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...gender. The work has taken place on political, legal, social, and cultural fronts. Among the many questions raised during this period, is the question of definition. Many authors, scholars, activists and reformers have argued that gender should not be defined once and for all. Rather, it should be rethought and renegotiated. The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel joins this argument but substantiates it historically and aesthetically. It shows that a great deal of what we have witnessed in recent decades has significant antecedents in the art of the Victorian period, specifically in the paintings of several prominent Pre-Raphaelites and the fiction of renowned Victorian novelists" (xi).

Assael, Brenda. The Circus and Victorian Society. Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Charlottesville & London: U of Virginia P, 2005. Pp. xiii + 237. $35.00. "By appealing to the senses, the circus attracted a wide variety of spectators of both sexes and different classes, regions, and ages. As the acts struck the eye and stimulated the imagination, they triggered a system of meaning to be activated and released. This book is concerned with that process and what it tells us about Victorian culture" (1-2). Thirty-five b&w illustrations.

Faulk, Barry J. Music Hall & Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery. of Popular...

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