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Volume 47 - Issue 4 - October 2008

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Book Reviews

Douglas J. Davies and Matthew Guest. Bishops, Wives and Children: Spiritual Capital across the Generations. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2007. Pp. 207. $99.95 (cloth).
Bruce S. Bennett
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21 December 2012, pp. 955-956
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Richard W. Davis. A Political History of the House of Lords, 1811–1846: From the Regency to Corn Law Repeal. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. Pp. 382. $60.00 (cloth).
Richard A. Gaunt
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21 December 2012, pp. 956-958
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William H. A. Williams. Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character: British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. Pp. 267. $65.00 (cloth).
Mark Doyle
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21 December 2012, pp. 958-959
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Jennifer Hall-Witt. Fashionable Acts: Opera and Elite Culture in London, 1780–1880. Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies. Hanover, NH, and London: University Press of New England, 2007. Pp. 404. $50.00 (cloth).
Hilary Poriss
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21 December 2012, pp. 960-961
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Lynette Felber, ed. Clio's Daughters: British Women Making History, 1790–1899. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007. Pp. 310. $54.50 (cloth).
Nadia Clare Smith
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21 December 2012, pp. 961-963
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Deborah Denenholz Morse and Martin A. Danahay, eds. Victorian Animal Dreams: Representations of Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture. The Nineteenth Century Series. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2007. Pp. 281. $99.95 (cloth).
Tillman W. Nechtman
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21 December 2012, pp. 963-964
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Elaine Freedgood. The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp 184. $29.00 (cloth).
Lynn Voskuil
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21 December 2012, pp. 964-966
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Jamie L. Bronstein. Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. Pp. 222. $55.00 (cloth).
Catherine Mills
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21 December 2012, pp. 966-967
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Christopher Herbert. War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma. Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. 334. $35.00 (cloth).
Michael J. Turner
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21 December 2012, pp. 968-969
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Angus Hawkins. The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby. Vol. 1: Ascent, 1799–1851. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+521. $55.00 (cloth).
N. C. Fleming
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21 December 2012, pp. 969-971
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H. S. Jones. Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 285. $95.00 (cloth).
Thomas William Heyck
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21 December 2012, pp. 971-972
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Virginia Zimmerman. Excavating Victorians. Albany: SUNY Press, 2008. Pp. 231. $65.00 (cloth).
John Glendening
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21 December 2012, pp. 972-974
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Laurence Talairach-Vielmas. Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels. Burlington, VT, and Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2007. Pp. 188. $99.95 (cloth).
Lyn Pykett
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21 December 2012, pp. 974-976
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Diana Donald. Picturing Animals in Britain, c. 1750–1850. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. 256. $65.00 (cloth).
Martin A. Danahay
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21 December 2012, pp. 976-977
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Jeffrey Hill. Sport and the Literary Imagination: Essays in History, Literature, and Sport. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2006. Pp. 216. $47.95 (paper).
Thomas A. Hamill
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21 December 2012, pp. 977-979
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Malcolm Campbell. Ireland's New Worlds: Immigrants, Politics, and Society in the United States and Australia, 1815–1922. History of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora series. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. Pp. 250. $29.95 (paper).
Seamus O’Hanlon
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21 December 2012, pp. 979-980
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Matthew Stanley. Practical Mystic: Religion, Science, and A. S. Eddington. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. vii+313. $37.50 (cloth).
Alan H. Batten
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21 December 2012, pp. 980-982
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William Kenefick. Red Scotland! The Rise and Fall of the Radical Left, c. 1872 to 1932. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. Pp. 230. $28.00 (paper).
Ewen A. Cameron
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21 December 2012, pp. 982-983
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Robert J. C. Young. The Idea of English Ethnicity. Oxford: Blackwell Manifestos, 2007. Pp. 291. $34.95 (paper).
Christine Ferguson
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21 December 2012, pp. 983-985
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Stephen M. Miller. Volunteers on the Veld: Britain's Citizen-Soldiers and the South African War, 1899–1902. Campaigns and Commanders Series. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. Pp. 248. $29.95 (cloth).
Jeffrey Lee Meriwether
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21 December 2012, pp. 985-986
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Book Reviews

Douglas J. Davies and Matthew Guest. Bishops, Wives and Children: Spiritual Capital across the Generations. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2007. Pp. 207. $99.95 (cloth).

Richard W. Davis. A Political History of the House of Lords, 1811–1846: From the Regency to Corn Law Repeal. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. Pp. 382. $60.00 (cloth).

William H. A. Williams. Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character: British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. Pp. 267. $65.00 (cloth).

Jennifer Hall-Witt. Fashionable Acts: Opera and Elite Culture in London, 1780–1880. Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies. Hanover, NH, and London: University Press of New England, 2007. Pp. 404. $50.00 (cloth).

Lynette Felber, ed. Clio's Daughters: British Women Making History, 1790–1899. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007. Pp. 310. $54.50 (cloth).

Deborah Denenholz Morse and Martin A. Danahay, eds. Victorian Animal Dreams: Representations of Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture. The Nineteenth Century Series. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2007. Pp. 281. $99.95 (cloth).

Elaine Freedgood. The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp 184. $29.00 (cloth).

Jamie L. Bronstein. Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. Pp. 222. $55.00 (cloth).

Christopher Herbert. War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma. Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. 334. $35.00 (cloth).

Angus Hawkins. The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby. Vol. 1: Ascent, 1799–1851. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+521. $55.00 (cloth).

H. S. Jones. Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 285. $95.00 (cloth).

Virginia Zimmerman. Excavating Victorians. Albany: SUNY Press, 2008. Pp. 231. $65.00 (cloth).

Laurence Talairach-Vielmas. Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels. Burlington, VT, and Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2007. Pp. 188. $99.95 (cloth).

Diana Donald. Picturing Animals in Britain, c. 1750–1850. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. 256. $65.00 (cloth).

Jeffrey Hill. Sport and the Literary Imagination: Essays in History, Literature, and Sport. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2006. Pp. 216. $47.95 (paper).

Malcolm Campbell. Ireland's New Worlds: Immigrants, Politics, and Society in the United States and Australia, 1815–1922. History of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora series. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. Pp. 250. $29.95 (paper).

Matthew Stanley. Practical Mystic: Religion, Science, and A. S. Eddington. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. vii+313. $37.50 (cloth).

William Kenefick. Red Scotland! The Rise and Fall of the Radical Left, c. 1872 to 1932. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. Pp. 230. $28.00 (paper).

Robert J. C. Young. The Idea of English Ethnicity. Oxford: Blackwell Manifestos, 2007. Pp. 291. $34.95 (paper).

Stephen M. Miller. Volunteers on the Veld: Britain's Citizen-Soldiers and the South African War, 1899–1902. Campaigns and Commanders Series. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. Pp. 248. $29.95 (cloth).

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