{"title":"Poetess Futures: Unsettling Victorian Poetry at Scale","authors":"A. Chapman","doi":"10.1353/vcr.2022.a900621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2022.a900621","url":null,"abstract":"190 6 Kaur’s use of “we” recalls Webster’s insistent use of the pronoun in her essays and dramatic monologues—and her tongue-in-cheek recommendation that poets use “we” instead of “I” to protect themselves from biographical reading practices (155). While Kaur may seem less concerned than Webster about the distance between poem and biography, in both poets’ work, “we” serves as a constant reminder of the co-presence of reader, poet, and poem.","PeriodicalId":40377,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"190 - 194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48134875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"My Heart Is like a Singing Bird\": The Poetess Tradition and Victorian Song","authors":"M. Arseneau","doi":"10.1353/vcr.2022.a900617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2022.a900617","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40377,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"176 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46764258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mass-Market Spires: Varsity Paperbacks, Guidebooks, and Commodified Nostalgia","authors":"Rachel Stinson","doi":"10.1353/vcr.2022.a900627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2022.a900627","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Broadly, this essay considers the ever-familiar Arnoldian \"dreaming spires\" and \"whispering\" towers variety of Oxford nostalgia as a commercial impetus in Victorian mass-market university touristic literature. Specifically, it brings together two seemingly disparate genres of touristic literature—Oxford tourist guidebook and Victorian varsity novel—in order to highlight their discursive compatibility as purveyors of commodified nostalgia. In both the Victorian Oxford guidebooks (Alden's and Murray's) and Cuthbert Bede's popular varsity novel series, Mr. Verdant Green: Adventures of an Oxford Freshman (1857), Oxford University is a site curated for the tourist's or visitor's nostalgic appreciation, and nostalgia is as much a packaged product as a souvenir—meant to stoke the outsider's sentimental longing for the ancient university but a token of non-belonging nonetheless. Two strands of commodified nostalgia are considered in this essay: a nostalgia of approach and a nostalgia for Oxford as a site/sight of the past, both of which set the university at a distance in the touristic imagination. This essay argues that com-modified nostalgia grants the target outsiders of these neighbouring touristic literatures—varsity novel readers and guidebook tourists—temporary or restricted access to ways of knowing and venerating Oxford, simultaneously allowing the ancient university to maintain its exclusivity, resist touristic trespass, and retreat behind a veil of nostalgic distance.","PeriodicalId":40377,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"271 - 291"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43223359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Landon's Peele Castle","authors":"Isobel Armstrong","doi":"10.1353/vcr.2022.a900612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2022.a900612","url":null,"abstract":"154 Works Cited Bennett, Paula. “Was Sigourney a Poetess? The Aesthetics of Victorian Plenitude in Lydia Sigourney’s Poetry.” Comparative American Studies, vol. 5, no. 3, 2007, pp. 265–89. “Caroline Southey.” Kendal Mercury, 19 Aug. 1854, p. 3. Dimock, Wai Chee. “Genres as Fields of Knowledge.” PMLA, vol. 122, no. 5, 2007, pp. 1377–88. Howitt, William. “The Writings and Genius of Caroline Bowles.” Monthly Repository, May 1834, pp. 336–46. Jackson, Virginia, and Yopie Prins. “Lyrical Studies.” Victorian Literature and Culture, vol. 27, no. 2, 1999, pp. 521–30. Lootens, Tricia. The Political Poetess: Victorian Femininity, Race, and the Legacy of the Separate Spheres. Princeton UP, 2017. Prins, Yopie. “Poetess.” The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, edited by Stephen Suchman et al., Princeton UP, 2012, pp. 1051–54.","PeriodicalId":40377,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"154 - 158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49573038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aging, Duration, and the English Novel: Growing Old from Dickens to Woolf by Jacob Jewusiak (review)","authors":"Benjamin D. O'Dell","doi":"10.1353/vcr.2022.a900634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2022.a900634","url":null,"abstract":"342 these two neglected novels, arguing convincingly that they are more than silver-fork novels, for they function as “windows onto contemporaneous aristocratic mores, and as vehicles for Disraeli’s own political philosophies and for his critiques of rival political beliefs or theories” (130). This diverse collection showcases the wide range of contemporary Disraeli scholarship, and it will doubtless stimulate further “reconsiderations” of Disraeli’s career and works.","PeriodicalId":40377,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"342 - 344"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42086340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Burying the Poetess: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poetesses, and the Male Poetic Tradition","authors":"Beverly Taylor","doi":"10.1353/vcr.2022.a900613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2022.a900613","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40377,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"159 - 162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42579477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Graphing the Poetess","authors":"Susan Brown","doi":"10.1353/vcr.2022.a900622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2022.a900622","url":null,"abstract":"194 Works Cited Brown, Susan. “The Victorian Poetess.” The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry, edited by Joseph Bristow, Cambridge UP, 2000, pp. 180–202. Chapman, Alison. Networking the Nation: British and American Women’s Poetry and Italy, 1840–1870. Oxford UP, 2015. Chapman, Alison, editor, and the DVPP team. Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project. Edition 0.97beta, University of Victoria, 10 Apr. 2022, dvpp.uvic.ca/index.html. ———. “Wilson, Florence Margaret (F).” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.97beta, University of Victoria, 10 Apr. 2022, dvpp.uvic.ca/prs_1506.html. Gardiner, Margaret. “Stock in Trade of Modern Poetesses.” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, edition 0.97beta, University of Victoria, 10 Apr. 2022, dvpp .uvic .ca /poems / keepsake /1833 /pom _3780 _stock _in _trade _of _modern .html. Mermin, Dorothy. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Origins of a New Poetry. U of Chicago P, 1989. Peterson, Linda. “Sappho and the Making of the Tennysonian Lyric.” English Literary History vol. 61, no. 1, Spring 1994, pp. 121–37. Wilson, Florence Margaret. “Dreams.” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, edition 0.97beta, University of Victoria, 10 Apr. 2022, dvpp.uvic.ca/poems/ keepsake/1850/pom_5688_dreams.html.","PeriodicalId":40377,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"194 - 200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44357529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constructing the Disabled Poetess: The Reception and Poetics of Frances Browne","authors":"C. Ehnes, K. Hingston","doi":"10.1353/vcr.2022.a900615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2022.a900615","url":null,"abstract":"166 Oh! Let me list what strains I may, I know my pulse ne’er beats Such perfect time, as then it did to music in the “Streets.” (Boos 284–85) 2 Examples include “Grannie’s Crack Aboot the Famine in Auld Scotlan’, 1739–40” and an allegorical visitation, “Grannie’s Dream. A True Incident” (Boos 81–84, 84–87). 3 Among these are “Effie—A Ballad” (Boos 87–89) and “Mysie, An Aul’ Warl’ but Ower True Story” (Hamilton 215–19). 4 Her “Sibyl, the Far-Seer” offers a semi-autobiographical view of the poet’s role: “Brief her life—a moment’s glory, / Woven thro’ my whole life’s story, / Sweet Sibyl, the Far-Seer!” (People’s and Howitt’s Journal 132). 5 Cf. her celebration of “The Lowly Bard”:","PeriodicalId":40377,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"166 - 170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44942773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}