Shanyn Fiske

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | Rutgers · Department of English

Ross G.Forman. China and the Victorian Imagination: Empires Entwined. Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. 318. $99.00 (cloth). - Volume 53 Issue 3 - Shanyn Fiske

Churnjeet Mahn’s British Women’s Travel to Greece, 1840–1914: Travels in the Palimpsest offers an insightful contribution to as well as departure from the expanding field of classical reception studies. Most scholars investigating the fortunes of Greek literature, language, and culture in modernity have dealt with the ancient world largely as a spe...

Until very recently, critical attention to literary relations and aesthetic exchanges between Britain and China in the 19th century has been scant. However with the current shifting of focus in Victorian studies away from canonical, mainstream concerns toward the disenfranchised people and productions that inhabited the vibrant, often carnivalesque...

Visiting a missionary school for girls in the central Chinese city of Chungking in the early 1890s, British writer Alicia Little entertained some disquieting thoughts about instilling Western values in Chinese children. Her reflections in Intimate China on the benefits and hazards of such teaching instance Britain's increasingly conflicted views of...

The prevailing assumption regarding the Victorians’ relationship to ancient Greece is that Greek knowledge constituted an exclusive discourse within elite male domains. Heretical Hellenism: Women Writers, Ancient Greece, and the Victorian Popular Imagination challenges that theory and argues that while the information women received from popular...

Extended comparisons of Villette and the Odyssey have been hindered first by Charlotte's lack of classical training and second by the discrepancy between Lucy's ambiguous motives and Odysseus's clear goal of returning to Ithaca. This paper argues for Charlotte's access to Homeric sources and suggests that the Odyssey's construction of 'homesickness...

Journal of Modern Literature 28.2 (2005) 130-164 In her book Trojan Horses: Saving Classics from the Conservatives, Page Dubois notes the recent resurgence of classical literature into popular culture. "At the beginning of the twenty-first century, people continue to be fascinated by the remnants of the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, two mill...

This dissertation examines the intersection between the rise of the Victorian realist novel and shifting perceptions of the ancient Greek world from the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of the First World War. The humanistic Hellenism that dominated the early part of the Victorian era focused primarily on literary-linguistic scholarship and...