{"title":"Faith Without a Creed","authors":"D. Hair","doi":"10.1353/vcr.2021.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2021.0029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40377,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"199 - 202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49059941","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":"Nature on the Page: The Print and Manuscript Culture of Victorian Natural History by Maria Zytaruk (review)","authors":"Elizabeth Bassett","doi":"10.1353/vcr.2021.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2021.0036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40377,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"305 - 308"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46686574","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":"Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America by Duncan Bell, and: Race, Nation, History: Anglo-German Thought in the Victorian Era by Oded Y. Steinberg (review)","authors":"Michael Ledger‐Lomas","doi":"10.1353/vcr.2021.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2021.0035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40377,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"299 - 305"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44421142","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":"Recasting India's Organicism in Rudyard Kipling's Kim","authors":"Brian Reinken","doi":"10.1353/vcr.2021.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2021.0033","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper draws upon the influential nineteenth-century metaphor of society as an organic body to argue that Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim buttresses the British Raj's power by obscuring the true essence of that power's origins. The novel exploits a fundamental paradox when it portrays institutions like the caste system as both natural and artificial in character. As a result of their ambiguity, these institutions evade categorization even while they empower British officials to categorize India's subjects. In this context, Kim's apparently naive faith in organic theory emerges as a calculated ploy both to manipulate and manufacture what it means to be authentically Indian.In turn, this ploy enables the novel to legitimize the Raj's rule in two contradictory ways. On the one hand, Kim suggests that Britain passively respects the harmony that India's communities supposedly exhibit by their very nature. On the other hand, the novel shows that Britain actively enforces harmony in India by artificially imposing boundaries between different communities imagined to be naturally hostile to each other. Ultimately, Kipling's novel seeks to justify the presence of a regulative European power in the subcontinent by appealing simultaneously to the natural and artificial qualities of India's social landscape. In doing so, Kim reveals the so-called facts of nature to be protean fabrications, and it bolsters the Raj's hegemony by means of a distinctively unnatural organicism.","PeriodicalId":40377,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"263 - 279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43260410","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":"\"[W]e Find Nowadays Perpetual Disenchantment on the Score of Cookery\": Victorian Food Writing and Anachronistic Nationalism","authors":"Alisha R. Walters","doi":"10.1353/vcr.2021.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2021.0031","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this paper, I examine early culinary journalism describing French home cookery in British periodicals from 1840–1901. I argue for the symbolic importance of food, and specifically food-related journalism, in the imaginative project of nation building. Such writing provides a largely unexamined record of domestic anxieties about progress during a tumultuous and modernizing period in British history. This body of early food writing uses purportedly genuine—yet deliberately anachronistic—accounts of pre-industrial French cooking to argue for a similar reformation of British domestic habits. These periodical pieces often seek to construct new and exclusive iterations of middle-class identity by creating romantic images of countrified French kitchens that the British middle classes might emulate. French domestic cookery and its apparently unchanged, traditional methods of food preparation serves as an alternate model of domestic improvement for an alarmingly modern Britain—a model based not in industrial futurity but in domestic anachronism.","PeriodicalId":40377,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"225 - 242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43312920","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":"From Spinster to Career Woman: Middle-Class Women and Work in Victorian England by Arlene Young (review)","authors":"A. MacDonald","doi":"10.1353/vcr.2021.0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2021.0037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40377,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Review-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"308 - 312"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45539322","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}