Issue 5.1 (Spring 2009)

Articles

Scott Brennan-Smith, “Knight and Lady as One: The Reclamation of the “Feminine” in William Morris’s Decorative Arts Designs”

William Driscoll, “The Metaphor of Syphilis in Grand’s Heavenly Twins”

Sharleen Mondal, “Racing Desire and the New Man of the House in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone”

Sara Steger, “Paths to Identity: Dorothy and William Wordsworth and the Writing of Self in Nature”

Reviews

Kay Heath, “‘Much Yet to Learn’: Feminist Age Studies and the Long Eighteenth Century.” Review of Devoney Looser’s Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850.

Amy J. Robinson, “Friends or Lovers? Austen’s Modern Men.” Review of Michael Kramp’s Disciplining Love: Austen and the Modern Man.

Brenda R. Weber, “Situating the Exceptional Woman.” Review of Linda L. Clark’s Women and Achievement in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Antonia Losano’s The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature.

Lee Behlman, “On Not Knowing Greek: Victorian Women Writers and Classical Antiquity.” Review of Shanyn Fiske’s Heretical Hellenism: Women Writers, Ancient Greece, and the Victorian Popular Imagination.

Susan David Bernstein, “Conversion and Convergence: Gendering Anglo-Jewishness in the Nineteenth Century.” Review of Nadia Valman’s The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture.

Carol Engelhardt Herringer, “Critiquing Catholicism: Victorian Women Writers and the Secular Home.” Review of Maria LaMonaca’s Masked Atheism: Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home.

Éadaoin Agnew, “Invention and Reinvention: The Remarkable Stories of Anna Leonowens.” Review of Susan Morgan’s Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the “King and I” Governess.

Joseph McLaughlin, “Modern Masculinities in an Age of Imperial Decline.” Review of Nalin Jayasena’s Contested Masculinities: Crises in Colonial Male Identity from Joseph Conrad to Satyajit Ray.