Victorian Review

BOOKS RECEIVED Allen, Robert C. Horrible Prtttiness: Burlesque and American Culture. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1991. xvi + 350. $34.95 US (cloth); $12.95 US (paper). Austin, Linda M. The Practical RuskUu Economics and Audience in the Late Work. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1991. 233. $29.95 US (cloth). Bongie, Chris. Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, and the Fin de Siècle. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1991. 262. $3750 US (cloth); $14.95 US (paper). Conley, Carolyn A. The Unwritten Law: Criminal Justice in Victorian Kent. New York: Oxford UP, 1991. ix + 244. $29.95 US (cloth). Crosby, Christina. The Ends ofHistory: Victorians and "The Woman Question." New York: Routledge, 1991. ? + 196. $49.95 US (cloth); $14.95 US (paper). Cummings, Katherine. Telling Tales: The Hysteric's Seduction in Fiction and Theory. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1991. viii + 298. $3250 US (cloth). Dickie, Margaret. Lyric Contingencies: Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1991. 196. $23.95 US (cloth). Dowbiggin, Ian. Inheriting Madness: Professionalization and Psychiatric Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century France. Berkeley: U of California P, 1991. ? + 217. $34.95 US (cloth). Dunleavy, Janet Egleson, and Gareth W. Dunleavy. Douglas Hyde: A Maker of Modem Ireland. Berkeley: U of California P, 1991. xiii + 462. $35.99 US (cloth). Ellis, Virginia Ridley. Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Language ofMystery. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1991. xviii + 352. $35.00 US (cloth). Ernst, Waltraud. Mad Tales From the Raj: The European Insane in British India, 1880-1858. London: Routledge, 1991. xi + 195. $74.00 US (cloth); $9250 CAN (cloth). Fellows,Jay. Tombs, DespoiledandHaunted: "Under-Textures" and "After-Thoughts"in Walter Pater. Foreword J. Hillis Miller. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1991. xxvi + 188. $3250 US (cloth). Fleming-Williams, Ian. Constable and Hu Drawings. London: Philip Wilson, 1990. 328. $39.95 US (cloth). Garrigan, Kristine Ottesen. Victorian Art Reproductions in Modem Sources: A Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1991. xxxix + 575. $75.00 US (cloth). Guilláis, Joëlle. Crimes ofPassion: Dramas ofPrivate Life in Nineteenth-CenturyFrance. New York: Routledge, 1990. 248. $42.00 CAN; $35.00 US (cloth). Harris, Ruth, ed. and intro. Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System by J. M. Charcot. New York: Routledge, 1991. Ixviii + 438. $65.00 US (cloth); $81.00 CAN (cloth). Helmstadter, Richard J., and Bernard Lightman, eds. Victorian Faith in Crisis: Essays on Continuity and Change in Nineteenth-Century Religious Beliefs. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1991. 391. $45.00 US (cloth). Horsman, Alan. The Victorian Novel. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1990. 465. $59.00 US (cloth). Books Received111 Howe, Elisabeth A. Stages of Self: The Dramatic Monologues of Laforge, Valéry and Mallarmé. Athens: Ohio UP, 1990. ? + 219. $24.95 US (cloth). Jaffe, Audrey. Vanishing Points: Dickens, Narrative, and the Subject of Omniscience. Berkeley: U of California P, 1991. 189. $3250 US (cloth). Kirchhoff, Frederick. WUtiam Morris: The Construction ofa Male Self, 1856-1872. Athens: Ohio UP, 1990. xv + 248. $29.95 US (cloth). Levine, Philippe. Feminist Lives in Victorian England. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990. 341. $49.95 US (cloth). Loeffeolholz, Mary. Dickinson and the Boundaries of Feminist Theory. Champaign: U of Illinois P, 1991. 179. $3250 US (cloth); $13>95 US (paper). Loesbcrg, Jontthan.Aestheticism andDeconstruction:Pater,Derrida, andDeMan. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1991. 234. $29.95 US (doth). MacDonald, D. L. Poor Polidori: A Critical Biography of the Author of The Vampyre. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1991. xiv + 333. $60.00 CAN (cloth). Mandler, Peter. The Uses of Charity: The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1990. 259. $29.95 US (cloth). Miller, J. HUlis. Theory Now and Then. Durham: Duke UP, 1991. xv + 405. $4750 US (cloth). --------. Tropes, Parable, Performatives:Essays on Twentieth-CenturyLiterature. Durham: Duke UP, 1991. xi + 266. $4750. --------. Victorian Subjects. Durham: Duke UP, 1991. rii + 330. $4650 US (cloth). Nelson, Claudia. Boys WillBe Girls: The Feminine Ethic andBritish Children's Fiction, 18571917 . New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1991. 215. $27.00 US (cloth). Russo, Ann, and Chéris Kramarae, eds. The Radical Women's Press ofthe 1850s. New York: Routledge, 1991. xxvii + 337. $3750 US (cloth); $46.95 CAN (cloth). Ryals, Clyde de L. A World of Possibilities: Romantic Irony in Victorian Literature. Columbus...