Juliet John - The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture

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In Memory of

Dan Jacobson (19292014)

and

Sally Ledger (19612009)

who each brought so much that is good to life and literary culture

My first thanks go to Jacqueline Baker for inviting me to edit this Handbook and for showing the loyalty and patience she has always shown me during its long duration. Second, I must thank the OUP editorial teams in Oxford and New Yorkprincipally, Rachel Platt, Molly Davis, Eleanor Collins, and Lauren Konopkoas well as the copy-editors at Newgen for doing an exemplary job in preparing the essays for publication. I would also like to thank all the contributors: bringing the book to fruition has been a much longer haul than any of us originally envisaged and those who submitted their work on time have shown quite outstanding levels of tolerance which exemplify the collegiality of todays Victorian studies. For this, I am extremely grateful. Academically, I owe most thanks to my trusty readers, Matthew Bradley, Alice Jenkins, and Ruth Livesey, as well as to Helen Maslen, for expert research assistance and to Helena Goodwyn for her meticulous editing. During the gestation of the Handbook, I moved institutions and geographical areas from the University of Liverpool to Royal Holloway, University of London, and I owe thanks to colleagues and friends in both places and elsewhere for professional and personal support of various kinds as I attempted to manage a big project, a big move, and indeed a big family: Tim Armstrong, Paul Baines, Dinah Birch, James Cutler, Andrew Derrington, Kelvin Everest, Hilary Fraser, Holly Furneaux, Regenia Gagnier, Sophie Gilmartin, Robert Hampson, Ann Heilmann, Nicki Hitchcott, Avril Horner, Stephen James, Jackie John, Rebecca John, Carol Jones, Kim Edwards Keates, Norbert Lennartz, Mark Llewellyn, Gail Marshall, Frank Maslen, Bob Patten, Dominic Rainsford, Kiernan Ryan, Julia Thomas, Vera Tolz, Pierre Wassenaar, and Cathy Waters. And thank you to my familyCalum, Iona, Hamish, and Serenas always for making me keep work in perspective and for moving, with all that the move has entailed.

JULIET JOHN

RAE GREINER

TREV BROUGHTON

JOSEPHINE M. GUY

IAN HAYWOOD

LAUREN M. E. GOODLAD

AYE ELIKKOL

KATHLEEN BLAKE

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KATHERINE NEWEY

KERRY POWELL

JIM DAVIS

GAIL MARSHALL

James Eli Adams is Professor of English & Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of . He is also the author of numerous articles, chapters, and reviews on Victorian literature and culture, and from 19932000 he co-edited the journal Victorian Studies.

Kathleen Blake is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Washington, author of Play, Games, and Sport: The Literary Works of Lewis Carroll (1974), Love and the Woman Question in Victorian Literature: The Art of Self-Postponement (1983), and . She is editor of Approaches to Teaching George Eliots Middlemarch (1990) and has published essays on a range of Victorian writers.

Matthew Bradley is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool. His research primarily focuses on Victorian culture and religion. His publications include the Oxford University Press Worlds Classics edition of (2012), and a co-edited collection of essays, Reading and the Victorians (2014). He is currently writing a history of Victorian imaginings of the end of the world.

Patrick Brantlinger, former editor of Victorian Studies, is James Rudy Professor of English, Emeritus, at Indiana University. His most recent books are and States of Emergency: Essays on Culture and Politics (2013).

Trev Broughton is Senior Lecturer in English and Related Literature at the University of York. She has a long-standing interest in nineteenth-century Life writing, has published Men of Letters, Writing Lives (1997) and edited the four-volume set of essays on Autobiography for the Routledge Critical Concepts series (2007). Her edition of some of Margaret Oliphants biographical writings, including selections from the Edward Irving, is published in the Pickering Chatto Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant. She is co-editor of Journal of Victorian Culture.

Carolyn Burdett is Senior Lecturer in English and Victorian Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She is author of Olive Schreiner (2013) and co-editor of a New Agenda for Journal of Victorian Culture on Sentimentalities (2011) and an issue of 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century on Psychology/Aesthetics (2011). Her current book project is Coining Empathy: Psychology, Aesthetics, Ethics, 18701920 for which she was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 201213. She is editor of the online journal, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century.

Aye elikkol is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Bilkent University, Turkey. She is the author of . Her essays on nineteenth-century British and American literature have appeared in ELH: English Literary History, American Literature, Victorian Poetry