Victorians Institute Journal

Ghosts of the Victorian (VIJ 31) features a special section on the ghostly and on the neo-Victorian phenomenon, with an essay on Le Fanu, plus discussion of the film "The Piano," A. S. Byatt, and comments (and drawings) by novelist Michel Faber. In the "Texts" section William Baker edits from manuscript Wilkie Collins's notes for "The Moonstone."

"Political Matters" features essays relating to politics in such writers as Eliot, Gaskell, EB Browning, and Grote. Other sections of this volume include the first publication of one of Wilkie Collins's working diaries, essays on Curzon and Corelli, the translation of a text used by the English to propagandize in China, and books reviews by noted Victorianists such as Frank Turner, John Maynard, and Karen Chase.

Sophia Andres on A.s. Byatt and Tracy Chevalier; Nicole Fluhr on Swinburne; LuAnn Fletcher on the Brontes and Eastlake; Paul Marchbanks on R. Browning; Maria McGarrity on Mary Seacole; Michelle Mouton on Trollope; June Szirotny on Eliot; Casey Cothran on Collins; Lara Kapenko on Du Maurier; Simon Cooke on Oiliphant -- plus ten reviews.

"Poetry in the Colonies" (VIJ 32) features an anthology of poems from the British Empire in the Victorian era, poet John Kinsella on "Henry Clay--Racist or Not?," and essays on poetry from India and Canada. Additional essays on Tennyson, Ingelow, Wells, and Collins, along with reviews of fourteen scholarly books in Victorian studies.