John Stokes

Three tragic actresses : Siddons, Rachel, Ristori

List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Sarah Siddons Michael R. Booth Rachel Felix John Stokes Adelaide Ristori Susan Bassnett Notes Select bibliography Index.

THE JOURNALISM OF H.G.WELLS. AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

publication and by category, runs to over 200 pages; while the Parisian and provincial press is centre stage, the press overseas*in the French-speaking world*is included, as is the immigant press published in metropolitan France. Two final sections are devoted to ‘how to consult the BnF resources on the press’ and to the main press archival resources outside the BnF. Many a researcher, for example, works both on the newspaper company archives located in the National Archive (part of the 5 AR series) as well as those within the BnF. There is little, it is true, on private archives located outside these main holdings; if, for instance, one is interested in the regional Catholic newspaper, La Croix du nord, one needs to visit Lille and the archives of the Assumptionist order. But this does not militate against the quality of this Guide. It even lists the shelfor press-mark for ease of consultation.

‘Encabsulation’: Horse-Drawn Journeys in Late-Victorian Literature

Recent scholarship has pursued the figure of the urban flâneur or flâneuse across the literature of the nineteenth century with spectacular results. In this article I turn the attention away from the solitary city stroller to the urban passenger by looking at one of the primary ways in which Victorians moved around London. In 1900 there were some 50,000 horses working in London, although by 1914 with the coming of motorized transport that number was down to 1400. Experiential perceptions of the city, of space and time, changed accordingly, as did the very nature of the city street. So the most compelling evidence of what Victorian cab journeys could and sometimes did feel like lies in their contemporary depiction. Although it draws upon detailed reports drawn from contemporary newspapers and applies some of the postmodern ideas of such theorists of urban geography as Michel de Certeau and Henri Lefebvre, the article is mainly concerned with literary representations of the horse-drawn cab, of the ‘hansom’ ...

Aux Funambules: acrobatics and aesthetics

Acrobats are perilous people. Even writing about them makes us nervous, as if their physical mastery challenged our control over language, as if we were up there too. By taking real risks, but (ideally) incurring no damage, they offer aesthetic lessons in space. In showing themselves to be exceptional with their feats of silent self-display, they demonstrate that mere personality has little to do with art; and that audience often comes second. As they tread some invisible borderline between action and imitation, so they define, yet disturb, many of our ideas about the nature of creative performance.’ Suetonius, Pliny and Tertullian all wrote about acrobats, but their origins

Seeds of Decadence in the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel

The grammar of decadence - perversity, paradox and perplexity Dostoevsky and the gap of insufficiency Henry James and the poetics of postponement Emile Zola and the hyperbole of consumption Thomas Hardy and the chronic crisis syndrome Joseph Conrad and the dissolution of an ethical code - the hollow centre the decadent style.

Oscar Wilde and the Theatre of the 1890s

1. Rewriting the past 2. Lady Windermeres Fan and the unmotherly mother 3. Salome, the censor, and the divine Sarah 4. Unimportant women and men with a past 5. Wilde and Ibsen 6. An Ideal Husband: resisting the feminist police 7. The importance of being at Terrys 8. Algernons other brothers Epilogue Appendix: Dramatists of the 1890s Notes Bibliography Index.