THE OSCHOLARS

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Vol.  IV                                                                                                                                                  No.  3

issue no 34: March 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review; and we are always willing to consider for publication abstracts or précis of journal articles or published or unpublished doctoral theses.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.

 

 

Announced this month for publication by Duncan Baird in September is Coffee with Oscar Wilde by Merlin Holland with a foreword by Simon Callow (144 pages).  The publisher’s description runs

 

Oscar Wilde’s own grandson, with the help of actor and author Simon Callow—who has performed Wilde’s work on stage—capture the essence of this wittiest of all playwrights.  Set in Paris, where he fled after the scandalous trial that revealed his homosexuality, Wilde chats about language, his mother (an esteemed Irish folklorist), transforming his life into a work of art (“My great tragedy is that I put my genius into my life—and only my talent into my work”), his time in prison, his concept of morality, and why he thinks “in life, style, not sincerity, is essential.”

 

 

 

Danielle Guérin has drawn our attention to an article by Judith R. Walkowitz: ‘The “Vision of Salome”: Cosmopolitanism and Erotic Dancing in Central London, 1908–1918’ which appeared in The American Historical Review, volume CVIII, no 2, April 2003.  This is available on line at http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/108.2/walkowitz.html 

 

 

II.  BookS, ARTICLES & PAPERS of general fin-de-siècle interest

 

Rivendale Press announce the publication of Michael Field and their world, edited by Margaret D. Stetz and Cheryl A. Wilson.

 

Writing as ‘Michael Field,’ Katharine Bradley (1846–1914) and Edith Cooper (1862–1913), the British aunt and niece lesbian couple, produced an enormous and distinguished body of plays and poetry. Long neglected, they now appear frequently in anthologies of Victorian literature, queer literature, and literature by women. This is the first collection of essays to be devoted to their lives, works, relations with contemporaries, and influential legacies, as well as to the critical and theoretical questions raised by their collaboration. The contributors to this volume are some of today’s most prominent scholars of Victorian studies and gender studies from several continents.

 

CONTENTS
Introduction

Margaret D. Stetz and Cheryl A. Wilson

Biography

Rachel Morley:  Talking Collaboratively: Conversations with Michael Field

Katharine (jj) pionke: Michael Field: Gender Knot

Holly Laird:  Michael Field as ‘the Author of Borgia’

Sharon Bickle: Rethinking Michael Field: The Case for the Bodleian Letters

Joseph Bristow: Michael Field’s Lyrical Aestheticism: Underneath the Bough

Contexts: Literary and Cultural Worlds

Rhian K. Williams: Michael Field’s Shakespearean Community

María DeGuzmán: Attributing the Substance of Collaboration as Michael Field

Ed Madden: Penetrating Matthew Arnold

Kit Andrews: The Dialectics of Conversion: Marius and Michael Field

Valerie Fehlbaum: Sisters in Life, Sisters in Art: Ella and Marion Hepworth Dixon

Linda K. Hughes: Reluctant Lions: Michael Field and the Transatlantic Literary Salon of Louise Chandler Moulton

Richard Dellamora: The Sapphic Culture of Michael Field and Radclyffe Hall

Thematics: Sexuality and Religion

Elizabeth Primamore: Michael Field as Dandy Poet

Brooke Cameron: ‘Where Twilight Touches Ripeness Amorously’: The Gaze in Michael Field’s Sight and Song

Frederick S. Roden: Michael Field and the Challenges of Writing a Lesbian Catholicism

Dinah Ward: Michael Field and Saint Sebastian

Chris Snodgrass: Keeping Faith: Consistency and Paradox in the World View of Michael Field

Camille Cauti: Michael Field’s Pagan Catholicism

Diana Maltz: Katharine Bradley and Ethical Socialism

Translations: Textuality and Genre

Julie Wise: Michael Field’s Translations into Verse

Nicholas Frankel: The Concrete Poetics of Michael Field’s Sight and Song

Marion Thain: Apian Aestheticism: Michael Field and the Economics of the Aesthetic

Ana Parejo Vadillo: Outmoded Dramas: History and Modernity in Michael Field’s Aesthetic Plays

Notes on Contributors

 

Hardbound: 15.9 x 23.5 cm, 256 pp., illustrated.  ISBN 1 904201 08 3
£30.00 / $55.00.  To purchase please use our secure Order Form

 

 

 

Valerie Pedlar: The Most Dreadful Visitation.  Liverpool University Press

<< Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning as everything from a simple plot device to a commentary on the foundations of Victorian society. But while madness in Victorian fiction has been much studied, most scholarship has focused on the portrayal of madness in women; male mental  disorder in the period has suffered comparative neglect. Valerie Pedlar corrects this imbalance in The Most Dreadful Visitation. >>

 

For more information, see the book synopsis at http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/154146.ctl

 

 

The following are published by Woodstock Books in England, in a series called Decadents, Symbolists, Anti-Decadents.  The titles are hyperlinked to further information.

 

OLIVE CUSTANCE Opals and Rainbows

JOHN DAVIDSON In a Music-hall and Ballads and Songs

JOHN DAVIDSON Fleet Street Eclogues and A Second Series of Fleet Street Eclogues

ALFRED DOUGLAS The City of the Soul

MICHAEL FIELD Sight and Song and Underneath the Bough

JOHN GRAY Silverpoints and Spiritual Poems

THOMAS HARDY Wessex Poems

WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poems

A.E.HOUSMAN A Shropshire Lad

SELWYN IMAGE/HERBERT HORNE Poems and Carols and Diversi colores

LIONEL JOHNSON Poems

LIONEL JOHNSON Ireland, with other poems

RICHARD LE GALLIENNE Robert Louis Stevenson.

HENRY NEWBOLT The Island Race

VINCENT O'SULLIVAN The Houses of Sin and Poems

VICTOR PLARR In the Dorian Mood

The Book of the RHYMER'S CLUB/The Second Book of the Rhymers' Club

ARTHUR SYMONS Silhouettes and London Nights

ARTHUR SYMONS Images of Good and Evil

FRANCIS THOMPSON Poems

OSCAR WILDE Poems

OSCAR WILDE The Ballad of Reading Gaol

THEODORE WRATISLAW Caprices and Orchids

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poems

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The Wind among the Reeds

 

 

Valancourt Books announces the publication of the first volume in their series of new editions of popular novels of the 1890s, Renshaw Fanning's Quest (1894) by Bertram Mitford, edited with a new introduction and notes by Gerald Monsman.

  
Valancourt are actively seeking suggestions for additions to our list in this area as well as proposals from qualified editors. 

  
James D. Jenkins

Publisher & Editor, Valancourt Books

http://www.valancourtbooks.com/ and http://www.valancourtbooks.com/1890s.html

 

 

Martin Willis and Catherine Wynne (edd.): Victorian Literary Mesmerism. Amsterdam/New York, NY 2006. vi, 273 pp. (Costerus NS 160)

ISBN-10: 90-420-2008-3; ISBN-13: 978-90-420-2008-5                                                                               

€ 56,-/US$ 73.-

 

<< Victorian Literary Mesmerism examines the engagement between literature and mesmerism in Victorian writing. Drawing on recent trends in interdisciplinary literary scholarship the essays collected here investigate the complex connections between scientific mesmerism, its manifestations in the Victorian social and cultural world, and the literary imagination. Here, for the first time, the varied themes and contexts shaped by mesmeric practices are brought together in one volume. Mesmerism’s influence on phrenology, medicine and mental health; its interaction with the occult and with communication technologies; the effects of mesmeric principles on gender and sexuality, as well as on criminal behaviour, are all set within the context of literary texts that interrogate and critique mesmerism’s influence on the Victorians. This volume will be of interest, therefore, to scholars of Victorian literature and the history of science, as well as to those interested in cultural history with a focus on gender, sexuality, and sciences of the mind. >>

 

Martin Willis is Lecturer in English at the University of Glamorgan and author of Mesmerists, Monsters and Machines: Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science in the Nineteenth Century. Catherine Wynne is Lecturer in English at the University of Hull and author of The Colonial Conan Doyle: British Imperialism, Irish Nationalism, and the Gothic.

 

 

Sophie Basch et Pierre Chuvin (ed) : Pitres et Pantins. Transformations du masque comique, de l’Antiquité au théâtre d’ombres. PUPS, coll. Theatrum Mundi, mai 2007

 

This long general survey contains the following of interest to us :

 

Sophie Basch & Pierre Chuvin : Introduction. Le théâtre des masques

Alexandre Farnoux :  Le masque, de l’Antiquité à l’Europe moderne

Jean-Claude Yon : Lucien Augé de Lassus (1841-1914) : passeur culturel ou simple vulgarisateur ?

Guy Ducrey : Retours romanesques du mime antique autour de 1900 

Olivier Bivort (Université de la Vallée d’Aoste) : Le petit théâtre de Verlaine, où il est parlé entre autres de pitres, de pantins et de pantomimes

Sophie Basch : Le Théâtre d’ombres des Romantiques : Nerval, Gautier et Champfleury, spectateurs de Karagöz

Hélène Védrine : Le Chat Noir sous l’œil noir de l’homme de Constantinople

En guise de conclusion : « Les comédies de la mort » de Paul de Saint-Victor

Bibliographie générale

 

 

III.         Journals

1.  New Theatre Journal

A new, peer-refereed electronic journal, MOFA, will be launched in Autumn 2007 by IATR, the Israeli Association of Theatre Research.

 

MOFA (‘performance’ in Hebrew) will be devoted to the publication of refereed articles in English, covering all areas of the Performing Arts. It will be issued by IATR, the association of researchers of theatre and performance from all Higher Education Institutes in Israel which grant academic degrees in theatre.

 

In accordance with IATR's agenda, MOFA, as its written organ, will aspire to artistic and academic excellence. It will be a vehicle of expression for all artists, creators and academics, representing the range of affiliations and concerns embodied in the performing arts and their research. As an international publication, it will give platform to articles from around the world, with a special interest in articles that build bridges between artists and researchers of art and culture in the troubled area where it is published. We will regard as one of our major tasks the enhancement of dialogue, joint projects, and discussions that further the prospects for peace and mutual understanding between individuals, communities and peoples; while respecting alterity and multi-vocal approaches to performing arts and culture, and what they represent in and for humanity.

 

The advisory board already committed to accompany the new publication (please see above), will help assure that this new publication maintains high standards. We welcome all local and international theatre and performance scholars and practitioners and urge you to contribute the fruits of your work to our new magazine.

 

Submission deadline for the first issue (due September 2007) is: 15th May, 2007. Please address all queries, and submit papers, in electronic version, edited according to MLA style sheet, 2003 version, to mofaed@gmail.com.

 

 

2.  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

3.  Arts & Crafts Newsletter

The 63rd issue of Mark Golding’s Arts and Crafts Newsletter, now called Art Chronicle, An Illustrated Journal of Arts and Crafts, has now been published (March 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 March’s 'Arts & Crafts Home Newsletter' please click on the link www.achome.co.uk and MARCH 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.

 

 

4.  British Art Journal

The December 2006 issue is announced of British Art Journal (‘The research journal of British Arts Studies’, founded in 1999), but no Table of Contents is as yet published and the website is unchanged since then.   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.

 

 

5.   Cahiers Octave Mirbeau

No 14, 332 pages, has now been published (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 – XIX^e et XX^e 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.

 

 

6.   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.

 

<< Contemporary Theatre Review analyses what is most passionate and vital in theatre today. It encompasses a wide variety of theatres, from new playwrights and devisors to theatres of movement, image and other forms of physical expression, from new acting methods to music theatre and multi-media production work. Recognising the plurality of contemporary performance practices, it encourages contributions on physical theatre, opera, dance, design and the increasingly blurred boundaries between the physical and the visual arts.

The editors aim to publish essays that face the challenge of finding new critical approaches to match artistic innovations and work that transcends established categories. This involves both a focus on productions that invent their own generic forms by juxtaposing different artistic traditions and a consideration of how theatre engages with social and political realities. As such the journal examines trends in contemporary theatre, including the mainstream, and seeks to explore how theatrical vocabularies are shifting to accommodate and reflect the dynamics and/or tensions within global and local cultures.

Contemporary Theatre Review opens up new perspectives on the work of major innovators and companies. It aims to cover developments in design, scenography and theatre architecture. It gives a privileged place to assessing the productions and cultural policies of the major international festivals since these are accessible to a large audience, including students, specialists and enthusiasts. On occasion it will also commission articles on burning issues in theatre research and training.

Contemporary Theatre Review is an international peer-reviewed journal. The editors send out every submission, in anonymous form, to expert referees for a report. These anonymous reports are then fed back to the authors of the submissions for their consideration. No article is published in CTR without going through this rigorous process of refereeing and editing. As well as research articles the journal publishes production notes, documents and interviews (to be collected from 2006 in an new 'Documents' section).

The Backpages arena (curated by Dan Rebellato) is an opportunity for the academy to engage with theatre and performance practice with immediacy and insight and for theatre workers and performance artists to engage critically and reflectively on their work and the work of their peers. Featuring short, topical articles and debates, polemics where necessary, it's a place of intellectual intervention and creative reflection. It's also where we hope to articulate, perhaps for the first time, the work of new and rising theatre artists in an academic forum.

The imagined readership should therefore be an ordinary intelligent theatre worker. We don't use footnotes, but if precise reference is important to the article, they can incorporated into the body of the text. We would actively like to encourage precise analysis written with style and sophistication. We are not very interested in purely personal responses to the theatre, or heavily autobiographical writing; an engagement with the world should be the main focus of the writing. Topical material is very welcome but we don't publish reviews. Photographic illustrations are very welcome but please bear in mind there is no budget for this.

Backpages aims to have a bigger picture than the critics and to be more immediate than the usual time delays of the drama Academy.

The current editor of Backpages, Dan Rebellato, is happy to correspond about any aspect of Backpages at d.rebellato@rhul.ac.uk. Drafts and ideas for articles can also be sent to any member of the Backpages editorial team, listed in each issue at the end of the section.

The Book Reviews section publishes critical engagements with the most significant new books in the fields of contemporary theatre and performance. The aim is to provide, in the space of a 400-word review, an authoritative, challenging and sometimes provocative survey of important contributions to the field. The longer review article - in which one or more books become the occasion for a wider discussion of issues in contemporary theatre - will be a regular feature of the section. For further information or suggestions of books to review contact Jen Harvie at j.harvie@qmul.ac.uk. >> 

 

7.   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.

 

 

8.  Etudes Anglaises

 

This is a quarterly covering all periods of English literature and its Tables of Contents since 2001 can be consulted on the site reached by clicking the illustration.  The latest issue was Volume 59 no 4, October-December 2006.   The most recent article on Wilde was « An age of surfaces » : le langage de la comédie dans The Importance of Being Earnest d’Oscar Wilde »  by Alexis Tadié, which appeared in Vol. 58 no.3, July-September 2005.

We will monitor this journal more closely in future issues.

 

 

 

9.  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 (Last updated: 1 September 2006.)

 

è NOTA BENE: A Call for Papers for the next Gissing Conference will be found on our page ‘Being Talked About’.

 

 

10.    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.

 

 

11.   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.  Published weekly, It is linked to the website http://www.ibookcollector.com and will be sent on application to info@ibookcollector.com. 

 

 

12.          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 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.

 

13.           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.

 

 

14.   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.

 

 

15.   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 V No 1 (Spring 2007), The Thames Special Edition guest edited by Steve Barfield, Stuart Oliver, and Alexandra Warwick, is now on line.

 

 

16.         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.

 

 

17.          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.  The next issue will be in April 2007.

 

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

 

 

 

18.   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 2007 edition (volume VI number 1) is now published.  The leading articles for late nineteenth century scholars of the Autumn 2006 edition were listed in our December issue.  The only article in the current issue relating to our period is "Wicked with Roses": Floral Femininity and the Erotics of Scent by Christina Bradstreet, who explores nineteenth-century constructions of femininity by looking at the motif of women inhaling floral fragrance in British painting and visual culture, from about 1880 to 1910; but a list of reviews is below (hyperlinked):

 

 

‡ For a complete bibliography of the works of Professor Weisberg, click here.

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

 

 

19.           Nineteenth Century Gender Studies

 

Issue 3.1 (Spring 2007) of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies is now available online. You can find it at
http://www.ncgsjournal.com/

Among the articles and reviews in the previous edition we noted:

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. 

 

This current issue contains among other items

 Articles

Giuseppe Albano, “Robert Louis Stevenson’s Fabulous Salubriousness”

Susan P. Casteras, “Reader, Beware: Images of Victorian Women and Books”

Reviews

Kathleen Blake, “Tolerating the Dismal Science.” Review of Catherine Gallagher’s The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel.

Simon Humphries, “The Nothing That She Says.” Review of Constance W. Hassett’s Christina Rossetti: The Patience of Style.

Nicholas Birns, “Outlandish and Sensational.” Review of Kimberly Harrison and Richard Fantina’s Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre and Timothy L. Carens’s Outlandish English Subjects in the Victorian Domestic Novel.

Lisa Hartsell Jackson, “Bruised Faces, Private Places, Public Gazes.” Review of Lisa Surridge’s Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction.

Dagni Bredesen, “Investigating the Female Detective in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction.” Review of Joseph A. Kestner’s Sherlock’s Sisters: The British Female Detective 1864-1913.

Chris Louttit, “Sexing the Victorians.” Review of Seth Koven’s Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London and Holly Furneaux and Anne Schwan’s Dickens and Sex.

 

Editors-in-Chief: Stacey Floyd and Melissa Purdue

Reviews Editor: Lauren Goodlad

Technical Editor: Josh Reid

 

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.

 

 

20.           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

 

Volume 20, the issue for 2006, is still announced on the website as forthcoming at the time ofd compiling this March edition of THE OSCHOLARS, 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.  E-mail: dhanson@selu.edu

 

 

 

21.           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 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.

 

 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.

 

22.           The Review of the PRS

 

The current issue is Vol. XIV, No. 3, Autumn 2006.  Click the image for the Table of Contents.

 

 

 

23.          Revue d’Histoire Moderne & Contemporaine : 53-4, octobre-décembre 2006

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.

 

This edition, edited by Florence Tamagne, was devoted to the history of homosexualities in Europe : 19th and 20th centuries.  The full Table of Contents appeared in our issue of February 2007; we repeat below the names of the articles most near to this journal’s interests.

 

Sharon Marcus – L’amitié entre femmes dans l’Angleterre victorienne

Sociabilités : géographies urbaines de la Belle Époque:

Régis Révenin – L’émergence d’une subculture à Paris

Nicole Albert – Une topographie des plaisirs lesbiens.

 

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.

 

 

 

24.           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.

 

 

25.          V&A Magazine

We have discontinued our coverage of this vapid publication unless it is linked to an exhibition concerned with our subjects. 

 

 

 

26.           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 March 2007 edition (Vol. 35 no. 1,) was actually published on the 22nd January.  It can be reached by clicking the banner below, but the site is not an easy one to navigate.

 

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.

 

 

 

27.       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) was given in our issue for February 2007.

 

 

 

28.           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.  The journal is still promoted on the Victoria Research Web, but without giving it an e-address.  We welcome news.

 

 

29.          Victorians Institute Journal

 

Forthcoming in the Victorians Institute Journal:

Volume 35 (2007) will feature essays on Collins, Gaskell, Arnold and other Victorian topics, and a full slate of reviews.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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