In this Issue

Table of Contents

Plot Circles: Hardy’s Drunkards and Their Walks

Margaret Kolb
pp. 595-623
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.56.4.595
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George Eliot’s Vagueness

Daniel Wright
pp. 625-648
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.56.4.625
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Anthony Trollope on Akrasia, Self-Deception, and Ethical Confusion

Patrick Fessenbecker
pp. 649-674
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.56.4.649
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Harriet Martineau and the Impersonality of Pain

Rachel Ablow
pp. 675-697
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.56.4.675
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Picturing Reform in Victorian Britain by Janice Carlisle (review)

Jo Briggs
pp. 699-700
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Transformative Beauty: Art Museums in Industrial Britain by Amy Woodson-Boulton (review)

Christopher Ferguson
pp. 701-702
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The Starry Sky Within: Astronomy and the Reach of the Mind in Victorian Literature by Anna Henchman (review)

Cannon Schmitt
pp. 703-705
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Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem by Catherine Robson (review)

Jason R. Rudy
pp. 705-707
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Form & Faith in Victorian Poetry & Religion by Kirstie Blair, and: Religious Imaginaries: The Liturgical and Poetic Practices of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Adelaide Procter by Karen Dieleman (review)

Mark Knight
pp. 707-709
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Touching God: Hopkins and Love by Duc Dau (review)

Erik Gray
pp. 709-711
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An Integrative Habit of Mind: John Henry Newman on the Path to Wisdom by Frederick D. Aquino (review)

Lawrence Poston
pp. 711-712
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Albert: A Life by Jules Stewart (review)

Walter L. Arnstein
pp. 712-714
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Before George Eliot: Marian Evans and the Periodical Press by Fionnuala Dillane, and: Modernizing George Eliot: The Writer as Artist, Intellectual, Proto-Modernist, Cultural Critic by K. M. Newton (review)

Rosemarie Bodenheimer
pp. 714-717
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The First Lady of Fleet Street: The Life of Rachel Beer: Crusading Heiress and Newspaper Pioneer by Eilat Negev, Yehuda Koren, and: W. T. Stead: Newspaper Revolutionary ed. by Laurel Brake et al. (review)

Christopher Kent
pp. 717-720
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Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London by Judith R. Walkowitz (review)

David Pike
pp. 720-722
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The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India by Shefali Chandra (review)

Sukanya Banerjee
pp. 722-724
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The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain: Masculinity, Political Culture and the Struggle for Women’s Rights by Ben Griffin (review)

Maureen Martin
pp. 724-726
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In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature by Kristin Kalsem, and: Common Precedents: The Presentness of the Past in Victorian Law and Fiction by Ayelet Ben-Yishai (review)

Sara Murphy
pp. 726-729
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The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability ed. by David Bolt, Julia Miele Rodas, Elizabeth J. Donaldson (review)

Matthew Bolton
pp. 729-731
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Freud’s Couch, Scott’s Buttocks, Brontë’s Grave by Simon Goldhill, and: Shakespeare’s Shrine: The Bard’s Birthplace and the Invention of Stratford-upon-Avon by Julia Thomas (review)

Alison Booth
pp. 731-734
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The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature by Franco Moretti (review)

John Plotz
pp. 734-736
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Dickens and Benjamin: Moments of Revelation, Fragments of Modernity by Gillian Piggott (review)

Grahame Smith
pp. 737-738
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The Cambridge History of the English Novel ed. by Robert L. Caserio, Clement Hawes, and: The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel ed. by Deirdre David (review)

Patrick Parrinder
pp. 738-741
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Doctoring the Novel: Medicine and Quackery from Shelley to Doyle by Sylvia A. Pamboukian (review)

Barry Milligan
pp. 741-743
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Writing Death and Absence in the Victorian Novel: Engraved Narratives by Jolene Zigarovich (review)

Deborah Lutz
pp. 743-744
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The Dream Life of Citizens: Late Victorian Novels and the Fantasy of the State by Zarena Aslami (review)

Aaron Worth
pp. 744-746
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Oceania under Steam: Sea Transport and the Cultures of Colonialism, c. 1870–1914 by Frances Steel, and: Re-inventing the Ship: Science, Technology and the Maritime World, 1800–1918 ed. by Don Leggett, Richard Dunn (review)

Isaac Land
pp. 747-749
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Citizen Soldiers and the British Empire, 1837–1902 ed. by Ian F. W. Beckett (review)

Richard N. Price
pp. 749-752
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The Flower of Empire: An Amazonian Water Lily, the Quest to Make it Bloom, and the World it Created by Tatiana Holway, and: Fern Fever: The Story of Pteridomania by Sarah Whittingham (review)

Jim Endersby
pp. 752-754
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Social Poison: The Culture and Politics of Opiate Control in Britain and France, 1821–1926 by Howard Padwa (review)

Anne Hardy
pp. 754-756
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Nature’s Noblemen: Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-Century American West by Monica Rico, and: Reimagining the Transatlantic, 1780–1890 by Joselyn M. Almeida, and: Transatlantic Spectacles of Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse by Kimberly Snyder Manganelli, and: Transatlantic Sensations ed. by Jennifer Phegley, John Cyril Barton, Kristin N. Huston (review)

Paul Giles
pp. 756-760
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Claiming the Streets: Processions and Urban Culture in South Wales, c. 1830–1880 by Paul O’Leary (review)

Simon Cordery
pp. 760-762
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Atlas of the Great Irish Famine ed. by John Crowley, William J. Smyth, Mike Murphy (review)

Carla King
pp. 762-764
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Dion Boucicault: Irish Identity on Stage by Deirdre McFeely (review)

Nicholas Daly
pp. 765-766
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Comments & Queries

p. 767
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.56.4.767
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Victorian Studies: Index to Volume 56 (2013–2014)

pp. 775-786
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Contributors

pp. 769-773
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