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Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
This quarterly journal of historical and critical studies focuses on one of these four fields: the English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century and Nineteenth Century.
Articles from Vol. 51, No. 4, Autumn
Aspects of Child Labor in Tonna's Helen Fleetwood
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Galia Benziman, Aspects of Child Labor in Tonna's Helen Fleetwood This article explores the unique role of Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna's Helen Fleetwood (1841), one of the first social-problem novels, in shaping the concerns and strategies of the...
Books Received
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Entries with a concluding asterisk were in a lost shipment to the reviewer, noticed too late to be replaced before press time. Replacement copies of these books will be forwarded to our Autumn 2012 reviewer for possible consideration. Ablow, Rachel,...
Evolution and Epilepsy in Bleak House
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Anna Neill, Evolution and Epilepsy in Bleak House In Charles Dickens's novels, nervous seizures trigger dreamy, clairvoyant episodes in which normally imperceptible connections and relations among events and characters come to light. During such...
Feeling Intellect in Aurora Leigh and the Prelude
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Emily V. Epstein Kobayashi, Feeling Intellect in Aurora Leigh and The Prelude Close readings of Aurora Leigh (1856) and The Prelude (1850) reveal parallel passages that demonstrate Elizabeth Barrett Browning's clear revision of William Wordsworth's...
George Eliot's Interrogation of Physiological Future Knowledge
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Shalyn Claggett, George Eliot's Interrogation of Physiological Future Knowledge This essay tracks George Eliot's sustained interest in the epistemological problems surrounding the Victorian tendency to envision the future through the body's materiality....
Jane Austen on Love and Pedagogical Power
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Patrick Fessenbecker, Jane Austen on Love and Pedagogical Power This essay notes initially recent prominence of theories of pedagogy that attempt to "demystify" it and reveal troubling power relations, and their subsequent contention that love is...
Morality's Ugly Implications in Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales
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Justin T. Jones. Morality's Ugly Implications in Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales In Oscar Wilde's two volumes of fairy tales, "The Happy Prince" and Other Tales (1888) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), many central characters meet with premature death...
Reading Embodied Consciousness in Emma
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Antonina Harbus, Reading Embodied Consciousness in Emma The language of Emma (1815) reflects Jane Austen's developing view of embodied consciousness and her particular interest in this novel in the physical manifestations of emotions, such as blushes...
Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century
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Joseph Bristow, Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century An assessment of recent scholarly work treating the literature of the nineteenth century and some general observations on the state of the profession. A full bibliography and price list of...
The Woodlanders and the Cultivation of Realism
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Megan Ward, The Woodlanders and the Cultivation of Realism Thomas Hardy is perhaps best known for his depictions of a nostalgic, rural past--and the interruption of that rural life by modern cultivation. This essay takes as its starting point Hardy's...
