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Eitan Bar-Yosef and Nadia Valman
'THE JEW' IN LATE-VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN CULTURE: BETWEEN THE EAST END AND EAST AFRICA
(PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2009) xii + 241 pp.
Reviewed by Todd Endelman
on 2010-02-08.
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Acknowledgement
of the multi-racial, multi-national, and multi-religious character of Britain's
population at the start of the twenty-first century has led the academy to expand
the ways in which it studies the literature of earlier centuries. It is now common to ask how representations of
aliens, outsiders, strangers, and other "others," as well as the work these
imagined "others" perform in fiction and poetry, illuminate larger cultural
anxieties and political concerns.Click here to read the full review.
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Susan B. Egenolf
THE ART OF POLITICAL FICTION IN HAMILTON, EDGEWORTH, AND OWENSON
(Ashgate, 2009) ix+209pp.
Reviewed by Fiona Price
on 2010-02-02.
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This book sets out to explore the political engagement and artistic skill of
three Romantic period women novelists - Elizabeth Hamilton, Maria Edgeworth and
Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan). Edgeworth and Owenson are of course often
considered together because of their participation in the genre of the national
tale (although their positions on Ireland are quite different), but here the
addition of Hamilton allows suggestive contrasts and similarities in the three
writers' treatment of the colonial subject...
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Kathleen Blake
THE PLEASURES OF BENTHAMISM: VICTORIAN LITERATURE, UTILITY, POLITICAL ECONOMY
(Oxford, November 2009) 267pp.
Reviewed by Regenia Gagnier
on 2010-02-02.
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I have been
referring students and colleagues to Kathleen Blake's scattered essays and
lectures as a corrective to less informed treatments of Bentham and utilitarianism since I first
heard Blake speak about Bentham on sex at the "Locating the Victorians:
Interdisciplinary Conference for the Sesquicentenary of the Great Exhibition"
in London, July 2001. Now her articles and lectures have appeared in the book
that makes the strongest case...
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Tony E. Jackson
THE TECHNOLOGY OF THE NOVEL: WRITING AND NARRATIVE IN BRITISH FICTION
(Johns Hopkins, 2009) ix + 234 pp
Reviewed by Laura M. White
on 2009-09-21.
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The title of this book seems to promise that
it will examine the role of technology as a theme or subject in the British
novel, with a chapter, perhaps, on the
train in Victorian novels such as Middlemarch,
or on industrial machinery in early modernist novels such as Decline
and Fall. But...
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