{"title":"Illustration in Fin-de-Siècle Transatlantic Romance Fiction by Kate Holterhoff (review)","authors":"Catherine J. Golden","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2022.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2022.0034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46489410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nineteenth-Century Reviews and Reviewing: Communication, Compression, and Commerce","authors":"Laurel Brake, Fionnuala Dillane, Mark W. Turner","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2022.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2022.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The book review is a mercurial mode. Is it a genre, a form, or a techne? Is the review so capacious in expression and function that it discourages efforts to talk about it in general terms? Is it as a textual object separable from the act of reviewing; that is, does the noun always imply the verb? How do we navigate the range of affordances that attach to reviewing as a process, a profession, an act of production? This introduction to a special issue on the book review in the nineteenth-century addresses these questions to expand our knowledge of reviewing culture and offer conceptual frameworks for studying reviews.","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44987164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle: Citizens of Nowhere by Stefano Evangelista (review)","authors":"E. Liggins","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2022.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2022.0021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42420679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America ed. by Ann R. Hawkins et al (review)","authors":"Douglas A. Guerra","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2022.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2022.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42356137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reviews as Re-Views: Onymity, Pseudonymity, Anonymity, and Kotzebue’s Life","authors":"Nora Ramtke","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2022.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2022.0026","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article builds on the etymological roots of the term “review” to explore the idea of the review as a re-view and to examine its metaphorical implications and fictional potential. Drawing on the German author and playwright August von Kotzebue, who had featured prominently on the British stage before he was assassinated in 1819, this article discusses Kotzebue’s onymous weekly Literarisches Wochenblatt, the pseudonymous literary mystification of epistolary reviews from the underworld, and anonymous reviews of Kotzebue’s biography in the British press as three modes of critical communication.","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44703374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To Swell a Scene: Reviewing Books and History in Mookerjee’s Magazine","authors":"Priti Joshi","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2022.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2022.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay examines the Calcutta-based Mookerjee’s Magazine (1861, 1872–76) as a case to examine shifts in the review function in Indian-edited magazines in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. In the anti-colonial nation-making that swept over much of the Indian subcontinent, book reviews were pressed into the role of producing indigenous histories. The turn to history altered the book review, which morphed from a review of books into a general review—or overview—of an historical moment.","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47861101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vagrancy and the Victorian Age: Representing the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture by Alistair Robinson (review)","authors":"Luke Seaber","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2022.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2022.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47621187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Isabel Seidel, A. Moulds, Beth Gaskell, Porscha Fermanis, Priti Joshi, Jonathan Farina, K. Malone, Fionnuala Dillane, J. Codell, E. Liggins, Douglas A. Guerra, Kristin E. Kondrlik, Luke Seaber, Laurel Brake, Mark W. Turner, Nora Ramtke
{"title":"Reviewers and Reviewees: Margaret Oliphant’s Literary Criticism and Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Sensation Novels","authors":"Isabel Seidel, A. Moulds, Beth Gaskell, Porscha Fermanis, Priti Joshi, Jonathan Farina, K. Malone, Fionnuala Dillane, J. Codell, E. Liggins, Douglas A. Guerra, Kristin E. Kondrlik, Luke Seaber, Laurel Brake, Mark W. Turner, Nora Ramtke","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2022.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2022.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:After Margaret Oliphant referred to Mary Elizabeth Braddon as the leader of the bigamy school of fiction in an 1867 Blackwood’s review, Braddon commissioned George Augustus Sala to write a riposte for her magazine, Belgravia. Scholars have explored the effect of Oliphant’s criticism on Braddon and Belgravia, but little attention has been paid to the fact that Oliphant responded directly to Sala’s accusations in her subsequent review articles in Blackwood’s. Taking the Braddon-Sala affair as a turning point in Oliphant’s literary criticism, this essay examines Oliphant’s review articles of the 1870s to demonstrate how the debate over sensation influenced her critical ethics.","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49015762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medical Identities and Print Culture, 1830s–1910s by Alison Moulds (review)","authors":"Kristin E. Kondrlik","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2022.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2022.0023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44123973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crafting the Professional Reader: Book Reviews in the Military and Medical Press","authors":"A. Moulds, Beth Gaskell","doi":"10.1353/vpr.2022.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2022.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines nonprofessional book reviews in journals aimed at two traditional professional fields: medicine and the military. The review columns of the Lancet, British Medical Journal, Medical Press and Circular, United Service Journal, the Broad Arrow, and the United Service Gazette covered a surprisingly diverse range of subjects, including fiction, travel writing, history, and the arts. These reviews demonstrate the broad range of content within professional journals and the blurred boundaries between professional life and genteel culture in this period. Ultimately, book reviews played an instrumental role in the formation of professional identity and helped build imagined communities.","PeriodicalId":44337,"journal":{"name":"Victorian Periodicals Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41986346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}