period through histories of intimacy and kinship centered in fiction by Caribbean writers of the last twenty years. In these novels and short stories, collecting water at a stream or a standpipe or emptying a chamber pot are actions that produce or recall moments of desire and aspiration, shame and punishment, in storylines that move between a past of enslavement and indentureship in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and a present of political and psychological stasis or upheaval in the 1950s, 1970s, or the early twenty-first century. Nineteenth-century discussions about fire hydrants or standpipes index a British Caribbean colony's evolving landscape of modernization and the disagreements about what shape and speed this process should take, and recent fiction allows us to discern how these amenities inherit and bequeath associations of trauma.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-12DOI: 10.1017/s1060150323000852
Jayne Hildebrand
This essay argues that Edwin Abbott's 1884 science fiction novel, Flatland, engages Victorian theological debates about the dimensionality of spiritual beings to reexamine the epistemological relationship between readers and literary characters. Liberal theologians at the fin de siècle turned to mathematical models of higher dimensions to reconcile the existence of immaterial spirits with a rational framework. Abbott's novel, set in a ghostly plane world populated only by polygons, imagines characters as analogous to spiritual forms in both their immateriality and their resistance to empirical modes of perception. Yet where theologians turned to higher dimensions to render immaterial entities scientifically knowable, Flatland uses its protagonist's higher-dimensional explorations to defamiliarize realism's techniques for making characters knowable—specifically, its spatialization of characters as beings with an accessible, dimensional interiority that grants readers a feeling of omniscience. Dismissing this omniscient relation to character as a posture that invites a dangerous epistemological complacency, Flatland uses its dimensional conceit to dramatize instead the strenuous imaginative work a reader must perform to temporarily inhabit a character's limited perspective—work that Abbott conceives as uniquely theological. For Abbott, theology thus acts not as a discourse of certainty and doctrinal closure but rather as a vital imaginative resource for rethinking fictional form.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-12DOI: 10.1017/s1060150323001092
Diana Rose Newby
This essay argues that Leslie Marmon Silko's 1999 historical-fiction novel Gardens in the Dunes enables Indigenous-centered interventions into Victorian studies, ecocriticism, and their intersection. Dramatizing an animistic Native American view of nature as agentic and enspirited, Silko's novel critiques Victorian plant hunting as rooted in settler-colonial logic that treats nature as inert. In turn, through representations of late Victorian gardeners, Silko suggests that British horticulture was also informed by colonial and capitalist ways of thinking about plants. At the same time, however, the novel locates an animistic strain running through Victorian gardening discourses, which I demonstrate through readings of Victorian garden books depicting plants as agentic and enspirited. Silko, I argue, invites us to revisit the late nineteenth century as characterized by a cultural revival of animistic thought, even as this period also saw the racist stigmatization of animism in the field of Victorian anthropology. I connect this fraught discursive moment in British history to an inherited hesitation toward animism in contemporary Victorian studies and ecocriticism, a hesitation that has contributed to uneven engagement with Indigenous thought in both fields. In response, this essay explicates and emulates Silko's critical methodology for an undisciplining engagement with animism in white-authored, ecocritical Victorian studies.
这篇文章认为，莱斯利-马蒙-席尔科（Leslie Marmon Silko）1999 年创作的历史小说《沙丘上的花园》（Gardens in the Dunes）使得以土著为中心的维多利亚研究、生态批评及其交叉学科得以介入。西尔科的小说将万物有灵的美洲原住民自然观演绎为有动力、有灵性的自然，批判了维多利亚时期的植物狩猎行为，认为这种行为植根于殖民者将自然视为惰性的殖民逻辑。反过来，通过对维多利亚晚期园艺家的描写，席尔科表明英国园艺学也受到殖民主义和资本主义植物思维方式的影响。与此同时，这部小说还发现了一种贯穿维多利亚园艺论述的万物有灵的倾向，我通过对维多利亚园艺书籍的解读来证明这一点，这些书籍将植物描绘成具有能动性和灵性的植物。我认为，席尔科邀请我们重新审视以万物有灵思想的文化复兴为特征的 19 世纪晚期，尽管这一时期维多利亚时期的人类学领域也出现了对万物有灵论的种族主义污名化。我将英国历史上这一充满争议的时刻与当代维多利亚研究和生态批评中对万物有灵论的固有犹豫联系起来，这种犹豫导致了这两个领域对土著思想的不均衡参与。作为回应，这篇文章阐释并效仿了西尔科的批评方法论，即在白人撰写的生态批评维多利亚研究中对万物有灵论的无学科参与。
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Pub Date : 2024-04-15DOI: 10.1017/s1060150323000815
Siddharth Satpathy
This essay studies the formation of a political language of rajabhakti or monarchical loyalty in the Odia-language print sphere in the second half of the nineteenth century. This language revolved around the key terms of Providence, market rationalism, and character. The article traces the provincial careers of these crucial Victorian terms and explores their entanglement with local histories and discourses in the colony. It shows how the language of monarchical loyalty enabled provincial Victorians to construct and inhabit their everyday lifeworlds in the empire.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-15DOI: 10.1017/s106015032300075x
John Mcleod
This essay examines an 1877 Gujarati translation of Queen Victoria's Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands. It was the work of M. M. Bhownaggree, later a British MP. The essay explores the circumstances under which Bhownaggree undertook the translation, its content, and its intended audience. It closes with some observations on the book's place in the history of Indian royalism, the place of Indian royalism in the development of modern Gujarati literature, and the interplay of the Gujarati identity that was emerging in the latter part of the nineteenth century with both royalism and Indian nationalism.
这篇文章探讨了 1877 年古吉拉特语翻译的维多利亚女王的《我们在高地的生活日志》。该译本出自 M. M. Bhownaggree 之手，他后来成为英国国会议员。这篇文章探讨了布纳格里进行翻译的背景、内容和目标读者。文章最后对该书在印度王权主义历史中的地位、印度王权主义在古吉拉特现代文学发展中的地位，以及 19 世纪后半叶古吉拉特人的身份认同与王权主义和印度民族主义之间的相互作用提出了一些看法。
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Pub Date : 2024-04-15DOI: 10.1017/s1060150323000761
Arti Minocha
This essay examines two travel narratives written by Hardevi, a woman from Lahore who traveled to London for Queen Victoria's jubilee in 1887. The accounts contain Hardevi's narration of her journey by ship and describe the celebrations. Hardevi showcases the queen's marital home and her conjugal life, seamlessly accommodating them within reformist constructions of a modern, educated, pativrata (conjugally virtuous) Indian woman. Hardevi's encounter with the queen at the heart of the empire opens up a conceptual space of possibilities for a modern, gendered self. This article examines her deployment of a mode of subjectivity that allows her to be, simultaneously, an obedient and fascinated colonial subject of the imperial spectacle and also a citizen-subject who claims the agency of critique.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-15DOI: 10.1017/s1060150323000803
Siddharth Satpathy
The collected essays in this “Vernacular Victoria” issue explore representations of Queen Victoria in Indian languages. They study how complex practices of loyalty to monarchical forms of authority enabled Indians to create and inhabit their diverse lifeworlds. They analyze how the uneven socialization of print and the complex cultures of literary production in colonial India shaped articulations of loyalty. “Vernacular Victoria” is about histories of Indian aspirations and negotiations, celebrations and disappointments. Victoria enables this special issue to contribute to a more global understanding of the field known as Victorian studies.
本期 "Vernacular Victoria "收集的文章探讨了维多利亚女王在印度语言中的表现形式。他们研究了对君主制权威形式的复杂忠诚实践是如何使印度人创造并居住在他们不同的生活世界中的。他们分析了印度殖民时期印刷品不均衡的社会化和复杂的文学创作文化如何塑造了忠诚的表述。"维多利亚方言 "讲述的是印度人的愿望与谈判、庆祝与失望的历史。维多利亚》使本特刊能够促进全球对维多利亚研究领域的理解。
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Pub Date : 2024-04-15DOI: 10.1017/s1060150323000840
Ellen A. Ambrosone
This article surveys works from Kerala related to Queen Victoria and situates M. R. Madhava Warrier's (1893–1952) biography, Victoria Maharani (1931), against the backdrop of early twentieth-century Travancore. It draws on threads related to the position of women on the Malabar coast, the actions of the maharani regent at the time, Sethu Lakshmi Bayi (r. 1924–31), and the political and social climate at the time of her reign. It also considers the relationship between the qualities of Queen Victoria praised in Victoria Maharani, reforms instituted by Sethu Lakshmi Bayi, and the reputation of both in Travancore.
本文对喀拉拉邦与维多利亚女王有关的作品进行了调查，并将 M. R. Madhava Warrier（1893-1952 年）的传记《Victoria Maharani》（1931 年）置于 20 世纪早期特拉万科的背景之下。该书以马拉巴尔海岸的妇女地位、当时的马哈拉尼摄政王塞图-拉克希米-巴伊（Sethu Lakshmi Bayi，1924-1931 年在位）的行为以及她统治时期的政治和社会环境为线索。本研究还探讨了《维多利亚王后》中赞扬的维多利亚女王的品质、塞图-拉克希米-巴伊推行的改革以及两者在特拉万科的声誉之间的关系。
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Pub Date : 2024-04-15DOI: 10.1017/s1060150323000785
Pritipuspa Mishra
The death of Queen Victoria occasioned the publication of commemorative narratives in early twentieth-century Odisha. They serve as site for understanding how feminine authority was imagined as the Odia literati engaged in a fraught movement for the formation of a separate province of Odisha. They imagined an Odia motherland in relation to figures of maternal authority such as mother India and mother Victoria. This article explores this vernacular representation of the queen as mother in the work of the poet Madhusudan Rao. By drawing on traditions of lament and maternal authority, the article illustrates how Rao used lament to carve out a palimpsest of multiple identities, from imperial subjecthood to regional belonging.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-15DOI: 10.1017/s1060150323000773
Mandakini Dubey
“Aajkal Agra ka mausam kaisa hai?” Queen Victoria asks herself, alone in her sumptuous quarters at Osborne House.1 How is the weather in Agra these days? Polite small talk, the loose change of a British monarch's verbal currency, recasts itself in unfamiliar phonemes as the empress of India practices her Hindustani. Soon, Agra will retreat from the imperial consciousness; it will be time to go to the durbar room, or work on her Urdu writing under the munshi's tutelage, perhaps before lunching on chicken curry.2
"Aajkal Agra ka mausam kaisa hai？维多利亚女王独自一人在奥斯本宫奢华的居所中自问自答1。彬彬有礼的闲聊是英国君主的口头货币，在这位印度女皇练习印度斯坦语的时候，她用陌生的音素重塑了自己。很快，阿格拉就会从帝国意识中消失；她该去杜巴厅了，或者在门西的指导下练习乌尔都语写作，也许在午餐前还可以吃点咖喱鸡2。
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