Victorian Studies. Vol. 45.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Allover very good and clean. - Contents: No. 1: Special Issue: Victorian Investments. Guest Editors Cannon Schmitt, Nancy Henry, and Anjali Arondekar -- Introduction: Victorian Investments by Cannon Schmitt, Nancy Henry, and Anjali Arondekar -- ESSAYS -- Writing about Finance in Victorian England: Disclosure and Secrecy in the Culture of Investment by Mary Poovey -- Trollope in the Stock Market: Irrational Exuberance and The Prime Minister by AudreyJaffe -- The First Fund Managers: Life Insurance Bonuses in Victorian Britain by Timothy Alborn -- Capital and Community: Limited Liability and Attempts to Democratize the Market in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England by Donna Loftus -- Fair Enterprise or Extravagent Speculation: Investment, Speculation, and Gambling in Victorian England by David C. Itzkowitz -- BOOK REVIEWS -- Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India, by David Arnold by Gyan Prakash -- Nature�s Museums: Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display, by Carla Yanni; On Exhibit: Victorians and Their Museums, by Barbara J. Black by Tim Barringer -- English Pasts: Essays in History and Culture, by Stefan Collini by Chris Waters -- Useful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect, by Alan Rauch by Frank M. Turner -- Pulling the Devil�s Kingdom Down: The Salvation Army in Victorian Britain, by Pamela Walker by Susan Mumm -- The Temple of Culture: Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America, by Jonathan Freedman by Meri-Jane Rochelson -- Emigration and Empire: The Life of Maria S. Rye, by Marion Diamond by A. James Hammerton -- Gender, Race, and the Writing of Empire: Public Discourse and the Boer War, by Paula Krebs by Deirdre David -- Women of the Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain, by Barbara Onslow by Solveig C. Robinson -- William Makepeace Thackeray: A Literary Life, by Peter Shillingsburg by Richard Pearson -- W. M. Thackeray �s European Sketch Books: A Study of Literary and Graphic Portraiture, by S. S. Prawer by Craig Howes -- An Indolent and Blundering Art? The Etching Revival and the Redefinition of Etching in England 1838-1892, by Emma Chambers by Nancy B. Wilkinson -- The Skilled Compositor, 1830-1914: An Aristocrat among Working Men, by Patrick Duffy by Jonathan Rose -- Striking a Bargain: Work and Industrial Relations in England, 1815- 1865, by James A. Jaffe by Rohan McWilliam -- Trade and Traders in Mid-Victorian Liverpool: Mercantile Business and the Making of a World Port, by Graeme J. Milne by Theodore Koditschek -- The People�s Bread: A History of the Anti-Corn Law League, by Paul A. Pickering and Alex Tyrrell by Miles Taylor -- Gladstone Centenary Essays, edited by David Bebbington and Roger Swift by Bruce L. Kinzer -- Ireland in the Nineteenth Century: Regional Identity, edited by Glenn Hooper and Leon Litvack by Maria Luddy -- The New Woman in Fiction and in Fact: Fin-de-Siecle Feminisms, edited by Angelique Richardson and Chris Willis by Patricia Murphy -- Musical Women in England, 1870-1914: �Encroaching on All Men�s Privileges,� by Paula Gillett; Women Musicians in Victorian Fiction, 1860-1900: Representations of Music, Science and Gender in the Leisured Home, by Phyllis Weliver by Rebecca A. Pope -- Women and Domestic Experience in Victorian Political Fiction, by Susan Johnston by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman -- The Private Rod: Marital Violence, Sensation, and the Law in Victorian Britain, by Marlene Tromp by Melissa Valiska Gregory -- Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science, by Ronald R. Thomas by Caroline Reitz -- �This Rash Act �: Suicide across the Life Cycle in the Victorian City, by Victor Bailey by Pat Jalland -- Victorian Psychology and British Culture 1850-1888, by Rick Rylance by Jenny Bourne Taylor -- The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment, by Amanda Anderson by James Buzard. - No. 2: Preface for a Post-Postcolonial Criticism by Erin O�Connor -- Trollope and the Career: Vocational Trajectories and the Management of Ambition by Nicholas Dames -- Between Labor and Capital: Charlotte Bronte�s Professional Professor by Jennifer Ruth -- REVIEW ESSAYS -- The Changing Face of Darwinism by Michael Ruse -- Recent Work in Victorian Urban Studies by Richard L. Stein -- BOOK REVIEWS -- In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India, by Priya Joshi by Leah Price -- George Eliot and the British Empire, by Nancy Henry by Antoinette Burton -- Rereading the Imperial Romance: British Imperialism and South African Resistance in Haggard, Schreiner, and Plaatje, by Laura Chrisman by Wendy R. Katz -- Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado, by D. Graham Burnett; Geography Militant: Cultures of Exploration and Empire, by Felix Driver by Robert D. Aguirre -- Measuring Jerusalem: The Palestine Exploration Fund and the British Interests in the Holy Land, by John James Moscrop by Billie Melman -- An Empire on Display: English, Indian and Australian Exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War, by Peter H. Hoffenberg by Jeffrey L. Spear -- The Culture of English Geology, 1815-1851: A Science Revealed Through Its Collecting, by Simon J. Knell by Virginia Zimmerman -- Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship o/Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, by James A. Secord by Simon J. Knell -- W M. Thackeray and the Mediated Text: Writing for the Periodicals in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, by Richard Pearson by Andrew Sanders -- Unequal Partners: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Victorian Authorship by Lillian Nayder by Anthea Trodd -- Dickens�s Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture, by Juliet John by John Bowen -- The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel, edited by Deirdre David by Audrey Jaffe -- The Victorians and the Visual Imagination, by Kate Flint; Beyond the Frame: Feminism and Visual Culture, Britain 1850-1900, by Deborah Cherry by Susan P. Casteras -- The Oxford Companion to J. M. W Turner, edited by Evelyn Joli, Martin Butlin, and Luke Herrmann by James A. W. Heffernan -- The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, Volume 2: 1540-1840, edited by Peter Clark; The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, Volume 3: 1840-1950, edited by Martin Daunton by Susan D. Pennybacker -- Hidden Hands: Working-Class Women and Victorian Social-Problem Fiction, by Patricia E. Johnson by Kelly J. Mays -- Women, Scholarship and Criticism: Gender and Knowledge, c. 1790- 1900, edited by Joan Bellamy, Anne Laurence, and Gill Perry by Laurel Brake -- Time Is of the Essence: Temporality, Gender, and the New Woman, by Patricia Murphy by Sherri Catherine Smith -- Women and British Aestheticism, edited by Talia Schaffer and Kathy Alexis Psomiades; The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England, by Talia Schaffer by Angelique Richardson -- Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson, Poet and Decadent, by Jad Adams by Marah Gubar -- Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman, by Catherine Robson by Deirdre David -- The Spectacle of Intimacy: A Public Life for the Victorian Family, by Karen Chase and Michael Levenson by Margaret Homans -- A Victorian Marriage: Mandell and Louise Creighton, by James Covert by Kali Israel -- Henry and Mary Ponsonby: Life at the Court of Queen Victoria, by William M. Kuhn by Martha Vicinus -- The Cambridge Union and Ireland 1815-1914, by Ged Martin by Ian Christopher Fletcher -- George Eliot and Victorian Historiography: Imagining the National Past, by Neil McCaw; Memory and History in George Eliot: Transfiguring the Past, by Hao Li by Rohan Maitzen -- The Realms of Verse: English Poetry in a Time of Nation-Building, by Matthew Reynolds by Herbert F. Tucker. - No. 3: The Progress of Literacy by David Vincent -- John Singer Sargent, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, and the Condition of Modernism in England, 1887 by Anne L. Helmreich -- Culinary Exhibition: Victorian Wedding Cakes and Royal Spectacle by Emily Allen -- REVIEW FORUM -- Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery, by Christopher Herbert -- Suzy Anger -- Bernard Lightman -- Reply by Christopher Herbert -- REVIEW ESSAY -- The Traffic in Victorian Bodies: Medicine, Literature, and History by Roger Cooter -- BOOK REVIEWS -- Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World, by Mike Davis by James Epstein -- Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain, by Peter van der Veer by Lynn Zastoupil -- Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire, by David Cannadine by Ian Christopher Fletcher -- Abject Loyalty: Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland during the Reign of Queen Victoria, by James H. Murphy by Alan O�Day -- Dracula �s Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood, by Joseph Valente by Stephen Arata -- Joyce and the Victorians, by Tracey Teets Schwarze by Rob Breton -- New Approaches to the Literary Art of Anne Bronte, edited by Julie Nash and Barbara A. Suess by Elizabeth Langland -- The Rain of Years: Great Expectations and the World of Dickens, by Bernard N. Schilling; Dickens�s Great Expectations: Misnar�s Pavilion versus Cinderella, by Jerome Meckier by John Glavin -- The Sensation Novel and the Victorian Family Magazine, by Deborah Wynne by Linda K. Hughes -- Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context, edited by Marlene Tromp, Pamela K. Gilbert, and Aeron Haynie by Ann Cvetkovich -- The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness, by Catherine Maxwell by Mary Loeffelholz -- Women �s Poetry and Religion in Victorian England: Jewish Identity and Christian Culture, by Cynthia Scheinberg by Michael Galchinsky -- The Lure of Babylon: Seven Protestant Novelists and Britain �s Roman Catholic Revival, by Michael E. Schiefelbein by Carol Marie Engelhardt -- The National Churches of England, Ireland, and Scotland, 1801-1846, by Stewart J. Brown by Timothy Larsen -- Great Deaths: Grieving, Religion, and Nationhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain, by John Wolffe by Michael Wheeler -- Lord Salisbury �s World: Conservative Environments in Late-Victorian Britain, by Michael Bentley by W. C.Lubenow -- Victorian Political Thought, by H. S. Jones by S. M. den Otter -- Signs of Their Times: History, Labor, and the Body in Cobbett, Carlyle, and Disraeli, by John M. Ulrich by Herbert Sussman -- Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers, edited by W. J. Mander and Alan P. F. Sell by J. B. Schneewind -- The Nineteenth Century: The British Isles, 1815-1901, edited by Colin Matthew by Eric J. Evans -- The Victorian Parlour: A Cultural Study, by Thad Logan by Daphne Spain -- Victorian Writing About Risk: Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World, by Elaine Freedgood by Joseph W. Childers -- Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature, by Nicola Bown by Roderick McGillis -- Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920, by Pamela Thurschwell by Nicholas Daly -- The Borderland of Imbecility: Medicine, Society and the Fabrication of the Feeble Mind in Late Victorian and Edwardian England, by Mark Jackson by Stephen Garton -- Mary Somerville: Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind, by Kathryn A. Neeley by Margaret Murray -- Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England, by George Levine by Laura Otis -- Disciplinarily at the Fin De Siede, edited by Amanda Anderson and Joseph Valente by Regenia Gagnier. - No. 4: �Charming and Sane�: School Editions of Cranford in America, 1905-1914 by Thomas Recchio -- �Fine Fingers�: Victorian Handmade Lace and Utopian Consumption by Elaine Freedgood -- �Melancholy Mad Elephants�: Affect and the Animal Machine in Hard Times by Tamara Ketabgian -- FORUM ON TRANSNATIONALISM -- Same Difference? Transnationalism, Comparative Literature, and Victorian Studies by Sharon Marcus -- International Whiggery by Irene Tucker -- REVIEW FORUM -- Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830-1867, by Catherine Hall -- Antoinette Burton -- Peter Hulme -- Reply by Catherine Hall -- BOOK REVIEWS -- Dreaming in Pictures: The Photography of Lewis Carroll, by Douglas R. Nickel; Lewis Carroll, Photographer: The Princeton University Library Albums, by Roger Taylor and Edward Wakeling by Jennifer Green-Lewis -- Picturing Tropical Nature, by Nancy Leys Stepan by Robert D. Aguirre -- Imperial Medicine: Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease, by Douglas M. Haynes by David Arnold -- Passion and Pathology in Victorian Fiction, by Jane Wood by Athena Vrettos -- Orphan Texts: Victorian Orphans, Culture and Empire, by Laura Peters by Hugh Cunningham -- The Brother-Sister Culture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: From Austen to Woolf, by Valerie Sanders by Leila S. May -- Dickens and the Daughter of the House, by Hilary M. Schor by Eileen Gillooly -- Women and Literature in Britain, 1800-1900, edited by Joanne Shattock by Deirdre d�Albertis -- Florence Fenwick Miller: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, and Educator, by Rosemary T. Van Arsdel by L. Flammang -- Divine Feminine: Theosophy and Feminism in England, by Joy Dixon by Sandra Stanley Holton -- The Theological and Ethical Writings of Frances Power Cobbe, 1822- 1904, by Sandra J. Peacock by Barbara Caine -- A Unique and Glorious Mission: Women and Presbyterianism in Scotland, 1830-1930, by Lesley A. Orr Macdonald by Emma Vincent Macleod -- British Quakerism, 1860-1920: The Transformation of a Religious Community, by Thomas C. Kennedy by Jeffrey Cox -- Rebellion and Remembrance in Modern Ireland, edited by Laurence M. Geary by Peter Hart -- Socialism and Education in Britain, 1883-1902, by Kevin Manton by Joyce Senders Pedersen -- The Controversialist: An Intellectual Life of Goldwin Smith, by Paul T. Phillips by Jeffrey von Arx -- Brunel: The Life and Times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, by Angus Buchanan by David Pike -- Jack the Ripper and the London Press, by L. Perry Curtis, Jr. by Lydia Murdoch -- Print in Transition, 1850-1910: Studies in Media and Book History, by Laurel Brake by Linda K. Hughes -- Splendidly Victorian: Essays in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British History in Honour of Walter L. Arnstein, edited by Michael H. Shirley and Todd E. A. Larson by Carol Marie Engelhardt -- The Private Trustee in Victorian England, by Chantal Stebbings by Richard D. Mallen -- A Probable State: The Novel, the Contract, and the Jews, by Irene Tucker by Bruce Robbins -- Invisible Writing and the Victorian Novel: Readings in Language and Ideology, by Patricia Ingham by Joseph W. Childers -- Victorian Modernism: Pragmatism and the Varieties of Aesthetic Experience, by Jessica R. Feldman by Christopher Lane -- A Queer Chivalry: The Homoerotic Asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins, by Julia F. Saville by Allen J. Salerno -- Networking: Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century, by Laura Otis by Jay Clayton -- Governing Pleasures: Pornography and Social Change in England, 1815-1914, by Lisa Z. Sigel by Ross G. Forman.