EVEN a carping critic might limit his censure of Eminent Victorians to two points: the price, which lamentably belies the book by marking it as for the few, and the proof-reading, which is slipshod to ...
The new atheist movement has reached its high-water mark, and there are signs that it is starting to recede. Wishful thinking, you say? Aren’t there more and more antireligious tracts on the ...
The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot b y Gertrude Himmelfarb Encounter, 250 pp., $25.95 Through portraits of a few carefully chosen Victorian figures, and with the aid of a deft prose style, acidic with ...
When Alfred, Lord Tennyson first saw the photograph that his friend Julia Margaret Cameron took of him in May 1865, he joked that he looked like a “dirty monk.” After the portrait was exhibited, a ...
THE LETTERS AND PRIVATE PAPERS OF WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, Volume I: 1817-1840; Volume II: 1841-1851 —Collected and Edited by Gordon N. Ray — Harvard University Press ($12.50). William Makepeace ...
IT WAS rare, if not unthinkable, 50 years ago, to love Victorian painting. So far had the Victorians dropped from grace that Sir Edward Burne-Jones's London house was cheerfully allowed to fall into ...
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